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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All for a Russian immersion school! The more language schools, the better!! Russian, German, Japanese, Arabic. Whatever works to bring language instructions to people in DC!

What about at the Middle-school level? 
It seems that we are now having a large number of schools at the elementary levels doing immersion (YY, Sela, MV, LAMB,...) and other doing "language classes" (Chinese at CMI, and others) but nothing at the middle-school level (beside DCI). (I've filled the survey to that effect).

For those who are arguing about the usefulness of learning a language or how "terrible these languages sound",  I only shake my head in disbelief. It is just embarrassing to read. You live in the capital of the United State of America but sound as insular as a grandmother stuck in a small village (no offense to grandmothers, mine spoke 3 languages) and terribly narrow minded.  
A sentence like "I agree that German and Russian are equally unpleasant-sounding languages. However, as a person with no Russian heritage, and given the current political climate, I would be embarrassed to say that my children attend a Russian immersion school " would be hilarious if it were not so sad...

Have you **ever** heard of Dostoyevsky? Pushkin? Chekhov?? (and yes, Tolstoy!)?? 
And for those who are not aware of, Russian scientists have nothing to be ashamed of (certainly compared to Germans!).  Their contributions were often ignored because of the cold war and there is a clear difference of philosophy in the teaching of science  -- less like Feynman always full of insights and more heavy on math.

I am not Russian and have no Russian heritage but I am a foreign-born American (French, another horrible sounding language :-)) and frankly cannot believe what I am reading.

Anyway -- Good luck to those trying to bring Russian (or any other language!) to DC!
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What a nice and positive message, how refreshing![/quote]

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