The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting the Government of Bangladesh in managing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and promoting the socio-economic recovery of the country. A $500 million budget support was provided in 2020 under the COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program to improve social protection, strengthen the public health system, create jobs,
How Soviet students learned English in USSR Dmitri Kozlov/Sputnik Learning a foreign language is like learning to play an instrument. It takes time, practice and effort. But what if you get the hang of it, but have no one to “perform” to? That’s the story of millions of Soviet students, who studied English while knowing that they would never have any real chance of going to any of the countries where people actually spoke English. Luckily, they couldn’t have been more wrong.
There is a remarkable scene in the iconic 1963 Soviet movie ‘I walk around Moscow’, where an aspiring young writer from Siberia laments to Nikita Mikhalkov’s character about how he’s struggling with his command of the English language. “