How Soviet students learned English in USSR
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 ...
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