Mine the only ones not learning Mandarin?

midmo
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:49:59 +0000

Well, the business world may be big on Mandarin, and the political world on Arabic, but evidently the military experts are concerned that not enough kids are learning Russian. A young friend at one of the military academies is getting a very significant extra monthly stipend to study Russian.

Our schools do not offer Mandarin or Arabic, or Russian, for that matter. My son went over to the public flagship uni to study Russian while in high school. I guess those who are interested in Mandarin do the same, but I don’t personally know any of them.