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...have always struggled with foreign languages. Some part of me just doesn't get it. I figured the perfect language class at Harvard for me would have several key elements: a Roman alphabet, easy grammar rules and a classroom free of students who already knew the language and just couldn't pass the requirement...
...takes a brave student to dive into the deep water of a complicated subject. "For the first couple of weeks, I couldn't understand anything," recalls Great Falls second-grader Courtney Pilka. "But after I got used to it, I started liking it a lot. I learned the alphabet and the numbers. Now it's part of my life." For many students, this is true outside the classroom as well, as they are inspired to explore Japanese restaurants, art and music. "I think the cultural experience is every bit as important as the language," says Jill McKee, a college teacher...
...Shrunk the Kids and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead have given way to This Is My Life, I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Coming soon: We're Back and Death Becomes Her. Expect overburdened multiplex marquees to resort to alphabet-soup abbreviations...
...than before. A new window of opportunity has opened for us with the Turkic republics. They speak our language. ((Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan speak Turkic languages. In Tajikistan the language is akin to Iranian Farsi.)) We are urging them to remain secular and to switch to the Latin alphabet...
...local governments are also reinstituting preferred names and spellings that accord with their languages: not every republic now uses the Cyrillic alphabet from which the English versions are transliterated. So Belorussia is now Belarus, Moldavia is Moldova, Kirghizia is Kyrgyzstan. Belarus says its capital is Mensk, not Minsk, and Ukrainians insist that Lvov is Lviv...