[lbo-talk] Protection of Chinese language urged

[Chris Doss]

only a small elite who needs to do business with english speaking 
businessmen will have to talk english. 
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Sorry to bring everything back around to Russia -- it being my idee fixe -- but this is definitely the case here. According to a recent study I read, a whopping 4.8% of the Russian population speaks English "fluently" (however the study defined "fluent"). I would rank the true number as even lower. Unless you are going to work for a foreign company, English literacy is a pretty useless skill in Russia. Young people study it at school, but that doesn't mean most of them they can do more than string a few words together and repeat phrases they hear in pop songs.

		
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