Lithuania considers phasing out Russian as a foreign language in schools

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1. Bro, people in Latvia and Estonia barely speak the language, even if they are born there. I hoped that for Lithuania it was better since there are fewer of them.

2. Why are they still teaching it?

   My guess is because they have a lot of teachers for the Russian language since the older generations had to learn the language, so it’s much easier logistically than to switch to German or French or Spanish.

3. Lithuania has every right to reassess its educational priorities, especially given the historical and political context with Russia.

4. When Russia points to groups of Russian-speaking people in other countries and uses them as a justification for invasion, then Russian-speaking people are a problem.

   So aiming for fewer problems in the future is a smart move.

5. I chose russian in school because I wanted to find a russian girlfriend. In fact, so did all of my friends. 

   In retrospect, learning spanish (and I’m school was one of the few that offered it) would have been better since it’s more useful globally and girls from Peru are cute too. 

6. Knowing the language of the enemy is a very underrated skill to have

7. Why are they teaching English and French if these languages were spoken by way bigger assholes than Russian? 

8. I was about to say, that they should trade Russian lessons to Polish lessons, but then I remembered the 90s….

9. It’s always better to know the language of your enemy

10. Ech, always good to know the language just in case the worst happens.

11. Listen I am 100% all in against Russian imperialism and irredentism but people should still be allowed to learn a language especially if it’s their mother tongue regardless of anything.

12. I vote we teach dutch in lithuanian school

13. Learning Russian in school doesn’t mean you support the invasions of Russia or their imperialism

    Russian is a totally fine language to learn and we should not make it an issue as Europeans

    The more language we all can speak the better.

14. Most younger generations can’t speak communist, anyway.

15. GOOD

16. chose russian in 5th grade (for some reason my middle school started teaching it in 5th instead of 6th) and I’ve learned pretty much nothing over the last 5-6 years. i should’ve chosen german

17. Great news. Needed to be done even earlier… but I guess better later than never

18. We should all do the same. Why pay teachers to teach a language from the country that sees us as enemies.

19. this proposal is brought up by the government every year and it’s so tired. also, instead of addressing the actual issue which is the russian language schools (where the entire curriculum is delivered in russian so the students there don’t learn lithuanian at all and thus contribute to ethnic segregation), which latvia and estonia have already done, they want to take away the opportunity from lithuanian children to learn russian as a second foreign language. make it make sense.

20. Do Lithuania currently require all schools to have Russian as option for second foreign language?

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