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Yes, I am making a sweeping generalisation here.[/quote]

Right, you are, which is what I objected to (though to something Rtyom said, not you), only to have to come back and claim they weren't...

Well, if you had an experience of studying in Russian school or university, you would know that the Soviet approach of education (which is still maintained by the majority of educational institutions...

Wait wait wait.

All of it? Just like that?

All educational systems (assuming that each system is itself uniform, which they aren't) in the dozens of countries that make up the vague...

Wow, that's quite a sweeping statement! On what data do you base this? And what is this "western education" of which you speak anyway?[/quote]

By "Western" education I meant American style. My...

Wow, that's quite a sweeping statement! On what data do you base this? And what is this "western education" of which you speak anyway?

A friend of a friend who supposedly studied Russian at uni, does this, but he takes it one step further. The O he uses isn't even a Russian O, it's a Southern/ Estuary English 'O'. So the Os in...

"Assimilate" is fine in that context (in the meaning: to absorb information), but the sentence itself isn't grammatically correct.

There's a lot to be said for the way learning a second language can teach you a lot about your own language that you didn't know previously, but you won't get that benefit without learning the theory...