(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN STUDENT LEARNING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, OMAR AL-TAWIL, SAYING: "At first we did not understand anything and when we first heard the words we started laughing. Yes it was truly ...

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Fast-forward a few years, and one of these young Russophiles might just evolve into the next Erin Doyle or Jimmy Lodge. Considered a linguistic phenom by his teachers and school administrators, Lodge, ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

The language learning group meets twice a month in Gainesville, offering a safe space for language enthusiasts of all levels.