Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...

Of all the enjoyable courses I took at Bates, Russian was my favorite. Although I didn’t begin Russian until senior year, it remains a defining aspect of my time at Bates and one of the things I miss ...

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.

(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 ...

On April 7, six Dartmouth students competed in person and online at the New England Olympiada of Spoken Russian at Harvard University, a one-day event for students to demonstrate their ...