@tijagi @nerthos for some reason my brother's high school offered a choice between russian and french on top of the usual compulsory english classes - i guess he decided russian would be easymodo given that it's also slav. russian definitely is in the minority as far as school languages go, at least in my region (located in poland a - the part that was taken over by prussians during the partitions) - most schools offer either german or french alongside compulsory english because it just makes more sense due to it being easier to steal jobs from within the eu. in comparison, russian is more or less useless unless you have some business in the east. my city's industry does in a way - we were selling some trams last time i checked - and recently we seem to be an ukie central as well for some reason. highschool language classes are not exactly quality to begin with unless you somehow have a class that prepares you for the "extended" version of the ma…