Source: The American interest, August 20, 2011
Ann Althouse picks up one of the oddest reports of the week: the Hungarian government wants to discourage students from taking English as their first foreign language because it is so easy! The original article in The Wall Street Journal is a head-scratcher:
Hungary’s government wants to dethrone English as the most common foreign language taught in Hungarian schools. The reason: It’s just too easy to learn. Read more...