Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Day 73: Trilingual Kazakhstan


In 2013 Kazakh schoolchildren to learn English from Grade 1 - Education Minister
ASTANA. September 12. KAZINFORM  "In 2013 we will start to learn English from the first grade of secondary school, according to the approved standards of education," Kazakh  Minister of Education and Science Bakytzhan Zhumagulov said during the online conference "Modernization of the education system - the main vector of qualitative growth of human potential.""Multilinguism is based on the fact that we have three languages.  Kazakh is the state, Russian is the language of international communication, and English is  the international language. It is proved that children under seven absorb huge amount of information, can learn everything without wasting any effort. I say this in response to skeptics who believe that it will be difficult for children to absorb the upcoming training program," B. Zhumagulov said.
"Today, many kindergartens in Kazakhstan are English-speaking," the Minister added.
"Learning English is not in any way opposed to the study of the state language. The Kazakh language is the spirit of the nation, and this is indisputable," B. Zhumagulov concluded.

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