On 08/09/2002 01:01:10 PM Radovan Garabik wrote:
>> children are supposed to be already able to speak Russian when they go
to
>> school: I guess what they learn is "that sound has that letter", not the
>> other way round.
>
>I have no idea how it is in Russian school system, but:
>1) they can speak a dialect
Every child -- every person, for that matter -- speaks a dialect. I take it
you mean, speaks something other than standard Russian.
- Peter
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