2 2 Read the text about the future of Kazakhstan. Which
languages should Kazakh children learn?
Kazakhstan is a sovereign country with a rich past
and a promising future. Nursultan Nazarbayev sees
the future of the country as being tied to its people
and language. According to the President, the Kazakh
language should be preserved, standardised and
further developed. More and more people living in Kazakhstan should know how to speak and write
in Kazakh as well as having an understanding of Russian and English. Today, about 60% of children
are taught in state language. Kazakh language is an obligatory subject at schools.
The president says, 'If a child started attending school
in 2013, then in ten or twenty years we'll have a whole
generation of Kazakh-speaking people!
It's even more important to preserve the language outside
Kazakhstan - in countries where there are large Kazakh
communities. A good example of such a community is the
one living in the Orenburg region of Russia. It comprises v
over 125,000 people, has 13 social-cultural associations
and its own Kazakh newspaper Aikap.
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