The New York Times reports in the article, Foreign Language Courses, Brushing Up or Immersion, that foreign language classes are in demand. People are looking for inexpensive ways to learn or brush up on languages while on-the-go.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian author

I had to laugh at the end when the journalist mentions that people might want to learn Russian to read Dostoevsky. The Dostoevsky-draw has always been one of my theories about why people learn Russian.