Georgia's English language revolution

Inside Europe | 30.10.2010 | 07:05

• Georgia's English language revolution

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Can a small ex-Soviet state become a 'nation of English speakers'? That’s what the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, wants to achieve with a new programme to ensure that all schoolchildren will speak English as their second language by 2014.

The programme aims to recruit thousands of native English-speakers as teaching assistants for Georgian schools. Young Georgians have already been abandoning the Russian language amid their country's continuing political dispute with Moscow, which erupted into war two years ago. Matthew Collin in Tbilisi has the details.