Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

Having taught for nearly a decade, I’ve worked through my share of classroom challenges. Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native ...

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“Instruction will be completely in Russian. Students will begin speaking Russian on the first day of class and will speak it throughout the course.” This simple promise appeared in a trifold pamphlet ...