Mrs. Oswald. No. A little bit.
*A little bit.
Mr. Gopadze. Naturally, she knows the English alphabet, but she doesn't read too much.
**Sometimes I read on my own, but on the other hand, it might be entirely different for an American.
Senator Russell. Well, I believe you can speak it pretty well, Mrs. Oswald. You are a very intelligent person, and I've never seen a woman yet that didn't learn a foreign language three times as fast as a man.
Mrs. Oswald. Thank you.
Senator Russell. They all do, and in some places in Russia you run into women that speak three or four languages very fluently, including in the high schools, where they have 10 or 12 years of English, starting in the first grade with it?
Mrs. Oswald. That's the way they try—to learn it in school.
Senator Russell. Is that your foreign language? I understand in Russia each student has to study some one foreign language all the way—or at least for 5 or 6 years?
Mrs. Oswald. Yes; but I don't like this system of education in Russia to study some languages—well, he can speak, you know.