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Boondala t1_iuau4mb wrote

Why was the club hit with Russian speakers?? Probably cheaper than Marshall speakers.

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Ok-Rice-5377 t1_iub0did wrote

lmao, I read it the same way at first and was so confused.

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autotldr t1_iuavihd wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)

> Russian remains an official language in the former Soviet country, where even many ethnic Kazakhs - including government officials - speak Russian more fluently than Kazakh, although that situation has recently been changing.

> The clubs became instantly and unexpectedly popular as thousands of Russian-speakers in Kazakhstan decided to learn Kazakh, a trend Skalozubov and some club members link to the political atmosphere created by the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.

> "You began to think about how the Russian colonization affected local languages in the Soviet states," she told RFE/RL. "Before, we probably regarded Kazakh as a somewhat secondary language that you didn't have to learn. Now, I realize that Kazakh is important, that it is part of my life in Kazakhstan, and that if don't learn Kazakh I would be like a stranger here."

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tinopa6872 t1_iublekc wrote

Terribly confusing headline.. Kazakh club for learning Kazakh language seeing increased membership from Russian speaking Kazakhs?

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ChurchHatesTucker t1_iuby67p wrote

Of course. Kazakh-speaking Kazakhs wouldn't need it.

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Genocode t1_iucfnbs wrote

Actually it said Russian speakers in Kazakhstan, so it doesn't make a distinction whether they're Russians or Kazakhs just what their primary language is.

Reading the headline initially I thought that perhaps this was Russians distancing themselves from their home country.

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miraska_ t1_iuesg37 wrote

Also, don't forget about other ethnicities that mostly uses russian and decided to learn kazakh

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hiddenuser12345 t1_iuc0z1t wrote

You could even say it was a… great success.

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