languages - Kazakh, Russian and English.
"Knowledge of three languages should
become a standard practice for us. We are teaching (these languages to) our children starting from their first year at school," he said.
Nazarbayev emphasized that all the Kazakhstan citizens should strive to know their national language.
"Kazakhstan has to know its official language – the Kazakh language.
The Russian language is the language of our big neighbor and one of the six UN languages.
"We need the English language to enter the global arena.
Every language is wealth for a person,” the President said.
The science, all the new developments and information - they are all in English nowadays,” said the President
Foreign companies in Kazakhstan and the local citizens needed English to communicate with them.
. That is why I am talking about trilingualism," he said.
President’s strategy about trilingualism is for 2011-2020 years.
