Dear All, Reading this thread has been very interesting, but I would like to ask Sergeiy what he meant when he wrote: "There is no environment in Israel in which English actually lives as a language, the way Hebrew, Arabic and Russian are." In what environment does the Russian language live as a language in Israel, differently than English does in communities with many English speaking immigrants? (I apologize for my ignorance - I live in a "cocoon") Adele -------------------------------------------- Visit the ETNI site - http://www.etni.org Send a message to the ETNI list: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------