VIENNAThe fall of communism has seen English sweep through Central Europe as the language everybody wants to learn to make life easier, from finding a job to having fun surfing the Internet.Russian, which was obligatory under communist rule, has since 1989 faded away and has been rapidly replaced by English and to a lesser extent German, said Hans Juergen Krumm, a language lecturer at the University of Vienna, who is leading a study into foreign language teaching in Central Europe.In the Czech Republic and Hungary, Russian has all but disappeared from high school curricula. In the former Yu...
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