2 2 Read the text about the future of Kazakhstan. Whichlanguages should Kazakh children learn?Kazakhstan is a sovereign country with a rich pastand a promising future. Nursultan Nazarbayev seesthe future of the country as being tied to its peopleand language. According to the President, the Kazakhlanguage should be preserved, standardised andfurther developed. More and more people living in Kazakhstan should know how to speak and writein Kazakh as well as having an understanding of Russian and English. Today, about 60% of childrenare taught in state language. Kazakh language is an obligatory subject at schools.The president says, 'If a child started attending schoolin 2013, then in ten or twenty years we'll have a wholegeneration of Kazakh-speaking people!It's even more important to preserve the language outsideKazakhstan - in countries where there are large Kazakhcommunities. A good example of such a community is theone living in the Orenburg region of Russia. It comprises vover 125, 000 people, has 13 social-cultural associationsand its own Kazakh newspaper Aikap.J3.2, ​