[tenger]

Nothing beats the Defense Language Institute (DLI) for Russian language training. 6 hours a day by native teachers, plus 1-6 hours per night of studying.

If you wash out of the course, they will threaten you with driving a truck in Minot, ND or something similar. Our wash out rate was about 50%.

46 weeks and I'm able to let you know that tanks walk, planes fly, and target is locked on in Russian. Of course I exaggerate. The drawback was you had to commit 4+ years of your life to do it but they paid you for the privilege.

[EEGator]

Was that Lackland AFB followed by Monterey CA?

[Myrddin]

The son of one of my co-workers studied Mandarin at the school in Monterey. He was recently hired by my employer to screen incoming applicants that need to be fluent in Mandarin as a work requirement.