<p>My son is 11 and goes to a Russian tutor once per week where they work on his writing and reading of Russian. We do this mainly to keep his language improving since quite a few of his relatives on my wife’s side only speak Russian and a Turkish based language. I would not say it is his favorite thing to do but he does not seem to mind it too much and I think going to Russia this summer made him really glad he knew the language. Thanks for all of the feedback.</p>
<p>At some stage he will probably decide he really does not want to do it any longer and that is ok, until then we will keep going 
We have not let him know it is optional yet…</p>