Should our children learn Arabic? (translation from German to Russian) Up to now we understand integration as an one-way-process: immigrants have to integrate themselves into the German society. It sounds plausible but deprives German people of opportunity to see in this situation good chances for themselves. First of all, I see these chances in a new model of education. Every year in Germany there are around 700 000 children born. Approximately 30 percent of them has at least one parent with a migration background. Moreover, it is around 50 000 refugee children in the age between 6 and 16 years old. It is too much for their integration by usual model. I believe that simultaneous learning of two languages opens in principal new opportunities. Children start learning second language through playing in kindergarten. In primary school or up to the fifth class, it is a language teaching required. German and foreign language lessons run parallely. Than younger children are, than faster and thorougher the progress of soaking up with a partner language. So, children would have a good opportunity to learn a second language as native speakers. One scenario may be next: English is used as a common school language. Both German children and refugee children are not good in English, so they start at the same level. According to this model, classes consist of refugee children by halves. The language of all classes English. Moreover, refugee children from the Middle East have to learn German and German children - Arabic. Presence of native Arabic and German speakers at the same time in each class would make learning process considerably easier. German and English languages are obliged for all pupils to get the Abitur. Another scenario may be next: German and Arabic are Lingua franca in schools instead of English. Both languages are used with equal rights during language lessons. Firstly, Arabic pupils take intensive German lessons and German pupils on their part Arabic language lessons. As soon as both pupil groups will get enough language knowledge for proper communication, these groups would be mixed/merged. The purpose is to get a German certificate when knowledge in some subjects would be examined in German, another in Arabic. Besides German as a core competence, they would have an access to the Arabic world or to other regions, if pupils have a native language different from German (for example, French, Turkish, Spanish or Russian). Thereby we would access that we are a country of immigration and a multilingual society.