Verb conjugation of "eludere" in Italian

The third and forth largest economies in the world are growing due to the fact that the countries were investing large resources in education, including foreign language acquisition. English, in this case, was the dominant language.
I have not been in eastern Germany for a long time, because I have never really had time to travel. What do you do for living and in your leisure time, like the weekends and evenings.
My grandchildren live in Switzerland, in Zurich, in the state of Zurich. In August I'm going to go back to Switzerland and I was hoping that I could learn to speak a little German by then.