This Lesson Focuses on the history of the Russian languages and the top 5 reasons to study!
- Russia is the largest country in the world with a population of over 140 million people. It spans eleven time zones and contains the largest forest reserves in the
world as well as a quarter of the earth’s fresh water within its lakes.
- The Russianlanguage has recieved numerous influences throughout history, including influences from Polish, German, and even Slavic.
- A lot of academic and intellectual vocabulary was used from languages such as Dutch, French, German, and even Latin. So by learning Russian, you get a sense
of history, and the better you know it, the more familiarities you’ll pick up from other languages too.
Other than the amazing history of the Russian language and its huge geographical size we have composed a list of the top 5 reasons you should study Russian!
- Romance: Lots of people learn Russian because they either have or want a Russian partner.
- Business: Since the former Soviet Union opened its borders to foreigners, many businessmen travel to Russia and particularly the Ukraine.
- Travel and tourism: Russia has always attracted tourists by its historical past and culture. Russian theatre, and in particular, ballet, are famous all over the world.
- “Exotic”: Even though it’s considered challenging because it has a different alphabet, the Russian writing system makes it perhaps easier to learn than some other languages such as Arabic and Japanese.
- Extremely popular: According to estimations, between 144 and 160 million people speak Russian as their first language. It’s the eighth most spoken language in the world, before Japanese, German, French, and Italian. Still, people speak Russian natively in all former Soviet republics, some of which are part of the EU now such as Latvia. In Eastern Ukraine, for example, people speak Russian rather than Ukrainian.
