The Continuing Importance of the Russian Language
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 did not reduce the importance of the Russian language. While it changed its distribution, the Russian language remains widespread and tremendously important.
A Quick Review of the Russian Language
The Russian language is a member of the East Slavic subfamily of Indo-European languages. It emerged from earlier linguistic form called Church Slavonic.
Approximately 170 million people speak Russian as a first language and apart from the Russia, the Russian language is also spoken throughout the former republics of the Soviet Union including the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Lithuania, and Armenia.
Significant numbers of speakers are also found in Israel,Canada and the United States.
Approximately 170 million people speak Russian as a first language and apart from the Russia, the Russian language is also spoken throughout the former republics of the Soviet Union including the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Lithuania, and Armenia.
Significant numbers of speakers are also found in Israel,Canada and the United States.
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Russian Status After the Fall of the Soviet Union
The Continuing Importance of Russian
Even after the fall of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of various indigenous languages in the various former Republics, Russian remains an official language in various republics.
For example, the Russian language is an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the de facto official language of the regions of Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Russian is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
For example, the Russian language is an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the de facto official language of the regions of Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Russian is also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.
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Recommended Resources for Learning Russian
- Russian Text Course
- This FSI Russian FAST text course is structured to provide the student with realistic situations encountered in the everyday life.
- Pimsleur Russian
- Learn to speak Russian at an intermediate level in just thirty easy lessons with this highly effective course. Pimsleur audio courses teach you, in the shortest possible time, to understand & speak the essential elements of a new language.
- Pimsleur Russian MP3s
- This audiobook chip contains the complete 15 hours of Pimsleur's Comprehensive Course I. The audiobook chip has 30 lesson sets designed to enable listeners to speak basic the language of your choicewith native-like pronunciation, enabling basic survival skills, travel and courtesy.
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greg2213 wrote...
If Russia can ever shed its long and unglorious history of awful leadership then it might be a real superpower and the learning of Russian wouild be a good idea. IN any case, it's a beautiful language.
Posted May 29, 2008
sudever wrote...
Hi
You are cordially invited to join the new group 'Everything Russian'
www squidoo.com / groups / russian (sorry for the URL, but you don't display a contact)
Have a great day!
Sue
Posted January 15, 2008
