Russian Language, tomorrow everyone’s second language?
In the age of globalization, everyone’s concern should be about speaking the most languages. The real question though remains through languages choices. What would be the best language to learn? There is your own, of course, and there is English, or Spanish and perhaps French. At least this is what most of us picked as second language. Some of your friends might also recommend Chinese or Japanese, but have you ever consider Russian language?
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The Russian Language Around the World
The Russian language has a long and tangled history, and is often at the centre of controversy both within Russia and throughout the rest of the world. For a long time during the Cold War, Russian appeared as an ‘alien’ language to many in the Western world – but since the Berlin Wall came down and relations between Russia and the West have thawed, the language is much more openly embraced and widely studied abroad.
Within Russia itself, it [...]
With 164 million native speakers, Russian is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe. It is the official language of Russia, and an official language of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It is widely spoken in Ukraine, and it is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Significant Russian-speaking groups also exist in USA and Western Europe. Russian is written with the cyrillic script.
Download our free dictionary (for Windows or Android) and browse both the Russian-English and the English-Russian lists. Look up a word, add or modify an entry, and learn words at your own rhythm from a personal learning list. Click here to learn more about the features or scroll down to download the program. An online version is also available, so you can browse the dictionary without downloading it.
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This dictionary was made by Vladimir Saveljev and updated by Jerald L. Jones.
List status: © Vladimir Saveljev / Jerald L. Jones
Russian> English: 26,446 words
English> Russian: 34,353 words
Last update: October 6, 2014
First upload: 1997
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