Ағылшын тіліндегі THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE тақырыбы (топик)

Russian is one of the richest and most complicated languages in the world. Leo Tolstoy called it “great and mighty”. It is the language of literature and the greatest poets and writers: Pushkin, Nekrasov, Karamzin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov. It is rich in synonyms, antonyms, idioms, slang, archaisms and borrowings. According to Dahl’s dictionary the Russian language contains 200 000 words.

Russian is not the only one spoken in the Russian Federation. Although there are some other officially recognized languages in different regions across the country, Russian is official throughout the nation.

Russian belongs to the Slavic group of the Indo-European family of languages which ties it to Greek and Latin. Its closest spoken relatives are Ukrainian and Belarusian. Over the centuries, its vocabulary and style have been influenced by German, French, Italian and English languages. Modern Russian also includes a large number of international political, technological and scientific terms.

The alphabet is known as Cyrillic and it goes back to the ninth century. Its most ancient version was developed by two Greek brothers Cyril and Methodius. The alphabet acquired its modern shape in the 17th century under Peter the Great, while the written Russian of today was introduced by the Soviet government in 1918. Today the Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters, and the large number of vowels (10 vowels) makes the language very melodious.

Foreign students usually face a lot of difficulties while learning the Russian language because of its numerous suffixes and complicated punctuation rules. They are also really surprised with changing the word order in Russian sentences.

Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that more than 200 million native speakers use it. Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It was taught as a compulsory school subject in many Eastern European countries in the Soviet era. Large Russian-speaking communities also exist in Israel, Germany, the USA, Turkey and other countries.

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