at the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute
Did you know?
In Russian, roller coasters are known as amerikanskie gorki, or 'American mountains.' Interestingly, in many of the romance languages they are known as 'Russian mountains.'
Zdravstvuyte! Russian is spoken by roughly 200 million people within Russia and abroad. It is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the eighth most spoken language in the world.
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Russian is one of the official languages of the United Nations, as well as an important means of communication between nations of the former Soviet Union.
Russian cultural heritage is widely known throughout the world, and knowledge of the Russian language is a must to fully enjoy and understand it.
Dostoyevsky. Nabokov. Chekhov. Gogol. Tolstoy. Pushkin. From universally recognised literary greats, to stars of the Russian ballet such as Anna Pavlova, Russian talent has pervaded every genre of music, art and literature.
Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, which is made up of 33 letters. Spelling is basically, though not completely, phonetic, and the rules of pronunciation are few and simple.
The Russian language has no articles, either definite or indefinite. All Russian nouns fall into the three grammatical genders of masculine, feminine, and neuter. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender, case, and number. The verb has three tenses—present, past, and future—and the category of aspect. The two aspects are the imperfective (presenting the action as a process of repetition) and the perfective (presenting the action as a unified whole).
A typical feature of Russian vocabulary is large families of words derived from the same root by means of adding various prefixes and suffixes.