Where does the Russian language come from?
language – язык language group – языковая группа foreign – иностранный foreign language – иностранный язык Slav tribes – славянские племена
Slavonic – славянский Turkish – турецкий German – немецкий French – французский Dutch – голландский Greek – греческий borrow – заимствовать
By the 10th century there were three Slavonic groups Western Southern Eastern
Slavonic language groups WesternSouthernEastern RussianBelorussianUkrainian
In the 12 th century the Mongols came
The Russian language didnt changed much
All Slavonic languages are still similar and people can understand each other
Myth 1 Its very difficult to learn Russian Myth 2 Not so many people in the world speak Russian Myth 3 Russian is useless, because Russia is closed, dangerous country. Visitors always have problems there.