Russian Language Jobs

 

Spoken by: 300 million people worldwide
Primary language: 175 million in Russia
Official language in: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Gagauzia, Transnistria
Trade with the UK: UK exports to Russia in 2010 increased by 51% and equaled £3.45bn. Since 2001 UK-Russia trade has been growing by an average of 21% y-o-y.
Interesting fact: Russian is one of the most widely spoken native languages in Europe.

Russian belongs to the Slavic group of the Indo-European language family. The Slavic group of languages is divided into West Slavic (Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Sorbian), South Slavic (Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian), and East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian).

Russian is one of the five official languages of the United Nations, and ranks as the major world language along with Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi. It is the native language of 142 million citizens of the Russian Federation, the world’s largest country.

Russian has the reputation of being a very difficult language to learn, and it is indeed somewhat more difficult for native English speakers than the Western European languages. Nevertheless, Russian is still easier to learn than Chinese, Japanese, or Arabic. The Russian alphabet may initially seem intimidating because of the Cyrillic characters it contains. The alphabet originated from the 9th century. Its creators were two missionaries from Greece, the brothers Cyril and Methodius, who based it largely on the Greek.

Apprehension about the Cyrillic alphabet is in fact one of the most frequently given reasons for not studying Russian. Of course, the Russian alphabet differs greatly from the English but it is not at all difficult to learn: a number of letters are written and pronounced approximately the same as in English. The alphabet can be mastered in under a week or less and the Russian spelling system is more straightforward and simple in comparison to English.

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