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East Slavic languages (Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian) dominated in the European part of the Soviet Union, the Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian, and the Finnic language Estonian were used next to Russian in the Baltic region, while Moldovan (the only Romance language in the union) was used in the southwest region.
Russian is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Education in Russian is still a popular choice for both Russian as a second language (RSL) and native speakers in Russia, and in many former Soviet republics. Russian is still seen as an important language for children to learn in most of the former Soviet republics. [53]
Self-study programs allow learning without having a teacher present, [1] [2] and the courses can supplement or replace classroom instruction. [3] Universities use self-study programs for less-commonly taught languages, where having professors is not feasible.
Drops is a language learning app that was created in Estonia by Daniel Farkas and Mark Szulyovszky in 2015. [1] It is the second product from the company, after their first app, LearnInvisible, had issues in retaining a user's engagement over the required time period. [2]
Every year the Russian Ministry of Education and Science publishes statistics on the languages used in schools. In 2014/2015 the absolute majority [75] (13.1 million or 96%) of 13.7 million Russian students used Russian as a medium of education. Around 1.6 million or 12% students studied their (non-Russian) native language as a subject.
Russian preserves palatalized consonants better than all other East and West Slavic languages, making it important for the reconstruction of yers. The Russian development of CerC, CorC, CĭrC, CŭrC and similar sequences is straightforward and in most cases easily reversible to yield the Proto-Slavic equivalent.
The Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL) (Russian: Тест по русскому языку как иностранному, romanized: Test po russkomu yazyku kak inostrannomu or ТРКИ) is a contemporary test of Russian language for foreign citizens compliant with the best European quality standards.
In the English language, the term Rusyn is recognized officially by the ISO. [26] Other names are sometimes also used to refer to the language, mainly deriving from exonyms such as Ruthenian or Ruthene (UK: / r ʊ ˈ θ iː n / RUUTH-een, US: / r uː ˈ θ iː n / ROO-theen), [27] that have more general meanings, and thus (by adding regional adjectives) some specific designations are formed ...