{"id":65015,"date":"2024-05-15T04:35:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/why-learn-russian\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T04:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:45:43","slug":"why-learn-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/russian\/why-learn-russian\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Learn Russian? 10 Reasons to Study It"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, the Russian language has been a rich source of beautiful poems that I learned as a child and can still recite today, like Afanasy Fet’s “I Come to You at the Break of Day,”<\/a> a joyful ode to spring and love.<\/p>\n

It gave me the recipes for delicious comfort food<\/a> like my mom’s katleti<\/a> <\/em>(fried meat patties) and blinchiki<\/a> <\/em>(delectably thin and fluffy crepes). She still makes them every time I come to visit!<\/p>\n

If you’re considering taking the leap and learning this rich language, I promise the journey will be worth it.<\/p>\n

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1. Russian is one of the top 10 spoken languages in the world<\/h2>\n

You might think that Russian is only spoken in Russia (obviously).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, Russian is the official language in many countries around the world,<\/a> including\u00a0Russia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. Russian is also taught in schools<\/a> as a second language in neighboring countries like Ukraine, Uzbekistan, the Baltics and a number of others.<\/p>\n

That means learning Russian will allow you to hold a conversation with a lot of people around the world. I’m Ukrainian, but I don’t speak a lick of Ukrainian. My native language is actually Russian.<\/p>\n

Over 150 million people<\/a> speak Russian as their first language. Another 60 million or so use it as a second language. Russian is important enough to be recognized as one of the six official languages of the UN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, Russian is the ninth most spoken language in the world<\/a>!<\/strong> That’s a lot of potential speaking partners.<\/p>\n

2. Russia is a world leader in several industries<\/h2>\n

Russia is a global superpower and a leader in global industries such as:<\/p>\n