Why should I learn russian ?
Russian is very usefull in international communication. It is used for all comunication between former soviet countries, those forming the CIS and Russia. If you learn russian it makes it easy for you to travel to all these countries, talking to local people and get in touch with new cultures.
Russian is one of the six official languages at the United Nations. If you would like to work for the UN, speaking Russian and English would be a very good advantage.
Russia went through very important reforms in the recent years, changing and consolidating it’s economy, political system and legal system. New relations with Europa, USA and Asia have been established. Russia is becoming again one of the big players in the global economy and companies trading with Russia need interpreter and translater speaking russian to discover new markets and improve business.
World Literature is full of great russian writers, poets and authors : Pushkin, Dostoievski, Tolstoi, Chejov, Akhmatova, Lermontov, Turgenev, Yesenin, Bulgakov and many others. Learning russian helps you to better understand their masterpieces of literature and the very essential meaning of their books.
Russian is spoken by 285 Million people, it’s the fourth most spoken language in the world. Can you image the possibilities you have once you’ve learned russian? You could make lot’s of new friends, study in Russia, make business with russians – it’s a great opportunity to meet new people and learn more about the russian culture.
Learning russian makes you special! Most of the students decide to learn spanish, french, italian or german – if you have russian in your CV (curriculum vitae), you have something more than the others, it creates you new opportunities and probably you get easier the job you were looking for.
Russian economy is growing every year by 7-9 %, it’s gaining influence in the world economy, is rich in natural ressources and companies around the world need qualified employees.
If you learn russian, you can watch russian movies, listen to russian music and read russian books and magazines. As as we mentionned before – you can travel in russia (the biggest country in the world). You can easily find russian words in other languages and probably you have used at least one of them (Vodka 
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If you are ready to start – than check this website about the Russian Alphabet – here you can listen to the sound of each letter plus 330 words. Enjoy!
Don’t ignore that by learning russian, a foreign language, you will grow with the task – intellectual and social. “Speaking a second language and you have a second soul” – Carlomagno.
i want to study abroad it is very imprtant for me.it wll help to improve my quality of education.
My five reasons to learn Russian:
To ask Stalin’s ghost where he stashed his WW2 gold
Because of Russia’s booming economy
To tell people off anytime I want and get away with it
To be able to say: “Look! A bear on a unicycle!”
Because my friend Olga speaks it.
I encourage you all to shun naysayers, keep working hard to learn Russian you will never regret it.
If you will learn Russian, you will definitely benefit from it and most importantly – you will soon get rid of the mythical common stereotypes about Russia and Russian people by analysing their traditions, culture and appreciation of knowledge. To understand Russian culture is a very difficult task for Westerners, this exercise will enrich your common knowledge and give some understanding of how Russians think, behave and manifest themselves in our world. Russians, so far, were and still are one of the most politically powerful and scientifically genius nations in the world throughout the history. Good luck!
So nice comments! =)