There are more than three thousand languages in the world. Many of them are dying out, others, on the contrary, are very common. But only a few of them, due to their uniqueness and rich culture of the peoples behind them, have won the right to be in leading roles. One of these languages, respected and recognized all over the world, is Russian.
The Russian language is truly unique. Its richness and expressiveness make it possible to convey the subtlest nuances of speech. If the English language can rightfully be called the language of information transmission, then the Russian language, like no other language in the world, is able to convey the emotions of a person, the lightest shades of his mood.
It was Russian culture and the Russian language that gave the world such outstanding masters of words as Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol … And what are the poems of Sergei Yesenin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova? The poems of Russian classics cannot be translated into other languages without losing a huge part of their semantic and emotional content. Such poems can be read only in the original, because the Russian language is worth learning only in order to read the works of great Russian writers in the original.
The completeness and richness of the Russian language is truly impressive. Take, for example, the diversity of its pictorial means: in no other language there are so many subtle metaphors and metonyms, lithotes and hyperboles, antitheses, inversions, gradations … And what a rich heritage we got in the form of Russian folk tales, songs, epics, sayings, nursery rhymes, ditties, flirting, tongue twisters and riddles!
But that's not all. The Russian language is truly sacred. It is enough just to take a closer look at many familiar words, and they will open in a completely new light. The word "rich" is now associated exclusively with material wealth. But at the root of this word lies the word "god." That is, it is not the one with the bank account that is rich, but with whom God is. The word "rainbow" comes from the same root as the word "joy". That is, a rainbow is something that pleases, cheers up, gives aesthetic pleasure. The witch is the one who knows, knows. Once this word had an exclusively positive meaning, and only later was it associated with evil. Studying the true meaning of the words of the Russian language, you can make many amazing discoveries.
For many decades, throughout the entire existence of the USSR, the Russian language was compulsory for the study of the peoples of the republics belonging to the union. The Soviet Union is long gone, but the Russian language in these now free countries is still quite popular, many associate their future with the study of it. There is growing interest in it in non-CIS countries as well; Russian language classes are often unable to accommodate everyone.
And although lately Russian traditions and the richness of the language have been increasingly depreciating, many people have come to their defense, urging young people to get rid of verbal slag and borrowings alien to the Russian language. They propose not to listen to songs with delusional lyrics, not to read books written in a miserable warped language, not to watch primitive films designed for the basest human instincts.
The beauty and richness of the Russian language must be preserved. It is necessary to monitor the speech, refusing to use borrowed words where their Russian counterparts exist. But it is especially important to instill the correct culture of speech in children - it is they who will have to preserve and increase the great Russian language.
