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Number of Russian Language Learners Worldwide Halved Since Soviet Collapse

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Number of Russian Language Learners Worldwide Halved Since Soviet Collapse

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11/28/19
The number of people studying Russian worldwide has halved in the 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed and is anticipated to decline further, according to state estimates cited by the RBC news website Thursday. Russian ranks as the world’s 10th-most widespread language with speakers in 27 countries, according to a report by the Higher Education Ministry’s subsidiary obtained by RBC. The number of Russian language learners has fallen from 74.6 million in the early 1990s to 38.2 million in 2018, the ministry’s subsidiary, the Center for Scientific Research, said. “If nothing is done, the situation may become tragic by 2025,” co-author Alexander Arefyev told RBC. According to the cited research, the number of students learning Russian outside ex-U.S.S.R. republics fell from 20 million to a little over 1 million. The research center forecasts the total number of Russian speakers worldwide to decline from 243 million in 2015 to 215 million in 2025.

Russian is a diminishing language at home (negative demographic curve) and abroad.
 
Who in so-called 'Ukraine' can be comparable to these big writers everyone in the world know?

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And many others
 
Anyone here who speaks Russian?

I have learned it a bit.

Just so that I can say "Hello" and "Thank you" etc in Russian.
And I can read the kyrillic letters.
 
Anyone here who speaks Russian?

I have learned it a bit.

Just so that I can say "Hello" and "Thank you" etc in Russian.
And I can read the kyrillic letters.

Well lol, that isn't speaking Russian.

According to the US military Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, California, Russian is a Class III difficulty language and requires 48 weeks of classroom study to become proficient.

One never becomes proficient (fluency) however until they've spent at least two years in-country conversing in the everyday lingo. Reading/writing/speaking are all equally important as are the various dialects.
 
According to the US military Defense Language Institute in Monterrey, California, Russian is a Class III difficulty language and requires 48 weeks of classroom study to become proficient.

Btw: My own first language is Alemannic - of the variety of the German dialect or language that is spoken in Switzerland.
And I don't think that 48 weeks of classroom study would be enough to really learn Alemannic. :)
 
Btw: My own first language is Alemannic - of the variety of the German dialect or language that is spoken in Switzerland.
And I don't think that 48 weeks of classroom study would be enough to really learn Alemannic. :)

Sounds difficult! German is regarded as a Class II language by the US military language school. (35 weeks of classroom study)
 
Btw: My own first language is Alemannic - of the variety of the German dialect or language that is spoken in Switzerland.
And I don't think that 48 weeks of classroom study would be enough to really learn Alemannic. :)
Is Alemannic the same, or similar, to Romansh? Alemannic sounds like a Latin derivation (perhaps in name only).
Yes, I agree, fluency takes a long time.
 
Is Alemannic the same, or similar, to Romansh?

Well no, not really. It is a Gemanic language - or dialect.
I will let Wiki speak for me:

Alemannic dialects are spoken by approximately ten million people in several countries:

Switzerland: all German-speaking parts of the country except Samnaun
Germany: center and south of Baden-Württemberg, Swabia, and certain districts of Bavaria
Austria: Vorarlberg, Reutte District of Tyrol
Liechtenstein: entire country
France: Alsace region (Alsatian dialect)
Italy: Gressoney-La-Trinité, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Issime, Alagna Valsesia and Rimella, in some other villages almost extinct
United States: Allen and Adams County, Indiana by the Amish there and also in their daughter settlements in Indiana and other U.S. states.
Venezuela: Colonia Tovar (Colonia Tovar dialect)

Alemannic German - Wikipedia
 
Let's remember that this is the Russia/Ukraine forum.

European language discussions belong in the Europe forum.
 
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