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The Russian language belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is the most widely spoken language of Eurasia and the most widespread of the Slavic languages.

Within the Slavic family, Russian is one of three living members of the East Slavic group, the other two being Belarusian and Ukrainian.

While the Russian language preserves much of its common Slavonic word base, modern Russian exhibits a large stock of borrowed international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology.

A language of great political importance in the 20th century, Russian is one of the official languages of the United Nations and over 145 million people speak Russian as their first language worldwide.

Russian has a reputation of being a difficult language to master for English native speakers with regular practise considered essential to achieve real fluency.

Live conversation with a native speaker pronouncing Russian will help you enormously in your studies, making online Russian lessons with Verbalplanet.com the ideal way to master this exciting language.