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Why Learn Russian
Author(s) -
Navall Dederich
Publication year - 1946
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1946.tb04062.x
Subject(s) - first language , russian language , linguistics , russian literature , history , sociology , political science , psychology , philosophy
Author's Summary— The Russian language ought to be studied because of imperative factors. We live in ONE world with the Russians who are conspicuous and important politically, economically, and culturally. Much of the great creative literature of the 19th century is translated inaccurately or not at all; much of what is revealed in the scientific literature of our day is inaccessible because of the sorry lack of knowledge of the Russian language which after all is not so difficult to learn since it is one of the European language family with characteristic similarities with our own national tongue, the English.