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1. Russian, also called Great Russian, is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. As
Russian is a(1) ___ language, it is considered to be one of the (2) ___ world languages. Knowledge of the Russian language opens the door to the study of Russian's rich tradition of literature, art and music. Russian literature (3) __ among the most beautiful and exciting national literatures in the world. Russian is the (4) ___ language of the greatest people known (5) ___ the world: L. Tolstoy, P. Tchaikovsky, I. Pavlov, A. Sakharov, to name just a few. Russian (6) ___ as a very difficult language. If you speak Italian, French, or German, you will learn Russian vocabulary even more easily as many words (7) __ in the 18th and 19th countries from these languages. If you neither travel regularly to Russian nor have a Russian pen friend, you should (8) __ your Russian on other ways. There is a wealth of books and DVDs waiting for you, and many are (9) ___ at local Russian shops. If you study Russian one hour a day regularly, you will probably be (10) __ in three years. Being able to read a newspaper article with a dictionary can be (11) __ in a year.