Misconceptions About Russian
Russian is impossible to learn. It even has a different alphabet.
Students normally master the Russian alphabet and are reading in two or three weeks. The Russian alphabet comes mainly from the Greek alphabet. The correlation between written Russian and the way it sounds is basically phonetic, that is, each character has one sound equivalent. Unlike English, in Russian you really read what you see.
Russian is a far-out language for far-out people.
Russian is spoken by over 260 million people, more than any other language except Chinese and English. With each year the scope of cultural, scholarly, scientific, political, church, and charity exchange with Russian increases. Students of Russian at Belmont make up a cross section of the student body.
