)vocabulary. read the following opinion about the russian language. who do you think expresses it: a native speaker or a foreigner? fill in the gaps with the words from the box in the correct form. there is an example at the beginning (0). (achieve) (available) (borrow) (fluent) (major) (member) (native) (practice) (rank) (recognize) (throughout) (widespread) russian, also called great russian, is a (0) member of the indo-european family of languages. as russian is a (1) language, it is considered to be one of the ( world languages. knowledge of the russian language opens the door to the study of russia’s rich tradition of literature, art and music. russian literature ( among the most beautiful and exciting national literatures in the world. russian is the ( 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 centuries from these languages. if you neither travel regularly to russia nor have a russian pen friend, you should (8) your russian in 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.

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