Учитель английского языка школы №129 школы №129 Приволжского района города Казани Скилевая Н.А.

So you can see how many languages there are in the world and how many people speak them Bom dia Bom dia Bonjour Bonjour Aloha Aloha Navigator Navigator Student Student Tennis Tennis Officer Officer Buffet Tomato Libretto Tundra Idol Horse

Number of speakers Number of languages A More than 100 million 9 B ,9 million 72 C 1 – 9,9 million 239 D 100,000 – 999, E 10,000-99,999 1,605 F 1,000 – ,782 G ,075 H I

English French Spanish Portuguese

We must save/ survive small languages! Earthquakes and volcanoes destroy/disappear seven languages a year! We should care/change about languages that are in danger! People need to train/repeat teachers, write/revise grammar books /

Why? study revise practise repeat Memorize,remember translate

Slavonic Kiev Rus Europe 5-6 century

“Language is created by people.” Russian “Russian has the magnificence of Spanish, liveliness of French, solidity of German, tenderness of Italian, richness and briefness of Greek and Latin.” “Language is the history of people. Language is the way of civilization and culture”

Russian country is exciting. The politics, history and culture of Russia are extremely interesting. Russian is the native language of some of the greatest writers, artists, musicians, dancers, scientists, philosophers and filmmakers. Learn Russian, and you can better understand the world in which these great thinkers lived! For them Russian is a key to a deeper and better informed interpretation of giants of classical music, science, film production, art. What makes Russia great is the people and you must understand the language to be able to understand them.