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Take Russian courses this fall
The Russian Language is the primary language of the 150 million citizens of the Russian Federation and is the native language of approximately 30 million people living in the other states.
Why Study Russian?
- Russian doesn’t even have an alphabet like mine. How can I possibly learn it?
You can. It takes about one week to learn the entire Russian alphabet and after another week, you’ll be able to read and write in Cyrillic.
- Russian is too difficult and I’ll never be able to learn it.
It’s true that Russian takes longer to learn than many other commonly taught languages. But it takes less time than Japanese, Chinese, or Arabic, to take a few examples. People of average language abilities learn Russian all the time. You can too.
- I can always study it later.
This may be true, but Russian is not offered just everywhere. At CWRU, you can expect a lot of individual attention.
Consider enrolling in these fall 2026 Russian program courses:
- RUSN 101 - beginning Russian
- RUSN 201 - intermediate Russian
- RUSN 311 (ADVANCED RUSSIAN CONVERSATION)
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