Russian, also called Great Russian, is a (0) member of the Indo-European family of languages. As Russian is a (1) widespread language, it is considered to be one of the (2) major 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 (3) ranks among the most beautiful and exciting national literatures in the world. Russian is the (4) native language of the greatest people known (5) throughout the world: L. Tolstoy, P. Tchaikovsky, I. Pavlov, A. Sakharov, to name just a few. Russian (6) (6) is recognized as a very difficult language. If you speak Italian, French
or German, you will learn Russian vocabulary even more easily as many words(7) (7) were borrowed 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) practice your Russian in other ways. There is a wealth of books and DVDs waiting for you, and many are (9) available at local
Russian shops. If you study Russian one hour a day regularly, you will probably be (10) fluent in three years. Being able to read a newspaper article
with a dictionary can be (11) achieved in a year.
Who do you think expresses it?=A native speaker.