We can talk about the richness of the Russian language for a very long time, since it is simply inexhaustible. But for some reason, the inhabitants of the beautiful country of Russia often do not even think about how much wealth they possess. It seems so familiar, mundane, that they do not even pay attention to it in everyday life.
Language as a means of intergenerational communication
It seems to many that in our time it is not necessary to study the Russian language, read books, write competently. Communicating among themselves, people use a huge number of foreign words, jargon, some ragged, disfigured, sometimes obscene expressions.
In correspondence on social networks, young people do not consider it necessary to use punctuation marks, often use these signs in the most unexpected places of the sentence.
It is impossible to underestimate the Russian language, since it is still the language of poets and prose writers, a means of transmitting to the next generations the tremendous cultural heritage of the people.
The richness of the language is the subject of admiration for almost all educated people, Russians and foreigners. After all, such flexibility, a variety of verbal forms and their meanings, the finest shades of meaning, accurate and accurate expressions do not exist in any language of the world!
The Russian language is so rich and diverse that even its native speaker in his whole life cannot even master half of his vocabulary.
Secrets of the Russian language
The secret of the wealth of the Russian language is not so much in the huge number of words recorded in the dictionary. But rather, that each has an incredible number of forms that can be formed using all kinds of suffixes, prefixes and endings.
The richness of the language is simply a sea of synonyms, antonyms, paronyms, homonyms. Its vocabulary has in its arsenal words to denote a wide variety of actions, feelings and their shades.
Phonetics is also very multifaceted: sounds are divided into voiced, deaf, sonorous, vowels, consonants. There are letters that do not indicate any sound: soft and hard signs; letters denoting several sounds at once: e, u, i.
Among other things, the richness of the language is polysemy, semantic richness of the word, emotional coloring and imagery of expressions.
Synonyms - salvation from monotony
The use of synonyms (words that are close in meaning) makes human speech much richer, more colorful, livelier, helping to more accurately express an idea, while avoiding unnecessary repetitions.
Synonyms are words with a similar lexical meaning, with the help of which you can convey the smallest details and shades, a positive or negative attitude to the described subject and make the conversation more interesting.
For this fantastic imagery and inexhaustible capabilities, the Russian language is called the greatest treasure of our national culture.
Proverbs and sayings
And the richness of the language is our accurate and accurate proverbs, sayings, that is, phraseology. With what subtle humor, irony they were created by our great people!
A proverb is a short, rhythmically organized, stable figurative saying in speech. Sayings - one of the most interesting genres of folklore, which is carefully studied by literary scholars, but at the same time remains unsolved until the end.
These popular sayings reflect imaginative thinking, observation of a Russian person, his sharp mind, masterly mastery of the language, word. Proverbs and sayings were invented for all occasions, they are funny and sad, but always accurate and accurate, without extra words and turns.
Thus, a rich, diverse, original and original Russian language allows each person to make their speech bright, beautiful, rich in original comparisons and images, you only have to want and work a little: read classics, remember and apply new words in your speech.