The Slavs who lived more than 1100 years ago in the state of Great Moravia (the territory of many modern European states – Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, part of Poland and Ukraine) communicated in a language incomprehensible to every nation and did not have a written language. The Great Moravian prince Rostislav invited in 863 two learned monks Cyril and Methodius (Рис. 8), who lived in the most powerful and richest state of that time – Byzantium, it was approximately where the modern countries of Greece and Turkey are located. Byzantium was famous for its scientists no less than for its wealth and army. The language spoken in this state was Greek. From it, the brothers, having created an alphabet based on the Greek secret writing, translated the Holy Scriptures and church books into the Moravian language. Letters combined in the alphabet, created by Cyril and Methodius and their students, began to be used not only in church books, but also archive notes, letters, business documents – in one word, everything that arose the need for. These letters are called «Cyrillic». And modern English uses the letters «Latin».
День памяти святых Кирилла и Мефодия 24 мая по новому стилю.
Старославянский – язык древнейших дошедших до нас памятников X—XI веков, а также язык переведённых с греческого Кириллом и Мефодием церковных книг считается первым литературным языком славян. Продолжением старославянского как литературного языка был церковнославянский язык. Древнерусский – это общий язык восточных славян, сформировавшийся в VII—VIII вв. и просуществовавший до XIV—XV вв., когда распался на три языка: русский, белорусский и украинский.
Day of Remembrance of Saints Cyril and Methodius is May, the 24-th in the new style.
Old Church Slavonic is the language of the oldest survived papers of the Xth-XIth centuries, as well as the language of church books translated from Greek by Cyril and Methodius; it is considered the first literary language of the Slavs. The development of the Old Church Slavonic as a literary language was the Church Slavonic language. Old Russian is a common language of the Eastern Slavs, formed in the VIIth-VIIIth centuries and existed until the XIV—XV centuries, when it broke up into three languages: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian.
Примечание: Все познавательные и объяснительные тексты с параллельным английским переводом рекомендуется сравнивать. Это тоже полезный обучающий приём. Рекомендуется заучивать наизусть русские предложения, фразы из таких текстов, которые подкреплены пониманием на английском языке. Такое сравнение русского и английского текстов будет способствовать и расширению словаря для коммуникации на русском языке, понятые русские слова рекомендуется записывать в словарь для лучшего запоминания и анализировать их структуру через представленные правила грамматики русского языка, чтобы знать исходную форму слова, потому что в памяти должна храниться исходная форма слова, которая будет применяться с усвоенной грамматикой.
Note: It is recommended to compare all information-containing and explanatory texts with parallel English translation. This is also a useful teaching technique. It is recommended to memorize Russian sentences, phrases from such texts, which are supported by understanding in English. Such a comparison of the Russian and English texts will also contribute to the expansion of the vocabulary for communication in Russian, it is recommended to write down understood Russian words in the dictionary for better memorization and analyze their structure through the presented grammar rules of the Russian language in order to know the original form of the word, because it must be stored in memoryand then applied according to the grammar learned.