The Russian president is known to be a linguist, fluent in German after being stationed there as a KGB officer, and well-spoken in English, with the help of lessons.
His family are said to speak Russian, English, German, and French.
Putin told pupils that they should not, however, disregard English as a language.
“English is a great language, it has given humanity a great deal in terms of combining knowledge and uniting people in the field of culture, and so on,” Putin said.
Russian, English, Tatar, German and Chechen are the most widely spoken languages in Russia, according to Russia’s 2022 census.
English is the world’s most spoken language with about 1.5 billion speakers, according to Ethnologue.
It is followed by Mandarin Chinese with about 1.1 billion speakers, and then Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Russian and Urdu.
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