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Part 1: Russian Alphabet – Russian language tutorial and online phrasebook

Submitted by admin on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 18:34


Russian words are pronounced more or less the same way they are written. The only problem is that the words are written in cyrillic alphabet, which looks totally different from the latin one. So here we provide a list of the Russian cyrillic letters and the most similar English letters and sounds.



Russian
Letter 		Sounds Like in English Word: Sound and how it is marked Comments
father a   
bomb b   
vault v   
go g   
do d   
yet e soft
yo! yo one sound
vision zh one sound
zebra z   
yield i   
short "yi" i   
kinky k   
loony l (soft)
monk m   
no n  
long o   
pot p   
corrida r (strong, like in spanish)
sucks s   
take t   
look u or oo (marked "oo" when longer)
fake f   
host kh (like strong "h")
mats ts   
cheeky ch   
shock sh   
shch shch   
silent   separates two letters
busy or above y it's like more open e and i together
onion   softens the previous letter
land e more open
mute yu   
yankee ya   



Next: Part 2 – Russian Grammar (or why Russians may seem rude sometimes)




 

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