Russian language tutorial & online phrasebook:
Part 1: Russian alphabet & grammar.

Russian words are pronounced the same way they are written. The only problem is that the words are written in russian alphabet, and in this alphabet there are some letters you might've never used and seen before! So here we provide you with the russian alphabet and analogues of the sounds in english:


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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

GRAMMAR & HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN. In Russian there are no auxiliary verbs – that is, nosuch words as "does" or "is"; also in Russian there are no articles – "the", "a", "an". Hence, in Russian the phrase "What is this?" will be "What this?".
Questions in Russian have simple structure, if, for instance, you want to ask how to get to "Propaganda" night club: excuse me + where + club + "Propaganda" = izvi`nite + g`de + klub + Propaganda . Or you want to buy a ticket to Moscow for train #3: one + ticket + to + Moscow + for + train + number + 3 = o`din + bilet + v + Moskva + na + poezd + nomer + tri.
So, make up simpliest phrases in your language (without auxiliary verbs and articles), use the dictionary of the next sections and then say it in russian.

See the new Part 1a: How to Count in Russian (from 1 to 1000000 with sounds!)