The Russian Language and Alphabet
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There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet. It was invented by Saint Cyril, a Macedonian monk. Russian Cyrillic is based on the Greek Alphabet. It does look exotic, but it does not take long to learn how to read in Russian. Russian pronunciation is very simple. You will be surprised to find many familiar words as English and Russian have the same Indo-European origin.
Listen to the following words and see whether you can guess what they mean...1. Is it... |
