Cyrillic letters are very similar to Greek letters. Г is like Γ (Gamma), П is like Π (Pi), Р is like Ρ (Rho), У is like Υ (Ypsilon), Д is like Δ (Delta), Л is like Λ (Lambda), Ф is like a Φ (Phi), Х is like a Χ (Chi).
That is so, because Russian alphabet was made by Greek scholar)) Actually at the beginning Cyril (Constantine) and Methodius invented other alphabet, but it was too difficult to learn, so their followers made it more similar to Greek one. But because the first inventor was Cyril the alphabet was named Cyrillic
@@Siena-Lin yes precisely and has more influence through religion being spread specifically the orthodox christianity which split the culture between latin and orthodox hence differences between them and religion being so important during the middle ages
@UCFY8jBFKBqE9hHoXsLA_3xA B and V have always been very similar, see taverna vs. taberna. The shift from V/F to B is the main distinction between Low and High German: to have (English) - haben (German) Wiev (Low German) - Weib (High German) blieven (Low German) - bleiben (High German) half (English) - halb (German) thief (English) - Dieb (German) self (English) - selbst (German) weave (English) - weben (German) etc.
Yes, you are absolutely right, but do not forget about the letter 'B', please, it is from Greek ("Beta"), but when Cyrill & Methody created their Slavic Alphabets (Glagolitic and Cyrillic) in the Greek dialect of Byzantium, this letter was called "Vita" and then it matched the 'v' sound... Generally the 'b' and 'v' sounds are kind of similar, look at the letters 'B' and 'V' in Spanish, also look at the letter 'ב' ("Bet") in Hebrew, etc.
Yes, TH-cam put me on course for Hungarian a few years ago, now that I’m fairly fluent with it and Japanese, TH-cam wants me to learn either Russian or Korean. TH-cam is sadistic. I’m going to go down the Russian rabbit hole I think, just because I enjoy non-English European Broadway and I have stumbled on some great Russian productions (Tanz der Vampire especially).
Hi, I am a native russian speaker) And that was actually a great explanation 😄🌺 I am surprized by how you found such good sound equivalents in English Great job!😃👍
Hellow there i have a question the russian alphabet has many more letters then the english letters, i want to learn russian so bad, АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЫЭЮЯ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz im confused on what the ЩЫЭЮЯ is, please help me!
@@sansthecomic1079 I will help! Щ is very similar to Ш but it’s just the “Sh” sound as in Ship and not Shoot. Like it has a sort of whistle to it. That’s how I can explain it 😅 Ы is like the mix of the sound “Ih” as in Igloo and “Ugh” Э is just the “E” sound as in the first letter of “Enter” Ю is pronounced like “You” And Я is pronounced “Ya”, like “Ya”s queen. I hope this helped :)
I am a 70-year-old mother of three sons -- and desire to learn Russian for transcription purposes, transcribing from Russian literature into English. It occurred to me that it would be great to know how to pronounce what it is I am transcribing! THIS IS SOOOO HELPFUL. Bless you for this work.
Thank you so much for these videos. As a woman, probably close to the same age as your mom with no background in Russian, I appreciate the approach you're taking. I am having no trouble following you, and your little extra tips of association are helpful.
I know this is old. I just want to say thank you! I'm older and I most likely will never get the opportunity to even visit Russia! But I love languages. So I'm going to give this language my best eftort!
My son is 5 and autistic, I myself am also autistic.. He loves the Russian language and has already learned the alphabet, and can read in it.. So, I started learning by listening to Russian music..
Im surprised how autistic people are amazing, a 5 year old knows cyrillic and children usually learn latin alphabet in first grade woah! My 6 year old brother may have aspergers he hasnt been tested but i think he has some symptoms. Anyways he can substract and calculate with 4 digit numbers and the only thing wr taught him about maths is counting..
@@raptor1068 repetitive interest, we all learn at different times and I try not to compare, so my grandson is 3 and can ride a bike with training wheels, this was bitter sweet because my son isn't very athletic ie I believe he's dispraxic. I see my son notice things he advances in and has trouble in. Both have awesome love for their interest, my son was reading ABC's backwards at 3, he was also speaking Spanish, and could spell words like vaccum, my grandson almost hopped my chain link fence 💀🤣 hopefully they will work together in the future to really give people a hard time.. My son gets called a Russian spy all the time💀 tbh tho we have cigany blood so there's no telling because our Romachal language is actually Slavic/Rom dialect. Also my kids dad is related to Leaf Ericson 💀 the viking or what have you.
@@dollydagger8492 whats cigany if i may ask, i dont wanna sound rude but does that mean gypsy (i dont know the formal non racist term) i just wanna get informed, im slavic and im learning russian by myself and even before i could understand the topics of russian convos so it makes it easier e.g. maska, kak', debil, što/chto are some similar words but ponos means pride in my language while its diarrhea in russian
Beautiful! Great to learn something new. I'm 70, never to "old to learn" thankyou. With today's technology, if you don't want to learn, it's because you choose not to. What a shame. 😞
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
I am a 50 year old mom and I just started learning Russian. This video was perfect for me. It is so informative and easy to watch. Thank you! It was also funny to watch you discribe some letters, that look so familiar to me, being a Greek, but so strange to English people. I think the letter you discribed as "a house" ( д ) often looks more like the Greek delta ( Δ ), which looks like a triangle, but in Russian it is flat on the top and has two "feet" :)
The Russian alphabet is directly derived from the Greek. And the original Cyrillic was more like the Greek alphabet than the modern one. Russian letters acquired their modern look after the reform of Peter the Great, when he ordered the so-called civil script from Western European masters. As a result, many letters, originally Greek, acquired a more Latin appearance. Documents, literature, etc. began to be written in civil script, and the original Cyrillic alphabet remained only in Orthodox church use. As for the letter "Д", similar to "Δ", then the letter "Л" is often drawn with a sharp top (like Greek "Λ"). Within the same font, these letters are drawn in the same style: either both with a flat top, or both with a sharp top.
Noy going to lie, i have watched multiple TH-camrs explain the Russian alphabet, used multiple apps, visited specialized websites, and at the moment of giving up, your video came up, i clicked it (seemed like a cool guy) and oh my word, this video game me such a better insight and pronunciation assistance than any other media I've utilized! Instant like, instant subscribe click and hoping nothing but the best or you (and your mum, hope she can speak Russian) Cant wait to continue to watch the rest of your videos! And if only i knew how to start a business in Russian, i would love to!
I have a bit of a hard time understanding how to type the pronunciation of ш and щ, and if I were to type the difference to my friends, they might not get it. I tried and tried and this video actually gave a good understanding thank you!
My 5 year old just started learning Russian in school.. I have an Alphabet Card they gave her at school that made no sense to me! So here I am looking up what it sounds like so I can understand my child and also help her along her journey lol
This is the 1st time I learn about Russian Alphabet. The explanation and the pronunciation were very simple and clear. I just got them on a 1st watch. 👍👍Thank you so much 😊
My dear old babushka of a grandmother was from Minsk. When I was a little boy (10)she would say terms of endearment in soft Russian to me. I never understood being from rural New England. Now 82 and think of her making the immigration to the U.S. when she was only 14 to escape the pogroms. Solid Russian stock and tough as nails. She is missed. I will watch your lessons and think of her struggling to learn English. Nice presentation.
I love how he did this video for his mom and it's better than most of the videos online, I really appreciate it man, this helped me so much! You're the best.
An intelligent gifted teacher. He identifies problems students have and explains them in a way that makes them seem like a piece of cake [i.e. easy]. Above all, the lesson was fun.
When it comes to Ш and Щ. Щ is in such words like "sheep", "she", "shield", "sure". And Ш is in "shell", "distinguish", "vanish", "rush" etc. Try to say "rush" and then "sheep" - you'll hear the difference and feel that the position of the tongue is different. So English really has both Ш and Щ but as they are not distinguished in writing people think that's all one sound, when there are actually two! And you already can pronounce them both!
Hello, this helped me!! I do you have some other questions that the person in the video doesn’t explain, Ёё, Йй, Оо, Щщ. I struggle with these letters most... i like reading russian mostly while someone speaks it, and sometimes i hear ё but it doesn’t have the dots over it. Do people forget to write it this way or am i just hearing things. Й, just sounds like И when i hear it. О has different pronunciations in some words.. like when i hear Что, it has an O sound like in the word.... Low, i guess? but in words like... Кто, it sounds like you are saying Kta. (Sorry for any mistakes or confusion)
@@tolvvy God, your questions are very hard to answer, but I will try. Regarding you hearing ё, you are absolutely right - most russians just ignore the double dots and just right is as е. You just know it is pronounced ё from the word itself. Й, as he said, is pretty much the y sound in english. However, there is confusion that even I, a native, cannot understand as to whether you use й and then a vowel, or just the y form of a vowel instead. (So for example, the word yogurt would be written йогурт. Why not ёгурт? I don't know. Yacht however, is written яхта, and not йахта. Why? Again, no clue) And regarding you hearing a in кто, man that is pretty much the Russian accents. Basically, Muscovites (people from Moscow) usually tend to say а instead of о in words, because of the dialect. So Молоко (milk) would be pronounced МАлАко. On the contrary, in the city of Novosibirk, the tend to pronounce all а sounds as о. So картошка (potato), they pronounce as кОртошка. So, the a/o is very dual in russian, My advice would be pronounce all a as a, and also pronouce all o as a, unless the o is at the end. Then it will 100% be pronounced as o, and not a.
@@tolvvy oh boy, on a chat, short messages, etc Ë is frequently substituted with E. And you need to know that originally there is a Ë in that word. Sorry to give you hard time/ I've never seen anyone was doing any substitution on handwriting.
Not winding you up but I really can't get the difference which is so frustrating! These are the only two letters I have a problem with in Russian. I got the rest down.
25 years ago I took two years of Russian in college. I'm happy to report I still remembered most of the alphabet. I can't speak a full sentence but I remembered most of the sounds! I'm sooooooooooooooooo glad Prof. Macura graded on a curve!
I read a little Russian every day just to learn the alphabet. I keep coming back here when I get shaky. Your pairing of the vowels is the best way I have learned.
Hello! That's so great that you like Russian! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
Очень интересно! Единственная заметка: Ъ нужен чтобы разделять согласную и гласную, чтобы они не сливались. Например: съесть. Ту же фукцию имеет Ь, помимо мягкости он разделяет согласную и гласную, например: вьюга. А по видео - посмотрел с удовольствием!)
I started my japanese journey on TH-cam several years ago, and now I'm taking the first step in my russian journey. Great video, easy to follow and lively. :)
This helped me a lot thank you so much. I'm 14 and I've always loved Russia and have always wanted to speak it and learn it. Now that i have this I'll be able to move forward more. :)
Hello! Maybe, I'm too late,but... I am native Russian speaker,who learning English. I just want to wish you patience and say don't give up. (We are almost the same age, so if you want talk to practice, (it can be also useful for me) I'll be happy to help you!) Удачи!
@@paulpidtop3541 , in such words like "sheep", "she", "shield", "sure" it's clear Щ. And Ш is in "shell", "distinguish", "vanish", "rush" etc. Try to say "rush" and then "sheep" - you'll hear the difference and feel that the position of the tongue is different. So English really has both Ш and Щ but as they are not distinguished in writing people think that's all one sound, when there are actually two! And you already can pronounce them both!
Nivy Mondaya That is a really great explanation, thank you ! My Ukrainian girlfriend’s first language is Russian and I asked her to explain the difference. She pronounced the two letters and I still didn’t get it (!). You have helped a lot ))) For her she at first had difficulty in the difference between Walk and Work )
good teacher,i lived in Russia 33 years ,and i am a specialist in Russian and Russian literature.i don't Ph.D in Russian language and literature.i appreciate your good teachings
Thank you for your video. I have been studying Russian from "living Language CD course", and they never explained the Russian alphabet. I am indebted to you for this information. Wonderful job.
For me as a Greek, I find it easy because some letters same to Greek and Russian is read as written like Greek... I like Russian people and Russian literature very much and I hope some day I can read the authentic texts...
I'm 65 years old. I have always wondered what the Russian alphabet sounded like. Now I know. Thank you for breaking it down and explaining it so clearly. You are very easy to follow, which means you are a very good teacher. I also think it's fantastic that you are personalizing these lessons for your Mother. It is very heart warming that you love your Mother so much.
Your interpretation of Russian Letters is great ! I can speak Polish therefore, pronunciation when it comes to use Russian is no bar. You're doing a good job🙂👍
This is helping so much! On day three of learning русский. I plan on coming back to these to help with pronunciation and remembering the alphabet (especially the vowel doubles). Спасибо!
Wooooooooooow you are an amazing man, believe me, I really understood everything that you explained. I am an Egyptian American high school art teacher and I want to move to Russia very soon.
This is the best Russian alphabet video I have used and I come back here when I have figure something out. Your pairing of the vowels was a breakthrough for me, closed the circle.
I'm a Mother too! I wanted to understand a bit of Russian, but it's totally alien to me and daunting. You're video was very encouraging because you had created it for your Mother like my son creates things for me ☺. So very kind! Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this video. It was very helpful indeed. I look forward to viewing your other videos. 😁
Tried Duolingo in Russian, but had no prior understanding of the Russian alphabet, what each sound was, so I didn't do so well. With this I feel better equipped to go at it again. Thanks.
You won't find it on the web version, but the Duolingo app does have the Cyrillic alphabet listed in a table with phonetic examples. Some of the English transcriptions are different from what is presented here such as 'И' is shown as an 'i' in the app, but sounds the same as described here and 'Щ' is shown as a 'shsh' in the app, though I would say 'shch' is probably more accurate.
@desertrosereads Yeah I agree. I pretty much just use duolingo to practice cyrillic as it hasn't been too useful teaching me any grammar. But I do wish it had flash cards as I think that would be more helpful with memorization than throwing letters all together in a word.
@desertrosereads I just made flash cards for each letter and it has been insanely helpful to me. I couldn't learn the alphabet just doing duo lingo personally.
Your lessons actually helps me mastering my English skills.. I remember a lot of native English way of speaking while listening you describing stuff that I know 100% as native Russian.)
🤗🤗🤗🤗 EVIDENTLY, YOU ARE THE BEST RUSSIAN TEACHER TO THE FOREIGNERS, NO ONE EVER BEFORE YOU USEDTHIS BEST METHOD TO TEACH RUSSIAN ASWELL ANY OTHER LANGUAGES, I WISH YOU COULD TEACH CHINESE IN SAME METHOD, MY MOST BEST COMPLEMENTS, 🎀🌹🎀
Thank you so much for this and you are very nice to do this for your mother and help so many people learn this amazing language! I have been learning Russian in my sleep and listening to audio lessons and it is just in the past week I have learned to read it - it clicked finally! I even changed my cell phone language to Russian to help naturalize it. I am still very VERY slow reading but I placed my first order for something in Russian last night so that was really cool! I have learned to do the reading Russian in 5 days so far but I was having trouble with some words so this fixed that!
I appreciate listening to you. I'm assuming you're a native English speaker. You're more relatable than some native-speaking Russians. Just good to get different perspectives.
I'm from greece and learning russian and I'm familiar with the letters a bit because my relatives speak russian so I'm trying to learn how to pronounce the letters and so far you have helped me the best in understanding them!! Great work
I absolutely love this! It's awfully helpful for me in particular, since funny coincidence, I'm trying to learn the bare minimum to be able to teach my own mom. Great video, I know more than a few moms will benefit from your upbeat method :) keep up the amazing work!
Now this explains why I keep seeing Russian text and think it is written from right to left; apparently some of the letters are similar to English but they are in the opposite direction.
When reading comments on youtube I can figure out what's being said in various languages. But when I come across a comment in cyrillic, I cant understand a word. Thank you for teaching the cyrillic alphabet. It's the first step to understanding what a Russian speaker is saying.
You’re an awesome instructor!!! This takes me back to my high school years when I actually took 3 years of Russian language and history. Love it 😊 I need to get back into it 👍👌😎
Did about same as the other Russian language I watch. Still trying to remember hoping I'm not past age of learning new things. Love your humor, very clear to understand. Thank you.
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Great teaching, terrible puns, I appreciate both of them, thank you.
I havent seen it
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Wahhhhhhhhh
Да
Puns yes :)
it looks like a K
it sounds like a K
it is a K
so, its all oK
Ок
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Ну Ничего страшного если
к
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You have a great pronunciation of letter «Ы» , don't be shy.
OuReborn that’s... actually kind of why I’m here...
Wat...ooh
**central i intensifies**
@@kuyajayy damn bitch 😂😂
It’s like u-ng but with a soft ng from the sound
Cyrillic letters are very similar to Greek letters. Г is like Γ (Gamma), П is like Π (Pi), Р is like Ρ (Rho), У is like Υ (Ypsilon), Д is like Δ (Delta), Л is like Λ (Lambda), Ф is like a Φ (Phi), Х is like a Χ (Chi).
That is so, because Russian alphabet was made by Greek scholar)) Actually at the beginning Cyril (Constantine) and Methodius invented other alphabet, but it was too difficult to learn, so their followers made it more similar to Greek one. But because the first inventor was Cyril the alphabet was named Cyrillic
@@Siena-Lin yes precisely and has more influence through religion being spread specifically the orthodox christianity which split the culture between latin and orthodox hence differences between them and religion being so important during the middle ages
@UCFY8jBFKBqE9hHoXsLA_3xA B and V have always been very similar, see taverna vs. taberna.
The shift from V/F to B is the main distinction between Low and High German:
to have (English) - haben (German)
Wiev (Low German) - Weib (High German)
blieven (Low German) - bleiben (High German)
half (English) - halb (German)
thief (English) - Dieb (German)
self (English) - selbst (German)
weave (English) - weben (German) etc.
Yes, you are absolutely right, but do not forget about the letter 'B', please, it is from Greek ("Beta"), but when Cyrill & Methody created their Slavic Alphabets (Glagolitic and Cyrillic) in the Greek dialect of Byzantium, this letter was called "Vita" and then it matched the 'v' sound... Generally the 'b' and 'v' sounds are kind of similar, look at the letters 'B' and 'V' in Spanish, also look at the letter 'ב' ("Bet") in Hebrew, etc.
@@Nikioko Thank you for the answer, I totally agree.
I'm a grandma and I'm learning Russian! You're a great teacher. Simplicity 🎉
Thank you!
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Strange recommendation but ok youtube, I'll learn Russian
ha ha
Ничего не понимаю но очень интересно =^=
You will so smart
Yes, TH-cam put me on course for Hungarian a few years ago, now that I’m fairly fluent with it and Japanese, TH-cam wants me to learn either Russian or Korean. TH-cam is sadistic. I’m going to go down the Russian rabbit hole I think, just because I enjoy non-English European Broadway and I have stumbled on some great Russian productions (Tanz der Vampire especially).
Hi, I am a native russian speaker)
And that was actually a great explanation 😄🌺
I am surprized by how you found such good sound equivalents in English
Great job!😃👍
How to write i in russian language
@@mamunurrashid5676 How to say “I” is Я, and pronounced like (Ya) if you didn’t know.
Только он парные гласные не правильно расставил
Hellow there i have a question the russian alphabet has many more letters then the english letters, i want to learn russian so bad, АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЫЭЮЯ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz im confused on what the ЩЫЭЮЯ is, please help me!
@@sansthecomic1079 I will help!
Щ is very similar to Ш but it’s just the “Sh” sound as in Ship and not Shoot. Like it has a sort of whistle to it. That’s how I can explain it 😅
Ы is like the mix of the sound “Ih” as in Igloo and “Ugh”
Э is just the “E” sound as in the first letter of “Enter”
Ю is pronounced like “You”
And Я is pronounced “Ya”, like “Ya”s queen.
I hope this helped :)
I am a 70-year-old mother of three sons -- and desire to learn Russian for transcription purposes, transcribing from Russian literature into English. It occurred to me that it would be great to know how to pronounce what it is I am transcribing! THIS IS SOOOO HELPFUL. Bless you for this work.
I hope you do great!
Im in high school and doing the same thing
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I try to learn russian language.
Thank you so much for these videos. As a woman, probably close to the same age as your mom with no background in Russian, I appreciate the approach you're taking. I am having no trouble following you, and your little extra tips of association are helpful.
I know this is old. I just want to say thank you! I'm older and I most likely will never get the opportunity to even visit Russia! But I love languages. So I'm going to give this language my best eftort!
My son is 5 and autistic, I myself am also autistic.. He loves the Russian language and has already learned the alphabet, and can read in it.. So, I started learning by listening to Russian music..
This made my day to read this Dolly. God Bless You...
Im surprised how autistic people are amazing, a 5 year old knows cyrillic and children usually learn latin alphabet in first grade woah! My 6 year old brother may have aspergers he hasnt been tested but i think he has some symptoms. Anyways he can substract and calculate with 4 digit numbers and the only thing wr taught him about maths is counting..
@@raptor1068 repetitive interest, we all learn at different times and I try not to compare, so my grandson is 3 and can ride a bike with training wheels, this was bitter sweet because my son isn't very athletic ie I believe he's dispraxic. I see my son notice things he advances in and has trouble in. Both have awesome love for their interest, my son was reading ABC's backwards at 3, he was also speaking Spanish, and could spell words like vaccum, my grandson almost hopped my chain link fence 💀🤣 hopefully they will work together in the future to really give people a hard time.. My son gets called a Russian spy all the time💀 tbh tho we have cigany blood so there's no telling because our Romachal language is actually Slavic/Rom dialect. Also my kids dad is related to Leaf Ericson 💀 the viking or what have you.
@@dollydagger8492 whats cigany if i may ask, i dont wanna sound rude but does that mean gypsy (i dont know the formal non racist term) i just wanna get informed, im slavic and im learning russian by myself and even before i could understand the topics of russian convos so it makes it easier e.g. maska, kak', debil, što/chto are some similar words but ponos means pride in my language while its diarrhea in russian
@@raptor1068 Yes💕❤️
Finally someone explained the alphabet as a whole,...now I have a better understanding.
I would like to know what does "Moshna",.. mean?..I hear it alot on Russian pop music..
@@carlosortiz1549 powerful, strong
Beautiful! Great to learn something new. I'm 70, never to "old to learn" thankyou. With today's technology, if you don't want to learn, it's because you choose not to.
What a shame. 😞
The reason why I wanna learn the Russian alphabet is to sing Russian songs
ооо наве то ларн пропер россиян
Lana Del Rey - Topic WANNA SING KATYUSHA TOGETHER
Comrade Ryan yeah why not
What song?
Kino viktor tsoi
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign
language and wants to realize their full potential!
I am a 50 year old mom and I just started learning Russian. This video was perfect for me. It is so informative and easy to watch. Thank you! It was also funny to watch you discribe some letters, that look so familiar to me, being a Greek, but so strange to English people. I think the letter you discribed as "a house" ( д ) often looks more like the Greek delta ( Δ ), which looks like a triangle, but in Russian it is flat on the top and has two "feet" :)
The Russian alphabet is directly derived from the Greek. And the original Cyrillic was more like the Greek alphabet than the modern one. Russian letters acquired their modern look after the reform of Peter the Great, when he ordered the so-called civil script from Western European masters. As a result, many letters, originally Greek, acquired a more Latin appearance. Documents, literature, etc. began to be written in civil script, and the original Cyrillic alphabet remained only in Orthodox church use.
As for the letter "Д", similar to "Δ", then the letter "Л" is often drawn with a sharp top (like Greek "Λ"). Within the same font, these letters are drawn in the same style: either both with a flat top, or both with a sharp top.
Noy going to lie, i have watched multiple TH-camrs explain the Russian alphabet, used multiple apps, visited specialized websites, and at the moment of giving up, your video came up, i clicked it (seemed like a cool guy) and oh my word, this video game me such a better insight and pronunciation assistance than any other media I've utilized!
Instant like, instant subscribe click and hoping nothing but the best or you (and your mum, hope she can speak Russian)
Cant wait to continue to watch the rest of your videos!
And if only i knew how to start a business in Russian, i would love to!
Ssssaaaaaaammmeeeee!!!!! I was giving up. And now, I get it!!! Best video on the Cyrillic alphabet, period!
I have a bit of a hard time understanding how to type the pronunciation of ш and щ, and if I were to type the difference to my friends, they might not get it. I tried and tried and this video actually gave a good understanding thank you!
Also try an app called learn Cyrillic in 3 hours. It helped me soo much. This video plus that equals Yes!
As a native Russian speaker I love your explanations very much)) It's cool that someone wants to study Russian.
Russia my friend,,, Philippines
My 5 year old just started learning Russian in school.. I have an Alphabet Card they gave her at school that made no sense to me! So here I am looking up what it sounds like so I can understand my child and also help her along her journey lol
This is the 1st time I learn about Russian Alphabet. The explanation and the pronunciation were very simple and clear. I just got them on a 1st watch. 👍👍Thank you so much 😊
Same here, I feel like a native English speaker can explain it better, specially when they’re experienced in the Russian language.
I♡ this😘
bro, whats about ш and щ ?
Russian alphabet (32 letters) derives from Bulgarian alphabet (30 letters). Both are Slavic.
33, not 32
OMGOSH...this nearly 60 year old MOM is wanting to learn, too! Love love love your videos! just what this old brain needs!
My dear old babushka of a grandmother was from Minsk. When I was a little boy (10)she would say terms of endearment in soft Russian to me. I never understood being from rural New England. Now 82 and think of her making the immigration to the U.S. when she was only 14 to escape the pogroms. Solid Russian stock and tough as nails. She is missed. I will watch your lessons and think of her struggling to learn English. Nice presentation.
I love how he did this video for his mom and it's better than most of the videos online, I really appreciate it man, this helped me so much! You're the best.
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An intelligent gifted teacher. He identifies problems students have and explains them in a way that makes them seem like a piece of cake [i.e. easy]. Above all, the lesson was fun.
WoW.. Your mom is so lucky,,, she has a brilliant son 😁
Today, I have learn a lot from you :)
You are excellent :)
Its 12 am and I'm having a headache and a thought just came in, "why would I not learn Russian?" Great! Now I'm here.
I am in an intro russian class for my graduate program and this video helped a TON! Thanks :)
When it comes to Ш and Щ.
Щ is in such words like "sheep", "she", "shield", "sure".
And Ш is in "shell", "distinguish", "vanish", "rush" etc.
Try to say "rush" and then "sheep" - you'll hear the difference and feel that the position of the tongue is different.
So English really has both Ш and Щ but as they are not distinguished in writing people think that's all one sound, when there are actually two! And you already can pronounce them both!
Hello, this helped me!! I do you have some other questions that the person in the video doesn’t explain, Ёё, Йй, Оо, Щщ.
I struggle with these letters most... i like reading russian mostly while someone speaks it, and sometimes i hear ё but it doesn’t have the dots over it. Do people forget to write it this way or am i just hearing things. Й, just sounds like И when i hear it. О has different pronunciations in some words.. like when i hear Что, it has an O sound like in the word.... Low, i guess? but in words like... Кто, it sounds like you are saying Kta.
(Sorry for any mistakes or confusion)
@@tolvvy God, your questions are very hard to answer, but I will try. Regarding you hearing ё, you are absolutely right - most russians just ignore the double dots and just right is as е. You just know it is pronounced ё from the word itself. Й, as he said, is pretty much the y sound in english. However, there is confusion that even I, a native, cannot understand as to whether you use й and then a vowel, or just the y form of a vowel instead. (So for example, the word yogurt would be written йогурт. Why not ёгурт? I don't know. Yacht however, is written яхта, and not йахта. Why? Again, no clue) And regarding you hearing a in кто, man that is pretty much the Russian accents. Basically, Muscovites (people from Moscow) usually tend to say а instead of о in words, because of the dialect. So Молоко (milk) would be pronounced МАлАко. On the contrary, in the city of Novosibirk, the tend to pronounce all а sounds as о. So картошка (potato), they pronounce as кОртошка. So, the a/o is very dual in russian, My advice would be pronounce all a as a, and also pronouce all o as a, unless the o is at the end. Then it will 100% be pronounced as o, and not a.
@@tolvvy oh boy, on a chat, short messages, etc Ë is frequently substituted with E. And you need to know that originally there is a Ë in that word. Sorry to give you hard time/ I've never seen anyone was doing any substitution on handwriting.
Not winding you up but I really can't get the difference which is so frustrating! These are the only two letters I have a problem with in Russian. I got the rest down.
I learned the russian alphabet in 3 days from this video. Excellent stuff !!!
Thank you for this lesson. I am a TOTAL beginner. I’m going to copy these into a notebook and practice!
Если ты бегиннер, то почему у тебя имя на русском написано?
If you're beginner, why your name in cyrillic?
@@getrag1029 и что такого?
@@getrag1029 глупый вопрос
25 years ago I took two years of Russian in college. I'm happy to report I still remembered most of the alphabet. I can't speak a full sentence but I remembered most of the sounds! I'm sooooooooooooooooo glad Prof. Macura graded on a curve!
I read a little Russian every day just to learn the alphabet. I keep coming back here when I get shaky. Your pairing of the vowels is the best way I have learned.
Finally someone who likes Russia! I also lived there for a long time and my heart will always be there.
This is My 1st week of learning Russian, actually on the 7th day today. I love his teaching it's nicely simplified
Hello! That's so great that you like Russian! I also teach russian to foreigners in english and in french! I add different videos on my channel about russian too (and some videos with my hobbies) Maybe if you find something helpful there I will be happy if you subscribe :)
hi, I'm a russian native speaker and could i know your contacts( gmail or Instagram?)
Очень интересно! Единственная заметка: Ъ нужен чтобы разделять согласную и гласную, чтобы они не сливались. Например: съесть. Ту же фукцию имеет Ь, помимо мягкости он разделяет согласную и гласную, например: вьюга. А по видео - посмотрел с удовольствием!)
@Rick J he says its interesting and something about separating vowels and he added an example... and he loved the video.
Thanks for writing in Russian, able to giv me some practise😄
I wish to learn Russian and Visit Russia 🇷🇺. Thank for your Teaching it will help alot to start learning Russian
I really love to learn Russian...
I started my japanese journey on TH-cam several years ago, and now I'm taking the first step in my russian journey.
Great video, easy to follow and lively. :)
Awesome!
This helped me a lot thank you so much. I'm 14 and I've always loved Russia and have always wanted to speak it and learn it. Now that i have this I'll be able to move forward more. :)
Hello! Maybe, I'm too late,but... I am native Russian speaker,who learning English. I just want to wish you patience and say don't give up.
(We are almost the same age, so if you want talk to practice, (it can be also useful for me) I'll be happy to help you!)
Удачи!
Щ in English can be like "shee" in sheep
You are talking about Ш sound
@@paulpidtop3541 , in such words like "sheep", "she", "shield", "sure" it's clear Щ.
And Ш is in "shell", "distinguish", "vanish", "rush" etc.
Try to say "rush" and then "sheep" - you'll hear the difference and feel that the position of the tongue is different.
So English really has both Ш and Щ but as they are not distinguished in writing people think that's all one sound, when there are actually two! And you already can pronounce them both!
@@paulpidtop3541 , фу, думала, нормальный человек, а тут хамло.
а person can get his first visa to russia, how?
Nivy Mondaya That is a really great explanation, thank you ! My Ukrainian girlfriend’s first language is Russian and I asked her to explain the difference. She pronounced the two letters and I still didn’t get it (!). You have helped a lot )))
For her she at first had difficulty in the difference between Walk and Work )
good teacher,i lived in Russia 33 years ,and i am a specialist in Russian and Russian literature.i don't Ph.D in Russian language and literature.i appreciate your good teachings
I started learning Russian Yesterday, so interesting.
Awesome! Welcome to the club :)
Thank you for your video. I have been studying Russian from "living Language CD course", and they never explained the Russian alphabet. I am indebted to you for this information. Wonderful job.
Thanks for the lesson. I just start learning Russian Language. So nice Alphabet and enjoying during learning. Thank you and Thanks Russia.
great video. I have studied russian for 3 years and this is the BEST video on the Russian Alphabet !
I just love your teaching Rassian language. You are just lovely person.
Good luck .
This was very helpful, the best I've seen so far...thanks
I'm proud to be Indonesian, who understand hijaiyah, and who learn japanese. this makes Russian easy to learn
Russian grammar and orthography are very difficult even if it's your mother tongue пунктуация тоже ☹️
For me as a Greek, I find it easy because some letters same to Greek and Russian is read as written like Greek... I like Russian people and Russian literature very much and I hope some day I can read the authentic texts...
I'm 65 years old. I have always wondered what the Russian alphabet sounded like. Now I know. Thank you for breaking it down and explaining it so clearly. You are very easy to follow, which means you are a very good teacher. I also think it's fantastic that you are personalizing these lessons for your Mother. It is very heart warming that you love your Mother so much.
You helping me to learn Russian bal shoye spasiba you are the best teaching TH-camr thanks again da svidanya
think balshuoye is one word correct me if im wrong
I’ve been on duolingo for a month but I had to come here because they throw you into big words quickly I don’t know how to pronounce. Хорошо учитель
Your interpretation of Russian Letters is great !
I can speak Polish therefore, pronunciation when it comes to use Russian is no bar.
You're doing a good job🙂👍
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is ж the same as ź?
This is helping so much! On day three of learning русский. I plan on coming back to these to help with pronunciation and remembering the alphabet (especially the vowel doubles). Спасибо!
Hey it's day 3 for me today!!
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How has it gone?
Ну как? Получилось?
I have to learn Russian I have to learn Russian very much
You are a really good teacher! Today is the first day I decided to learn Russian but I’ve already learned so much!
i am 10 days in russian now i show your video is very very easy and your lunguge is very simple
i love you thank you for all thing
my sweet😊
Keep it up!
@@RushintoRussian
yes of cours as help you
thank you❤
Great video, out of all of them on TH-cam it's by far the best.
Clear and to the point.
Thanks!!
This is the best video, I have come across so far to learn Russian alphabets.
Great!!!
This is the first Russian lesson that I was able to go through to the end.
What's the problem with other lessons, that you haven't completed?
@@artanglin2763 I don't remember. A few months have passed. It was probably the way they presented the pronunciation of each letter.
@@cezarcamelo got it. Alright)
Wooooooooooow you are an amazing man, believe me, I really understood everything that you explained. I am an Egyptian American high school art teacher and I want to move to Russia very soon.
Дядя, не делай этого. Это будет самая большая ошибка в твоей жизни. У вас голодно, но хотя бы тепло.
This is the best Russian alphabet video I have used and I come back here when I have figure something out. Your pairing of the vowels was a breakthrough for me, closed the circle.
Thanks! Glad to hear that it helped.
I'm a Mother too! I wanted to understand a bit of Russian, but it's totally alien to me and daunting. You're video was very encouraging because you had created it for your Mother like my son creates things for me ☺. So very kind! Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this video. It was very helpful indeed. I look forward to viewing your other videos. 😁
Im learning Russian and this is the firts video i watched and i understand it clearly so Спасибо
Tried Duolingo in Russian, but had no prior understanding of the Russian alphabet, what each sound was, so I didn't do so well. With this I feel better equipped to go at it again. Thanks.
You won't find it on the web version, but the Duolingo app does have the Cyrillic alphabet listed in a table with phonetic examples. Some of the English transcriptions are different from what is presented here such as 'И' is shown as an 'i' in the app, but sounds the same as described here and 'Щ' is shown as a 'shsh' in the app, though I would say 'shch' is probably more accurate.
@desertrosereads Yeah I agree. I pretty much just use duolingo to practice cyrillic as it hasn't been too useful teaching me any grammar. But I do wish it had flash cards as I think that would be more helpful with memorization than throwing letters all together in a word.
@desertrosereads I just made flash cards for each letter and it has been insanely helpful to me. I couldn't learn the alphabet just doing duo lingo personally.
Your lessons actually helps me mastering my English skills.. I remember a lot of native English way of speaking while listening you describing stuff that I know 100% as native Russian.)
In Mandarin I think we have a similar sound for the letter 'ы'. For example 子 (zǐ), the 'i' is like 'ы'.
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EVIDENTLY, YOU ARE THE BEST RUSSIAN TEACHER TO THE FOREIGNERS, NO ONE EVER BEFORE YOU USEDTHIS BEST METHOD TO TEACH RUSSIAN ASWELL ANY OTHER LANGUAGES, I WISH YOU COULD TEACH CHINESE IN SAME METHOD, MY MOST BEST COMPLEMENTS, 🎀🌹🎀
Thank you for your comment!
Thank you sir you explain very easy... I trying to learn Russian language from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Trying to get yourself a bride are ye? Wrong reason to learn it
@@lidiaziolkowski3965 how do you know that just from what he said?
Thank you to everyone commenting in Russian. :) also your explanation of the alphabet was nice and concise.
Thank you so much for this and you are very nice to do this for your mother and help so many people learn this amazing language! I have been learning Russian in my sleep and listening to audio lessons and it is just in the past week I have learned to read it - it clicked finally! I even changed my cell phone language to Russian to help naturalize it. I am still very VERY slow reading but I placed my first order for something in Russian last night so that was really cool! I have learned to do the reading Russian in 5 days so far but I was having trouble with some words so this fixed that!
U r a nice teacher , love from India
Im slavic so learning russian is luckily going to be really easy for me
haha true
I appreciate listening to you. I'm assuming you're a native English speaker. You're more relatable than some native-speaking Russians. Just good to get different perspectives.
Wow, thank you!
I can imagine how hard this can be for non-Russian speakers.
Tq fr imagining haha
Yh
"This TH-cam channel makes me more inspired and motivated to learn the Russian language .?!"
Спасибо большое 😊
I'm from greece and learning russian and I'm familiar with the letters a bit because my relatives speak russian so I'm trying to learn how to pronounce the letters and so far you have helped me the best in understanding them!! Great work
What a coincidence…I’m a mom and I want to learn Russian 😃
Thanku very much sir...you made really easy for us...
Love from INDIA
love from india
To get yourself a bride no doubt so you can get into the country
This was the first video I watched when I started learning Russian, I’ve come a long way but still have a long way to go.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together and help beginners like me 🙏
Thank you . I have visited Russia/ St Petersburg and would love to enterchange and be respectful when talking.
that crooked whiteboard is driving my ocd crazy
I didn't even realize until now
Cameras crooked no bitch your mind is crooked 🤯
That’s not OCD. Smh
It's all I can see. So distracting. AAAARRRGGGGHHH
Спасиба
thank you
Aduh komen disini teu rame atuh kang😂😂
I absolutely love this! It's awfully helpful for me in particular, since funny coincidence, I'm trying to learn the bare minimum to be able to teach my own mom. Great video, I know more than a few moms will benefit from your upbeat method :) keep up the amazing work!
Now this explains why I keep seeing Russian text and think it is written from right to left; apparently some of the letters are similar to English but they are in the opposite direction.
When reading comments on youtube I can figure out what's being said in various languages. But when I come across a comment in cyrillic, I cant understand a word. Thank you for teaching the cyrillic alphabet. It's the first step to understanding what a Russian speaker is saying.
Thank you! This is my new alphabet go to for my learning process.
You’re an awesome instructor!!! This takes me back to my high school years when I actually took 3 years of Russian language and history. Love it 😊 I need to get back into it 👍👌😎
I am from Bangladesh and your class was really helpful for me! Thank you
так приятно смотреть, как иностранцы изучают наш язык. Удачи вам! 💗 It's so nice to watch foreigners learn our language. Good luck to you!💗
Thanks for your support
Did about same as the other Russian language I watch. Still trying to remember hoping I'm not past age of learning new things. Love your humor, very clear to understand. Thank you.
как же много людей хотят и пытаются выучить русский язык. всем удачи в обучении
Aleksandr Bladeemeeroveech
Was I spell right?
@@fezan173 Alexandr Vladimirovich.
То чувство когда знаешь русский и пришел посмотреть чему тут учат😅
Tried to read these with the pronunciation of alphabets I just learned😅
Лол
@@husn4085 it's difficult 🥲 cause that sentence has a HUGE amount of pronunciation exceptions, can tell as I'm Russian👌
@@anthonyad2586 got it after i tried😅
@@husn4085 me too😆😆
If anyone is named James, John or something like that and want to write their name the "j" sound is "дж"
Джон, Джеймс
Дженни
Жамеш
That is really cool!
How abt q letter in russian?
It's very interesting to hear such lesson for me as a native of Russian speaker.
сэнк ю фор уачинг 👍
Thanks a lot for your easy teaching style. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Very clear, Im learning the Russian from 2019
I would say that Ж is like the g in "genius" (opposed to Г like the g in "goat")
so almost like the letter j?
@@moonstone6133 Yes, like in "jovial".
It doesn’t make the “jyuh” sound.
It makes the “jjjuh” sound.
It's like "j" sound in "treasure".
@@dddevchonka And measure, and pleasure, and leisure etc.
Best alphabet tutorial out there, someone get this man some борщ
The most complete russian alphabet's explanation I've ever seen, congrats!
Really like how the letters slowly start pointing down and to the right and progressively get smaller.