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A lot of people ask me, how to read Cyrillic. They think, that this abc is very complicated, and Russian is so far from other languages. It is not truth. Everyone, who knows Russian, can find a lot of words in his language from Russian, as can find a lot of words in Russian from other languages. The closest languages to Russian are, surely, slavic languages. All slavic languages are dialects of the old one slavic language, that’s why knowing how to read abc of some language, you can understand a sense intuitively.
I hope, this article will help you to understand, that russian Cyrillic is.
So, we have 33 letters in abc. Each letter is equal to one sound. Only two letters – hard sign and soft sign - don’t have sounds, but they influence to letter, which is previous to sign –they can make them soft or hard. Only three letters can’t be at the beginning of the word – these two signs and one letter else.
So, alphabet is very simple:
A Б В Г Д Е Ё Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я – 33 letters
а б в г д е ё ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я
You can see, that some letters are like latin letters (but sounds can differ), and some letters came from Greece.
А has sound “A”, like in the word “Mama”
Б has sound “B”, like in the word “Bomb”
В has sound “V”, like in the word “vend”
Г has sound “G”, like in the word “gambler”
Д has sound “D”, like in the word “diamond”
Е has sound “YE”, like in the word “Yes”. For Poles it is native sound “je”.
Ё has sound “YO”, which is the same as polish “jo”. It is long sound “YOO” or “joo”. If a word has this letter, then accent be at this letter – it is like umlauts in German. And it is single umlaut in Russian.
Ж has sound “ZH”, like in the word “Vision”. For Poles it is native sound “ż”.
З has sound “Z”, like in the word “Zebra”. For Poles it is native sound “Z”.
И has sound “I”, like in the word “Italy”.
Й is the short version of И, equal to polish letter “j”, and pronounced like in the word “Boy”
К has sound “K”, like in the words “Кen” and “Kelt”
Л has sound “L”, like in the word “Linda”
М has sound “M”, like in the words “Mary” and “Mama”
Н has sound “N”, like in the words “Nancy”, “Nant”, “Nope”
О has sound “O”, like in the words “More” or “Olga”
П has sound “P”, like in the word “Peter”
Р has sound “R”, like in the words “Russ” and “Russia”
С has sound “S”, like in the words “Sound” and “Sun”
Т has sound “T”, like in the word “Tom”
У has sound “U”, like in “Moon”. For Poles it is native sound “u”.
Ф has sound “F”, like in “Fake”
Х has sound “H”, like in “Herb”
Ц is voiced consonant “TS”, equal to German “Z” or polish “C”. Try to listen to pronunciation of German words “Zweck”, “Zeil”. For Poles this sound is native.
Ч has sound “CH”, like in “Change”. For Poles this sound is native “cz” In Turkish it is sound “ç”.
Ш has sound “SH”, like in “Short”. For Poles this sound is native “sz”. In Turkish it is sound “ş”.
Щ is soft version of “sh”, something like voiced consonant ”tsh”. Like in french word “Chien”.
Ъ is hard sign and has not sound. It makes letter hard.
Ы has sound like “I” in “Italy”, but you need to tuck your tongue in your month. For Poles it is native sound “y”. In Turkish language it is sound “I”.
Ь is soft sign and has not sound. It makes letter soft.
Э has sound “E” like in “Emma” or in turkish word “evet” . In Polish it is “e”.
Ю has sound “you”.
Я has sound “Ya”, like in Yammi. For Poles and other slavic folks it is “Ja”.
How to speak them together?
1. Duration of syllable is not strictly limited. All syllables are like songs.
2. Try to sign “Рааа”, “Мыыыы“, “Хооооо“, “Лааааа”. Duration can be longer, than in other languages, but is not strictly limited.
You decide yourself, when you need to switch your tongue to other syllable.
3. Managing durations of syllables in our speech we transfer emotional and figurative sense.
4. Try to sign “Хооорооошооо”, then try to speak it quick. Each syllable will have own duration.
5. Durations of consonants depends of duration of vowels and your point of view. It is like the hills on the wave of speech.
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