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Russian Alphabet
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Posted by: azamuner

I don't know if anyone will need this reference as it seems like most of you are much farther along in Russian than I am but here it is.
I didn't see a post with this so I apologize if this is has been posted somewhere before.

Here is a link to a helpful site.

http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/...5/alphabet.html

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Posted by: Leprechaun

It doesnt work!

Posted by: vic2012

I've posted this before, but if you are looking for a an easy way to learn to read cyrillic, start with this page:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusgrammar/alphabet.html

And, like the URL above, this will give you the individual letter pronounciation:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/rusg.../pronounc.html?

You can read it Lep!

Posted by: lester

It works for me Lep!

There's a link to loads of russian signs too..... like this one! hehehe

Posted by: Leprechaun

very strange?

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.

I might also need to choose a window and throw my PC out of it.

Posted by: azamuner

It's working for me as well. But it is geocities after all.

Posted by: scotch

I get a lot of emails through L2R requesting audio for the Russian alphabet, so I bribed Lena and Irina to make some new recordings.

I'm using a new way of presenting audio on the alphabet page so please let me know if you can't hear the sounds (Ive tested it in 3 different browsers but you never know!).

Ive also included the handwritten alphabet, and the pronunciation of some common acronyms that they say differently over there .. KGB, MP3 etc.

Russian Alphabet

If you can think of any way to make the alphabet even better Im open to ideas (I would love a male Russian speaker on there but no one can be bothered!

)

cheers biggie ears,

scotch.

Posted by: Leprechaun

nice website =o)
well done!

Posted by: scotch

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leprechaun

nice website =o)
well done!

Thanks mate! Do I get a free dance?

Posted by: Leprechaun

Hehehe, Only a google dance next time this page is indexed.

Posted by: Manchester

I posted this link on RWG some time ago along with a basic lesson for the newb, I repost it here.........

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Maybe you are married, maybe you have a serious RW, maybe you are a well planned wannabe, but at some stage you will need/want to learn Russian.

Imagine being able to sit with your lady in a resaurant and freely discuss the other diners? (within earshot but not understood?) - Maybe at a family gathering you just want to blurt out the odd phrase or sentence, maybe "not here love" or "darling, dont discuss that" or something similar......

So you decide Russian is interesting for you? You want to make sense of the cyrillic writing you see on buildings in Russia? You want to learn some more about the mysterious language with more alphabet characters than our own that make no sense?

When you are in Russia, at a cafe you will see the word кафе - when you know that the "c" in cafe is the same as a hard "K" in English, and a "ф" in Russian is a "F" - and - it is the same word in Russian, cafe becomes кафе! - You already learned some Russian

So then you need to learn most of the alphabet? I did it here: http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/...bet.html?200516

After that you know that an S is a "C", and "F" is an "ф" a "B" is a "V" and a "ж" is the "zh" in pleasure and that a "л" is an "L"

After that you learn some words that are the same as in English! - and you recognise them! So then you take a language course of some type, I used the "linkword" system, for example - cow is Karova (корова) to remember it you imagine driving your car over a cow - hence - car-over - karova! - easy isnt it?

Now you already know that "karova" is cow, and "ф" is an "F" as in CAFE or кафе (because the e is an "e" and the a is an "a", and you know an "ф" is an F and a K is how we would say a "C". So already after only reading this you know that кафе is cafe!

Take a simple name like Olga, in Russian cyrillic it may be олга - The O is an O as you know it, the л is an "L" - the "г" is a "G" and the A is a "A" just the same! So Olga is олга - although you may see it as ольга - the "ь" is not pronounced so we can disregard it for now, so Olga can be олга or more correctly "олЬга" is Olga!

Already you have made sense of л, (L) ж, (zh - as in pleasure) ф (F) and the familiar C that is pronounced (S) and K (that may be a K or a C in English but is pronounced K as in Kangaroo)

You are already learning Russian!

So you now see that CCCP (USSR of old) is actually SSSR?

So after a linkword CD (ask me by PM) you will know maybe 200 Russian words and after the link above, you will recognise them in cyrillic.

I have been learning Russian casually for almost two years, just with one CD, the alphabet link above and my wifes input, and tonight we watched a Russian film on DVD, I understood maybe 50% of the Russian, I followed it at least, (just!) and i was able to read the credits at the end, Andrei X, Tatiana X etc, only from the above!

If you want a Russian wife it is only good respect to try to learn some of her language, maybe you will be crap but after this you will know a cafe when you see one! And maybe if it peaks your interest you will be able to hold an amateur conversation in basic language within a year! - That is good enough! Nobody expects you to be word and tense perfect but if you could say "I want drink" as opposed to, " I would like a drink please my darling" nobody would laugh at you as you had a basic grasp and was trying!

I can by now string a badly constructed sentence together, but I can be understood, I can have basic Russian conversations with my wife in Russian (OK, often she corrects me as to tense and nouns/adjectives) but she understands what I want to say! Yes of course native speakers like Antidate and Hellen can pi$$ all over me with my Russian and I must resort to a translator, but I try, I am understood at basic level and that does buy you some respect in Russia (or with your woman)

Point of this thread being, learn a little, learn from your woman, even the odd word in Russian you know can save a misunderstanding! Others are free to add their tips.........

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