You can find hundreds of thousands of words pronounced by native speakers on forvo.

But it’s the first difference to our own language we come across when we get in contact with this language. If so, start your next lesson by reviewing the 5 letters you just learned. Letter correlations taken from Wikipedia - please let me know if any are incorrect or misleading! When somebody asks me what my major at university is and I tell them that I study Spanish and Russian, they often reply “What? The rest is continuous practise that will happen naturally when you study the language. At the beginning it takes you about 20 seconds to read a word, later on you will be able to read it at first sight.

Sometimes he even dreams of giving up everything to raise Siberian bears. Since Lauren is learning Russian and had started with the Cyrillic alphabet first, we can see how important this is to begin on so that you can boost the rest of your progress. I broke it up into one-hour chunks while my husband did it all at once. This is more motivating than actually writing Russian sentences because you can be sure that you understand the meaning of the sentence once you read it out correctly. THIS is how I learn a language in 3 months. For English speakers. The Russian Cyrillic alphabet comprises 33 letters – that’s 7 more than the Latin alphabet. Lover of travel, adventure, nature, city, dresses, and cats. How long should you practice a new language every day? You can practise typing by copying words, for example from the lists you worked with for decoding or from your vocabulary lists. We sat down with one of our linguistics experts here at Babbel to find out why our app gets you speaking a new language in only 15 minutes of study per day. It is created by a Canadian guy (?)

You’ve probably also noticed that a lot of the letters look familiar: A, B, H, P, O, Y—just to list a few—while some of the letters look downright odd: Щ, Э, Й, anyone? I would say that these are the six trickiest letters in the Russian alphabet because we associate a different sound with them. This post also applies to learning the Cyrillic alphabet for other countries, including Serbia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus, …. American expat and cat lover from New York City who lived in Amsterdam….

The standard setting should be Alt+Shift. You can easily change the language of your keyboard in the Control Panel (PC) – Time and Language settings.

Most importantly, if you’ll be taking the Moscow metro, the directions and stop names are in Cyrillic although they’ve started announcing the stops in English. This way, you not only improve your reading skills but also make progress in the language. Check it out for a list of my favourite free resources as well as a generally great website that J.D. But this shouldn’t discourage you. If you are more tech-savvy, I'd suggest go to Keybr.com, click settings, change the layout to Russian and practise away! For example: go to the Wikipedia article about the cities and towns of Russia by population and you will find a list of the biggest Russian cities in both English and Russian.