The Russian alphabet is Cyrillic, it has 33 letters:
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10 vowels |
(А а, О о, У у, Э э, Ы ы, И и, Ее, Ёё, Юю, Яя), |
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21 consonants |
(Бб, Вв, Гг, Дд, Зз, Жж, Йй, Кк, Лл, Мм, Нн, Пп, Рр, Сс, Тт, Фф, Хх, Цц, Чч,Шш,Щщ), |
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2 signs |
ъ – hard sign, ь – soft sign |
Each letter has an upper and a lower case. The letters might seem overwhelming a bit but no worries, the most of the Russian sounds are present in English as well, some of them even are written in the same way. For example, these letters (Аа, Мм, Ее, Кк, Оо, Тт) look and sound like in English.
Besides, to write and read in Russian you need to learn two forms of the letters: the printed and the cursive versions. Let’s look through the printed version of the alphabet.
To hear how the sounds are pronounced and to practise reading in Russian watch the video above.
