Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Letter? I hardly know her!

This week we will discuss the Cyrillic alphabet, and the sounds each letter makes. This is a very good intro to learning how to pronounce words. It seems tricky at first, but stick with it and reading will be easy in no time!

Try and pronounce the following words:

Покупает

Шляпа

Юбка

Хотели

А а       [ A ]

Б б       [ B ]

В в       [ V ]

Г г       [ G ]

Д д      [ D ]

Е е      [ E ]

Ё ё      [ YO ]

Ж ж    [ ZH ]

З з       [ Z ]

И и      [ I ]

Й й      [ Y ]

К к      [ K ]

Л л      [ L ]

М м     [ m ]

Н н     [ n ]

О о     [ O ]

П п     [ P ]

Р р     [ R ]  Rolled like in Spanish

С с     [ S ]

Т т     [ T ]

У у     [ oo ]

Ф ф     [ F ]

Х х      [ KH ]

Ц ц     [ TS ]

Ч ч     [ CH ]

Ш ш   [ SH ]

Щ щ   [ SHCH ]

ъ    [Hard Sign]

ы     [Y]

ь     [Soft Sign]

Э э   [E]

Ю ю [ YA or IA ]

Я я  [YA or IA]



The Central Post office in St. Petersburg Russia 2013 Photo by Aртем  Сададинов

3 comments:

  1. This is interesting because my girlfriend is a Speech Pathology major and she is all about phonetics and word production.

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  2. I like this, very helpful in understanding the language, soon I will know russian!

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  3. I like this post, maybe someday I can surprise everybody at home with a third language!

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