RUSSIAN 101: HOW TO READ RUSSIAN

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    Russian 101 is back. Today we'll learn to understand the Russian alphabet and the Cyrillic script. Wanted to be able to read in Russian? Well, now you can. Smash like and sub for more thx xoxo
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  • @stevan546
    @stevan546 4 года назад +5072

    Roman: Russian letters are so weird
    Serbia: Љ Њ ђ ћ Џ

    • @TillPeaceSarah
      @TillPeaceSarah 4 года назад +292

      Bloody hell, what is that? LMAO

    • @mirnapetrovic5552
      @mirnapetrovic5552 4 года назад +198

      @@TillPeaceSarah Cyrillic, a lot of Slavs use it

    • @MantiCore-pt7so
      @MantiCore-pt7so 4 года назад +150

      ЛЬ НЬ

    • @jiktak606
      @jiktak606 4 года назад +469

      We had Ѫ, ѭ and ѣ,ѧ in Bulgaria until ww2 when the commies came and said: Man fuck this shit it looks too royal!

    • @kassiny2
      @kassiny2 4 года назад +154

      Looks like Л and Ь had babies ;)

  • @adriangaliver
    @adriangaliver 4 года назад +1462

    All Russian letters in one sentence:
    Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок, да выпей же чаю

    • @kimtonginn747
      @kimtonginn747 4 года назад +34

      👏👏👏👏

    • @John-qb8wh
      @John-qb8wh 4 года назад +236

      Translation:
      Eat these French beagles and drink some tea

    • @user-if1kz9pk2c
      @user-if1kz9pk2c 4 года назад +94

      Зелёный ( цвет ), зелёного, зелёному, зеленоватый, зеленистый, зелёным, зеленом ( есть такое слово, предложный падеж, ед. ч. ), зелёных, зелёные, зеленящие, зеленоватые, зелёными, зелёных ( множ. ч. Предложный падеж ), зеленоватая, цвета зелень, зеленистого цвета, светло зелёного цвета, зеленящих, ( покрытый ) зеленою - словно пеленою.....
      GREEN ( color ), GREEN, GREEN, GREEN, GREEN GREEN, GREEN, GREEN, GREENS ( мн ч. Хотя хуй знает ), GREEN, GREEN, GREEN, GREEN, GREEN, GREEN, GREEN ( MANY - ну типа дохуя ), GREEN, COLOR GREEN, GREEN COLOR, LIGHT GREEN OR SLIME, GREENEST хуинест, последнее вообще не перевести....
      🥴😃

    • @user-if1kz9pk2c
      @user-if1kz9pk2c 4 года назад +26

      Просто убил блядь одним комментом. Вызывайте дурку нахуй! РАУНННД
      Just killed blyad ( fuck or whore ) in one comment. Call psychiatry naxuj ( fuck )! TIIIIME

    • @John-qb8wh
      @John-qb8wh 4 года назад +17

      @@user-if1kz9pk2c о о О О, зеленоглазое такси

  • @erikan.n8409
    @erikan.n8409 4 года назад +2073

    Next in the series: reading Russian cursive.

  • @MrMaikiu
    @MrMaikiu 4 года назад +1256

    *TIMESTAMPS FOR EACH LETTER FOR YOUR PLEASURE BELOW*
    _1) Similar / the exact same_
    *Аа* - 4:07 - Ah
    *Ее* - 4:10 - E
    *Зз* - 4:13 - Kind of Z
    *Кк* - 4:32 - K
    *Мм* - 4:35 - M
    *Оо* - 4:37 - O
    *Тт* - 4:41 - T
    _2) Misleadingly similar_
    *Вв* - 5:02 = V
    *Нн* - 5:30 = N
    *Рр* - 6:00 = R
    *Сс* - 6:13 = S
    *Уу* - 6:30 = U
    *Хх* - 6:47 kind of H
    *Яя* - 7:06 = Ya
    _2a) You don't actually pronounce them_
    *Ьь* - 8:24 = soft symbol
    *Ъъ* - 8:59 = hard symbol
    _3) Not smiliar_
    *Бб* - 9:45 = B
    *Гг* - 9:52 = G
    *Дд* -10:00 = D
    *Ёё* - 10:17 = Jo
    *Жж* - 10:41 = Zh (kinda like a bee)
    *Ии* - 11:22 = EE
    *Йй* - 11:34 = J
    *Лл* - 12:02 = L
    *Пп* - 12:25 = P
    *Фф* - 12:35 = F
    *Цц* - 12:50 = Ts
    *Чч* - 13:00 = Ch / Tsh
    *Шш* - 13:15 = Sh
    *Щщ* - 13:28 = Sch
    *Ыы* - 13:58 = Sound of getting punched in the stomach, smiliar to Ee
    *Ээ* - 14:47 = Ae / Ä
    *Юю* - 15:16 = Yoo
    Pls drop a like it took me quite some time, thank you!

    • @aqilah2887
      @aqilah2887 3 года назад +48

      спасибо

    • @MrMaikiu
      @MrMaikiu 3 года назад +3

      @@aqilah2887 lmao

    • @yuritardid7761
      @yuritardid7761 3 года назад +33

      The zh sound kinda exists in english like in the word measure

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 3 года назад +6

      In Bulgarian *Ъъ* has a sound like Ŭ. Also *E* in Bulgarian is like *Eh* just like *Э* .

    • @anzoanz1842
      @anzoanz1842 3 года назад +8

      Ill subscribe to you for your hard work and help..
      Edit after 2 months: Took me 1 week to learn it lol.

  • @AlberHandcock
    @AlberHandcock 4 года назад +2671

    Bruh we need more of Romans mom yelling in the background

    • @slivka_1
      @slivka_1 4 года назад +150

      ikr it just adds to the atmosphere

    • @EVEMASTER99
      @EVEMASTER99 4 года назад +129

      Make's it an authentic experience

    • @SHUTENSEPC
      @SHUTENSEPC 4 года назад +39

      @@johnkersten9184 i only caught something about ARMY, and that's it

    • @georgemargaris
      @georgemargaris 4 года назад +20

      I understand someting like „lasagna papi... army.. ya!!

    • @mhmsure6682
      @mhmsure6682 4 года назад +53

      hamster in the machine yeah, lasagna is ready. Come or I feed it to army. Rough translation.

  • @navyblue9355
    @navyblue9355 4 года назад +1560

    When Roman said ж is the ugliest letter I audibly gasped lmao. Ж is clearly the superior cyrillic character.

    • @inox1ck
      @inox1ck 4 года назад +6

      Navy Blue its a j
      S in treasure

    • @kertchu
      @kertchu 4 года назад +72

      If you look at it, it is actually a backwards K surgically connected to a normal K

    • @elitematt4659
      @elitematt4659 4 года назад +46

      **angry ф noises**

    • @dinis8271
      @dinis8271 4 года назад +12

      Fun fact it’s pronounced just like the european portuguese J, exactly the same pronunciation.

    • @pyromorph6540
      @pyromorph6540 4 года назад +1

      It's Ä you guys.

  • @dokholidayy1367
    @dokholidayy1367 4 года назад +633

    Roman: "A lot of languages use the Cyrillic alphabet like Kazakh..."
    Kazakhstan: *NOT FOR LONG*

    • @310BPM
      @310BPM 4 года назад +12

      haha that's what i was thinking..

    • @stalkerentertainment3671
      @stalkerentertainment3671 4 года назад +81

      Mongolia is also gonna reintroduce the old Mongolic script again, leaving the Cyrillic alphabet.

    • @sudonim7552
      @sudonim7552 4 года назад +93

      Kazakhstan: "Friendship ended with CYRILLIC. Now LATIN is my best friend."

    • @slyninja4444
      @slyninja4444 4 года назад +37

      Personally, I think Kazakhstan should instead switch to the old turkic (orkhon) alphabet.
      The sounds would fit, and it would make the language much more culturally interesting.

    • @slyninja4444
      @slyninja4444 4 года назад +5

      @@stalkerentertainment3671 As someone trying to learn ‌ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ (mongolian), that makes me happy.

  • @Human4710
    @Human4710 4 года назад +618

    As an English speaker, I think the ж symbol is my favorite while attempting to learn Russian.

    • @Oob144
      @Oob144 3 года назад +45

      Mine is д = D

    • @carlyngas
      @carlyngas 3 года назад +18

      Mine prob д and н

    • @KiwiBirdYes
      @KiwiBirdYes 3 года назад +12

      The letter “Ж” (zhé) is also my favorite!

    • @Belarus72
      @Belarus72 3 года назад +21

      Mine is the 'Ц'... which is like the 'Ts'....Like Tsaritsyn...Царицын. (I'm still learning)...ф....Флорида...which is Florida in Cyrillic!!

    • @Belarus72
      @Belarus72 3 года назад

      @John Villasis what???. Idk ?

  • @ValsLagun
    @ValsLagun 4 года назад +239

    "X" in old Spanish was pronounced the same way as Russian "X". That's why sometimes you find "Don Quijote" written as "Don Quixote". Just a random fact.

    • @dmitrikaljuznoi1323
      @dmitrikaljuznoi1323 4 года назад +1

      Yeah and now for some reason in the internet everyone uses it like a "ch" if you are spanish can you clear this out for me? 😂

    • @fduranthesee
      @fduranthesee 4 года назад +15

      and Texas was Tejas

    • @nikki8104
      @nikki8104 4 года назад +11

      México pronounced "mehico"

    • @Andre39814
      @Andre39814 4 года назад +31

      In Portuguese we pronounce the X the same as in Russian. But our language sounds like a drunk Russian guy trying to speak Spanish so it kinda makes sense.

    • @Andre39814
      @Andre39814 4 года назад +2

      @Luke Perret Yeah it sounds so much different than any romance language, but when written it's suuuper intelligible

  • @tunethedune9075
    @tunethedune9075 4 года назад +551

    несколько лет учил английский чтобы услышать как Рома объясняет как читать на русском

  • @Bleach420
    @Bleach420 4 года назад +2139

    Russian gets punched
    Russian: *Ы*

    • @0alocin
      @0alocin 4 года назад +50

      This is so funny.

    • @alekamoon
      @alekamoon 4 года назад +30

      @9yr day don't have yt acount Garcia you messed up with Ukrainian, BELARUSIAN wtf Russian language doesn't have i, ÿ

    • @bumb.wingman
      @bumb.wingman 4 года назад +30

      Ытсн

    • @decade0240
      @decade0240 4 года назад +7

      @@bumb.wingman ytch

    • @skumbrix
      @skumbrix 4 года назад +2

      Ыжъ!

  • @tKoyH96
    @tKoyH96 3 года назад +225

    Я до просмотра этого видео: "Ресторан."
    Я после просмотра этого видео:
    *" П Е К Т О П А Х . "*

    • @theblackryvius6613
      @theblackryvius6613 3 года назад +22

      When you speak zero Russian, spent a little time memorizing Bulgarian script, and figured out the meaning of a meme from context.

    • @jaytorres471
      @jaytorres471 3 года назад

      Da, kot

    • @Tuberex
      @Tuberex 3 года назад +6

      I'm guessing this is "me before watching the video: "Restoran" Me after watching the video "Pectopah"

    • @АлександрДанилов-ы2п
      @АлександрДанилов-ы2п 3 года назад +3

      Муж жене: -Дорогая может пойдем сегодня в пектопах?))

    • @Hairysteed
      @Hairysteed 2 года назад

      Mektomax - A NEW WORD IS BORN!! 🤣

  • @CozyHi
    @CozyHi 4 года назад +424

    When you’re so bored in quarantine, you start online classes yourself

    • @inspector_beyond
      @inspector_beyond 4 года назад +3

      Officialy, in Russia quarantine haven't started yet. But it's coming

    • @aliteralgod5231
      @aliteralgod5231 4 года назад +4

      Honestly I realized that once I finished the show I’ve spent the last like year on ended I realized... I have no hobbies at all, and so I’m here.

    • @LlamasAtMidnight
      @LlamasAtMidnight 2 года назад

      I am actually watching this to procrastinate on my online class

    • @fabiookonolanguages
      @fabiookonolanguages 2 года назад

      @@LlamasAtMidnight lol

  • @dankek6955
    @dankek6955 4 года назад +781

    Russian : *dies*
    Everybody : *Φ*

    • @chryon315
      @chryon315 4 года назад +28

      F

    • @thelittletyrant5539
      @thelittletyrant5539 4 года назад +59

      I'm Greek so: *Φ*

    • @xn4pl
      @xn4pl 4 года назад +51

      Everybody: "А", because on russian keyboard it's in the same place as "F".

    • @mzplay308
      @mzplay308 4 года назад +39

      Пресс Ф та пэй респект

    • @amjadRam
      @amjadRam 4 года назад +9

      ð

  • @jasminemohandes-barg8030
    @jasminemohandes-barg8030 4 года назад +142

    Day 1 in quarantine: Learns Russian from Roman instead of online classes

    • @joy5976
      @joy5976 4 года назад +2

      I been in online school for the whole school year and tbh.. there's been so many times I've fell into the learning a random language rabbithole while I have assignments I should be doing LMFAOO

  • @AnhelBrek
    @AnhelBrek 4 года назад +222

    Неделю назад написала ЕГЭ по русскому. Теперь сижу в час ночи и смотрю объяснение русского алфавита на английском от русского. Думаю, что этим все и должно было закончиться

    • @grepeach
      @grepeach 3 года назад +6

      хахахахха +++

    • @cringeneer5490
      @cringeneer5490 3 года назад +4

      Тоже самое. Haxepa я это вообще смотрю в 1 час ночи? Кто знает

    • @eugenfuker2288
      @eugenfuker2288 3 года назад +2

      Аналогично , зачем я это смотрю

    • @Guizambaldi
      @Guizambaldi 2 года назад +1

      So, I'm guessing you must be Angelina Brehova.

    • @Guizambaldi
      @Guizambaldi 2 года назад +1

      @@eugenfuker2288 And you sir must be Evgeniy Kuzmenko.

  • @supermastater
    @supermastater 4 года назад +909

    Everybody in this world: KoЯn (Korn)
    Russian me for the entirity of my life: Kojan

    • @nicolejanss6728
      @nicolejanss6728 4 года назад +59

      JusticeSeeker102 kojap*

    • @suwinkhamchaiwong8382
      @suwinkhamchaiwong8382 4 года назад +7

      My name is Korn

    • @hishykot
      @hishykot 4 года назад +20

      *В ТОЧКУ! ЭТО ИМЕННО ТО, ЧТО Я И ПОДУМАЛ*

    • @michailartemjev9739
      @michailartemjev9739 4 года назад +13

      На русском Kojan будет читаться, как "кожан". Правильнее будет "Koyan".

    • @caim3465
      @caim3465 4 года назад +16

      @@michailartemjev9739 в славянских языках j произносится как й.

  • @theevolutionof387
    @theevolutionof387 4 года назад +790

    who needs duolingo when u got roman

    • @4ester709
      @4ester709 4 года назад +16

      Duolingo has Russian lessons?

    • @welshbolshevik
      @welshbolshevik 4 года назад +28

      4ester of course it does you fucking numpty

    • @4ester709
      @4ester709 4 года назад +14

      @@welshbolshevik of I dont know. Maybe becouse me native language is Russian and Duolingo didn't offering Russian lessons for me

    • @NebulaMortis99
      @NebulaMortis99 4 года назад +1

      @@4ester709 Is your Duolingo configured in Russian? If so they don't show you Russian lessons because you've basically said to them that you can put the interface in Russian because you already know it

    • @4ester709
      @4ester709 4 года назад +5

      @@NebulaMortis99 Yes, you are right. Thanks

  • @ihartmacz
    @ihartmacz 4 года назад +190

    Could you do a learning Russian series? I would definitely start donating on Patreon for this. I am going to start learning the language and I love your videos, so it would really help me out. Best of luck with the things going on with the Russian economy!

    • @TheVeryAngryShrimp
      @TheVeryAngryShrimp 4 года назад +3

      Seconded

    • @wansk7191
      @wansk7191 4 года назад +14

      @Gipsy Danger *хорошая. It's femenine

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад +6

      2ndary channel for roman to be a Russian teacher... Might actually get monetised for most videos too!

    • @coreyrusso890
      @coreyrusso890 4 года назад

      Удачи тебе в твоих начинаниях. :)

  • @mattislindehag3065
    @mattislindehag3065 3 года назад +785

    Mexican laughing in cyrillic: ЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯ

    • @jasonvoorheesv1nce904
      @jasonvoorheesv1nce904 3 года назад +60

      Jajajajajajajajajaajajaajajajaajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajajjajajaja

    • @decemberstragicdrive
      @decemberstragicdrive 3 года назад +55

      more like хахахахахахахаха

    • @_Cleveland_
      @_Cleveland_ 3 года назад +9

      ЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯ

    • @miriam7779
      @miriam7779 3 года назад +14

      @@decemberstragicdrive Thats in russian, shes laughting in mexican :)

    • @decemberstragicdrive
      @decemberstragicdrive 3 года назад +3

      @@miriam7779 i was responding to the main comment lol, the ЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯ one

  • @sudonim7552
    @sudonim7552 4 года назад +90

    NFKRZ hit different since he started studying linguistics

  • @pickledbraincells3020
    @pickledbraincells3020 4 года назад +119

    I disagree on Ж. Ж is cool, i like how it looks.

    • @newwordordermaping7891
      @newwordordermaping7891 4 года назад +4

      me too

    • @EwaldDieser
      @EwaldDieser 4 года назад +21

      It’s also my favorite. It sounds like a big flying bug and looks like one. Bug=Жук

    • @fduranthesee
      @fduranthesee 4 года назад +2

      to me, it reminds me of Adidas or Nike or something

    • @НиколайИванов-в8ы1я
      @НиколайИванов-в8ы1я 4 года назад +11

      There was a short lived joke. At some point Kim Kardashian presented her new logo that was made out of two letters “K” joined in the back. So for a lot of Russians it really resembled a «Ж». So what’s the punchline you may ask? Жопа (smth like a turdass) in Russian also starts with «Ж».

    • @MantiCore-pt7so
      @MantiCore-pt7so 4 года назад +1

      @Violin Ivanoff Джон*

  • @mikhailsilaev9311
    @mikhailsilaev9311 4 года назад +280

    Russian: *gets punched in the stomach*
    Also Russian: *seal noises*

    • @nyeh7205
      @nyeh7205 4 года назад +6

      @Pandes Mandes it refers to 14:50 in the video!

    • @Johnx3m
      @Johnx3m 4 года назад +1

      Ыыыы...

    • @ПавлоСурженко
      @ПавлоСурженко 4 года назад +1

      @Pandes MandesI'm from Ukraine, and it still doesn't make any sense. Why did you think it would?

  • @ethanspears7165
    @ethanspears7165 4 года назад +148

    12:59 This letter Ч almost looks like how most people would write the number 4 to me; I also learned that the Russian word for "four" actually starts with this letter: четыре

    • @stoneman18
      @stoneman18 3 года назад +7

      Oh, that's cool, i never noticed that

    • @georgeevernight2814
      @georgeevernight2814 3 года назад +8

      4ерт

    • @Koazhan
      @Koazhan 3 года назад +1

      Nice noticing

    • @officialSgtPepperArc360
      @officialSgtPepperArc360 3 года назад +1

      That's a coincidence to me.

    • @Bleach420
      @Bleach420 2 года назад +4

      Russians actually do use the number 4 when they are texting. Another good example is the letter Ы which can replaced with q. I personally use "q" as Ы but i have seen it done differently too. So, the word четыре would be typed as 4etqre in latin script. And also they use w for ш. Example: ebanawka.

  • @nubo3517
    @nubo3517 4 года назад +76

    I'm learning Russian and this helped me understand Ь, Ъ, И, Й and especially Ы better than actual serious tutorials.

    • @HeroManNick132
      @HeroManNick132 3 года назад

      Fun fact: the letter Ъ in Bulgarian has a sound and it is like mix of ы + а like you are saying rubber.

  • @Ostravska_Klobasa
    @Ostravska_Klobasa 4 года назад +511

    Russian has some weird sounds
    Czech: *Ř*

    • @isaachartford1535
      @isaachartford1535 4 года назад +68

      Polish: let's spell it like "rz"

    • @caim3465
      @caim3465 4 года назад +32

      @@isaachartford1535 Greek: hold my yoghurt.

    • @plagah
      @plagah 4 года назад +42

      Hungarian: *GY, NY, TY, LY, ZS, CS, SZ, DZ, DZS*

    • @enrik9475
      @enrik9475 4 года назад +9

      ô

    • @swarytch13
      @swarytch13 4 года назад +1

      @@plagah Дь Нь Ть Ль Ж Ч С Ҙ Ҷ

  • @cyaxie
    @cyaxie 4 года назад +340

    Я только что посмотрел видео, и понял что я потратил 17 минут и 34 секунды своей жизни на то, чтобы узнать произношение русских букв, которые я произношу и знаю всю жизнь xD

  • @antonleimbach648
    @antonleimbach648 3 года назад +63

    I’ve been waiting for this explanation since I was a kid and saw “CCCP” on the Russian hockey players uniforms in the 1980’s. Thanks I can now die satisfied.

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 3 года назад +22

      Now you know that it is "SSSR", and not "Си-Си-Си-Пи"!

    • @kristiskinner8542
      @kristiskinner8542 3 года назад +3

      Right I was always like how is USSR 3 Cs at the front? lol

    • @SuperCosty2010
      @SuperCosty2010 3 года назад +9

      It's Союз (Soyuz, Union) Советских (Sovetskikh, of Soviet) Cоциалистических (Sotsialisticheskikh, Socialist) Республик (Respublik, Republics)

  • @junopierre2988
    @junopierre2988 4 года назад +169

    Wearing a shirt of himself like a boss

  • @rovi-rovi
    @rovi-rovi 4 года назад +223

    When you've been stuck in quarantine so you already learned how to read the cyrillic alphabet: "I'm 69 parallel universes ahead of you"

    • @LaserTractor
      @LaserTractor 4 года назад +5

      rovira stuck in карантин

    • @k0pera
      @k0pera 4 года назад +2

      try to read the most comman Indo-european in cyrillic script -> ис гуд фор ю

    • @tomvolz3760
      @tomvolz3760 4 года назад

      @@LaserTractor wouldn’t it be кварантин? I thought that the Qu would be кв.

    • @LaserTractor
      @LaserTractor 4 года назад +2

      Tom Volz I'm russian so no
      It's к а р а н т и н
      Your guessing is interesting but russian words are not the same even in cases like this. For another example: word "implant". You can think it's Имплант, but it's more correct to say Имплантат
      Dunno why. Just unspoken rules

    • @tomvolz3760
      @tomvolz3760 4 года назад

      @@LaserTractor Thanks for the feedback. I’m always happy to learn.

  • @claraolszewska4655
    @claraolszewska4655 4 года назад +40

    your mom yelling in the other room actually adds a lot to the vibe

  • @aleksm3401
    @aleksm3401 3 года назад +203

    As a Pole I wish we used a dual alphabet system like Serbia because I find Cyrillic easier to write and it shortens word length because I don't have to spend my life writing dzszcz.. .etc

    • @MisterIncog
      @MisterIncog 3 года назад +24

      I always have a good laugh trying to read polish. Cos of cyrillic we have this thing reading every letter as it should sound (as a joke reading anything latin-ish). So, like… дзсзкз) (oh god I hope you Poles make fun of this as well)

    • @Natadangsa
      @Natadangsa 3 года назад +12

      Polish would be unique if it use cyrillic because it still uses Yus letters, which are archaic since Polish is the only Slavic language that retains archaic nasal sounds

    • @aleksm3401
      @aleksm3401 3 года назад +1

      @@MisterIncog I am not really sure what you mean lol

    • @aleksm3401
      @aleksm3401 3 года назад +1

      @@Natadangsa I guess Polish is unique in a number of ways anyway, as well as the Yus vowels, there are 3 s sounds (s,ś,sz) and 3 z sounds (z,ź,ż). My hope would be by expanding a Cyrillic alphabet to accommodate all Polish sounds, it will allow for some of our word lengths to shorten

    • @Natadangsa
      @Natadangsa 3 года назад +10

      @@aleksm3401 s, ś, sz, z, ź, and ż can be easily replicated (с, сь, ш, з, зь, ж). But what truly differentiate it, are the ą and ę.
      Since those are archaic sounds, this is what they would look like in Cyrillic:
      ą = ѫ
      ę = ѧ
      ią/ją = ѭ
      ię/ję = ѩ
      So the word "Piękno" would be "Пѩкно", Częstochowa would be "Чѧстохова", "Gołąbki" would be "Ґолѫбки", and so on

  • @Hyianekanal
    @Hyianekanal 4 года назад +345

    I really hope some day everyone would stop using Я, И and Ц in pseudo-Russian stylizations of English words. It's so freaking cringe

    • @sazji
      @sazji 4 года назад +52

      We used to always read "Toys я Us" as Toys Ya Us :)

    • @oni8337
      @oni8337 4 года назад +16

      ikr its so annoying

    • @DCNRS90YT
      @DCNRS90YT 4 года назад

      There's probably more way to say "I" in russian anyways. I don't know. I need to practice more of my russian.

    • @pititbossou
      @pititbossou 4 года назад

      why

    • @advenco344
      @advenco344 4 года назад +12

      It’s a good way to get around censorship of words.

  • @elsavic
    @elsavic 4 года назад +135

    Being Serbian from a country that uses Cyrillic and Latin at the same time I am thankful that I can read two scripts. It helps in understanding more languages like Russian, Ukraine, Bulgarian etc.

    • @flaneurgh
      @flaneurgh 4 года назад +5

      Буквално омиљена ствар у вези са Србијом, подједнака употреба оба писма.

    • @elsavic
      @elsavic 4 года назад +2

      @@flaneurgh Има чари бити из земље која користи два писма

    • @elsavic
      @elsavic 4 года назад +2

      Мада не знају они шта је Љ Њ Ћ Ђ Џ

    • @MrKruska11
      @MrKruska11 4 года назад

      Same

    • @stanen
      @stanen 4 года назад +3

      @@elsavic не знаете и Вие за Ѕ, Ќ и Ѓ. Поздрав од Македонија ♥

  • @nightviber2097
    @nightviber2097 4 года назад +225

    NFKRZ : "ITS NOT A *B* ITS A *V* "
    Me being a Greek : "Yep, i know"

    • @gnas1897
      @gnas1897 4 года назад +1

      Lmao me too

    • @stxdude830
      @stxdude830 4 года назад +2

      Haha dang y’all are thuper cool guyth

    • @LilPolemistisXL
      @LilPolemistisXL 4 года назад +1

      Τι κάνεις τόσο αργά- α, τώρα κατάλαβα το username σου.

    • @Banom7a
      @Banom7a 4 года назад +7

      welp, cyrillic came from Greek mostly...

    • @aliceinwonderland4395
      @aliceinwonderland4395 4 года назад

      @@Banom7a And Greek came from Phœnician the same way Latin did
      Every alphabet from Europe to Mongolia has the exact same origin

  • @elmstreetish
    @elmstreetish 4 года назад +32

    The best way to familiarize yourself with the Cyrillic alphabet is to learn Russian proper nouns that are transliterated from English. Ex: Нью-Йорк, Калифорния,
    Аризона,
    Вирджиния, etc. These are all English proper nouns that English speakers are all familiar with, and they would have a lot of fun learning the Cyrillic letters this way.

    • @sylvaincardinal
      @sylvaincardinal 2 года назад +2

      New York, California, Arizona, Virginia.

    • @imthewinner4193
      @imthewinner4193 9 месяцев назад

      Наис , тхнкс фнэнд

    • @elmstreetish
      @elmstreetish 9 месяцев назад

      @@imthewinner4193 иор уэлкам, маи фрэнд! мэри кристмас энд хэпи ню иар!

  • @auriel946
    @auriel946 4 года назад +243

    The text on 0:16 is a Navy Seal Copypasta but in russian

    • @barsdogukankarakoyun8798
      @barsdogukankarakoyun8798 4 года назад +19

      and it's way more effective, maggot.

    • @saz-646
      @saz-646 4 года назад

      😂

    • @saz-646
      @saz-646 4 года назад +4

      Там в конце написано «обсосу тебя своей яростью»? 🤣

    • @Da...
      @Da... 4 года назад +1

      @@saz-646 там обосру

    • @spoiledbleach
      @spoiledbleach 4 года назад +4

      @@Da... ещё лучше, там обсосру

  • @funghazi
    @funghazi 4 года назад +183

    Roman: Ш makes the shhh sound
    Romans mom: *COUGH*

  • @lozandavid
    @lozandavid 4 года назад +314

    Ы doesnt exist in latin languages
    *Sad romanian noises*

    • @Tago976
      @Tago976 4 года назад +7

      Tech Support Kid not latin but it exist in a lot of turkic languages as well

    • @sweet991227
      @sweet991227 4 года назад +11

      The letter Ы actually does exist in 1 Latin language as Õ but not many people know the language compared to other languages

    • @inox1ck
      @inox1ck 4 года назад +13

      Dave its î or â

    • @qui-gonjinn3322
      @qui-gonjinn3322 4 года назад +46

      Linguistic: Romanian, are you latin language?
      Romanian: Da

    • @nieboniebieskie3502
      @nieboniebieskie3502 4 года назад +10

      In Polish we use "y" for this sound

  • @mimmikibilly
    @mimmikibilly 4 года назад +190

    Man, I wish this virus thing was over so that I could safely go to the *pectopah*

    • @ricojes
      @ricojes 4 года назад +26

      2020: *het*

    • @EpicB
      @EpicB 3 года назад +17

      Ю wish.

    • @Insider546
      @Insider546 3 года назад +4

      Смешно!

    • @suncanaplaninsky9848
      @suncanaplaninsky9848 3 года назад +3

      Just H must be capital, not little, to remain to be "n" in Russian. Install Russian keyboard, you'll see.
      Н...Cyrillic big
      н... Cyrillic small

    • @ooduckoo
      @ooduckoo 3 года назад

      Да.

  • @420moby
    @420moby 4 года назад +94

    finally, a legitimate russian tutorial.

    • @carl9022
      @carl9022 4 года назад +2

      moby you’ve never watched Boris

    • @tiborklein5349
      @tiborklein5349 4 года назад +3

      @@carl9022 Boris barely speaks Russian.

    • @carl9022
      @carl9022 4 года назад

      Tibor Klein ruclips.net/video/ONvuVSchXe4/видео.html

    • @tiborklein5349
      @tiborklein5349 4 года назад +2

      @@carl9022 Yeah, he knows a few words. But my argument still stands. I'm also subscribed to him btw.

    • @carl9022
      @carl9022 4 года назад

      Tibor Klein I really don’t care about an argument. I was just here to goof.

  • @sashostorys
    @sashostorys 4 года назад +625

    Slavaboos: can I have Ю?
    Latin script:no, there is Ю at home
    Ю at home : |-O

    • @tonyslabu6373
      @tonyslabu6373 4 года назад +11

      I mean it might not look the same but in Romanian we have î wich is exactly the same sound but in Latin script

    • @inox1ck
      @inox1ck 4 года назад

      Tony Slabu ala e iu nu î

    • @tonyslabu6373
      @tonyslabu6373 4 года назад +5

      @Multorum Unum because Latin works better since we speak a Latin language

    • @lvintagenerd
      @lvintagenerd 4 года назад +1

      U

    • @sashostorys
      @sashostorys 4 года назад

      @@lvintagenerd That's pronunced у or ъ

  • @iljas1700
    @iljas1700 4 года назад +182

    Me, a bulgarian, watching this just to get angry about Cyril and Methodius

  • @leec4185
    @leec4185 2 года назад +5

    Roman, the “zh” is the most beautiful letter visually! It looks like a TREE! And the resonanance. Oy.

  • @Gardelias
    @Gardelias 4 года назад +103

    Горжусь тем что полчаса после просмотра этого видео мой итальянский друг смог почти идеально прочитать гимн СССР

    • @inspector_beyond
      @inspector_beyond 4 года назад +9

      Я на самом деле удивлен что итальянцы очень хорошо знают русский. В худших случаях, они могут прочесть слова и понять их смысл. Я так же общался с итальянцем, который в колледже учится, и там как минимум 40% учеников либо из России, либо из семьи русских эмигрантов, либо просто знают русский. Видимо итальянский является какой то ступенью к изкчению русского.

    • @choze8259
      @choze8259 4 года назад +1

      сильная страна была, а сейчас серьевая колония америки(

  • @shtulzzz5879
    @shtulzzz5879 4 года назад +122

    When i was learning Russian in school. Teacher thoght us that "ы" is like the sound you make when you poop really hard.
    Ps. Never learned good Russian in school but later in life had to speak a bit Russian so i can speak a little.

    • @rkan2
      @rkan2 4 года назад +3

      I think it as kind of a soft sounding "Vö"... Helps if you know Ö i guess :D Another character from another language from the land of drunk people.

    • @ziplin5412
      @ziplin5412 4 года назад +7

      Lmao thanks for the laugh

    • @davidbadrak6811
      @davidbadrak6811 4 года назад +1

      Shtulzzz класс

    • @a64738
      @a64738 4 года назад

      That is a good description of the sound :) I have big difficulty making it, it is a bit like Norvegian ø but also very different which makes it even harder for me lol.

    • @ВадимКараваев-й7ш
      @ВадимКараваев-й7ш 4 года назад +1

      You just need to hear it once and later you're good

  • @alexandruioanmunteanu4105
    @alexandruioanmunteanu4105 4 года назад +239

    Roman: The sound and letter "ц" doesn't exist in non-slavic languages.
    Me, a Romanian: Are you sure about that?

    • @laurentiu.panait2536
      @laurentiu.panait2536 4 года назад +16

      Ț :)

    • @plagah
      @plagah 4 года назад +17

      Me, a hungarian: Am I a joke to you
      In hungarian ц is c

    • @natanprotector8819
      @natanprotector8819 4 года назад +4

      laughing in hebrew haha

    • @nursik-
      @nursik- 4 года назад +7

      Japanese doe

    • @MyDaumenHoch
      @MyDaumenHoch 4 года назад +14

      Also we have the "ь" in form of the silent "i", like for example "cinci bani" would be written as "чинчь бань"

  • @thsxi
    @thsxi 3 года назад +109

    Russian: Нь
    Polish: Ń
    English: *confused screaming*

  • @astronautboy4561
    @astronautboy4561 4 года назад +474

    Day one of Russian language: hf1i8gfyeg,fieje.
    2 years of Russian
    language: Я не использую перевод.

    • @fieb7840
      @fieb7840 4 года назад +11

      astronaut boy жиза😂

    • @sekrit4581
      @sekrit4581 4 года назад +2

      Отлично дружок

    • @mrubuntuking5257
      @mrubuntuking5257 4 года назад +15

      @@Winter_Purlieu It's so deceptively familiar once I get to reading it naturally. юзаю sounds like pretty much the same word English and Spanish use. It's Indo-European, right? The case system is also easy, because German has taught me how the 4 basic grammatical function cases work in a nominative-accusative aligned language, right? All Russian does differently is get rid of articles and add the word "with" as a suffix, right? Almost every noun predictably tells you its gender with the vowel ending, no need to memorize a hellish list like in German or French! Where it gets hard is when you get into *why* nouns need to always tell you their gender by themselves. A lack of articles doesn't seem like a big deal at first, but when you're in the third declension, you still have to get the noun and adjective to agree, and one of them's irregular in whatever dialect your Armenian taxi driver made up, but he won't understand you if you don't figure out how he messed it up and mess it up in the same way...

    • @kidnamedpenis
      @kidnamedpenis 4 года назад +1

      Ты охуенный

    • @YanPrimachenko
      @YanPrimachenko 4 года назад

      Ты кут

  • @IsabellaKouppi
    @IsabellaKouppi 4 года назад +67

    When you are Bulgarian and took 2 years of Russian classes and you know how to write in Cyrillic but you watch this video anyway

    • @kajmak64bit76
      @kajmak64bit76 4 года назад +2

      Serbian here... Same lol i know this already but i still watched it coz Roman

    • @kajmak64bit76
      @kajmak64bit76 4 года назад

      @Violin Ivanoff Jašta brt dobri su... Sistem te laže.. Ne veruj šta ti kaže.. Osim kod onoga kad kaže ostani kući ne širi koronu 🤣🤣

    • @cekretone
      @cekretone 4 года назад +2

      Or Russian is literally your first language and you still watch that video

    • @ProGamerOne
      @ProGamerOne 4 года назад +1

      Isabella Kouppi *When you learned reading Russian in 3 weeks* Hehe.

    • @iljas1700
      @iljas1700 4 года назад

      Епик

  • @guka5149
    @guka5149 4 года назад +165

    I'm Georgian and "learn" Russian at some schools (almost nobody from the new generation can speak Russian here) and I remember having the hardest time writing "ж"

    • @alexandrvasilev2865
      @alexandrvasilev2865 4 года назад +28

      i still write it like drawing a cat's asshole

    • @lovelylynxie8113
      @lovelylynxie8113 4 года назад +8

      I know right? first time I tried to write it it just looked.... strange and deformed

    • @zloychechen5150
      @zloychechen5150 4 года назад +16

      Been to Georgia in april 2019, noticed that. Almost nobody from the age of about 35 and younger speaks russian, apart from waiters. What i found amusing is that i've had young people come up to me in the street and start asking shit in Georgian, which i don't speak, and neither do i look even remotely southern. Still a mistery to me what they could have wanted.
      Anyhow, i absolutely loved it there, it's a most beautiful country. Will definitely come back.

    • @СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь
      @СемёнСемёнов-ы1ь 3 года назад +10

      Kudos to Georgia!
      One of the most unique sounding languages on this planet!

    • @chinocasablanca
      @chinocasablanca 3 года назад +2

      just write a ever so slightly widened latin letter X and put a line in the middle
      now its a ж

  • @JBEHERNS
    @JBEHERNS 3 года назад +12

    What a witty and funny presentation! I’m saving it. It’s a lot better and more realistic and in a short time I could actually retain at least a few of the letters by your way or correlating them to a story or to English. And you are REALLY funny!!!

  • @_gouda7928
    @_gouda7928 4 года назад +207

    Roman: Russian has some wierd sounds.
    Croatian: Č, Ć, DŽ, Đ, LJ, NJ, Š, Ž

    • @imrich9349
      @imrich9349 4 года назад +26

      Slovak: Ä, Ô, Č, Ď, DŽ, DZ, É, Á, CH, Í, Ľ, Ĺ, Ň, Ŕ, Š, Ť, Ú, Ý, Ž

    • @Eugensson
      @Eugensson 4 года назад +8

      @@imrich9349 longest alphabet in EU

    • @chilltank1052
      @chilltank1052 4 года назад +3

      That looks very normal to me

    • @spectrumfunction2836
      @spectrumfunction2836 3 года назад +1

      NEW JERSEY?!?! /s

    • @CrypticOfc
      @CrypticOfc 3 года назад +1

      English:
      see how there is none.

  • @inaktiver9381
    @inaktiver9381 4 года назад +580

    I can relate to u Roman, my mom is ukrainian and when shes talking to her relatives on the phone shes always so loud. :D

    • @chaisubliminalss
      @chaisubliminalss 4 года назад +7

      inaktiver BRUHHH ME TOO

    • @substitoad7069
      @substitoad7069 4 года назад +15

      inaktiver Im not Russian I’m Puerto Rican but my family is always yelling over the phone

    • @gabi4403
      @gabi4403 4 года назад +7

      My mom's family is also ukrainian, I relate it sooooooo hard

    • @maidat4026
      @maidat4026 4 года назад +2

      I though Ukrainian and Russian suppose to hate each other

    • @_whats_a_dad_
      @_whats_a_dad_ 4 года назад +2

      Same

  • @aleksifrmdao
    @aleksifrmdao 4 года назад +96

    why am i laughing at a russian guy explaining letters i already know

  • @kade6952
    @kade6952 3 года назад +19

    I wish I could learn Russian the way you learned English, your English is GODLY bro

  • @Mint-qw3xm
    @Mint-qw3xm 4 года назад +65

    I got 9 out of 100 in Russian exam so this is appreciated

    • @DONSMOKEPAPI
      @DONSMOKEPAPI 4 года назад +9

      Thats a respectable score, strong 9%, hard to beat tbh

    • @spicelord7764
      @spicelord7764 4 года назад

      @nihilismful That's the same reason I'm learning, actually. You miss a lot from Dostoevsky and the old boys if you read a translation.

    • @a64738
      @a64738 4 года назад

      @@shounen_A Sadly Norway suck even more for many reasons (and now I am stuck here for who know how long because of the corona hysteria)... And now the stupid politicians here has run Norway and every Norwegian broke trying to slow down the corona virus (which is not that dangerous compared to the flue according to huge number of actual experts).

  • @kevinp8882
    @kevinp8882 4 года назад +69

    Me: I’m getting used to this
    Russian cursive enters the chat

  • @ceciliasosaav
    @ceciliasosaav 4 года назад +67

    Fun fact: in Paraguay, apart from spanish we also speak "guarani" and the "bl" sound it's exactly like how we would pronounce the letter "y"
    It's really funny to hear foreigners trying to say it 😂

    • @bestrafung2754
      @bestrafung2754 4 года назад +2

      I want to learn Guarani one day.

    • @Uyt-m7an
      @Uyt-m7an 4 года назад +2

      Stingy Yo tambien

    • @max392
      @max392 4 года назад

      I'm learning russian and it is such a weird sound

    • @FagnerAro
      @FagnerAro 4 года назад +2

      Greetings from Brazil!

    • @ceciliasosaav
      @ceciliasosaav 4 года назад

      @@FagnerAro saludosssss

  • @vivekishere
    @vivekishere 3 года назад +24

    Me : cracks a joke on discord.
    Everybody: hahahaha lol that’s so funny.
    My Russian friend : xaxaxaxaxax

  • @theonlymixman
    @theonlymixman 4 года назад +81

    I'm a native Greek and Russian speaker so I have the "complete starter pack "

    • @OttomanDrifter91
      @OttomanDrifter91 4 года назад +2

      jealous!

    • @seraphinax6449
      @seraphinax6449 4 года назад +3

      Yeah, the Β (vita), Ρ (ro) and Χ (chi) is also pronounced in Greek the same ways. In addition some other letters that exists in Cyrillic and (modern) Greek alphabet but not in Latin.

    • @theonlymixman
      @theonlymixman 4 года назад

      @Blin Kurwa που σκέφτεσαι να πας;

    • @theonlymixman
      @theonlymixman 4 года назад

      @Blin Kurwa γιατί όμως θες να μάθεις Ρωσικά;

    • @arthurjohnson9982
      @arthurjohnson9982 2 года назад

      Φ (Phi) and Ф (Ef) too

  • @benladen4306
    @benladen4306 4 года назад +67

    Hello Roman, I thank you for helping me understand words like "ь" "ъ" and "ы" since I am just self-teaching myself Russian this video helped me understand how to pronounce "э" and "ё" as well, Thank you for making this vid.

    • @zloychechen5150
      @zloychechen5150 4 года назад

      ололо, пора отсюда съёбывать.

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper 3 года назад +2

      ь and ы are useful in those vowels.
      There's normal vowels and modified
      Normal : А О Э И У Ы
      Modified : Я Ё Е Ї Ю ❌
      (Ї is actually in Ukrainian where Э Е И Ы are different but whatever)
      All of the modified letters are pronounced differently in different contexts. If they're in the beginning of a word or after a vowel they're pronounced like "Y+normal vowel" : "YA YO YE YI YU"/"ЙА ЙО ЙЭ ЙИ ЙУ"
      But if they're after a consonant they're different. They soften the consonant as if there's a Ь after it and then the unmodified letter. So for example РЕ is like РЬ Э. But the Ъ is the letter that cancels this and makes it so that it's still pronounced as Y+unmodified letter and the consonant isn't softened. ДЪЕ is like Д ЙЕ and not ДЬ Е

  • @Ivocado5
    @Ivocado5 4 года назад +8

    I was actually watching different videos on Russian alphabet an hour ago... then you come up with this gem out of nowhere, thanks man! Поздрав из Србије! :D

  • @saulgoodmanKAZAKH
    @saulgoodmanKAZAKH 3 года назад +3

    "What's ya name?"
    "Роман."
    "Pomah?"

  • @VladislavKobzarev
    @VladislavKobzarev 4 года назад +415

    Забавно смотреть, как русский учит иностранцев русскому языку на английском

    • @ArturBazhenov-i3n
      @ArturBazhenov-i3n 4 года назад

      @@trixion74 что у него неправильно??

    • @ArturBazhenov-i3n
      @ArturBazhenov-i3n 4 года назад

      @@eto_tochno_ne_vova ахаххв, +

    • @mega9756
      @mega9756 4 года назад +2

      Он русский так то)

    • @danivory7122
      @danivory7122 4 года назад +2

      Почему на англе Cyril он произносит как Цырил?

    • @VladislavKobzarev
      @VladislavKobzarev 4 года назад +2

      @@danivory7122 Ну вообще в английском "Cyrillic" произносится [səˈrilik], ну вот такое произношение устоялось, я думаю, тут удивляться нечему, и вот это уже звучит не как "Кириллик", а как "Сыриллик", ну а то что там вместо "s" сказал "c" может быть из-за его русского акцента, ну или он сам не знал как точно произносить, а возможно ещё, что тебе просто послышалось.

  • @scptrx
    @scptrx 4 года назад +422

    славяне сила🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇾🇵🇱🇨🇿🇸🇰🇸🇮🇭🇷🇷🇸🇧🇦🇲🇪🇧🇬🇲🇰

  • @asudemeralerdem207
    @asudemeralerdem207 4 года назад +115

    In Turkish, we also have the sound “ы “ in our language. But I can’t deny the fact that it doesn’t make any sense lmao

    • @inspector_beyond
      @inspector_beyond 4 года назад +1

      Isn't it a Y but like Ё with two dots on top?

    • @andreibegu
      @andreibegu 4 года назад +2

      Πor  in Romanian

    • @sinemakkoc2752
      @sinemakkoc2752 4 года назад +2

      Düşününce cidden çok garip bir harf ldhzçwbxşs

    • @asudemeralerdem207
      @asudemeralerdem207 4 года назад +1

      The Inspector no, it’s actually i without a dot. which is an “ı”

    • @AlperArtan
      @AlperArtan 4 года назад

      @@georgepsychedelic9318 do you know Turkish or do you have some Turkish friends?

  • @ivancaulfield
    @ivancaulfield 4 года назад +8

    after hearing you talk about how you learned english with gta v I was inspired to try and learn russian. I've always found the look and sound of it appealing. so thank you for this video and keep going with the videos I really dig your channel!

  • @kiandenison-beatty3831
    @kiandenison-beatty3831 4 года назад +56

    I taught myself to read Cyrillic my senior year of high school, I'd write in it during classes, one of my teachers called me a commie. God bless America.

  • @jonasnissfolk
    @jonasnissfolk 4 года назад +41

    The Russian alphabet starts with ABV, 'cause that's how you measure the strength of your vodka, duh...

    • @310BPM
      @310BPM 4 года назад +1

      that's what i was thinking 😅

    • @namesurname_
      @namesurname_ 4 года назад +1

      "Vodka" is "водка" in Russian

    • @Tenkai917
      @Tenkai917 4 года назад +2

      Vodka = "little water"
      Duh, because it's mostly alcohol...

    • @mikedang3613
      @mikedang3613 4 года назад

      @@namesurname_ Вода + ка = водка

  • @coconutyperrou445
    @coconutyperrou445 4 года назад +121

    Roman be teaching us Russian so he can speak his home language and make it easy

  • @ff_crafter
    @ff_crafter 2 года назад +2

    My native language actually has the ы (ɨ) sound but it's written as

  • @paigeconnelly4244
    @paigeconnelly4244 4 года назад +68

    The fact that the Russian alphabet starts with 'A B V' does nothing to quash the stereotype of Russians loving Vodka, because ABV is what we use in the UK when labelling alcohol content (ABV = alcohol by volume).
    Edit: Also, where Russians will write XAXAXA for HAHAHA, if you see a bunch of comments saying '555', they're Thai. Because in Thai, the number 5 is pronounced as 'ha'.

  • @danlyle531
    @danlyle531 4 года назад +82

    5:25 "Well Russian starts with ABV. Why?" it's because it stands for alcohol by volume, they were drinking vodka as they were writing the alphabet 😂

    • @inox1ck
      @inox1ck 4 года назад +2

      Dan Lyle no bcs they dont have an exact "c"

    • @danlyle531
      @danlyle531 4 года назад +9

      @@inox1ck I understand, they use с for a soft c/s and к for a hard c/k. My comment was a bit of a joke about how Russians like vodka, and how it's a bit of a coincidence that ABV is both the start of the Russian alphabet (АБВ) and a term for measuring the amount of alcohol in drinks

    • @ravinmarokef
      @ravinmarokef 4 года назад +1

      In Hebrew it's similar (AB"V"G) and in Greek it's (ABG)

    • @rembo96
      @rembo96 3 года назад +1

      Because in Greek language pronunciation of the Beta letter turned from "B" to "V". Latin borrowed this letter before Cyrillic and kept the old pronunciation.

  • @XjizzinmypantsX
    @XjizzinmypantsX 4 года назад +87

    Only to me "Ю" looks like something in Korean?

    • @saulthechicanootaku
      @saulthechicanootaku 4 года назад +10

      Not the only one. Plus, N. Korea borders Russia so coincidence or influence?

    • @memepolice7964
      @memepolice7964 4 года назад +31

      backwards 어

    • @SocialistFinn1
      @SocialistFinn1 4 года назад +1

      Yeah I remember thinking that before learning Russian too lmao

    • @thejesus8750
      @thejesus8750 4 года назад +3

      I am a Slav and I was under the impression that it looked like a 10 if it was connected

    • @Hyianekanal
      @Hyianekanal 4 года назад +2

      @@saulthechicanootaku it's not a Korean influence. Originally it was written reversed and was a combination of Greek omicron-iota

  • @evelynslibrary5712
    @evelynslibrary5712 3 года назад +40

    as I am Greek, this makes much more sense than the latin alphabet and I also now want to learn Russian

  • @yunglevistain
    @yunglevistain 4 года назад +20

    i've been learning russian since 2014, it kills me to see some edgelord spell their name "яомаи" and in my mind i just read "Yaomai"

    • @inspector_beyond
      @inspector_beyond 4 года назад +3

      Tbh, Yaomai could be read in two variations: Яомаи and Яомай. Depends on how this word even pronounced on english

    • @SharlyTV
      @SharlyTV 4 года назад

      i read it as "yo-MY"

    • @steven-k.
      @steven-k. 4 года назад

      Yeah, what cracks me up is when people try and write Russian using Latin characters, for example when they use a Russian name in the news and it's completely garbled or words like сегодня become segodnya - wtf is that? The funniest ones by far are when Russian songs are put into Latin characters and people sing them, my sister learned a Russian hymn and I almost shit myself laughing when she sung it.

  • @MrMaikiu
    @MrMaikiu 4 года назад +96

    Yes FINALLY Im playing Half-Life: Alyx, many things in the world are in russian

    • @2xsaiko
      @2xsaiko 4 года назад +14

      Half-Life 2 was actually the reason I learned the russian alphabet lmao

    • @postleftist1312
      @postleftist1312 4 года назад +12

      There are a lot signs that doesn't make sense in the game. I am Russian, so u can trust me. Sorry for my mistakes

    • @poshter13
      @poshter13 4 года назад +11

      There's not only Russian. You may find expression, like "Не пипай Опасно за живот". It's Bulgarian. One contains Cyrillic alphabet too. Probably, you may face Ukrainian words.But I'm not sure about last.

    • @ndrechtseiter
      @ndrechtseiter 4 года назад

      @nihilismful you speak Russian like a Russian would lol
      i almost thought that you were Russian till I read the last sentence

    • @isaachartford1535
      @isaachartford1535 4 года назад +1

      The setting of Half Life 2's City 17 is in Sofia Bulgaria, so there should not be much Russian in that game.

  • @tooobsessedwithcartoons6106
    @tooobsessedwithcartoons6106 4 года назад +17

    I‘m from Russia and I‘ve got no idea why I clicked on this video, but I liked it. As we like to say it here - хахаха

  • @Scrubplay
    @Scrubplay 4 года назад +6

    this video is really helpful.I'm studying Russian and the Cyrillic script is kicking my ass more so now because I found out how it's printed and how it's written by hand differs >_

  • @jfierrar
    @jfierrar 4 года назад +66

    I'm doing this for my Russian girlfriend.
    She has yet to date me. 😂

    • @ricois3
      @ricois3 4 года назад +4

      Lol same. Maybe she's Ukrainian or Bielo-russian, I don't know yet

    • @ka-bq6dl
      @ka-bq6dl 4 года назад +2

      @@ricois3 not belorusian for sure if you'll keep spelling her nationality like this, we get really angry when someone misspells it! (especially russians)

    • @ricois3
      @ricois3 4 года назад

      @@ka-bq6dl Извините, I speak French and it's how we write it

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 4 года назад

      Just order a different girl through the mail.

    • @jfierrar
      @jfierrar 4 года назад

      @nihilismful Wow. Congratulations my guy. Best wishes to the both of you.

  • @magnussamuelsson2630
    @magnussamuelsson2630 4 года назад +62

    For years I have written "Ksa ksa ksa ksa" whenever I write to my russian friends....

    • @thebestnickname
      @thebestnickname 4 года назад +7

      Ahahah i feel sorry for u :'D

    • @lovelylynxie8113
      @lovelylynxie8113 4 года назад +2

      ... wait what
      did u write it in russian?
      if you did *what letter did you use to get ksa ksa*

  • @athenachristinemusic
    @athenachristinemusic 4 года назад +196

    Now I know why “cyka” is pronounced the way it is

  • @fionamackellar7048
    @fionamackellar7048 2 года назад +2

    I have been teaching myself Cyrillic & basic Russian fora couple of years after finding Bald & then you Roman. Thank you for explaining the mysteries of the silent letters! Love from UK x

  • @0123Kingkong
    @0123Kingkong 4 года назад +28

    >mom yell next room: " Guys this is soo sad, please donate to my patreon. "

  • @mi8628
    @mi8628 4 года назад +224

    Whenever I see faux Cyrillic, I instinctively read it with the Russian pronunciation, even though I am a native English speaker.
    Like, if I see someone write "ЯUSSIA" I will read it as "YAUSSIA" even though it is probably not mean't to say that.

    • @Natadangsa
      @Natadangsa 4 года назад +8

      Same here. Native Indonesian speaker who mastered Russian and Serbian Cyrillic.

    • @zucced2087
      @zucced2087 4 года назад +2

      @@Natadangsa what made you learn Serbian?

    • @Natadangsa
      @Natadangsa 4 года назад +18

      @@zucced2087 Well, not the language, but the writing system. I've always been interested in Cyrillic. And when I mastered Russian Cyrillic, I was intrigued to learn more types of Cyrillic from other languages whether it is Slavic or non-Slavic. And Serbian Cyrillic in particular fascinates me due to it having a letter to spell a Nj and Ć sound (Њ & Ћ) which is very close to my native language, and a single letter for a J sound in which you only need to write Џ instead of Дж as they do in Russian.
      That and also my deep admiration towards the USSR, Warsaw Pact countries, and SFRJ. Since I follow many of their ideals and the fact that Soekarno was very close with Jосип Броз Тито.

    • @zloychechen5150
      @zloychechen5150 4 года назад +4

      The pinnacle is the passport from one (or more) of the Jason Bourne films.
      it says "Lshtshfum" for Kiniaev and "ashf" for Foma.

    • @iProgramInCpp
      @iProgramInCpp 4 года назад +1

      Yaussia

  • @GabbeSilva-zf9db
    @GabbeSilva-zf9db 4 года назад +142

    Me knowing russian: HMM interesting

  • @visible4225
    @visible4225 2 года назад +8

    Fun fact
    I’ve been watching actual russian
    Teachers videos and didn’t learn much
    And this guy helped me learn the whole alphabet in almost one try💀

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад +37

    The Turkmen language was also Cyrillic until their leader Saparmurat Niyazov aka Turkmenbashi (Turkmen for Father of the Turkmen) reintroduced the Latin script of the language in 1993. This was part of his steps to keep Turkmenistan isolated.

    • @firstnamelastname-uw6vq
      @firstnamelastname-uw6vq 4 года назад +2

      Well it worked I haven't met a Turkmen on the internet, neither heard something in the news about Turkmenistan ever. I just know their current leader is a lot into horses, weird Guinness records, pretending to know how to play a guitar and lifts some type of golden rod to show that he is a strong leader.

    • @albertsmith1032
      @albertsmith1032 4 года назад +1

      @SANS______ add to that, it has the most heavily censored internet in the world (worse than China)

    • @peasantarcher2486
      @peasantarcher2486 4 года назад +5

      Was it for isolation or de-russification?

    • @AverytheCubanAmerican
      @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад +2

      Peasant Archer Both

    • @musicfriendly12
      @musicfriendly12 4 года назад

      @@firstnamelastname-uw6vq Normal, Turkmenistan is like North Korea but a little more strange... It's hard to explain, but look it up... Actually, there are many Stans that aren't very, let's say, democratic, cause they are some of the most interesting...

  • @the__ushanka
    @the__ushanka 4 года назад +71

    Ha, jokes on you. I can already read Cyrillic.

    • @MrJamiez
      @MrJamiez 4 года назад +3

      Prove it.

    • @justdimitris354
      @justdimitris354 4 года назад +4

      Я тоже

    • @the__ushanka
      @the__ushanka 4 года назад +1

      @@MrJamiez што правеше доктор

    • @MrJamiez
      @MrJamiez 4 года назад

      @@the__ushanka nice copy & paste from Google. 🤣

    • @TheDuchy-d3h
      @TheDuchy-d3h 4 года назад

      @@the__ushanka
      Which country?

  • @KIRISHETTO
    @KIRISHETTO 4 года назад +75

    "Фэ, Шэ, Щэ" - рофлишь, чтоль.

  • @Juniorcattt_
    @Juniorcattt_ Год назад +2

    I'm a native Russian speaker and I sit here watching to this guy explaining me the Russian alphabet without any regrets.

  • @stuggoto750
    @stuggoto750 4 года назад +20

    thanks NFKRZ. very cool my друг

    • @carl9022
      @carl9022 4 года назад

      Stuggoto чувак

    • @stuggoto750
      @stuggoto750 4 года назад

      @Thot Patrol USA i've been exposed

  • @4huricane
    @4huricane 4 года назад +89

    I am from Sweden and Trying to learn Russian, the "э" is almost exactly the same as swedish "Ä ä" could be helpful for the English speaker here 😅 and "й" is "Jå"
    👍

    • @zloychechen5150
      @zloychechen5150 4 года назад

      Ой-ой-ой

    • @SuperCosty2010
      @SuperCosty2010 4 года назад

      Yeah, as in "Агнета Фэльтског"

    • @dmitrievakate8320
      @dmitrievakate8320 3 года назад +1

      I'm a Russian speaker who studied Swedish at the university. I think, along the way you'll be surprised how much in common the 2 languages have. Not really a lot but you wouldn't expect anything at all considering the languages are barely related lol.

  • @MohammadAlAmineELMIR
    @MohammadAlAmineELMIR 4 года назад +11

    I self-taught myself Cyrillic alphabet back in High School but I was always confused and perplexed about those two sound-indication symbols, I wasn't able to find a good source about them back then to understand it and even afterwards I wasn't able to understand it, thanks to your video the mystery has finally been revealed to me
    Thanks man

  • @alfskutzn
    @alfskutzn 4 года назад +8

    i honestly have so much respect to those learning russian as their second/third etc. language, because imagine looking at the word бесперспективность or параллелепипед and not giving up

  • @user-rb7te2qz2v
    @user-rb7te2qz2v 4 года назад +13

    Hi Roman, I am from Moldova and even though we are Romanians, our language has been influenced by turkish and slavic dialects. We have basically the same sounds in Romanian as in Russian. Ă-э , Ș-ш , J-ж (it's pronounced the same way), Î-ы, etc. It's really interesting to see corelations between Romanian my mother tongue and Russian that i use from time to time.

    • @inox1ck
      @inox1ck 4 года назад

      Claudiu da ! Si ж cu ˇ este ge gi
      Dar щ tot e ș dar este mai rar

    • @tonyslabu6373
      @tonyslabu6373 4 года назад

      @@inox1ck aș spune mai degrabă "j" in loc de gi

  • @НикитаЖарков-э9з
    @НикитаЖарков-э9з 4 года назад +136

    Try to pronounce this:
    Ъуъ

  • @ryankov
    @ryankov 4 года назад +10

    The early Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School by the Bulgarians Saint Clement of Ohrid and Saint Naum and replaced the earlier Glagolitic script developed by the Byzantine theologians Cyril and Methodius.

    • @liroiter6002
      @liroiter6002 4 года назад

      Why do Greeks and bulgarians still argue about kiril and metodius ?

  • @ElectricalStorm
    @ElectricalStorm 2 года назад +2

    The Russian Alphabet:
    A, 6, B, Right Angle, Triangle, E, Ë, X with a line through it, 3, Backwards N, Backwards N with a curl, K, Mountain, M, H, O, PI, P, C, T, Y, Chinese Lantern, X, Squiggly U, Straight Y, Straight W, Straight W with a curl, b with a curl, bleh, b, reverse euros sign, Circle Stick, Backwards R