I started off being recommended a RussianPlus city tour, which I found fascinating AF. Vladivostok really is like San Francisco from the upside-down dimension! Then I wanted to make chebureki, and the first recipe I found was from Life of Boris, which I fucking binge-watched because I thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. Between that and bald and bankrupt, I began to be able to read signs and understand basic dialogue in the video, which I didn't even realize until I noticed I wasn't watching the subtitles anymore. Holy shit this is easier than I thought it would be! So many words are similar to English or Spanish too. Might as well take it all the way now that I've gotten this far. I already knew German, so the concept of cases is easy for me and the 2 extra ones Russian adds are easier to understand IMO.
Lol that's exactly how I feel. I'm kinda surprised how some words almost sound Spanish. That made my day and how it will make this just a bit easier to learn.
The best video on youtube describing Russian alphabet. Very simple and precise. No gimmicks and unnecessary talking like other videos. Every word has a purpose. Thank you sir.
Not at all. It developed from the Greek alphabet just like the Latin alphabet you are so used to. The early form of Cyrillic was actually Greek plus a few letters to represent the specific Slavic sounds that Greek doesn't have. If you ever learned geometry at school, then you must already know letters π ρ φ β μ λ and so on. That means, you already know most of Cyrillic ( п р ф в л etc.)
You mean the latin alphabet. And y'all need to stop being idiots. Slow down, go read a book or something. Yes, it is still called the latin alphabet even though w was added later on. There were other changes to the latin alphabet over the centuries as well. It's still called the latin alphabet. Jeez. Choose one: pedant or idiot. You're not allowed to be both at the same time
This has been the most helpful RUclips video I have seen, pertaining to Russian, so far. Thank you very much for your time and the great examples you gave!
Same thing for me, I start a Russian class tomorrow and they told me to start learning the alphabet because the class already started a few weeks ago, and this has been a huge help for me!
ive been learning russian for about a year but i dont know what i should learn in what order and i have a vocab of maybe 10 or 20 words not counting curse words lol
you guys should try duolingo it's a free app it has really excited me about learning languages. unfortunately it doesn't have Korean but it has Russian most of the Latin based languages and even Vietnamese. I dunno about you guys but pho is amazing especially in winter!!
Net? Ya nachal izuchat' yazyk, i eto prosto fantastika! No? I started learning the language and it is fantastic! Нет? Я начал изучать язык, и это просто фантастика!
At times, some Russian words and letters kind of sound like the way you would pronounce them in Spanish, with only a slight twist. Idk if anyone else here gets that impression? As someone who speaks both Spanish & English, I believe it's probably easier to learn Russian with a Spanish background over an English background...Anyway, great video!
There are actually a lot of words that sound similar to English words as well just with a little difference. Though I don't speak spanish at all so I can't really compare.
И and Й (short version of И) - И is a regular russian vowel , while Й is only used together with other vowels before or after it - стрОЙка, ЙОд, стрОЙ etc Ъ(hard sign) - is used to make a consonant hard - подЪезд (pod - yezd) and not let the consonant and the following vowel blend (like podezd) Ь(soft sign) -makes a consonant soft - соль, месть Ы - is a vowel you don't find in English, the closest is 'i' like in stiff - мыло, дым
Fantastic! I know now how to read Russian. I read the words like a 3 grader...slowly but surely I will get there. Its funny though, how I can read without understanding....
I also read but only understand a small percentage. May be only 8%. But that 8% helps. The percentage increases with some sciences which use established scientific names. Place names and some nouns become easier.
Same here. Searching for some Russian lyrics and libretti I learned to read Cyrillic (reading as a 3 grader myself too, but still) but I don't get a thing. Never tried to learn the language, hopefully do someday.
Как хорошо, что я русский. Как задумаешься о нашей грамматике, которую целых 8 лет преподают в школе (и то многие её не осиливают), так даже страшно представить, каково иностранцам учить её.
Melodeath by Countries , ты ещё греческой грамматики не видел... там вообще никакой логики, просто это слово пишется именно так и не иначе, сами греки в своей грамматике путаются, ударение не так поставить, и другой смысл фраза несёт...
雨琛涂 Im not talking about linguistic -phonetic facts, but about impression. And I'm not the only one with that impression. Portugeze is a bit harder then Spanish. True.
klimlib All Slavic languages are amazing! They are really beautiful! I am Brazilian, and I have more contact with latin languages. The grammatical structures of Spanish and Portuguese are similar, but the second has more phonemes, what makes it more hard to speaking... But it doesn't matter! Both are also great!!!
True! A woman not 1 meter from me on the tram answered her phone and spoke to someone- but I could not hear any words at all, only the faintest sounds. And, in a packed restaurant, the conversations are a soft hum, not a raucous ocean like we have in the states. One American in at dinner can be heard across the room. We Americans tend to express sounds with a strong push of air, Russian speakers do not do this. I have had to practice. When I speed up my words and speak more softly, I find I am understood better. They don't teach that in lecture.
By the way; great video! I've gone from 0 knowledge of Russian Cyrillic to being able to identify the pronunciation of some words. I'm not perfect but getting better. I took a try to see if I could spell my daughters name using Cyrillic. I came up with матилда for Matilda.
Russian is a Indo-European language and after being able to decipher Cyrillic, I have noticed many words that are same or similar. Plus I'm sure they, like us, have many loan words that have been converted to Cyrillic.
This certainly is a very difficult language but I'm very set on learning as much as I can this year and I really hope I'll make progress. Anyone have any tips for learning Russian? Can I self teach myself online or am I really going to need exposure?
You need to listen to it and read a lot when by yourself. if you get opportunities to speak, do it as much as you can. challenging yourself will progress you faster. this applies to any language.
Mackenzie Grace , to get good you'll need many different resources. but to start off find something fun Duolingo or Memrise. The most important thing is to study consistently and as you learn more you'll find more resources to add to your collection as your furst materials become too easy.
Mackenzie Grace I’m an English speaker and don’t know any other languages so I feel you😂 exposure is what’s best honestly and practicing and making sure you’re pronouncing things correctly are key... I’m lucky to have a boyfriend who is Russian so I constantly hear the language spoken and have picked up words from just listening!
я учу русский язык и люблю язык так. Я пишу предложения на русском языке чуть ли не каждый день, чтобы стать лучше. Я все еще с парой символов, пока вы читаете, вы можете подумать, что у вас это хорошо получается, признаюсь, я использую помощь по переводу, поскольку я печатаю, но я хочу свободно это день
I have to admit when I went through the Russian alphabet the first time I was like W.T.F. But I pushed through, checked the pronunciation written out, cross-checked sound from several sources and was able to memorize the whole thing in 2 days. The only inconsistent pronunciation variations I find are from these 3 letters which have rather complicated sounds: й ь ъ When I started applying it to words it was surprisingly straightforward. Just sounding out the word based on the letters made it pretty accurate. The first foreign language I studied was French, and Russian is a hell of a lot easier. I'm very comfortable with French pronunciation now but it's something where you have to read and hear a lot of material to figure out the appropriate sounds certain letters together make because it's not what you would expect. Russian is extremely straightforward in comparison, I did notice the "o" at the end tend to have an "a" sound. But overall not nearly as daunting as I expected.
good you learned the pronunciation but you forgot to learn the alphabet's history. The alphabet was created by St. Clement of Ohrid- one of Cyrill's students for Bulgarians. Clement dedicated the alphabet to Cyrill, who died 30 years before it was actually created. It was firstly used by Bulgarians then spread among the Orthodox slavs.
@@marmitenot. Good for you. I was just trying to spread awareness. It's not uncommon for westerners to call the alphabet Russian. St. Clement didn't die for this.
There is a clothing shop near where I live in Kiev named "Donkey." I saw it and asked my wife, "Um, what does that mean? Cuz in English it is not quite the best name for a store."
in Russia think men go to earflaps, drunk, and with them the Bears are playing balalaika. What kind of nonsense? And who invented it ?? I live in Russia and I'm Russian! At the moment I live in Moscow. Drunk people meet only on holidays ..
Thank you this was one of the better videos I’ve found. Straight forward and provides the sound of the letter. Often I find speaker gets lost about halfway through and reverts to explaining the English equivalent vs just the Russian sound of the letter.
TheRussianEevee That is true friend, but I am already in the midst of learning Spanish fluently and that alone takes a lot of dedication. I mayyy try Russian again in the future, but I'll never really need it practically. So if I do decide to take up another language if I master Spanish then it might be Greek if anything since if there was a foreign non English speaking country that I'd live in, it'd be Athens Greece.
Zeus Poseidon I'm working on memorizing the Russian and Japanese alphabets right now. I like how the languages sound and I want to travel to Russia and Japan in the future. Best of luck to you in your Spanish and possible future studies.
+Zeus Poseidon Dude, I taught myself Spanish and Portuguese within a few months, plus some Esperanto and Italian. I am perfectly fluent in English, French and Spanish. Spanish is laughably easy. Russian isn't much harder if you put a bit of time into it. Don't be a wuss.
I recently started learning Russian, using multiple mediums to attain my goal. I'm primarily using Rosetta Stone and the Living Language series. Thanks for the helpful video! To those who are learning on Rosetta, I encourage you to do the alphabet and pronunciation separately. It helped me move along faster and with more accuracy. :)
Russian is definitely easier than you think it will be. I'm only starting off and I'm surprised that some Russian words sound almost English. More than likely, I'm supposing two of its root languages are Latin & Greek like English which is why it sounds somewhat similar.
That was better than what other people have tried to teach me yours worked the best thank you...... BTW are you Russian this was the first video I saw of your and I was just asking
interesting that honey is spelled almost like "mead" from which its made, though mead is also likely from the word "meadow" from which honey itself is made. it's likely "mead" came first and the naming of "meadow" after as they tried to find out where the honey came from until they studied and watched the honeybees.
Thank you for not wasting my time with all the fluffy crap many of the popular language learning channels use to make people “feel good” about the language. Language learning is hard, and if you don’t find it rewarding, no amount of cushioning is going to give you the wherewithal to make it to fluency.
Russian: Ты знаешь, где мой щит? (do you know where is my shield?) People who can speak and read and understand english: wtf did you just say bro? you wanna sh*t?
I suggest you learn "Hiragana" which is easiest character, so children is learning this character at beginning of school education. On the other hand, I do not recommend to learn Chinese character at first because it is too complicate and must spend a lot of time for acquire this character.
not the same way) Russian has the feature called vowel reduction so A and O if they are unstressed sound pretty similar (like -er in "speaker" with British accent). E, И and Я sound like i in "ship" in the same position.
This was a nice review - I had Russian classes in college and more recently in junior college for a two-year degree in the language (and the same for French and German). Not fluent in any of them but would be if I could spend a year in each country. German is most familiar to me from hearing it as a child, Russian is easy to pronounce but the grammar is a bitch, and French grammar is relatively simple but the pronunciation is a bitch!
Щ is a soft version of Ш . It works pretty much the same way when you add "Ь" to make a certain letter sound softer...For example К , Кь or Д , Дь or В , Вь (basically you bring your tongue closer to the roof of your mouth ...(It makes the letter sounds softer) Good example is Щука( Shch-oo-ka) which is a type of fish ... and Шука( Sh-oo-ka) which sounds like the english word "sugar" and doesn't really mean anything in russian...
Whose watching this in 2020?I am!!I stumbled on this video in March,we were on the second week of our lockdown at that time here in Canada.Got curious about it,so I watched it.From that time on,I've been watching different Russian lessons too.But this is the first actual video that got me hooked to start to try to learn Russian Yazyk..I've been coming back and forth to watched your lessons too even it's been like 10 or 11 years back...
This video made me learn Russian when I was either 6,7, or 8. Now I am 17. I try teaching my 6 year old sister how to speak Russian, but she refuses to learn.
@@blazer3756 "ЕГЭ" is a abbreviation, that means "Единый Государственный Экзамен" ( Unified State Exam ). It's a exam that every pupil must pass in the end of the full school education. And sence of joke of this comment is connected with the fact of strange reforms of this exam. It's joke like "In the future in the main exam will be only ABC". One might say, that ЕГЭ becomes a more dump with every year, because in the test appears silly and mad questions.
My stepdad said that if I learn and tell the whole Russian alphabet (because he's Russian) then he won't take away my phone the rest of his life...so thank you very much this helped me soooooooooooooo much
Endfinity Eggs Lmfao! That's so damn true! I've been "learning" russian for a few months now and i can speak here and there, however, i was never able to pronouce it. 😒🔫
Godamnit my teacher kept saying it and said to repeat and i kept on pronouncing it wrong so she just said YOU'LL STAY UNTIL YOU GET IT and i stayed for almost 2 lessons... Still couldnt do it tho xD she just let me go after that xd
Your pronunciation and explanaition are well done! But the name of letter Ф soundslike "fe" the first time, and like "ef" later. Ф - "ef" is correctly. I'd preffer another example for the letter "Ь, ь" instead of пьянка - heavy drinking, друзья (friends) :-).
To Claude Mac I thought he did say ef. But pronounces words spelt with an ef such as football with an f. But an f is an ef. But the letter is 'ph'. So is sometimes PH which is FE as in physics. Or feet (Pheet). There is only the one ef sounding character in Russian. So any ef sounding character from any other language will be covered by the PH (ef).
This is one of the better videos I’ve seen on the alphabet. Just a suggestion tho, the last letter and the words you gave with it, I couldn’t see bcuz of the suggestive videos you have pop up over it so finish showing the video first before you have more pop up. Thanks
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There is a mistake in this video. Russian letter "Ф" calls "ef", not "fe".
P.S. I'm Russian.
and I thought the "ef" in the penguin book was wrong when I saw this video...
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Thanks Nikita
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Эф или фэ, я думаю разницы большой нет. В словах же мы ее произносим просто как ф.
Technically it should be ABV's.
Technically it should be АБВ since those are the first three letters.
*teacher*:Everyone, it’s time to learn the abc’s!
*student*:what’s the abc’s? I thought it was абв’s
*teacher*: Oh no he’s a communist!
ZScentral ABC is alphabet.
@@1997saltydog the alphabet is Bulgarian
ABC
Me: During quarantine I can finally study russian! Also me: oh boy
me too buddy
i am gonna need a new brain. i think it died on me after watching this.
I started off being recommended a RussianPlus city tour, which I found fascinating AF. Vladivostok really is like San Francisco from the upside-down dimension! Then I wanted to make chebureki, and the first recipe I found was from Life of Boris, which I fucking binge-watched because I thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. Between that and bald and bankrupt, I began to be able to read signs and understand basic dialogue in the video, which I didn't even realize until I noticed I wasn't watching the subtitles anymore. Holy shit this is easier than I thought it would be! So many words are similar to English or Spanish too. Might as well take it all the way now that I've gotten this far. I already knew German, so the concept of cases is easy for me and the 2 extra ones Russian adds are easier to understand IMO.
Lol that's exactly how I feel. I'm kinda surprised how some words almost sound Spanish. That made my day and how it will make this just a bit easier to learn.
Start can be difficult but once you start you will learn at a faster pace. I also teach russian for beginners.
The best video on youtube describing Russian alphabet. Very simple and precise. No gimmicks and unnecessary talking like other videos. Every word has a purpose. Thank you sir.
Ah, yes, my favorite letter: fhdernezhag
That’s sounds like it’d be a German word
ъ?
Greek speakers: Meh, looks similar...
English speakers: WTF IS THIS SHIT?
Chinese speakers: 清创福.
你的中文很差呢！
you are really bad at Chinese
it doesn't make sense
Accurate
Accurate af i really am lost
Japanese speakers: 全然分からない。
Hindi speakers: साला अंग्रेज़ी ढंग से लिखी नहीं जाती मेरे से, इसमें तोह हज़ार और अक्षर ठूसके रखेले है।
Não intendo
Your Russian AND English accent are both so beautiful!
thank you))
You may not have heard Slavonic) There is such a beautiful sound !!
I work with a guy whose first language is Russian. His English is so immaculate that I had no idea.
This is called a mole.
+KnowJesusKnowPeace Funny :)
That was one hell of a great introduction of Russian alphabet.
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04:05 tea is called chyai which is same for Hindi word "chai"
Gulshan Saini and the arabic word also " chay" "شاي"
And Romanian as well 'Ceai' (Che ai)
Because its origin is that. Turkish pronunciation is also same.
In Thai is "Cha"
In Bengali(Bangla) is "CHA","চা"
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Shield in Russian:
"SHEET"
my favorite word lol!!
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The Russian alphabet is such a mind-fuck for those that know English alphabet.
Not at all. It developed from the Greek alphabet just like the Latin alphabet you are so used to. The early form of Cyrillic was actually Greek plus a few letters to represent the specific Slavic sounds that Greek doesn't have. If you ever learned geometry at school, then you must already know letters π ρ φ β μ λ and so on. That means, you already know most of Cyrillic ( п р ф в л etc.)
The English alphabet is such a mind-fuck for those that know Russian alphabet.
@Thiago Steiner Bruh. Latin didn't have 'w'.
@Thiago Steiner why wouldn't you point out that there's no russian alphabet? Maybe because there is? English alphabet is a thing. Period.
You mean the latin alphabet. And y'all need to stop being idiots. Slow down, go read a book or something.
Yes, it is still called the latin alphabet even though w was added later on. There were other changes to the latin alphabet over the centuries as well. It's still called the latin alphabet. Jeez.
Choose one: pedant or idiot. You're not allowed to be both at the same time
This has been the most helpful RUclips video I have seen, pertaining to Russian, so far. Thank you very much for your time and the great examples you gave!
Thank you!
Same thing for me, I start a Russian class tomorrow and they told me to start learning the alphabet because the class already started a few weeks ago, and this has been a huge help for me!
ive been learning russian for about a year but i dont know what i should learn in what order and i have a vocab of maybe 10 or 20 words not counting curse words lol
you guys should try duolingo it's a free app it has really excited me about learning languages. unfortunately it doesn't have Korean but it has Russian most of the Latin based languages and even Vietnamese. I dunno about you guys but pho is amazing especially in winter!!
Ali Pandas duolingo is aaaaaaamazing, too! I've been using it since the end of June, and I have a much better handle on the language now!
Do I want to learn Russian? No. But of course, Im here anyway...
Net? Ya nachal izuchat' yazyk, i eto prosto fantastika!
No? I started learning the language and it is fantastic!
Нет? Я начал изучать язык, и это просто фантастика!
CS:GO already taught me Russian...
Hi YOU
first learn da alphabet then the grammer
im am not rusha im english
This really helped me learn the Russian language, one of the most helpful, thank you!
I find this video easy to understand as well apart from the rest
How to say coward in Russian
“Truce”
*hold up*
trrrrrrruuuuce
Am I the only one who thought about Twenty One Pilots? XD
Plus a shield is a "shit" in Russian 4:15
IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE KILLED DURING WARS JUST ASKING FOR TRUCE. OMGGG
@Billy Bob wow russian is a messa and i love it
At times, some Russian words and letters kind of sound like the way you would pronounce them in Spanish, with only a slight twist. Idk if anyone else here gets that impression? As someone who speaks both Spanish & English, I believe it's probably easier to learn Russian with a Spanish background over an English background...Anyway, great video!
There are actually a lot of words that sound similar to English words as well just with a little difference. Though I don't speak spanish at all so I can't really compare.
I'm Dominican, and I agree!
the r sound in russian is the same as that in spanish. you have to roll you tongue. that's probably why
+Ka Gala I'm russian, and I like the way "rrr" sound in both Spanish and Russian.
Ka Gala like guitar
И and Й (short version of И) - И is a regular russian vowel , while Й is only used together with other vowels before or after it - стрОЙка, ЙОд, стрОЙ etc
Ъ(hard sign) - is used to make a consonant hard - подЪезд (pod - yezd) and not let the consonant and the following vowel blend (like podezd)
Ь(soft sign) -makes a consonant soft - соль, месть
Ы - is a vowel you don't find in English, the closest is 'i' like in stiff - мыло, дым
Yes
I thought It was impossible to learn Russian but actually it's not that difficult !
Alvaro Alvs
Learn our grammatic dude and u be think our language difficult.
Second...
Ъ u know how its work?))
@@user-vp6jd4qy2d yeah it's really not that hard! ☺️
Alvaro Alvs for me it's impossible :P
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You can easy say подъезд?
Super easy, Barely an inconvenience!
I love that one of them just sounds like "yeah"
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That letter that sounds like “yeah” looks like a backwards R, and can be used to say “I am”. For example, “Я Frank” = “I am Frank”
Ъ : Is this your snack.
Me: Yes.
XDDDDDD
You ordered something from Tvôrdįj znak?
@@j.mattlakes7792 I love the way you wrote that lololololllll
how did I get here from dank meme compilations
same
juan perez same
Clearly, you are supposed to learn Russian.
Because Ve Russians Kontrol Ze internyet!!!111!!
I don't understand either, I came from memes as well
Fantastic! I know now how to read Russian. I read the words like a 3 grader...slowly but surely I will get there. Its funny though, how I can read without understanding....
I also read but only understand a small percentage. May be only 8%. But that 8% helps. The percentage increases with some sciences which use established scientific names. Place names and some nouns become easier.
Same here. Searching for some Russian lyrics and libretti I learned to read Cyrillic (reading as a 3 grader myself too, but still) but I don't get a thing. Never tried to learn the language, hopefully do someday.
Hello Ai RUSSIAN ПРИВЕТ ЕСЛИ ТЫ ЭТО ЧИТАЕШЬ ТО ТЫ ЛОХ Я СПЕЦИАЛЬНО УВЕЛИЧИЛ БУКВЫ
Hahahaha
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4:15 had me laughing pretty hard XD
Andrew Breidenbach Ты наверно не догадываешься, но на русском некоторые английские слова тоже звучат неприлично, например three.
Andrew Breidenbach yes it is !
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Как здорово, что столько много людей изучают русский язык !
Да!
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That type of content is the best, most useful on RUclips from a native speaker and also with a great skill in English!
Отличное видео! Great video.
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Как хорошо, что я русский. Как задумаешься о нашей грамматике, которую целых 8 лет преподают в школе (и то многие её не осиливают), так даже страшно представить, каково иностранцам учить её.
грамматика тут не используется , тут произношение) так что им ещё повезло :D Да уже не 8 лет , а 9 . Ну кто-то и 10 и 11 )
xopowo *good*
Melodeath by Countries , ты ещё греческой грамматики не видел... там вообще никакой логики, просто это слово пишется именно так и не иначе, сами греки в своей грамматике путаются, ударение не так поставить, и другой смысл фраза несёт...
Да блять, мы её с трудом учим)))
Melodeath by Countries One day I will understand this.
*То чувство, когда ты русский😅=]*
Привет
Тоже)
The pronunciation is easy, because I speak Portuguese and it is pretty much the same
Yes, when someone speaks Portuguese, I do not immediately understand that they do not speak Russian. I'm Russian.
Russian spoken by Russians sounds very soft. On the contrary, other Slavic languages like Serbian, Croatian or Bulgarian sound rough or harsh.
雨琛涂 I'm Serb so there's no way to be offensive towards Russians. Use your brain, Asian boy.
雨琛涂 Im not talking about linguistic -phonetic facts, but about impression. And I'm not the only one with that impression. Portugeze is a bit harder then Spanish. True.
klimlib All Slavic languages are amazing! They are really beautiful! I am Brazilian, and I have more contact with latin languages. The grammatical structures of Spanish and Portuguese are similar, but the second has more phonemes, what makes it more hard to speaking... But it doesn't matter! Both are also great!!!
Samuel Duque I agree Portuguese is interesting language and sounds very unique to outsider.
True! A woman not 1 meter from me on the tram answered her phone and spoke to someone- but I could not hear any words at all, only the faintest sounds. And, in a packed restaurant, the conversations are a soft hum, not a raucous ocean like we have in the states. One American in at dinner can be heard across the room. We Americans tend to express sounds with a strong push of air, Russian speakers do not do this. I have had to practice. When I speed up my words and speak more softly, I find I am understood better. They don't teach that in lecture.
trying to have a conversation with a Russian friend who happened to be somewhat weak in English, it's hard but still fun :D
*H comes up* "N"
Ну и угорайте дальше
@Gay Thağğ0t CockThrobber Nu i ugoraytye dal'she
@Gay Thağğ0t CockThrobber means: "Well, laugh further". Ugoraytye - colloquial word.
Ра Ра Распутин
@@user-vp6jd4qy2d ооо русский тут
My face is letterally like this one : 😵
AH BEH BEH BEH BEH BEH YER like whaaaaaaaaat
Тупо респект. Минут 5 пытался угадать национальность автора канала, не представляю, как вообще возможно настолько без акцента говорить
By the way; great video! I've gone from 0 knowledge of Russian Cyrillic to being able to identify the pronunciation of some words. I'm not perfect but getting better. I took a try to see if I could spell my daughters name using Cyrillic. I came up with матилда for Matilda.
Russian is a Indo-European language and after being able to decipher Cyrillic, I have noticed many words that are same or similar. Plus I'm sure they, like us, have many loan words that have been converted to Cyrillic.
the Russian word for donkey sounds almost identical to the Irish word for donkey.
Woow, loved this language!!
This certainly is a very difficult language but I'm very set on learning as much as I can this year and I really hope I'll make progress. Anyone have any tips for learning Russian? Can I self teach myself online or am I really going to need exposure?
You need to listen to it and read a lot when by yourself. if you get opportunities to speak, do it as much as you can. challenging yourself will progress you faster. this applies to any language.
its a hard language i can speak it since i grew up with it but i don't know about reading or grammar
Mackenzie Grace , to get good you'll need many different resources. but to start off find something fun Duolingo or Memrise. The most important thing is to study consistently and as you learn more you'll find more resources to add to your collection as your furst materials become too easy.
Mackenzie Grace I’m an English speaker and don’t know any other languages so I feel you😂 exposure is what’s best honestly and practicing and making sure you’re pronouncing things correctly are key... I’m lucky to have a boyfriend who is Russian so I constantly hear the language spoken and have picked up words from just listening!
Mackenzie Grace haha Russian is pretty much easier and fun to learn,,,
Я настолько преисполнился в своём познании...
я учу русский язык и люблю язык так. Я пишу предложения на русском языке чуть ли не каждый день, чтобы стать лучше. Я все еще с парой символов, пока вы читаете, вы можете подумать, что у вас это хорошо получается, признаюсь, я использую помощь по переводу, поскольку я печатаю, но я хочу свободно это день
I have to admit when I went through the Russian alphabet the first time I was like W.T.F. But I pushed through, checked the pronunciation written out, cross-checked sound from several sources and was able to memorize the whole thing in 2 days. The only inconsistent pronunciation variations I find are from these 3 letters which have rather complicated sounds: й ь ъ
When I started applying it to words it was surprisingly straightforward. Just sounding out the word based on the letters made it pretty accurate. The first foreign language I studied was French, and Russian is a hell of a lot easier. I'm very comfortable with French pronunciation now but it's something where you have to read and hear a lot of material to figure out the appropriate sounds certain letters together make because it's not what you would expect. Russian is extremely straightforward in comparison, I did notice the "o" at the end tend to have an "a" sound. But overall not nearly as daunting as I expected.
good you learned the pronunciation but you forgot to learn the alphabet's history. The alphabet was created by St. Clement of Ohrid- one of Cyrill's students for Bulgarians. Clement dedicated the alphabet to Cyrill, who died 30 years before it was actually created. It was firstly used by Bulgarians then spread among the Orthodox slavs.
I know this is old but i can't tell the difference between the W ones they both seem to make the same sound
@@marmitenot. Good for you. I was just trying to spread awareness. It's not uncommon for westerners to call the alphabet Russian. St. Clement didn't die for this.
@@marmitenot. Z!
@@marmitenot. 😁
This was great! GOing to listen to it over and over again. Greetings form Portugal.
thanks
broadcastmadnesss John and the rest of us are not allowed@how upset that you actually do early
العربي هون يحط لاييييك✌✌
Отлично! Удачи в изучении русского!
I love russian so much
Me too
I wish i knew. Sounds so beautiful
Did anyone else find it fitting that "asshole" is Russian for "donkey"? 3:03
there was this lang. translater feature in RUclips once. it translated ' kiss my ass' into ' kiss my donkey' in my language Hindi. lol!
+h7opolo HAHAHAHAHAHA I'LL NEVER FORGET IT
There is a clothing shop near where I live in Kiev named "Donkey." I saw it and asked my wife, "Um, what does that mean? Cuz in English it is not quite the best name for a store."
LOL!!! Well... Ass does also mean donkey, so it kinda makes sense.
Literally will never forget the Russian word for donkey now!! haha thanks
My favourite part is that 'heavy drinking' was one of the featured words. Because, really.
in Russia think men go to earflaps, drunk, and with them the Bears are playing balalaika. What kind of nonsense? And who invented it ?? I live in Russia and I'm Russian! At the moment I live in Moscow. Drunk people meet only on holidays ..
@@olgarussian550 men in russia good at head. Try them) Удачи)))
Thank you so much for this invaluable video. It has gotten me off to a great start in my Russian language endeavors!
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Right to the point John. I also liked how you explained the hard and soft sign. Thanks!
Thank you this was one of the better videos I’ve found. Straight forward and provides the sound of the letter. Often I find speaker gets lost about halfway through and reverts to explaining the English equivalent vs just the Russian sound of the letter.
Oh. My. God. I quit.
Zeus Poseidon I feel u..
Don't quit. At least you're not learning Japanese which has 2 alphabets made of 46 letter each plus the thousands of Chinese characters also.
TheRussianEevee
That is true friend, but I am already in the midst of learning Spanish fluently and that alone takes a lot of dedication. I mayyy try Russian again in the future, but I'll never really need it practically. So if I do decide to take up another language if I master Spanish then it might be Greek if anything since if there was a foreign non English speaking country that I'd live in, it'd be Athens Greece.
Zeus Poseidon I'm working on memorizing the Russian and Japanese alphabets right now. I like how the languages sound and I want to travel to Russia and Japan in the future. Best of luck to you in your Spanish and possible future studies.
+Zeus Poseidon Dude, I taught myself Spanish and Portuguese within a few months, plus some Esperanto and Italian. I am perfectly fluent in English, French and Spanish. Spanish is laughably easy. Russian isn't much harder if you put a bit of time into it. Don't be a wuss.
I recently started learning Russian, using multiple mediums to attain my goal. I'm primarily using Rosetta Stone and the Living Language series. Thanks for the helpful video! To those who are learning on Rosetta, I encourage you to do the alphabet and pronunciation separately. It helped me move along faster and with more accuracy. :)
Russian is definitely easier than you think it will be. I'm only starting off and I'm surprised that some Russian words sound almost English. More than likely, I'm supposing two of its root languages are Latin & Greek like English which is why it sounds somewhat similar.
That was better than what other people have tried to teach me yours worked the best thank you...... BTW are you Russian this was the first video I saw of your and I was just asking
Thanks so much for this, I'm still having a hard time with some of the pronunciations, but this was a great help
Я из Ирака и люблю русских.
1:42 Thank You!
That's a word I can learn and use!
yes proper way to say "ef" however most people say "fe"
What is the music at the beginning?
This video is the best one for the pronunciation, I've been searching high and low.Thank you so much.
interesting that honey is spelled almost like "mead" from which its made, though mead is also likely from the word "meadow" from which honey itself is made. it's likely "mead" came first and the naming of "meadow" after as they tried to find out where the honey came from until they studied and watched the honeybees.
Thank you for not wasting my time with all the fluffy crap many of the popular language learning channels use to make people “feel good” about the language. Language learning is hard, and if you don’t find it rewarding, no amount of cushioning is going to give you the wherewithal to make it to fluency.
thank you this helped a lot with my pronunciation of words :)
Не мешало бы глянуть, как правильно произносить буквы некоторые, перед тем, как озвучивать. Л - эль. Ф - эф
lmao
lol
@@bowrawie277 govori pravilno english roja
The fact that number 3 is a letter gives me the shivers
Russian: Ты знаешь, где мой щит? (do you know where is my shield?)
People who can speak and read and understand english: wtf did you just say bro? you wanna sh*t?
i want to learn japan and russian
so im off to a good start
I suggest you learn Russian since english and Russian are kind of the same
ya thats true
I suggest you learn "Hiragana" which is easiest character, so children is learning this character at beginning of school education.
On the other hand,
I do not recommend to learn Chinese character at first because it is too complicate and must spend a lot of time for acquire this character.
about Japanese.
oh maybe
I just learned how to pronounce 'A' and 'O' because we say them the same way in italian :p
not the same way) Russian has the feature called vowel reduction so A and O if they are unstressed sound pretty similar (like -er in "speaker" with British accent). E, И and Я sound like i in "ship" in the same position.
@@skoppppppppka Funny how in Bulgarian O is always O no matter if it is stressed and unstressed.
In Russian, 3 is a letter
Man, have a look at the old English letters, ans you'll see that 3 means also z
Man, have a look at the old English letters, ans you'll see that 3 means also z
Z
"Ok fellas thanks for your time"
I love that
I love how the “P” is pronounced “re” and the “C” is pronounced “S”
And H is pronounced “N”
0:17 he said us gay
I cant remember any of this. This would take me weeks just to learn the alphabet
This was a nice review - I had Russian classes in college and more recently in junior college for a two-year degree in the language (and the same for French and German). Not fluent in any of them but would be if I could spend a year in each country.
German is most familiar to me from hearing it as a child, Russian is easy to pronounce but the grammar is a bitch, and French grammar is relatively simple but the pronunciation is a bitch!
French is easy. Chainsmoke a carton of reds, then down 2 bottles of wine, you'll have the accent down
Thank you so much.
This has helped me in my quest to learn russian
Thank for your time. Quick and concise. No waste of my time. Well made thanks!
I'm still unclear on the difference between Ш and Щ. Can someone clarify?
"Ш" makes the sound "Sha". While "Щ" makes the sound "Shcha".
Щ is a soft version of Ш . It works pretty much the same way when you add "Ь" to make a certain letter sound softer...For example К , Кь or Д , Дь or В , Вь (basically you bring your tongue closer to the roof of your mouth ...(It makes the letter sounds softer)
Good example is Щука( Shch-oo-ka) which is a type of fish ... and Шука( Sh-oo-ka) which sounds like the english word "sugar" and doesn't really mean anything in russian...
shah
sh-yah
done.
one is Ш,
But, surprisingly, on the other hand...
The other one is Щ.
щ is for "japanese" sh
ш is for hard sh sound, like in german language "sch"
А я сижу тут русская одна такая и одинокая хахаха
The Russian alphabet is called Cyrillic alphabet, FYI.
yes and it is Bulgarian also ;)
It was created in Bulgaria later given to the russians :)
*Russian Cyrillic. Other regions have Cyrillic but with some variations, for example: Ukranian
Whose watching this in 2020?I am!!I stumbled on this video in March,we were on the second week of our lockdown at that time here in Canada.Got curious about it,so I watched it.From that time on,I've been watching different Russian lessons too.But this is the first actual video that got me hooked to start to try to learn Russian Yazyk..I've been coming back and forth to watched your lessons too even it's been like 10 or 11 years back...
Great tour of the Russian alphabet using examples to illustrate each of the letters' sounds
Благодарю вас. 😁👍
Blagodarû vas. 😁👍
Russians you left me with NO CHOICE.. THATS WHY I HAD TO COME HERE!...XD
think you! now i know what the Russians are screaming in cs:go :D
13 year old video and it is still one of the best for learning the alphabet! Спасибо!
This video made me learn Russian when I was either 6,7, or 8. Now I am 17. I try teaching my 6 year old sister how to speak Russian, but she refuses to learn.
Sweet and easy to learn.!
ЕГЭ 2050...
If you can, would you mind translating this please? (I want to know what it says)
@@blazer3756 "ЕГЭ" is a abbreviation, that means "Единый Государственный Экзамен" ( Unified State Exam ). It's a exam that every pupil must pass in the end of the full school education. And sence of joke of this comment is connected with the fact of strange reforms of this exam. It's joke like "In the future in the main exam will be only ABC". One might say, that ЕГЭ becomes a more dump with every year, because in the test appears silly and mad questions.
finally my doubt of mirrored R is solved..
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Love this guy 😂 straight to the point and full alphabet, hard to find
My stepdad said that if I learn and tell the whole Russian alphabet (because he's Russian) then he won't take away my phone the rest of his life...so thank you very much this helped me soooooooooooooo much
Everybody gangster until they have to pronounce ъ
Endfinity Eggs Lmfao! That's so damn true! I've been "learning" russian for a few months now and i can speak here and there, however, i was never able to pronouce it. 😒🔫
Godamnit my teacher kept saying it and said to repeat and i kept on pronouncing it wrong so she just said YOU'LL STAY UNTIL YOU GET IT and i stayed for almost 2 lessons... Still couldnt do it tho xD she just let me go after that xd
Ц , Ч , Ш and Щ keep messing me up!
C, Ć, Š, Ś
Your pronunciation and explanaition are well done! But the name of letter Ф soundslike "fe" the first time, and like "ef" later. Ф - "ef" is correctly. I'd preffer another example for the letter "Ь, ь" instead of пьянка - heavy drinking, друзья (friends) :-).
Khorosho excellent explaining and pronouncing. keep it up
Don’t mind me, just randomly learning Russian for absolutely no reason for quarantine
0:44 Russian Ф is correctly pronounced as ef, not fe.
To Claude Mac
I thought he did say ef. But pronounces words spelt with an ef such as football with an f. But an f is an ef. But the letter is 'ph'. So is sometimes PH which is FE as in physics. Or feet (Pheet). There is only the one ef sounding character in Russian. So any ef sounding character from any other language will be covered by the PH (ef).
phhhh
After many years I still believe this is the go-to lesson for basic alphabet! Good one Slava!
わかりやすい、ありがとう
wakariyasui, arigatou
This is one of the better videos I’ve seen on the alphabet. Just a suggestion tho, the last letter and the words you gave with it, I couldn’t see bcuz of the suggestive videos you have pop up over it so finish showing the video first before you have more pop up. Thanks
Ok thanks!
This video is straight to the point. I love it.