Learn Russian letters on the streets! (on the example of signboards)

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  • čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
  • Hey guys! Today we will learn the Russian letters and the Cyrillic script. And I will explain every letter just on the street, on the example of shop signs in my hometown. I hope you enjoyed this video and that it was useful for you!
    About myself My name is Natasha, I live in the Far East of Russia in the city of Khabarovsk, but originally I'm from a small town Spassk-Dalny. Currently I'm studying Linguistics in a university in Khabarovsk. I like languages and learning about different cultures. On this channel I'm making videos about life in Russia, our traditions and my traveling in Russian cities. Subscribe to my channel, and let's explore Russia together!
    My Instagram: / natsadv
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  • @NatashasAdventures
    @NatashasAdventures  Před 3 lety +263

    What’s your favorite Russian letter?

    • @futureretro3322
      @futureretro3322 Před 3 lety +59

      Φ , its the same in greek :)

    • @G-ra-ha-m
      @G-ra-ha-m Před 3 lety +47

      Д, it is the first I learned!!

    • @evanzedd2088
      @evanzedd2088 Před 3 lety +39

      Жжжж 🐞 and Рррр 🐯

    • @TheWilder30
      @TheWilder30 Před 3 lety +14

      How do you say Beautiful in Russian?

    • @NeoKesha
      @NeoKesha Před 3 lety +16

      Ы, потому что всем поим друзьям приходится объяснять, что это звук, который произносишь, когда тебя ударили в живот

  • @davidbaker8364
    @davidbaker8364 Před 3 lety +410

    My favourite Russian letter is "Ж". It just looks so cool.

    • @terwit1549
      @terwit1549 Před 3 lety +63

      "Ж" looks like a bug. The bug in Russian is "Жук"

    • @jordan9339
      @jordan9339 Před 3 lety +23

      @@terwit1549 Like Женщина. Because Russian women are beautiful.

    • @terwit1549
      @terwit1549 Před 3 lety +13

      Russians generally say - "Девушка". It does not depend on age. "Женщина" is something official

    • @ARTOMYS
      @ARTOMYS Před 3 lety +22

      @@terwit1549 дурак? Это зависит от возраста. Ты бабушку или девочку женщиной назовешь? Девушка - это конкретно молодая женщина, дословно - девственница.

    • @terwit1549
      @terwit1549 Před 3 lety +11

      @@ARTOMYS ПНХ

  • @vladimirlazarev2267
    @vladimirlazarev2267 Před 3 lety +871

    Зачем я, носитель русского языка, 20 минут смотрел про русский алфавит на английском языке? o_O

    • @Bonpoc4er
      @Bonpoc4er Před 3 lety +27

      захотел почувствовать себя иностранцем

    • @mikewishnevski6665
      @mikewishnevski6665 Před 3 lety +40

      Просто девочка красивая

    • @user-up1ff8qs1y
      @user-up1ff8qs1y Před 3 lety +3

      Аналогично, зачем я это смотрел не отрываясь)))

    • @limeya4099
      @limeya4099 Před 3 lety +13

      Я тоже)Девушка красивая просто)

    • @klmbI
      @klmbI Před 3 lety +10

      @@mikewishnevski6665 И голос приятный

  • @drawbridge611
    @drawbridge611 Před 3 lety +127

    I was a languages major in college (French, German, and Italian). This is by far the best introduction to the Russian/Cyrillic alphabet and pronunciation I've ever seen. It uses real-world examples. It shows some lowercase letters and script/cursive as well as uppercase. It shows stylistic variations that are used for effect. It explains the difference between "yeh" and "yaw" and how one is sometimes substituted for the other. It shows examples of how a vowel can be pronounced in different ways, depending on usage. A lot of info packed into 20 minutes, with no wasted time. Well done. Спасибо.

  • @user-gd6il5zb8l
    @user-gd6il5zb8l Před 3 lety +200

    I'm a native Russian, but I really like how you've chosen to teach foreigners Russian alphabet by demonstrating real Russian signboards, along with pieces of regular live in Russia. I know that when I first tried to learn English, it was hard for me to grasp foreign culture and, I think, I'd find such pieces of English culture helpful. They are not much, of course, but they still make you feel like you're already there, and it's a nice comforting feeling for someone trying to learn a new language.

    • @christinafacts444
      @christinafacts444 Před 3 lety +6

      Your English is almost flawless. If you ever want to trick native speakers, just get rid of 90% of your punctuation and no one would ever know.

    • @user-gd6il5zb8l
      @user-gd6il5zb8l Před 3 lety +2

      ​@@christinafacts444, thanks, I'll do that :3

    • @user-rp3ex8mj7z
      @user-rp3ex8mj7z Před 2 lety +2

      The girl, especially for you, was looking for bad landscapes. :) This is enough in any country. Russia, over the past 30 years, has gone through a lot of bad things. And now, in any city in Russia, you can find very unattractive architecture, etc. But there is also a lot of new and good things. The girl did not show this. (Google translator)

    • @user-gd6il5zb8l
      @user-gd6il5zb8l Před 2 lety +7

      ​@@user-rp3ex8mj7z, I'm not sure there is such thing as good or bad landscapes when it comes to conveying the spirit of daily life in any country. Because the point of it is to give people the feeling of what it's like to live there and go places. If you just show the most beautiful places, you will convey wrong picture, it's like when you are a tourist and you only remember tourist attraction spots after leaving, not the narrow streets or the courtyards with kids playing with their sticks. I've seen many Russians trying to showcase Russian attractions and architecture (mostly in Moscow with the latter), but what they showed never felt like Russia to me, because they have omitted the bad pieces of roads where puddles form after rain or the Soviet Union-old buildings with ugly graffity and swearwords painted on them that I grew up seeing every day. Or the people, their tired or gloomy faces when they hurry to work or to other important places, all busy and worried and trying to be punctual and being frustrated with our municipal services etc.
      The point of this exercise is not to demonstrate how cool we are by picking the most beautiful places of Russia, but to relay the real picture with both the beautiful and the ugly, so that the foreigners could feel the life here even if they haven't been to Russia once. And if someone thinks it's more respectful to Russia to show only good stuff about it, then I disagree strongly, because there can't be any respect without acknowledgement of true state of things.

    • @user-rp3ex8mj7z
      @user-rp3ex8mj7z Před 2 lety +2

      @@user-gd6il5zb8l In the 1990s, European and US politicians actively supported corruption in the countries of the former USSR (this is a fact). What is corruption (for real), we learned after the collapse of the USSR. In the days of the USSR, it was almost nonexistent (as it turned out). A lot of resources were taken from the former USSR. The people have become very poor. All these resources supported the economies of Europe and the United States (in the first place). It was a real genocide of Europe and the United States against the peoples of the former USSR. This is exactly how it was (I don’t know what your media say there, I experienced it all myself). Wherever Europe comes in, it only gets worse (with a few exceptions). Now Russia has just begun to recover from the shock of the 1990s. And now in Russia it is much safer and more comfortable than in many other countries. Yes, somewhere in the cities of Russia there is the architecture of the 1990s. But this is less and less. The West brought great grief to the countries of the former USSR. I'm from Ukraine. Ukrainian oligarchs are guilty of Ukraine's troubles (in the first place). They, too, were raised by Western politicians. I know what I'm talking about. Since independence, the population of Ukraine has dropped from 52 million to 30-32 million. Even before the Maidans, Ukraine lived better than Russia. Now the comparison is in favor of Russia. In Ukraine, there is now a real junta and fascists. And Europe (oddly enough) does not see this.

  • @lamegoldfish6736
    @lamegoldfish6736 Před 3 lety +638

    As an educator, she is a natural. Teaching comes so easy, and she does such a good job. 😃

    • @fbwthe6
      @fbwthe6 Před 3 lety +14

      Couldn’t agree more

    • @pilotrserra
      @pilotrserra Před 3 lety +22

      I agree Mark. Natasha is a natural teacher. I wish my son could meet someone like Natasha. Her parents must be proud.

    • @davaymyaso7816
      @davaymyaso7816 Před 3 lety +12

      She is cute. I could listen to her for hours

    • @enricocamarda9721
      @enricocamarda9721 Před 3 lety +2

      Totally agree

    • @covidhoax7646
      @covidhoax7646 Před 3 lety +1

      You’re an incompetent educator.

  • @RodGibsonMusic
    @RodGibsonMusic Před 3 lety +335

    Best basic Russian language lesson I've ever had.

  • @KeekiNoJutsu
    @KeekiNoJutsu Před 2 lety +20

    It's so hard for me to hear the difference between all the letters that "sound the same but softer or harder" 😭 but she did a great job and going around town showing us signs was so fun!

    • @lisacrandall409
      @lisacrandall409 Před měsícem

      I also cannot hear the difference. I learnt Russian many years ago, in Uzbekistan. It’s a cool language but I couldn’t get the hard/soft difference then, either. I think my tutor got frustrated with me! 😂

  • @perttiheinikko3780
    @perttiheinikko3780 Před 3 lety +82

    I don't know anything about the Russian language but if I ever started to learn Russian, you'd be my teacher of choice. Best wishes from Finland!

    • @Ulexcool
      @Ulexcool Před 3 lety +1

      just don´t Simo Häyhä her please...

    • @perttiheinikko3780
      @perttiheinikko3780 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Ulexcool well boy, before it would ever come to that, they would Arthur Harris us 100 %

  • @boredgrass
    @boredgrass Před 3 lety +170

    The 'monument to the endangered letter.' That got me🤗🤔🤨🙃🙄😎

    • @dustymiller65
      @dustymiller65 Před 3 lety +9

      Poor letter with the two dots on top, nobody ever remembers to put those on. Ëë

    • @Jose-so1hx
      @Jose-so1hx Před 3 lety +5

      @@dustymiller65 Letters with Diacritics UNITE!!!

    • @hughmungus1767
      @hughmungus1767 Před 3 lety +2

      If I'm remembering correctly, Russian had an additional letter that wasn't used heavily so the Bolsheviks dropped it when they seized power in 1917. Is the one in this video that same letter or is it a different letter?

    • @HANSMKAMP
      @HANSMKAMP Před 3 lety +3

      In Belarusian the dots MUST be written. If you don't, it's a spelling error.

    • @alanshadastrokeanddiedinho2897
      @alanshadastrokeanddiedinho2897 Před 3 lety +2

      That letter isn't even on the Russian keyboard in the Google translation page.

  • @ghut-wz2sr
    @ghut-wz2sr Před 3 lety +253

    Love this lady very much. She is very proud of her town and country and wow she's so smart..

    • @herzart212
      @herzart212 Před 3 lety +23

      and pretty

    • @poke-champ4256
      @poke-champ4256 Před 3 lety +6

      @@herzart212 when i saw this comment just has one reply i knew it was about her looks. which is the only reason im here so...

    • @edmontonboy99
      @edmontonboy99 Před 3 lety +4

      @@poke-champ4256 When I saw this comment and saw two replies, I knew one of them would involve “pretty” and I thought the other reply would be like “SIMP”

    • @Cheetos439
      @Cheetos439 Před 2 lety +5

      simp

    • @alvinmonero3462
      @alvinmonero3462 Před 2 lety +2

      @@herzart212 Her pretty face is half the reason I come here.
      She (or whoever actually runs this channel) Is good at marketing these vids.

  • @Autodefe1
    @Autodefe1 Před 3 lety +122

    теперь я выучил английский .

  • @huyhuynh312
    @huyhuynh312 Před 3 lety +41

    I love Russian old song's, always been wanted to learn Russian for a long time, Темная ночь song is one of my favorite. Love from Vietnam!!

  • @b.a.3673
    @b.a.3673 Před 3 lety +98

    the hard sign and soft sign still stays a mystery for me ^^

    • @fernandolamadrid9889
      @fernandolamadrid9889 Před 3 lety +21

      Russian has two versions of each consonant sound. When you say the vowel [i] as in "easy" or the semivowel [j] as in "yes", you lift the body of your tongue towards your palate. Besides your normal consonant sounds, Russian has a whole series of palatalized consonants, where you raise the body of your tongue AT THE SAME TIME that you pronounce it.
      To write these consonants, you follow them by a soft vowel (я е и ю), or, if there’s no vowel sound after them, you use the soft sign (ь).

    • @JesusChristSaves2024
      @JesusChristSaves2024 Před 3 lety +3

      It's basically a silent letter. It's like how the letter "g" produces the pronunciation of the word "sign".

    • @Kitulous
      @Kitulous Před 3 lety +4

      @@JesusChristSaves2024 it changes the previous consonant tho.
      Sign [saın] but sin [sın] so it changes the vowel
      While топь [topĵ] but топ [top] -- the consonant is changed

    • @darrenehhhhhhtill8051
      @darrenehhhhhhtill8051 Před 3 lety +2

      @@fernandolamadrid9889 why tho

    • @sumrose7972
      @sumrose7972 Před 3 lety +4

      @@darrenehhhhhhtill8051 when she said the the word with and without, I was like... Um that's the same word, it sounds exactly the same!. Haha or.. xaxaxa ;)
      I was watching a Russian youtuber the other day, and he said a word with his mouth open, and the front tip of his tongue curled up! My tongue can not do this, ever, so I might be slightly screwed with russian language.

  • @tierfuehrer2
    @tierfuehrer2 Před 3 lety +60

    Oh this is the smartest thing of you to teach the letters on streetsign and such. When I was in greece, I learned the greek alphabet the exact same way.

  • @Nikioko
    @Nikioko Před 3 lety +31

    Many cyrillic letters are very similar to Greek letters:
    Г is like Γ (Gamma) = G,
    Д is like Δ (Delta) = D,
    Л is like Λ (Lambda) = L,
    П is like Π (Pi) = P,
    Р is like Ρ (Rho) = R,
    У is like Υ (Ypsilon) = U,
    Х is like Χ (Chi) = CH,
    Ф is like Φ (Phi) = F.

  • @Pavel1560
    @Pavel1560 Před 3 lety +95

    я поляк и очен люблю буквы Ш, Ч, Я, Е, Ё, Ю потому что у нас в польском тоже такие звуки есть. Но нам нужно писать две буквы для одного звука вместо одной: Sz, Cz, Ja, Je, Jo, Ju. :)

    • @alexeig127
      @alexeig127 Před 3 lety +7

      Thats because cyrillic alphabet was made exactly for slavic languages, while poles where to much affected by german influence

    • @Pavel1560
      @Pavel1560 Před 3 lety +12

      @@alexeig127 I know that, but polish is mainly influenced by latin, french and greek, not only german. :)

    • @ShamanKish
      @ShamanKish Před 3 lety

      ŠĐČĆŽ

    • @evgenyp.3137
      @evgenyp.3137 Před 2 lety +5

      Вы тратите больше чернил, когда пишете :)

    • @borisszczukin7547
      @borisszczukin7547 Před 2 lety +5

      А мне нравится польское написание.👍

  • @Dberner3
    @Dberner3 Před 3 lety +14

    I was a sign painter, painted by hand until computers took over. Thank you for the visit to your side of our world. Your home is wonderful and you are an excellent communicator and beautiful host. Thanks for the visit, Daniel

  • @bradmoyer9737
    @bradmoyer9737 Před 3 lety +18

    I understand from your videos that public smiling isn’t the cultural norm in your country, but it doesn’t change the fact that you have a beautiful smile 😊 that lights you up when you use it. Your videos are interesting and informative, Thank you for taking the time to do them!

  • @James-re6co
    @James-re6co Před 2 lety +3

    Your hometown in Russia looks very much like many hometowns in America. We are not really so much different as we are alike. Thank you for what you do.

  • @abdulabdanahib9617
    @abdulabdanahib9617 Před 3 lety +153

    Кому тоже в рекомендациях попалось

    • @sergo9112
      @sergo9112 Před 3 lety

      Мне

    • @user-up1ff8qs1y
      @user-up1ff8qs1y Před 3 lety +1

      я в последнее время видео по английскому смотрю. И вдруг это, но все равно посмотрел)))

    • @user-re5vv5zl6d
      @user-re5vv5zl6d Před 3 lety +1

      Похоже пора заново Русский учить

    • @user-nt5be7bq2j
      @user-nt5be7bq2j Před 3 lety +2

      @@user-re5vv5zl6d я тут посмотрел иностранку Нурию, она учит Русский. Токо же ощущение посетило.
      Но у меня другой вопрос, почему мне ютуб подсунул вначале Нурию, теперь Наташу.

  • @macjc5
    @macjc5 Před 3 lety +30

    I love cheburech! We have Cheburechnaya restaurant in NY too!

    • @user-gn7ei2wf3d
      @user-gn7ei2wf3d Před 2 lety +1

      Is there cat's, dog's and bum's meat in your chebureks too?

  • @prviproleter
    @prviproleter Před 3 lety +28

    I just love the way you dress. So simple and tasteful. You're absolutely beautiful! Whatever you do: never change!

  • @anastasiashpilnaia657
    @anastasiashpilnaia657 Před 3 lety +12

    It's 2 am and I have no idea why I am watching this, because basically I am Russian. The author, you are amazing!!

  • @bears28805
    @bears28805 Před 3 lety +5

    Good job! I was in St. Petersburg in 1995. I struggled, but I could pronounce the name of a hotel. Nice thing about Russian, everything is spelled EXACTLY how it is pronounced.

  • @jorgemartins1893
    @jorgemartins1893 Před 3 lety +67

    Hi from Brazil, Natasha.
    You are a wonderful “professora” ( teacher in portuguese ).

    • @nnawnbs
      @nnawnbs Před 3 lety +3

      @@JackSmith-ou1dg учительница*
      учитель is male teacher

    • @lenadima5168
      @lenadima5168 Před 3 lety +1

      @@nnawnbs училка)))

    • @Natashanjka
      @Natashanjka Před 3 lety +1

      @@nnawnbs учитель is a man and a woman. Учительница is a feminitive. It's a colloquial speech. But if it's an official document, for example, then only учитель is acceptable.

    • @ldgaming4213
      @ldgaming4213 Před 2 lety

      Profesora is professor in Spanish as well!

    • @Valentin_I
      @Valentin_I Před 2 lety

      @@ldgaming4213 professor is профессор in Russian

  • @johnsmart964
    @johnsmart964 Před 3 lety +18

    Thank you very much for this very interesting video. You are a great ambassador for Russia.

  • @MA_808
    @MA_808 Před 2 lety +1

    this is excellent...I learned Russian in the 80s in the military for my work...the way to learn Russian is to focus on learning and memorizing and pronouncing as many words as possible...dont worry about anything else.. words you memorize will eventually flow into sentences..

  • @a.o.yaroslavov
    @a.o.yaroslavov Před 2 lety +64

    Это самая лучшая пропаганда Русской культуры, спасибо тебе!

  • @MrChefjanvier
    @MrChefjanvier Před 3 lety +18

    My best russian lesson ever. I am totally puzzled with the subtleness of the hard and soft signs, so difficult to grasp.

    • @sumrose7972
      @sumrose7972 Před 3 lety +1

      That and the sh and shsh sound of ш щ ?? This gets me as well

    • @sergiob9281
      @sergiob9281 Před 3 lety +1

      ​@@sumrose7972 don't worry guys, Russians will understand you either way, you will get it after awhile

  • @DCEntropy
    @DCEntropy Před 3 lety +27

    Never been to Russia yet, but have always been fascinated by it. Back when I was in High school, I used to take my class notes in Cyrillic, but phonetically in English. Confused my teachers. And I had a girl I used to write notes to in class, so she learned how to write in it too. :)
    Keep up the excellent videos.

    • @mgk920
      @mgk920 Před 3 lety

      Kind of like the bottles of Russian Standard vodka on the back bar of one of my favorite watering holes here in Wisconsin - one side of the bottles have the brand name in English, phonetically spelled out in Cyrillic, the other side in straight English.

    • @jasinta5390
      @jasinta5390 Před 3 lety +1

      i do that toooo hahhah everybody always looks at me weird but its so much more fun

    • @user-qe9gf4zx3v
      @user-qe9gf4zx3v Před 3 lety

      @@mgk920Brand name in English, spelld out in Cyrillic🤣 It has Russian name in one side, and English name in the other side "РУССКИЙ СТАНДАРТ ВОДКА" -"RUSSIAN STANDARD VODKA"

  • @yamigekusu
    @yamigekusu Před 3 lety +5

    This person reminds me of my French\German language teacher from high school! She was from Croatia, but also knew Russian and in downtime, she sometimes wrote some words she knew and told about pronunciation and whatnot. She made me interested in learning some languages

  • @Axemantitan
    @Axemantitan Před 3 lety +7

    There is a Russian folk music group from Saint Petersburg called Otava Yo. They preserve the letter Ё in their name: Отава Ё

  • @dustyfun5944
    @dustyfun5944 Před 3 lety +42

    This video is informative and entertaining as well. I would recommend it to anybody interested in learning russian alphabet, because it does not only teach about russian letters and their pronounciation, but it demonstrates their application in a very realistic and authentic way. Furthermore in this video it can be seen, what Russia looks like in the far eastern parts. Although I knew the russian alphabet before, I could find still some usefull information in it. Dawai!

  • @2Oldcoots
    @2Oldcoots Před 3 lety +15

    Excellent teaching skills on display here!

  • @gamewizard1760
    @gamewizard1760 Před 2 lety +1

    This is how I slowly learn Russian. I watch several Russians on CZcams, and noticed the large number of Russian words that can be learned from watching them walk through their towns. Stores have words on them, street signs have words on them, menu's, books, and many other things that you might see in a Russian blogger's videos. You may not become fluent, but you will be able to function on some level if you can read street signs, labels on packages, and signs in shop windows.

  • @alij9167
    @alij9167 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you. Your teaching went much much smoother than the formal way of just introducing letters and repeating them several times. The only thing I had problem with was "sh" honestly I couldn't even hear the difference between the two " sh"

    • @yarroudayo
      @yarroudayo Před 3 lety +1

      the first one "sh" ( Ш, ш ) sounds like in eng words "SHine" or "SHop". The second isn't "sh".. this is mostly like closer to "shch" ( Щ, щ ). You can get it from rus word "SHCHavel'" that means "sorrel" in eng or thats how calls the russian soup

  • @tsmartin
    @tsmartin Před 3 lety +26

    I've been studying the Russian language for almost two years so I have the alphabet down pretty good but it's always nice to see a different way to teach it and learn some new words in the process.

    • @sumrose7972
      @sumrose7972 Před 3 lety

      May I ask what you use, or used? I've only been in about a week, full, and I'm teaching myself. I use aps, and website, watch lots of youtube/videos, and Music! But I'd love to hear from someone who is way deeper than I am. Thank you in advance. :)

    • @juliap.5375
      @juliap.5375 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sumrose7972 I think the best way is movies with subtitles. Television series actually, because you hear the same voice of same actors for a long time (20-40-100 episodes), while movies de facto too short. And better not to watch historical movies where actors often talk not like nowadays (different structure of phrases, words order, outdated words, different means, Russians understand such language, it is really cool approach which put viewer in historical context, but it is not what you want when studying language). But not sure that it is easy approach for newbies (I’m Polish, Russian is similar with a lot of common words, so for me it was easy).

    • @sumrose7972
      @sumrose7972 Před 3 lety +1

      @@juliap.5375 ah yes, thank you, I am actually always trying to find Russian tv shows, free on youtube with subtitles, but I will say finding something that I actually want to watch is not easy. It's almost all historical pieces, really lame love melodramas, or action/war stuff. I'd like a comedy, and for whatever reason doesn't seem to offer any. I've watched one series, The Housewife Husband?? (Think that's the name) and currently settled on The Dark Side of the Soul, if you have any suggestions I'd love to try and find a comedy or something light. :)

    • @juliap.5375
      @juliap.5375 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sumrose7972 I don’t know about first (even not found), while second show... it filmed by Star Media, they produce cheap movies for housewives over 50s.
      First of all, you need to forget about youtube, on it possibly to find only videos for which nobody want to pay (like production of Star Media). You need torrents! :) One of the largest in post-USSR is rutracker. Or rutor-info (they often change name, better to open via Tor. I hope you know what is Tor?). Both have almost everything what produced in Russia, USA, some other countries. So, you can watch almost any movie (from Terminator to Game of Thrones) with Russian subtitles or voice, everything is always dubbed (in some countries dub is not popular, while in Russia otherwise, original soundtracks are rare, but always exist bunch of different dubs).
      Comedies? Complicated question. You know, humor is not universal thing actually and a lot of jokes based on references to some culture aspects which unknown for foreigns. As example I watched American sitcom The Big Bang Theory with my American colleague, and in some non-funny scene he started to laugh. As he explained to me, actually in scene was reference to American movie from 1930s... How to get this? Impossibly.
      There are tons of comedies, what exactly you want? For teens, adults, secondary genre? As universal comedy I strongly recommend Кухня (“The Kitchen” on Amazon). It is actually whole universe (6 seasons of main show, additionally 3 movies and 4 spin-off), they so popular, that own remakes made several countries, from Portugal to Georgia.
      As something light I can recommend “Восьмидесятые”, but for it is hard to find subtitles. It is about life of students in late 1980s, light and very funny.
      And last one “Мажор” (“Silver Spoon” on Netflix), it is detective, in general light, with a lot of humor (remind in something American “Castle”).
      There are hundreds more of course (sadly it is hard to find subtitles), need to know what exactly you like, but I think “The Kitchen” and rest will be good start (at least enough for one year). And forget about Star Media, search better for shows of СТС and ТНТ, they produce by several funny tv shows per year.

    • @sumrose7972
      @sumrose7972 Před 3 lety

      @@juliap.5375 haha yes Star Media, exactly.. I was starting to wonder about Russian tv. And yes totally familiar with TOR, so I'll utilize that. Thank you. Good call.
      Yeah comedy is subjective, for sure, but I am currently looking at the show The Kitchen on Amazon, and it also appears to be suggesting other shows for me to look into. Yeah it used to be you really could find anything and Everything on CZcams if you were willing to look, now there's nothing left. I wish someone would come out with a new platform, cause this youtube is making it very difficult for me to like anymore. Thank you very much for your help. I very much appreciate it.

  • @JeffM---
    @JeffM--- Před 3 lety +9

    Thank you so much. I have always been fascinated by Cyrillic letters, they have an artistic look to them for a non speaker.

    • @Natashanjka
      @Natashanjka Před 3 lety

      are you planning to start learning Russian one day?

  • @lkrnpk
    @lkrnpk Před 3 lety +12

    I wanted to learn Russian letters on the streets with Nataly, but then I realized I already know all the Russian letters ;D
    ''Наталиииии, утоли мои печали''

  • @allanbrown3493
    @allanbrown3493 Před 3 lety +8

    First lesson I have ever had in Russian, very interesting especially when shown on signage. You are a lovely teacher - thanks.

  • @hascleavrahmbenyoseph7186

    When I went to Moscow on Google roads I was happy to see signs I understood, such as "BAHK" so I began to study and learn the Russian alphabet. This video has been very helpful to me. Thank you.

    • @FSKRadmin
      @FSKRadmin Před 3 lety +2

      But still "БАНК". "В" in Russian means V

  • @MichaelKlinePhotoVideo
    @MichaelKlinePhotoVideo Před 3 lety +7

    I loved your idea of using your city to talk about the alphabet. Very creative idea. Спасибо большое.

  • @jackiew6598
    @jackiew6598 Před rokem +1

    I saw this video for the first time about a year ago and couldn't get the Russian letters out of my head. Then recently I started studying Russian and as soon as I learned the alphabet I watched this video again to review. I think this video makes a great review. I'm enjoying studying Russian and want to continue learning this beautiful language.
    When I was learning to read my native English as a child I spent so much time walking around with my mother while she was running errands and I read all the signs. I think signs are a great way to learn and review letters and words.

  • @cravog.silveira4601
    @cravog.silveira4601 Před 2 lety +3

    Natasha, you are a great teacher! Congratulations! Thanks for this video.

  • @gldi8hr
    @gldi8hr Před 3 lety +32

    I’m impressed by her English without Russian accent

    • @Kitulous
      @Kitulous Před 3 lety +9

      nah she has a Russian accent but it's way subtler than most Russians

    • @RowynDaily
      @RowynDaily Před 3 lety +1

      Because she went study in America.

    • @JBM425
      @JBM425 Před 3 lety +1

      @@RowynDaily It was interesting listening to English-speaking Russians and Chinese in the 80s and 90s. Most Russians I heard spoke English with a European accent, because most of their exposure to English came from British or continental Europeans who spoke or taught English. On the other hand, most Chinese I heard spoke English with an American accent because of the influx of American teachers to teach English in China after President Nixon relaxed diplomatic relations with the PRC.

    • @ahn4694
      @ahn4694 Před 3 lety

      im guessing English is not your mother tonged she clearly has a Russian English accent when she speaks english

  • @LordJinkies
    @LordJinkies Před 3 lety +4

    I'm gonna have to watch this again and again. Every time you said "foreigners have a hard time ...", I have had that same problem. This is the best Russian pronunciation video I've seen.

  • @BKPrice
    @BKPrice Před 2 lety +1

    When I was young I got a book that taught Russian and studied it a bit just for fun because I was bored one summer. I learned a bit of grammar but nothing I remember. I also memorized the alphabet at the time. I don't remember all of it, but I recall one time a few years ago - which would be the equivalent of 25 or 30 years after I memorized the alphabet - I was playing Geoguessr. I moved around a bit trying to figure out where I was. I saw a sign in cyrillic and was able to figure out the word Kaliningrad. I thought it was very cool that I was able to remember an alphabet that I hadn't really looked at so many years later, and even now whenever I see cyrillic in anything I find it fun to try to work out the sound of the word, even if I don't know what it means.

  • @davidsalinas1628
    @davidsalinas1628 Před 2 lety +3

    Loved the lesson using actual steet signs wish there were more lessons like this.

  • @bernardusjones9814
    @bernardusjones9814 Před 3 lety +18

    I agree with others you would be a good teacher. You'd get my undivided attention. :)

  • @Jerry113
    @Jerry113 Před 3 lety +5

    Great way to learn. Looks like a fun atmosphere in the town.

  • @bstewert1
    @bstewert1 Před 2 lety +1

    I have lived in the USA for 70 years, and this young girl speaks English more articulately than most of the people I've ever met here.

  • @danielfife243
    @danielfife243 Před 2 lety +1

    This is an exceptional learning (as opposed to teaching) video which helps one to remember the alphabet. The cultural and linguist cues and associations help reinforce the experience.

  • @garrick3727
    @garrick3727 Před 3 lety +6

    I might have to watch that one a few more times. If little kids can learn this, so can I. Eventually.

  • @TheKingsOfCookie
    @TheKingsOfCookie Před 3 lety +5

    I found your channel a week ago, very interesting content, seeing your life in Russia especially in the Far East region which I don’t know nothing about. I am thinking about learning Russian so this video was super educational. Keep up the good work, greetings from Germany :)

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 Před 2 lety +1

    my grandfather used to collect stamps in the 1970s and his collection had some rare russian stamps. when i was a kid i used to think they said "NOYTA CCCP" but now i realise they said "POCHTA SSSR" / SOVIET POST. спасибо наташа

  • @downhilltwofour0082
    @downhilltwofour0082 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for sharing. I hope some of the young folks around the world see this!

  • @GGSpriteEr
    @GGSpriteEr Před 2 lety +3

    Так мило, уехав из спасска в 2010 году, внезапно осознать, что начало снимается в том дворе, в котором жил 12 лет=)

    • @haroshea
      @haroshea Před 2 lety

      ааааааааааа, ору 🤣

  • @tytorubio3271
    @tytorubio3271 Před 3 lety +11

    Wow, pharmacie in dutch is apotheker. That sounds much closer to the russian word than i thought it would..if only all the words would be this similar, i could be speaking russian in no time.
    This was such a fun video! Thanks for this lesson!

    • @gleggett3817
      @gleggett3817 Před 3 lety +1

      Both words coming from apothecary.

    • @tytorubio3271
      @tytorubio3271 Před 3 lety

      @@gleggett3817 oh yes apothecary!
      (they arent derived from english if thats what you are saying.
      It comes from latin/greek language )

    • @gleggett3817
      @gleggett3817 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tytorubio3271 from the Latin apothecarius "shopkeeper" into old French. Pharmacy is also from Latin/French with Greek underpinnings.

    • @tytorubio3271
      @tytorubio3271 Před 3 lety

      The Dutch language is older than English, even some of the English words have their origin from Dutch.
      I dont know about Russian

    • @gleggett3817
      @gleggett3817 Před 3 lety

      @@tytorubio3271 Old Dutch and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) are cousins. Old Dutch "Irlôsin sol an frithe sêla mîna fan thên thia ginâcont mi, wanda under managon he was mit mi" versus Old English "Si ðin nama gehalgod. Tobecume ðin rice. Gewurde ðin willa on eorþan,
      swa swa on heofonum.'

  • @nelsonfranks2065
    @nelsonfranks2065 Před 3 lety +17

    Probably the best basic Russian alphabet lesson I've ever seen. Brilliant to tie it in with signs on the street!

  • @Strohkopfs
    @Strohkopfs Před 3 lety +3

    Just started learning russian. This helped a lot, especially the explaination how words are pronounced differently without certain letters.

  • @diggingmeditations7135
    @diggingmeditations7135 Před 3 lety +3

    I love how you call Spassk a town. In my area that would be a big city. My town has like 500 people

  • @virnus1
    @virnus1 Před 3 lety +11

    Спасибо Google, это то что мне нужно.

  • @gordonemoore
    @gordonemoore Před 2 lety +1

    I was fortunate to learn the Cyrillic alphabet in school 65 years ago (age 11) and I can still read the words but I have little Russian vocabulary so I can understand the words that are the same in English and sometimes French. Thank you for the refresher course. I enjoy your videos. 🙂

  • @gladdie10
    @gladdie10 Před 3 lety +1

    What a great way of teaching us the basics of your language! Thanks!

  • @richardcheatham9490
    @richardcheatham9490 Před 3 lety +7

    I'll start this from the beginning and perhaps it will sink in a bit more. One day-post Covid 19-I hope to travel to see locations associated with the the great Russian writers (Tsarskoye Selo, Peredelkino, Dostoyevsky Steps, anything Pushkin or Akhmatova-and the list goes on). Thank you, Natasha, for creating this learning tool. Ричард

  • @aaronerskine3401
    @aaronerskine3401 Před 3 lety +3

    wonderful job. i took russian in college and i think i've learned more in this video then my entire studies. please make more videos.

  • @TheMilwaukieDan
    @TheMilwaukieDan Před 2 lety

    Awesome. I’ll be playing thus over and over. Thank you.

  • @MattTee1975
    @MattTee1975 Před 3 lety +2

    I've been trying to learn Russian - you've been a big help with your videos. Thanks!

  • @PeR89
    @PeR89 Před 3 lety +10

    Very good video! I'm Swedish and are trying to learn Russian. This is very helpful! Спасибо! 🇸🇪🇷🇺

  • @prismafactory4193
    @prismafactory4193 Před 3 lety +3

    If i could travel for Rusia, i would love you to be my guide. Its so amazing how you explain all

  • @michaelmartin8337
    @michaelmartin8337 Před 2 lety

    Thank you - much appreciated

  • @shardanette1
    @shardanette1 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the tour of your town. The way you discussed it, I always thought it was smaller and more rural.

  • @carloszermeno9315
    @carloszermeno9315 Před 3 lety +6

    You make it easy for me to learn Russian 💯🤟🏽

  • @NatashasAdventures
    @NatashasAdventures  Před 3 lety +12

    So what you think is located above the pharmacy? We have such suggestions so far: a bed
    , a pestle, sea wave, and avalanche.

    • @evanzedd2088
      @evanzedd2088 Před 3 lety

      It’s smth liquid

    • @koos48
      @koos48 Před 3 lety +2

      A pestle no doubt.

    • @redwolf6950
      @redwolf6950 Před 3 lety +1

      It might be a piece of cotton on skin

    • @jb2010231
      @jb2010231 Před 3 lety

      It might be nothing just a graphic to attract your attention to the sign and make it stand out or it could be an action graphic with a cloud of dust to make the sign look like it's moving fast. A business that provides a service will sometimes use a sign like this to suggest they have fast service.

    • @massivereader
      @massivereader Před 3 lety

      Possibly highly stylized version of a bandage wrapped around an arm at the elbow, the dark spots on the white are a bit of blood from an injury leaking through.

  • @luisvasquez812
    @luisvasquez812 Před 3 lety +2

    i think this is by far the best introduction to the alphabet i had !

  • @Dizzyish
    @Dizzyish Před 3 lety +1

    This was immensely informative, thank you!

  • @robertpowell2225
    @robertpowell2225 Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you very much for that fun way to learn. I'm now learning Russian everyday. One day I hope to be able to speak it fluently. Great video keep up the good work!

  • @richacello339
    @richacello339 Před 3 lety +6

    Natasha: This was a good idea and it is how I learned the alphabet when I was in Moscow. Perhaps you could do another "in town" video about dialogue you would hear going shopping, taking transportation, going to a restaurant and some Russian culture.

    • @HvatKondrat
      @HvatKondrat Před 3 lety

      How much is it? "v kakuyu cenu mne obojdyotsya eta hernya?" My name is Sasha, I answered you for Natasha

  • @theosib
    @theosib Před 2 lety

    Putting the IPA in there made all the difference to my ability to follow along and understand what sounds you're making. Thank you for doing that!

  • @TheSteviebobevie
    @TheSteviebobevie Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for the lesson!!! Super helpful for beginners.

  • @saw76
    @saw76 Před 3 lety +33

    3:41 только у нас могут придумать такое название ЕВРО окно, евро-ремонт и т.д... Евро окно на Дальнем Востоке)

    • @user-ok8xx8wf2c
      @user-ok8xx8wf2c Před 2 lety +3

      у нас на базаре продаётся даже еврошвабра...

    • @pifpaf2725
      @pifpaf2725 Před 2 lety

      @@user-ok8xx8wf2c а-ха-ха

    • @harm-reduction
      @harm-reduction Před 2 lety

      так ниче удивительного я думаю имеется ввиду евротехнология, типа окна эти пришли из европы

    • @user-yd5no6ku7r
      @user-yd5no6ku7r Před 2 lety

      По-началу считалось, что обычный ремонт - это из отечественных материалов и по местным ценам. А Евро - соответственно иностранные (европейские) материалы и цены. Думаю так. Это не стиль. Потому, как можно сделать евро-ремонт из евроматериалов в любом стиле ...да хоть в африканском.

  • @Takoe976
    @Takoe976 Před 3 lety +50

    А,Б,В,Г,Д,Ђ,Е,Ж,З,И,Ј,К,Л,Љ,М,Н,Њ,О,П,Р,С,Т,Ћ,У,Ф,Х,Ц,Ч,Џ,Ш.
    Привет из Сербии 🤗
    Поздрав из Србије 🤗
    Greetings from Serbia 🤗

    • @Sofronic
      @Sofronic Před 3 lety +2

      @Velcro 809 Него шта! И ми ћирилицу за трку имамо :) ! Сада нека професорка изговори Ђ и Ћ ако уме. ЧЕБУРЕЧНАЈА, знао сам одмах да је то БУРЕКЏИНИЦА :) .

    • @dustymiller65
      @dustymiller65 Před 3 lety

      I think you're missing some Russian letters, no? And the order is not correct; now that's really confusing.

    • @Takoe976
      @Takoe976 Před 3 lety +11

      @@dustymiller65 Russian and Serbian letters are very similar, but not all are the same. Those are Serbian letters, I just wanted to point out similarities 🤗

    • @annabelholland
      @annabelholland Před 3 lety +3

      Ive heard that Serbian uses Cyrillic and Latin

    • @bobrotron
      @bobrotron Před 3 lety +2

      @@annabelholland yes and they have both variants of almost all streetsigns. Wonderful guys:) I really love Serbia

  • @iljasmail
    @iljasmail Před 2 lety

    Какая ты умница, Наташа! Очень креативное видео!

  • @derrickmoriarty8052
    @derrickmoriarty8052 Před 3 lety

    Best lesson I have had, she is a natural

  • @alexmandelli3994
    @alexmandelli3994 Před 3 lety +4

    I knew already russian letters, they were not difficult to me to memorize because I learned old greek alphabet at high school... Very helpful video about pronunciation though, thank you Natasha :)

  • @mikeprzlomski2092
    @mikeprzlomski2092 Před 3 lety

    I love your channel Natasha !

  • @showmustgoon4167
    @showmustgoon4167 Před 3 lety +1

    Love these natural examples 😍😎😃🤣😁😀😉 by such a teacher 😚

  • @NamaNikuTV
    @NamaNikuTV Před 3 lety +88

    "As you can see this store is closed, I don't know why, and... uhm... let's move onto the next letter!" - 😂😂😂

    • @michaelmacdonell4834
      @michaelmacdonell4834 Před 3 lety +9

      This seems to sum up several aspects of my life!

    • @stefantkalcic1491
      @stefantkalcic1491 Před 3 lety +7

      So, god. damn. relatable.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 Před 3 lety +5

      I like how every few letters there was an unexplained jump cut, it seemed to add a little bit of humor that made the video that much nicer to watch. I'm not sure if she did it on purpose or not, but I quite liked it, especially because it was a little subtle as well

    • @Kyokka
      @Kyokka Před 3 lety

      @@JackSmith-ou1dg do you know we aren’t communists anymore hai

  • @BackLooking
    @BackLooking Před 3 lety +4

    Hi, I´m from the Czech Republic. We used to learn Russian laguage at school. Actually Советский Союз used to be presented to us as our idol and protector. I can still read Russian words but not without problem - I really have to focus and recall what is what. But when I was about10-12 years old (1987-89) I could read and write easy texts in азбука fluently. But when I hear your pronuncinantion I think our Czech teachers couldn´t speak good Russian. It sounds much better than they taught us. Then there were political changes and everyone started to learn German and English.LOL

    • @marlboro9tibike
      @marlboro9tibike Před 3 lety +2

      Im from Slovakia, around the same age. When you can read azbuka, its quite easy understand lot of words, isnt it?

    • @BackLooking
      @BackLooking Před 3 lety +1

      @@marlboro9tibike It is! :-¨) Ano, v mnoha směrech je to podobný jazyk

  • @jcui5007
    @jcui5007 Před 3 lety

    Great! Thank you.

  • @stevenfullenwider3178
    @stevenfullenwider3178 Před 3 lety +1

    This has been a great lesson. I think that will watch it many times. Thank you.

  • @ardab8170
    @ardab8170 Před 3 lety +16

    This is pretty interesting. You speak good english with a nice russian accent.

  • @vilterusne2251
    @vilterusne2251 Před 3 lety +5

    "Однако понял, что нельзя ори­ентироваться на цвет, когда вместо мясной лавки попал в ма­газин электрических принадлежностей. Свою первую букву «А» он выучил в «Главрыбе» на Моховой, а потом и «Б» - по­тому что удобнее было подбегать к магазину со стороны слова «рыба». Дальше Шарик начал упражняться в чтении и очень хорошо стал ориентироваться на улицах Москвы"
    ну это так, а вообще ролик понравился.

  • @ausgixxerpilot
    @ausgixxerpilot Před 3 lety

    Brilliant idea to wander around town pointing out the words, really kept my attention. Terrific work.

  • @brianfleming8561
    @brianfleming8561 Před 2 lety

    That was great Natasha. Spasiba.

  • @benlaw7843
    @benlaw7843 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for such a wonderful way of introducing me to the Russian Alphabets !!!! 🙏🙏🙏 I have marked this video for future reference , so please never remove this video. Subscribed and very much "liked" this post 👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @adanc2052
    @adanc2052 Před 3 lety +3

    hello first to arrive by the way what a great video I met your channel from the facebook group a long time ago very good content

  • @victorramsey5575
    @victorramsey5575 Před 2 lety +2

    Youre a very good teacher. I appreciate the effort you put into this video. You are great! Cheers from Georgia USA.

  • @bernardmueller5676
    @bernardmueller5676 Před 3 lety

    Best video on Russian letters. Period. Thank you very much.