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I’m familiar with Greek letters thanks to all the science classes I’ve taken, so I recognize п from the letter pi, г from the letter gamma, and ф from phi. The Cyrillic alphabet and the Latin alphabet are both descendants of the Greek alphabet, but they each adapted the Greek letters in different ways.
It helps me a lot that I know the Greek alphabet in order to understand Cyrillic Russian characters, for example, the D is like Delta, F as Phi, G is gamma, L as lambda
I've been trying to learn the Russian alphabet on duolingo for three months now and I haven't gotten anywhere but now thanks to this video I can finally get somewhere
I come from a very mixed American family -- mostly Celt (Scottish), Ashkenazi (Eastern Jewish), and Cherokee (American Indian). But we are Christians, the kind where we believe in saying at least a few things in as many languages as possible, to make foreigners feel welcome in our land. I grew up learning a lot about languages. 5 years ago I became interested in Russian. I listened to a lot of Russian hip hop/rap because it helped me learn vocabulary. as I learned the Cyrillic alphabet on my own time, I became able to translate words I heard often. My goal was not to be fluent in Russian, even though I want to be fluent one day; rather, my goal was to see how well I could reverse-engineer the language, and see how much I could learn on my own. It's just fun for me. Easier than other languages have been for me. Eventually I will want to be fluent. But for now it's a fun project. However the hardest for me has been those last two letters, which change the sound of the letters before them. As I hear, I find no difference. This will take time for me. But it is fun going to a Slavik store and knowing how to pronounce things, even if I don't know what it means. 😁
Its been a few days since I started to learn russian and my advice would for a learning and comprehending words quickly would be to not just write them down but to also watch videos from multiple channels to ensure that everyone is on the same page (also do some research). Thanks for the knowledge man, keep it up!
You crack me up, Федор 😆! Мне нравится how you included your mom and the man on the street. It was lovely to вижу ваши город. 💚🐾 (* lovely видеть вашу город * correction)
@@algion24 you're right. "Dad on the street"! 😆 I had to watch it twice (which I probably do with all of them 💚), but in this instance I already know my Cyrillic alphabet and just needed to laugh ещё раз.
Wow great strategy 👏 Starting naturally for beginners is good and helpful which focus learning naturally. I hope all videos r like this. This would be my favorite channel and this is my first video .
In Spanish, B & V are similar, too. B is “b” while V is “bv” like a “v” but you close your lips over the “v” as you say it, but in rapid speech it just becomes a “b”. In Latin V was a “u” in a vowel place, & a “w” in a consonant position. So I’m curious how Spanish & the other Romance languages ended up like the Greek & Slavic way, rather than the Latin they’re descended from. Cheers
Fedor, thank you! This is the most practical and useful explanation of the Russian alphabet for native English speakers that I have ever come across. Very grateful….I’ve been playing around with trying to learn Russian for so long but just don’t apply myself. Maybe your intensive course starting in July would be a start.
Great lesson, everything is quite clear. Allow me to add a few points: 1. When learning the alphabet, it's better to go in order. Learn the letters as they appear in sequence. There's a somewhat unusual method for learning the letter and sound "Ы," but my experience shows that it works. Take a pencil in your teeth and pronounce the sound "И." This will help. 2. It's easier to understand the soft sign in the context of examples. In Russian, there's the word "Тень" (shadow). In English, it sounds like " ten' " If you remove the soft sign, the last consonant "н" will be pronounced as a hard sound. The same applies to words like "лень" (len') (laziness), "сельдь" ( s'el'd' ) (herring), and others. With the hard sign, it's also quite simple. It indeed serves to make the sound before it hard. For a simpler understanding, you can consider it as the sound "й." It's not entirely correct, but it will help you avoid mistakes in pronunciation. 3. "Р" - you can draw an analogy with the Spanish "Р" sound. Also, remember the stereotypical parody of a Russian accent.
Although I already knew the russian letters but I still learned because he's super didactic and motivated and it made my learning almost intuitive. Good job! The father cameo was pretty cool too!
thank you brother for learning this russian alfabet easy, please post some video like this every day for others learning about russian language, thank youuu❤❤🎉🎉
While the language itself is Slavic and loosely Germanic in origin, the alphabet is Bulgarian based, which is also Greek based. В, Х, Ф, Д, П, С, and Л all stem from the Greek alphabet.
I do not know why I commited to learning russian. As a beginner in learning my 1st, 2nd language I am fascinated with trying this. I can feel long dormant parts of my brain firing up. Lol. My goal is to watch UFC in Russian and understand what they are saying. Russians are dominating the sport. ❤ Thank you for this.
Hi there! I was wondering, do you have a video on writing the alphabet? I know there's probably not a proper way to write each letter, I just started learning and wanted to know if I'm writing properly. Thanks in advance.
Just found this channel and subscribed. Thanks to Fedor. I've wanted to learn Russian for awhile now and also about the Russian people of today, in history and their culture and history. Why because my government spent the last half of the 20th century instilling fear and mistrust between the people of America and Russia. I am interested in the people and not the government, politicians or military of either country.
I came up with a little mnemonic just now to help me remember which Russian Letters are the same as in English. Kinda happy with how nicely it worked out. "MOCK TAX" uses all the letters that are the same as English. The only slight exception is that, unlike English, C is used EXCLUSIVELY as an S sound, But otherwise these are the only letters that are the same as English.
Oops. I guess X shouldn't be in the acronym. Now I need a new cool mnemonic :( UPDATE: "TO MACK" it is. Better than "AT MOCK" Still not as cool as "Mock Tax" :(
when I wanted to learn Russian I watched CZcams to find out how to read the Russian alphabet and I also realized that there are some words that are pronounced like in Indonesian and Arabic. and yeah, I memorized all the letters of the Russian alphabet, but I still can't understand Russian
Ts is my favourite sound! It’s a major player in my own conlang, though that was from before I was learning Russian. I would compare it to the ‘ts’ in ‘tsetse’. Tsetse is also my favourite word. Ts.
One day, Fedor is going to teach and explain the grammar used in russian memes.
Why are Russians so angry makes me cry😂
@@katiecurrie9709 hi bro
That might be very helpful actually but idk I've only just started learning Russian 😅
Да, мы так и учимся говорить в России, на мемах
@@Elizabeth_EllonWindcrazy man 😂❤
Excellent presentation of sounds of Russian alphabet. Your choice of English examples for the Russian sounds is especially helpful.
YEP MAN
Not for me😢. Some is exactly luke my language
Какая же крутая энергетика у этого чувака😊
These are Fedor's classes, one day he is teaching you advanced grammar, and on the other day he teaches you the Russian alphabet.
AND SAME IS FOR DAGGERFALL ONE DAY YOU ARE EXPLORING A DUNGEON, AND THE OTHER YOU ARE JUST DOING JOBS AROUND THE CITY
The fact i actually remembered all of your examples and the sounds as a forgetful person shows how good you are at teaching!
I see Д as an Л with a bottom piece to it, and Л in turn is П with a fancy curve added to it.
As a Russian, I also find English letters and language funny
I’m familiar with Greek letters thanks to all the science classes I’ve taken, so I recognize п from the letter pi, г from the letter gamma, and ф from phi. The Cyrillic alphabet and the Latin alphabet are both descendants of the Greek alphabet, but they each adapted the Greek letters in different ways.
The way he said "And now you can say... Как!" Just that tone when he said it 😂
Kak is a ugly word in ny language!
(Afrikaans) 😂😂😂😂😂
This is perfect examples for start beginners like me. Thank you😘
OMG I love how this video was. So exciting, happy, funny. This is how I remember things. PLEASE MAKE MORE LIKE THIS!!
I love how he was popping in and out! 😆 Laying down by the stove 😂... hilarious!
I have words taped all over the inside of my house 😆
I like ur pfp!!
@@tls7642 same I like urs too
@@jennasjams Hey, what a great idea. The city hall staff should do this everywhere in the city.
It helps me a lot that I know the Greek alphabet in order to understand Cyrillic Russian characters, for example, the D is like Delta, F as Phi, G is gamma, L as lambda
Surprised this isn’t more popular, great job!
Большое спасибо за попытку научить нас русскому языку в увлекательной игровой форме. Большое спасибо за ваши усилия. 😁👍
And tell me that you are not russian.
Идеально
Спасибо🙏😊
@@ajithakumari1175 You can´t imagine how happy I was when I was able to read this without looking up my notes!
@@Dan-tx5jpI want to make sure I learned how to read Russian, is this idealho?
Zdraste, you are the most energetic teacher in the CZcams💖 your new Russian student all the way from GCC
This new format is frickin' awesome! Спасибо за это видео, Федя! 😁
Так это твои мать и отец? Как чудесно! Здравствуйте, мать и отец Федора! Ваш сын отличный парень. И хороший учитель.
I am American and I don't know Russian but I decided to learn the Russian alphabet in 2020
I still have very little practice with Russian
you can start from the little dialogs in comments using simple phrases like what's up
Learn each letter using a repetition method. Under 2 months I managed to learn all the letters at my own pace.
I've been trying to learn the Russian alphabet on duolingo for three months now and I haven't gotten anywhere but now thanks to this video I can finally get somewhere
А зачем учить алфавит?
Your content has really come along way and compliments your excellent teaching skills. большое спасибо
This was great, I needed this three years ago when I was taking a beginner class. Also, love the editing!
В такие моменты я очень рад, что русский мой родной язык и мне не надо его учить :))
true, i have this impression that it is much easier for a russian speaker to learn english, than for an english speaker to learn russian.
Но, нам не НАДО учить русский, мы его учим потому, что нам нравится. Русские должны выучить английский, а я очень рад, что он мой родной язык )).
@@KyleFran if you don't want something you are not gonna be do it obviosly. it's a matter of desire
@@user-xv7rf4gg7l they really do need English tho
@@ricojes It's surprisingly easy if you know both English and Spanish already, very similar pronunciations. (Barring a few new sounds)
I come from a very mixed American family -- mostly Celt (Scottish), Ashkenazi (Eastern Jewish), and Cherokee (American Indian). But we are Christians, the kind where we believe in saying at least a few things in as many languages as possible, to make foreigners feel welcome in our land.
I grew up learning a lot about languages.
5 years ago I became interested in Russian. I listened to a lot of Russian hip hop/rap because it helped me learn vocabulary. as I learned the Cyrillic alphabet on my own time, I became able to translate words I heard often. My goal was not to be fluent in Russian, even though I want to be fluent one day; rather, my goal was to see how well I could reverse-engineer the language, and see how much I could learn on my own.
It's just fun for me. Easier than other languages have been for me.
Eventually I will want to be fluent. But for now it's a fun project.
However the hardest for me has been those last two letters, which change the sound of the letters before them. As I hear, I find no difference. This will take time for me.
But it is fun going to a Slavik store and knowing how to pronounce things, even if I don't know what it means. 😁
Its been a few days since I started to learn russian and my advice would for a learning and comprehending words quickly would be to not just write them down but to also watch videos from multiple channels to ensure that everyone is on the same page (also do some research). Thanks for the knowledge man, keep it up!
This was so helpful and entertaining at the same time. Thank you!
lol I just had so say that I laughed so hard in the first 20 seconds because here in South Africa “kak” means crap or sh*t. Great video btw
Fan fact. In russian language ка'ка one of the meaning sh@t or cr@p and какать means making shit process 😂
In dutch kak means the same lol
It means something else in English
In English, it means a boys area
in scottish gaelic, “cac” means shit 😭😭
U R really Good. Yeah. Really Good! Greetings from an 'old New Jersey Guy' living in Scandinavia/Sweden-Finland for 40+ years. Spasiba :)))
My best friend speak russion and I tried my best to learn it to just fore her
You crack me up, Федор 😆! Мне нравится how you included your mom and the man on the street. It was lovely to вижу ваши город. 💚🐾 (* lovely видеть вашу город * correction)
*lovely видеть ваш город
@@ricojes благодарю вас! I'm obviously one of the beginning learners 🤗
That was his dad i believe
@@algion24 you're right. "Dad on the street"! 😆 I had to watch it twice (which I probably do with all of them 💚), but in this instance I already know my Cyrillic alphabet and just needed to laugh ещё раз.
@@jennasjamsyeah, he started with пап, and there was a translation on the right starting with dad
Wow great strategy 👏
Starting naturally for beginners is good and helpful which focus learning naturally.
I hope all videos r like this. This would be my favorite channel and this is my first video .
The video has a good rythm, it gave me back the motivation to learn
This is just what I needed. I know some letters but need to hear someone pronounce the rest. Thank you! I am learning Russian comfortably .
I think the Russian B is pronounced as V since it comes from the Greek beta (Ββ) which is pronounced as a V
In Spanish, B & V are similar, too. B is “b” while V is “bv” like a “v” but you close your lips over the “v” as you say it, but in rapid speech it just becomes a “b”. In Latin V was a “u” in a vowel place, & a “w” in a consonant position. So I’m curious how Spanish & the other Romance languages ended up like the Greek & Slavic way, rather than the Latin they’re descended from. Cheers
Thank you, this was the first video i watched when i started learning Russian. I can now speak kind of of fluently thank you
brilliantly constructed explanation, well done!
Fedor, thank you! This is the most practical and useful explanation of the Russian alphabet for native English speakers that I have ever come across. Very grateful….I’ve been playing around with trying to learn Russian for so
long but just don’t apply myself. Maybe your intensive course starting in July would be a start.
Excellent video Fedor! Thank you!
Great lesson, everything is quite clear. Allow me to add a few points:
1. When learning the alphabet, it's better to go in order. Learn the letters as they appear in sequence.
There's a somewhat unusual method for learning the letter and sound "Ы," but my experience shows that it works. Take a pencil in your teeth and pronounce the sound "И." This will help.
2. It's easier to understand the soft sign in the context of examples. In Russian, there's the word "Тень" (shadow). In English, it sounds like " ten' " If you remove the soft sign, the last consonant "н" will be pronounced as a hard sound. The same applies to words like "лень" (len') (laziness), "сельдь" ( s'el'd' ) (herring), and others. With the hard sign, it's also quite simple. It indeed serves to make the sound before it hard. For a simpler understanding, you can consider it as the sound "й." It's not entirely correct, but it will help you avoid mistakes in pronunciation.
3. "Р" - you can draw an analogy with the Spanish "Р" sound. Also, remember the stereotypical parody of a Russian accent.
*Small correction: "P" can be compared to the Spanish "R" sound
Although I already knew the russian letters but I still learned because he's super didactic and motivated and it made my learning almost intuitive. Good job! The father cameo was pretty cool too!
Just found your channel! Beginner here, using Mondi for a few weeks now but I need much more help! Happy Victory Day!!!
thank you brother for learning this russian alfabet easy, please post some video like this every day for others learning about russian language, thank youuu❤❤🎉🎉
The editing is so good!!
Wooow! Thank you so much Fedor for this video.
God bless you. Thanks for these examples of how the letters sound.
WOW. GREAT VIDEO. BOTH CONTENT WISE AND SO WELLL PUT TOGETHER. SO MUCH EFFORT PUT INTO THE VISUALS.
The very bes explanation of the Russian alphabet. Great stuff - thank you.
love you Russian language From Bangladesh❤
Good shit right here! Gracias homie, From a Mexican trying to learn Russian.
I think you forgot to talk about the letter 'Y' :)
Love your videos, by the way. Helped me a lot 🎉
Thank you so much for this спасибо!
You are the very best Fyodor!
Wow, I learned a lot from this, thank you 🙂
it really helps when you already know greek letters
One of my fav videos of you!
I don't speak Serbian but know the alphabet and that made this much easier, so many similarities.
you're just too good
Absolutely great work!
Just started learning, it would be good to have a practicing buddy 🥺🙏🏾
Great video! Very helpful. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for your video!
Thanks, Fedor! But you missed one: у = “oo” as in “tool”. Am I correct?
Thank you so much ! I learned so much. Please make some more video.
Привет Федор очень хороший урок я люблю🤩🇲🇽🙏
Best video for learning Russian alphabet
Thanks. You definitely made that easy.
Omg thanks! I'm Senegalais and always wanted to learn Russian language
😂😂😂😅 mum was behind the scene waiting for the right time 😊Honestly I love your channel.
Great.Thanks for making this video
While the language itself is Slavic and loosely Germanic in origin, the alphabet is Bulgarian based, which is also Greek based. В, Х, Ф, Д, П, С, and Л all stem from the Greek alphabet.
Thanks dude :)
This is amazing. Thank you, god bless!
After getting to master Arabic, now your video has convinced me to try Russian language
Cool video, I love the new style! Классное видео, очень понравилось хотя буквы уже знал)
Yes I also love the new style :D
Thank you so much!!
I do not know why I commited to learning russian. As a beginner in learning my 1st, 2nd language I am fascinated with trying this. I can feel long dormant parts of my brain firing up. Lol. My goal is to watch UFC in Russian and understand what they are saying. Russians are dominating the sport. ❤
Thank you for this.
3:48 - 4:11, ~~OMG~~! You've unlocked the secret for me! Thank you so much!
He made it look easy..Super amazing! Thank you
Спасибо Fedor
Who s here just to learn russia to make their friend group more funnier
Your video is amazing! 10 out 10!!
wow, this is so good! спасибо!
Excellent presentation
Hi there! I was wondering, do you have a video on writing the alphabet? I know there's probably not a proper way to write each letter, I just started learning and wanted to know if I'm writing properly. Thanks in advance.
Very helpful , thanks .
Lovely I am from India today I learn Russian alphabets from you very easy thanks
Just found this channel and subscribed. Thanks to Fedor. I've wanted to learn Russian for awhile now and also about the Russian people of today, in history and their culture and history. Why because my government spent the last half of the 20th century instilling fear and mistrust between the people of America and Russia. I am interested in the people and not the government, politicians or military of either country.
I loved the intro :)
Thanks man.
I'm learning Russian because it sounds cool thank you
So helpful thank you!! Did you forget у?
That’s used like the English letter U and makes an “oo” sound.
@@ShadowReaper-pu2hx thank you 😊
Спасибо,just through this 5 minutes video, and i learned the alphabet, really спасибо.
I came up with a little mnemonic just now to help me remember which Russian Letters are the same as in English. Kinda happy with how nicely it worked out. "MOCK TAX" uses all the letters that are the same as English. The only slight exception is that, unlike English, C is used EXCLUSIVELY as an S sound, But otherwise these are the only letters that are the same as English.
Oops. I guess X shouldn't be in the acronym. Now I need a new cool mnemonic :( UPDATE: "TO MACK" it is. Better than "AT MOCK" Still not as cool as "Mock Tax" :(
X is different letter- it is russian "h"
@@cicik57 I know, i caught my error, hence the comment above yours cuz i can’t edit comments from iPad
Молодцы, учите язык, у вас все получится
when I wanted to learn Russian I watched CZcams to find out how to read the Russian alphabet and I also realized that there are some words that are pronounced like in Indonesian and Arabic. and yeah, I memorized all the letters of the Russian alphabet, but I still can't understand Russian
Excellent 👍 thank you
this is brilliant
Ts is my favourite sound! It’s a major player in my own conlang, though that was from before I was learning Russian. I would compare it to the ‘ts’ in ‘tsetse’. Tsetse is also my favourite word. Ts.
Your great way to teach
Thank you
I've been saying mom in Russian this entire time and didn't even know it
That was really good. 👍 Placebo! Wait that's not right. Spasiba!
Very useful video!