My Ultimate, Super-Duper, Learn Russian Tip

[Guy]

This is only a tip to help you learn/understand Russian, not an actual guide to speaking Russian, however, baring in mind just how brilliant I am... I'm not that brilliant. In other news, Russian's a language...

Now a lot of people love the Russian language. Why? Who knows. However, everyone loves Cyrillic! Cyrillic is this style of writing: Јас сам Македонски. Worldwide, people wonder what the bloody hell it means are what the bloody hell it is. Some people, even if they don't carry it on any further than Здравствуйте, want to learn Russian or learn the most important aspect of it - the Cyrillic alphabet. They want to do this because, let's face it, it looks brilliant. Even Americans, the I-hate-those-frickin'-Commies love the Cyrillic alphabet too. So, as many people want to learn it or would like to know what it is for the sake of knowing, I, the magnifect Guy Almighty, devised a way in which everyone can learn the alphabet in order to make Russian much easier! For a price of $9.99, you can learn this great technique - I'm joking. Here it is:

Learning the Russian letters is a hastle and it slows you down so much, if you don't know what I'm talking about, the things which the Commies use to talk in is really annoying, isn't it? So, I use(d) a method to help me learn. Writing/speaking to others using Cyrillic letters! It's genious, not only do you look brilliant, it's also a very useful skill to wield and will prove useful in learning other languages: Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Uzbek, Turkic, Ukrainian and many more!

Most of you are probably thinking, "This is stupid". If so, why are you continuing?

Here's how it works:

Each Cyrillic letter represents a Latin letters. For example:

Д > D

It works with each and everyone of the Cyrillic letters.

Now, some of you may be thinking, "Each language has different letters, stupid". I'm not going to miss them out!

(Russian, Ukrainian, etc. -- not used in the Slavic languages)

Я > Ja

So, type when you have a Cyrillic language activated on your keyboard (Serbian and/or Macedonian -- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)


И ам тхе бест.
I am the best.

Thank you, students.

 

[Innos]

But 'x' isn't a sound that's represented in the latin alphabet (well, not in English anyway). And it also depends on which alphabet you want to learn, eg 'e' in Ukrainian means 'e' as in 'set'. But in Russian, 'e' means 'yе' as in 'yellow'.

И ам тхе бест

So do you mean just replace the latin letters with cyrillic ones? I think the system would be good for letters that have equivalents in the latin alphabet, like 'c', 'л', 'м' etc. But for letters like 'щ', 'ж', 'ц' etc, where they represent a sound created by more that one latin letter ('shch', 'zh' and 'ts' respectively) it would be a bit trickier. If that makes sense .

 

[Guy]

I knew I'd get some Slavic smarty-pants complaining!

You are certainly right, Cyning, yet the study of these languages will obviously inform people of these letters when they are learning it. Of course, everything his its flaws, this being mine. It's basically a technique to use in the Slavic languages, however, it does come in very useful and is the method I used when I was learning Macedonian.

Well done for bringing that up though!

 

[EmperorBatman999]

Cyrillic scares me for some reason. Just looks spooky and confusing. Sometimes I'll find myself reading it like Latin letters (or whatever looks closest, so the funny thing that equates to D, I see as an A).

 

[Mr Tuna]

Commy bastards spotted ! Get the torches !!!

 

[Aru]

But for letters like 'щ', 'ж', 'ц' etc, where they represent a sound created by more that one latin letter ('shch', 'zh' and 'ts' respectively) it would be a bit trickier. If that makes sense .

There's Latin equivalent for them, used by most Latin script using Slavs.

щ = š
ж = ž
ц = c

 

[Innos]

There's Latin equivalent for them, used by most Latin script using Slavs.

щ = š
ж = ž
ц = c

True, though I was looking at it from the English Latin alphabet .

 

[huskythesaint]

I have always wanted to learn Russian...

 

[Prodigal]

You are mixing ze proud langvage ov ze zoviets vis zat of ze capitalist pigs? I vill be rhepourting zis to KGB.

 

[Guy]

@Cyning

That's why I referred to the Serbian/Slavic side of it. The use of š and č would come in extremely useful in English come to think of it. The sh sound is prominent in the English language.

@Kaitser

Isn't that German?

@The new caesar

Oh behave yourself, I'm a Commie and I'm proud of it!

 

[Innos]

@Cyning

That's why I referred to the Serbian/Slavic side of it. The use of š and č would come in extremely useful in English come to think of it. The sh sound is prominent in the English language.

Yup, it would be simpler to have one letter to represent a sound instead of two. But then that's English for you - it's a different language, and it has evolved differently to Serbian.

In Old English, we had a letter to represent the sound of 'th', as in 'thick' called Thorn, 'þ'. But for reasons unkown to me, it has been replaced with 'th'. Maybe it was because the old fashioned runes were a bit too pagan for the church, or the letter was made obsolete because of the Norman invasion .

 

[Manco]

Just throw a -ski and an -ov in there and you have Russian.

Incidentally you can speak Spanish using a similar method by throwing a few -os'es around.

 

[Guy]

Yup, it would be simpler to have one letter to represent a sound instead of two. But then that's English for you - it's a different language, and it has evolved differently to Serbian.

In Old English, we had a letter to represent the sound of 'th', as in 'thick' called Thorn, 'þ'. But for reasons unkown to me, it has been replaced with 'th'. Maybe it was because the old fashioned runes were a bit too pagan for the church, or the letter was made obsolete because of the Norman invasion .

Well, it was mainly due to the invasion of the Vikings. In my spare time, I often study languages so I have a good understand of where it comes from. In Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the symbol "þ" appears in many dialects, however, it's a prime letter in Icelandic. This suggests that it was from the Danes or Norwegians, the Anglo-Saxons recieved this letter. The use of Norse also combines with that but I'm not going into too much detail.

 

[Taxandrius]

Just throw a -ski and an -ov in there and you have Russian.

Incidentally you can speak Spanish using a similar method by throwing a few -os'es around.

Jef Nys

Well, it was mainly due to the invasion of the Vikings. In my spare time, I often study languages so I have a good understand of where it comes from. In Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the symbol "þ" appears in many dialects, however, it's a prime letter in Icelandic. This suggests that it was from the Danes or Norwegians, the Anglo-Saxons recieved this letter.

You seem to have a lot of spare time. Why do you look at the linguistic side instead of learning them ?

 

[Guy]

You seem to have a lot of spare time. Why do you look at the linguistic side instead of learning them ?

Because I don't have THAT much spare time!

 

[Taxandrius]

well, at least taking a linguisitc look at it is positive for the understanding of languages

 

[Digbert]

@The new caesar

Oh behave yourself, I'm a Commie and I'm proud of it!

Bravo Sir Bravo on that one

Is this your way of getting me to learn Russian as you know I want learn.

P.S sorry Sorry I've not been on skype my PC Died on me before Xmas.

 

[xxax]

Šit man, so the point is writing words in engliš but in Cyrillic letters?

 

[Prodigal]

Isn't that German?

I type Russian and German the same, but say it out loud differently.

 

[ivan_the_terrible]

There's Latin equivalent for them, used by most Latin script using Slavs.

щ = š
ж = ž
ц = c

Admit it, Cyrillic is superior for writing Slavic languages

 

[Aru]

Admit it, Cyrillic is superior for writing Slavic languages

It is, but it sucks for writing anything else and for being confined to few countries. Present letters aren't enough to represent even some Western Slavic sounds.

Latin, with minor differences, can be used for any language and is used worldwide.