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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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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. 😁
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
Prevat,Fedor as a Russian American. I recently found your channel I appreciate your videos because I get to send it to my older kids who speak fluent Russian, but forget how to sound out certain letters much thanks
This is a really good video! My sister challenged me to be able to hold a conversation in russian in just 1 month LOL so, I'm grateful for your breakdown of the alphabet!
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.
You make these alphabet lessons so easy, the sounds, and if we repeat them regularly, can know all of them. Other videos break them down into 4 parts, but your presentation is very easy. Ty.
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!
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.
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" :(
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 .
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!
I speak Pashto ( the language of afghanistan) and when I watched u describe the words in the end with a little hard work was fun to watch because I always notice how simple the English language is and how many alphabet it lacks. Because all the Russian letters u mentioned in the end are also available in Pashto so I had no problem getting them correct
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.
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.
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
After learning Japanese and Chinese…I’m utterly extremely overwhelmed with appreciation that Russian HAS an alphabet at least there’s un alphabet no matter how hard some letters are still grateful 😭😭🙂
I think that you should have mentioned that this is a bit oversimplified. Here are some refinements: The Russian Х is different from the English H. To pronounce it, you should lift the middle part of your tongue higher. I would describe Х as “harder,” but lifting it higher than in Х makes it soft again. Some vowels are different when they are not stressed. For example, О sounds like А in this case. ЕЁЮЯ, when they follow a consonant, soften it instead of adding the Й sound. Soft consonants are pronounced like they're followed by an И. The difference between hard and soft sounds is similar to the difference between Ш and Щ. Most Russians don't notice it, but soft consonants affect the following vowels. If it is long (which doesn't affect the meaning in Russian), only the start of it is affected, and then the tongue returns to its normal position for the vowel. I've heard a Russian kid claiming that the software I used to cut the word “яблоко” was wrong. Ь, when followed by one of ЕЁИЮЯ, might seem to be unneeded because the consonant before it is already soft, but it adds a Й sound. Ъ, which is only used like that, also adds it. Sometimes some letters are silent. Черед and sometimes берет are alternative spellings of черёд and берёт, respectively.
Oh, so it’s like English where theoretically it should be straightforward but then you have like these freaking weird little things that just make it needlessly complicated
@@MrMG-il5hv In Russian, there are rules that you can use to determine the pronunciation based on spelling and stress with few errors. I don't think that's the case for English
I want to learn to write Russian using the Yat and the other letters which were purged from the alphabet in 1918 and following, and learn how to put back all the Hard Signs and Soft Signs in the places where they were once used. A video from you would be very helpful. Greetings from the US. God Bless Pres. VVP and the R.F.
when I wanted to learn Russian I watched UA-cam 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
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
Im learning Russian to scare people ingame
I'm learning it for the real life version of tarkie. Might be useful to be able to interrogate POWs.
How much your progress?
@@s6plyer 0
@@maximvmoutput try to learn alphabet first week and make word with them
@@s6plyer nah, i’d give up
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.
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
U R really Good. Yeah. Really Good! Greetings from an 'old New Jersey Guy' living in Scandinavia/Sweden-Finland for 40+ years. Spasiba :)))
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.
The fact i actually remembered all of your examples and the sounds as a forgetful person shows how good you are at teaching!
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) 😂😂😂😂😂
Kak means shit in Dutch😂
@@rosalinethomas4665 ek will russies leer maar dit gaan n bietjie moeilik wees met kak
Zdraste, you are the most energetic teacher in the UA-cam💖 your new Russian student all the way from GCC
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?
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.
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'm 48 speak Spanish and English buy always wanted to learn Russian. So here I am thank you
Так это твои мать и отец? Как чудесно! Здравствуйте, мать и отец Федора! Ваш сын отличный парень. И хороший учитель.
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
Surprised this isn’t more popular, great job!
This is perfect examples for start beginners like me. Thank you😘
This new format is frickin' awesome! Спасибо за это видео, Федя! 😁
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. 😁
how the hell do you mix a scottish jew and american indian
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?
@@klavier285the alphabet is on a separate tab at the bottom.
@@christinacarr7768 You're right. I see that now 👍
В смысле зачем учить алфавит?! Это основа языка вообще - то 😅
Your content has really come along way and compliments your excellent teaching skills. большое спасибо
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.
This was great, I needed this three years ago when I was taking a beginner class. Also, love the editing!
Какая же крутая энергетика у этого чувака😊
Prevat,Fedor as a Russian American. I recently found your channel I appreciate your videos because I get to send it to my older kids who speak fluent Russian, but forget how to sound out certain letters much thanks
My best friend speak russion and I tried my best to learn it to just fore her
How's it going?
This is a really good video! My sister challenged me to be able to hold a conversation in russian in just 1 month LOL so, I'm grateful for your breakdown of the alphabet!
Great.Thanks for making this video
It's funny how coming from Spanish and French, Russian sounds are easy to make. It's great😂 and thank you for all these videos, super useful! 🙏🏻
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.
Good shit right here! Gracias homie, From a Mexican trying to learn Russian.
Thank you, this was the first video i watched when i started learning Russian. I can now speak kind of of fluently thank you
Привет Федор очень хороший урок я люблю🤩🇲🇽🙏
You make these alphabet lessons so easy, the sounds, and if we repeat them regularly, can know all of them.
Other videos break them down into 4 parts, but your presentation is very easy. Ty.
I'm learning Russian because it sounds cool thank you
Just found your channel! Beginner here, using Mondi for a few weeks now but I need much more help! Happy Victory Day!!!
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!
Who s here just to learn russia to make their friend group more funnier
cringe
Best video for learning Russian alphabet
After getting to master Arabic, now your video has convinced me to try Russian language
The editing is so good!!
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
Thank you so much for this 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
I don't speak Serbian but know the alphabet and that made this much easier, so many similarities.
Excellent video Fedor! Thank you!
This was so helpful and entertaining at the same time. Thank you!
Omg thanks! I'm Senegalais and always wanted to learn Russian language
It kinda feels like I can’t learn Russian but I have been studying for 8 months but after seeing this video everyone is in relief and feels lucky 😢😊
I think you forgot to talk about the letter 'Y' :)
Love your videos, by the way. Helped me a lot 🎉
love you Russian language From Bangladesh❤
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 .
Блин, никогда не умел произносить русские буквы, спасибо что помог, бро! Даже не знаю как я жил 17 лет до этого 👍
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!
you're just too good
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 😊
One of my fav videos of you!
I speak Pashto ( the language of afghanistan) and when I watched u describe the words in the end with a little hard work was fun to watch because I always notice how simple the English language is and how many alphabet it lacks. Because all the Russian letters u mentioned in the end are also available in Pashto so I had no problem getting them correct
The video has a good rythm, it gave me back the motivation to learn
Вполне не плохо обучаешь. Я хоть и из России , но мне самому это интересно. Молодец!
Привет, 😊 я обожаю русский человек 👀
Nice video. I realiest how much easier it became to learn the russian alphabet, with the english words that sounds familiar. Positive review 😂👍😎
Батя у Вас молодец, про Ы понравилось) Спасибо.
Omg this enters my head so easily I feel so accomplished
Спасибо Fedor
Wow ! Easy and Wonderful tutorial ! KEEP IT UP BRO !! 😍😍
Lovely I am from India today I learn Russian alphabets from you very easy thanks
God bless you. Thanks for these examples of how the letters sound.
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
Cool video, I love the new style! Классное видео, очень понравилось хотя буквы уже знал)
Yes I also love the new style :D
WOW. GREAT VIDEO. BOTH CONTENT WISE AND SO WELLL PUT TOGETHER. SO MUCH EFFORT PUT INTO THE VISUALS.
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 .
Exact 1 year I'll be able to speak in russian.❤
Great video! Very helpful. Thanks a lot!
This was explained so well, thank you
I like your humor.
Thanks man.
This video was so helpful I’m going to watch it 100
Times bro. I’m currently taking Russian language classes. But have to pay 320$ a month
it really helps when you already know greek letters
Thanks, Fedor! But you missed one: у = “oo” as in “tool”. Am I correct?
Incredible class. I'm Brazilian and to learn Russian I have got learning English/Russian . It's easier than Brazil/Russian, because of similar sounds.
Спасибо ❤using your brilliant channel 😊
Didn't take me more than 20 seconds to sub. Great content! (It's my first day)
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 😭😭
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.
Thank you for your video!
wow, this is so good! спасибо!
Excellent presentation
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.
Just started learning, it would be good to have a practicing buddy 🥺🙏🏾
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
After learning Japanese and Chinese…I’m utterly extremely overwhelmed with appreciation that Russian HAS an alphabet at least there’s un alphabet no matter how hard some letters are still grateful 😭😭🙂
Wooow! Thank you so much Fedor for this video.
I think that you should have mentioned that this is a bit oversimplified. Here are some refinements:
The Russian Х is different from the English H. To pronounce it, you should lift the middle part of your tongue higher. I would describe Х as “harder,” but lifting it higher than in Х makes it soft again.
Some vowels are different when they are not stressed. For example, О sounds like А in this case.
ЕЁЮЯ, when they follow a consonant, soften it instead of adding the Й sound. Soft consonants are pronounced like they're followed by an И. The difference between hard and soft sounds is similar to the difference between Ш and Щ.
Most Russians don't notice it, but soft consonants affect the following vowels. If it is long (which doesn't affect the meaning in Russian), only the start of it is affected, and then the tongue returns to its normal position for the vowel. I've heard a Russian kid claiming that the software I used to cut the word “яблоко” was wrong.
Ь, when followed by one of ЕЁИЮЯ, might seem to be unneeded because the consonant before it is already soft, but it adds a Й sound. Ъ, which is only used like that, also adds it.
Sometimes some letters are silent.
Черед and sometimes берет are alternative spellings of черёд and берёт, respectively.
Oh, so it’s like English where theoretically it should be straightforward but then you have like these freaking weird little things that just make it needlessly complicated
@@MrMG-il5hv In Russian, there are rules that you can use to determine the pronunciation based on spelling and stress with few errors. I don't think that's the case for English
The very bes explanation of the Russian alphabet. Great stuff - thank you.
I want to learn to write Russian using the Yat and the other letters which were purged from the alphabet in 1918 and following, and learn how to put back all the Hard Signs and Soft Signs in the places where they were once used. A video from you would be very helpful. Greetings from the US. God Bless Pres. VVP and the R.F.
when I wanted to learn Russian I watched UA-cam 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
I feel accomplished that I already know mom, how, and tobacco. Practically already fluent and not even 5 minutes in. 10/10
Great content, I will soon start teaching Haitian Creole to promote my native language. Anyone here wants to learn creole?
I am currently B1 French and I am planning to learn Hatian Creole.