How to learn the Russian alphabet

What is the Cyrillic alphabet?

The Cyrillic alphabet is one of the main obstacles encountered by students of Russian, an obstacle that is incomprehensible for many Spaniards. However, it is possible to learn the alphabet in just a few classes .

The different calligraphy, the unknown symbols and the incongruous pronunciation … The Cyrillic alphabet is the one used by the Slavic, Turkish or Uralic languages. Immersing yourself in these new letters of the Russian alphabet will allow you to learn both Russian and other Eastern European languages .

The Russian Cyrillic alphabet :

• It is the third official alphabet of the European Union;
• It is composed of 33 letters since 1917 for the contemporary alphabet (before it had 37);
• it is a bicameral alphabet: composed of vowels and consonants;
• It has two variants for reading: uppercase and lowercase;
• words have a stressed stress (like English);
• it has a different phonetic pronunciation for each letter.

Although the rules are very different from those of Spanish, as long as you work your calligraphy and your tonic accent well, it will be possible to master the language.