Learn the Cyrillic alphabet in one video

In this video we'll use phonetic translation to learn Cyrillic letters in a matter of minutes to help you read Russian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian or other languages using the Cyrillic/Slavic/Bulgarian alphabet.
I highly encourage you to practice by doing your own phonetic translations with the help of a phonetic Cyrillic keyboard on your device.
Check out this video on how to get a Cyrillic keyboard:
• How to install Cyrilli...
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - The Cyrillic alphabet
07:53 - Phonetic translation examples
09:05 - Outro
Thank you for watching!

[@golyplot]

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[@RushilOmar]

Ok lol

[@champschannel44]

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[@freddiestranger9783]

What does this have to do with World War COVID-19? 🤔 😒 😠 HAVE WE FORGOTTEN THIS? 🤔 😒 😠

[@freddiestranger9783]

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[@Soapduck_]

@@freddiestranger9783 i hate you on a personal level for this + ratio

[@akaioyano8023]

In Russia we have such a prank -- borrow your friend's smartphone and change Russian key alphabet to Bulgarian one, letters are same, but the order is completely different, to find the right letter you need a time and to suffer a little, also the friend may not immediately understand what happened

[@jiktak606]

If this is true that's legendary

[@SixStringViolence]

Someone did this to me but the other way around. I noticed it immediately because we don't have Э, ы and Ё.

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

Also Bulgarian lacks the letters Ё, Ы, and Э.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@sapphoenixthefirebird5063 Funny how on computer keyboards Ы and Э are still there but not Ё.

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

@@HeroManNick132 Probably for Russian

[@matthewmabasa3331]

Tom Holland has Growned a lot that he teaches us how to pronounce Cyrillics

[@golyplot]

I should totally audition for his stunt double or do one of those doppelganger tiktoks

[@freddiestranger9783]

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[@fans7065]

Реально похож на Тома Холланда, ну для роли повзрослевшего человека паука, он бы подошёл

[@xoxo.000]

I was think the same 😂

[@theboss6616]

@@fans7065 thank you! I learn your cyclic comment section

[@arttimix]

Сперва я подумал, что автор просто забыл букву "Ы", а в конце ролика понял, что речь идёт про Болгарский язык ))

[@mstipich1]

LOL that sign or letter ь in the word речь famous Serbian linguist and reformer Vuk Karadzich called "fifth wheel on the car"

[@mstipich1]

Не знам да ли то слово ь ви Руси зовете "дебело јер" или слично?

[@arttimix]

@@mstipich1 , я не понял твоего вопроса.

[@mstipich1]

@@arttimix Я не знаю как вы русские называете это слово ь ?

[@arttimix]

@@mstipich1 ь - это мягкий знак, в наше время никакого слова оно не обозначает, и один (без соседних согласных звуков) не звучит никак. А до революции 1917 он назывался словом "ЕРЬ" и читалось как короткий звук [е]

[@jillalexandrarock9217]

Hello, sir! Very good lesson. I know nothing of Cyrillic...I'm American, a professor of French language. I enjoyed the pace of your speech and your devices to memorize the sounds. Best of all your encouragement is warm, friendly, and sincere. Thank you kindly.

[@YzyMovies]

I learned a lot of Cyrillic with those examples in phonetic translations. Spent 30mins on 9min vid. I wish you could provide more of them. I'm learning Bulgarian for vacations. G'day from Poland

[@marwaqoura7804]

I am an Arab who was taught French ,then English then German at a very young age ,,Cyrillic seems intimidating at first but once you know the difference ,it is very easy to read ,much more accurate than English ,,the flipped or rolled r is the same for Arabs & Italians .

[@marwaqoura7804]

@daniiel mlinarics It is very close to the Arabic phoneme ,but I think the Russian is the strongest one of them

[@blizz94it70]

im italian, i can confirm that

[@blizz94it70]

@daniiel mlinarics Italians don't use flipped r letter

[@KubanBall_Kubanism]

because there are no articles in Cyrillic

[@sagichdirdochnicht4653]

I'm not very good at languages, I only speak German and English. Arabic *really* seems intimidating to me, another topic I could gain more knowledge. As far as the cyrillic Alphabet goes, it't not *that* far off the latin alphabet so it's easy enough to learn and it really makes a great deal of sense for those slavic languages I must say. Arabic tough is for us European quite hard to figure out, It's basically completely different. Tough I suppose it gets the Job done as well. Languages that use symbols for words tough, those are *bad*. I guess the chinese language is here to stay, but it's still a let's say "hostile" system to learn and remember. Tough, if you want to, you can still make it worse, ask the Japanese, lol. They are kinda insane... they borrowed a shitton of letters from China, they created their own symbols as well and because that's clearly not enough, they've also created more letters, that represent sounds instead of words. It's complete Madness, lol.

[@boomtwack]

Using the Cyrillic alphabet for english words is a smart way to learn. I never thought of that.

[@misternebojsa]

Vuk Karadzic(serbian linguist from 19century) once said write the way you speak,and read as you write

[@YaShoom]

Это не на долго - скоро ваш язык изменится, а письменность не захотят реформировать. К тому же в вашей письменности мягкие согласные жёстко склеены с мягким знаком, а значит будет невозможно записать новые мягкие звуки (если они появятся), либо придётся к каждой согласной букве приклеивать мягкий знак, либо отдельно вводить мягкий как русском или болгарском.

[@nekipeh7373]

@@YaShoom Мислим да неће бити никакве промене. Буквално је "како говориш, исто напишеш", а ако се ишта промени, то ће бити скрећенице и англицизми због глобализације.

[@YaShoom]

@@nekipeh7373 да не, я про срок в 300-500 лет. Вскоре начнут возникать новые звуки и их сочетания, а записать будет невозможно. Всё же формальный язык нуждается в формализации, они будут утверждать что письменный язык - исторический, он изначальный и самый правильный и в итоге письменность станет как русском "как проверяешь с помощью ударения, так и пишешь".

[@nekipeh7373]

@@YaShoom Ух, нисам очекивао период од 300 година. Сад ми је јасно о чему причаш и да је то могуће.

[@fuiscklam4087]

@@YaShoom След 500 години славяните вече няма да се разбираме, когато всеки пише на собствения си език. И то ако още сме живи.

[@JoAspirin]

That's the best explanation I have ever seen so far! Nice job

[@freddiestranger9783]

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[@bmw803]

Hes showing the Russian variant of the cyrillic alphabet. Balkan countries use it too, but some letters don't exist, such as the reversed R and the YOU. Minor differences, but they're there.

[@PC_Simo]

@@bmw803 Yeah. But the Russian one also has letters that he didn’t use, like Ы, Э, and Ё, I think 🤔.

[@bmw803]

@@PC_Simo Good point. I forgot about those.

[@Cerera-b_447]

Да👍

[@casualcoffeeshooter]

Being russian and speaking Russian language respectively, I admire your job at explanation of our phonetics. Good job, you made it look kinda easy!) Also I’d like to add, that letter «Щ» should not be pronounced as «sht». Actually it’s similar to «Ш», but softened at the end, so it’s more of a «sh’». It’s crucial to mention because otherwise people can be struggled by hearing «shtuka» (thing, piece or just something undefined) from the foreigner when he is speaking of a pike fish (щука). Best wishes and keep it up 👍

[@golyplot]

Quite right. But in Bulgarian it is 'sht', probably because Щ doesn't appear in Serbian and Macedonian and it has remained in Bulgarian alphabet for some reason but the sound is different, as Bulgarian is a South Slavic language.

[@HeroManNick132]

The letter "Щ" only appears in the Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian alphabet and nowhere else. The biggest difference is that only in Bulgarian it is pronounced as "ШТ" while you guys you pronounce it more likely like "ШЧ." Despite some people in Bulgaria might it pronounce "Щ" as "Ш" depending on the region.

[@kleparaskevas2628]

@Golyplot Μacedonian is Bulgarian as ALL Bulgarians and Skopians know!

[@golyplot]

@@kleparaskevas2628 The argument, to be fair, is that it used to be, I wouldn't argue that it still is.

[@kremenamicheva1220]

In Bulgarian Щ is pronounced Sht, exactly as in this video

[@Attaxalotl]

As an english (and spanish to some extent) speaker; the letters only having one sound a piece is something I'm not used to, and _very_ grateful for.

[@Tonjit41]

Yeah, that is how I felt learning the basics of japanese. Whoever made english was trolling.

[@Attaxalotl]

@@Tonjit41 It's base is a heavily cursed mashup of (Celtic) Breton and Cornish, (Germanic) Old English and Old Norse, and (Romance) Norman French, which is _like_ Old French but isn't _exactly_ Old French. Then Britain spent 300 years colonizing half the world for spices, decided it didn't like any of them, and stole a few words from literally everyone they came across in the process. It's like, the epitome of cursed languages; because it's not just one language, it's the worst parts of ALL of them.

[@HearonPlay]

Awesome content. Hello from Russia 🇷🇺❤🇧🇬

[@thomasrobertson2225]

Good video! My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

[@pitkakira]

Thank you very much; this is hugely helpful. The mnemonics are really easy to remember, as is your description. I had been struggling for days to remember even a few letters, but with just one viewing of this video, I had memorized all of them.

[@borisszczukin7547]

The Cyrillic "Д" comes from the Greek "Δ" and has been modified for typographic fonts to look consistent with other letters in a line of text.. If you write the letter "Д" by hand as a Greek delta, everyone will understand what you wrote. The same applies to the letter "Л", you can write the Greek lambda (Λ). Λето - Leto - Summer Δом - Dom - House The letter "Ц" is taken from the Hebrew alphabet "צ" (tsadi), as well as the letter "Ш" of the Hebrew "ש" (shin)

[@tsarvk7168]

Haha it's not true

[@borisszczukin7547]

@@tsarvk7168 What exactly is wrong with my comment?

[@user-ww6dw4by9w]

The whole cyrrilic come from A greek with name cirrilos... At byzantine era. That why cyrrilic come with so similarities with hellenic alphavito

[@tsarvk7168]

@@user-ww6dw4by9w Not such of thing Greek alphabet.. Artifacts in Persian land show different story . Greek history must be rewritten because of a lot of fake and non true things.The alfabet is done by picking from different cultures. Soon like Macedonia you have faced the music

[@user-ww6dw4by9w]

@@tsarvk7168 not A such thing; the name of cirrilos and methodios; its not A thing; To re write what; the evidence; the facts; the Scientific evidence; the vast majority of the studies about That.. It is not from hellenic Universitys. Come from all over the globe.. And face about north macedonia what; go and read the official north macedonia aggrememt.. Its clear as crystal. Notging common Notging To do with Μακεδονία of greece.. No cultural- hystorical or Linguistically.. Just north... Clear; and try To re write what ever you like.. With evidence..

[@GiDD504]

This was so helpful! I have been using duo lingo for a few months and this 10 minute video was exponentially more helpful!! Thank you so much for making this man. Since I have watched this I have been flying through my studies. I will always recommend this to anyone that wants to learn Cyrillic/Russian. Cheers! 😊

[@Tr7CkS]

100/100 true!! i’ve watched so many vids but non had such better explaination than this video. way better than those 30 minute videos available. cheers mate. ✌🏻

[@GiDD504]

@@Tr7CkS Couldn't agree more! Glad I'm not the only one. This video and Daria from Real Russian Club are better than most programs or apps imo

[@YaShoom]

The Bulgarian alphabet does not correspond to Russian, including pronunciation.

[@00opiumm]

Why the fuck would you ever use duolingo

[@saishuu.u5717]

@@00opiumm the owl is not going to give me my family back if I don't finish my English lessons...

[@albenael2519]

Very nice! I’m Bulgarian and I can read and easily understand all “Slavic “ alphabets and languages, because of the Bulgarian alphabet: Also there are A- аз Б- буки В- веди Г- глаголь Д- добро Е-ест Ж- живете ..( Глаголица ) ... Nice work 😊

[@user-lv9tf5yc2d]

Знаете, я вот что заметил, что когда ты пишешь на кирилице постоянно и пытаешься например читать польский или другой славянский язык что пишут на латиницы, то понимание написанного падает. Но когда читаешь сайты славянских стран на кириллице то понимаешь больше информации. Что ж будем благодарны Болгарам за чудо в лице Кирилла и Мефодия. П. С в России болгарский язык есть. Вернее церковной славянский и есть неизмененный деревне болгарский. Книги на церковном языке и правда не походят на русский современный. П. С. Я в инете видел польскую кириллицу, но увы я не видел авто транслита который бы помогал читать польскую литературу :(

[@huskytail]

@@user-lv9tf5yc2d just a little bit of a correction, Cyril and Methodius (it was apparently only Cyril) created the Glagolithic alphabet. The Cyrillic is attributed to a student of theirs, Climent. He was the most important figure in, and the founder of, the second huge literally school in the First Bulgarian Empire in Ohrid.

[@hazablast3069]

For the past one year before every Russian test or class review, i come back to this video and this only. I have noted down what you teach and revise my Cyrillic with your help. Thank you so much i have been doing very well in learning Russian as a foreign language in my Университет. Ilook forward to bettering my understanding of Russian language within 2023. Love from India 🇮🇳 Спасибо вам ❤

[@jadenmayton450]

Thankyou so much for making this, i have been trying to learn the Cyrillic alphabet for 2 months, and this has been the first helpful source. Thanks soo much

[@HeroManNick132]

Just be careful because in some Cyrillic alphabeths there are some differences like: "Е" in Bulgarian is pronounced just like the Serbian, Macedonian, Ukrainian "E," while in Belarusian/Russian it is like "YE" pronounced. "Щ" has different pronunciations through the Cyrillic. In Bulgarian is "ШТ" in Ukrainian "ШЧ" and in Russian like softer "Ш" - "ШЬ." "И" in Ukrainian is like the Russian, Belarusian "Ы" sound, while "I" is "И" like every Cyrillic alphabet except the Ukrainian and the Kazakh one. Just to keep in mind. :)

[@lmaocetung]

Your language is awesome. Hello from Czechia 🇨🇿

[@davidgriffith5133]

The explanations and visual links used and the way its broken into groups are perfect

[@MDW001]

Thank you! I'm learning the cyrillic alphabet primarily so that I can sing Russian choral music using the original text only. I've found that, after using this video as a starting point, I've made very fast progress in learning the cyrillic alphabet by binging youtube videos consisting of Russian choral music (Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Chesnokov etc.) with a musical score that can be used to follow along. It's great because, aside from the fact that the music is typically awe-inspiring, the syllables are typically slower than speech, oft-repeated and also written separated. I definitely recommend this method for people that can read music.

[@markthomas1668]

This is an excellent video, Viktor has done everyone a real service. Many thanks.

[@kaewakoyangi8071]

Cyrillic remains forever a Bulgarian achievement.

[@HeroManNick132]

Finally someone said it!

[@martinkunev9911]

0:46 "there is no variation in pronunciation" Devoicing, vowel reduction and iotation are very common. There are also some other subtleties.

[@golyplot]

True, but a bit out of scope, will adress it in another video 🙂

[@coc235]

I believe he meant things like u in English, which has completely different pronounciation in words like cup, music, busy and full. In most languages that use the Cyrillic script the patterns of pronouncuiatiin are rather consistent.

[@martinkunev9911]

@@coc235 If you want to say that it's less messy than english, I agree. Almost all written languages are less messy than english.

[@HANSMKAMP]

I am Dutch, and I notice that Russian is way more phonetic than Dutch (I think that Dutch pronunciation for Russians is harder that Russian pronunciation for Dutch). Still - as you said - there is devoicing, vowel reduction and iotation. Devoicing in Russian works exactly in the same way as in Dutch. Only: we write z as s, and v as f at the end of the word, exept for foreign names. There is almost no vowel reduction, only in personal and possessive pronouns when unstressed. There is almost no iotation in Dutch. At least not in the way it works in Russian.

[@mpetrov2402]

@@HANSMKAMP this ia not Russian tho. This is Bulgarian(and the Bulgarian alphabet). Russians have extra letters we removed from the alphabet when we modernized the language.

[@marcom6089]

I just came across your channel and I love it. Though I’ve only watched this video, I have to say that you are fantastic! Thank you for explaining the Cyrillic alphabet in a way that anyone can understand. I have always wondered about the Cyrillic alphabet and how letters are pronounced + which letters are similar/different from the Latin/Roman alphabet. I’m gonna have to watch your video a few more times but that’s okay with me. 😃

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

If you are curious why some letters look similar: • Some were borrowed from Greek, which may also be used in Latin alphabet • Some evolved over time and ended up looking similar • when Cyrillic was moved on typewriter for the first time, the Russian tsar at the time was a western-phile and used Latin letters to transcribe some Cyrillic letters, and that became the modern print standard, while cursive remained unphased.

[@OJrege]

this video is the one that helped me the most, love your explanation and ways to help remember the letters! Thank you

[@Tr7CkS]

shorter and way much easier than the other videos i have watched to learn cyrillic alphabets. thumbs up. cheers.

[@charla_maine]

Thank you so much for this! I'm learning Old Romanian which was written with the cyrillic alphabet and I'm having such a hard time working with the papers my teacher gave me. You made it way more clearer and easier to remember the letters.

[@HeroManNick132]

Well, keep in mind just like how Latin alphabet may have some different letter pronunciations and same goes for the Cyrillic script. Even though some letters might have different sounds in others like "Е" or "Щ" but still other letters are not much different from the original one a.k.a. the Bulgarian one.

[@elon_ma]

thanks dude! One of the most helpful videos out there

[@georgelynch9602]

Thank you, Victor. Extremely helpful!!!

[@aynurslife854]

Много благодаря за първи път виждам някой който да учи хората на български!😃 Thank you very much I saw for the first time someone who teaches people Bulgarian!

[@HeroManNick132]

Знаеш български? Интересно.

[@aynurslife854]

Да защото съм от България.

[@Bojovic1992]

Nice video man, I would live to see a video comparing differences between pronunciation of Cyrillic letters of other Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian/Macedonian), I think you as a Bulgarian have a nice position as a bridge from East to south that you are able to pronounce all the different sounds (like ч ћ/ќ ђ/ѓ џ from Serbian and Macedonian). Cheers

[@withlovefromrussia]

You are a genius. Loved your video. Man, it helps a lot.😀👍 Will practise with it.

[@ritzelgallo6953]

0mg!!I've been having a hard time on prouncing each word right but I couldn't get it. Thanks to you cause you make it so easy to understand. You deliver it well, this is probably the best video that I watched.

[@famminak852]

Thank you so much for this and for making it easier to memorize them, appreciate your help 🙏☺

[@galathilion]

I swear to god I thought this was impossible to learn. And then after a 10 min video I no longer see weird symbols when looking at Cyrillic. Thank you so much!

[@HeroManNick132]

Nothing is impossible if you have the courage to do it and not give up right away :) Just sayin'

[@NhatNguyen-js7nq]

Thank you for sharing the knowledge. You are amazing!

[@lyanaraytenedero2507]

Спайсиба! I'm new to writing words in Cyrillic alphabet but I tried. This felt good. Thanks for the help!!♥️

[@HeroManNick132]

Actually if you are trying to write in Russian it will be "Спасибо" This was the Bulgarian alphabet and often in Russian O when is unstressed is pronounced like A, and O only if it is stressed but in Bulgarian it is always O as well in the other Slavic languages stressed or unstressed.

[@JustSlav98]

Cyrillic alphabet is not russian, its bulgarian because it was created in bulgaria and first used there. Russia got the alphabet from Bulgaria

[@adrienneclarke3953]

You have inspired me to learn the script. Brilliant idea to use the letters and sounds to write english as a way to learn.

[@dominiquepierre916]

I love to learn Bulgarian language. Also you teach very well. Please continue from basic until advance level in Bulgarian.

[@elenarazpopova8169]

Omg that’s so sweet! I wish you the best of luck ! ~from a fellow Bulgarian citizen

[@onlee6557]

Thanks! Very detailed! I just noticed that actually many letters are pronounced like those in pinyin, which is basically how you spell in mandarin. Very interesting!

[@josandoy]

This is teaching the Cyrillic alphabet taken to a new level!

[@moonwalk3rr]

Such good explanations thank you so much.

[@IvanYanakiev]

Поздравления! Продължавайте все така!

[@user-zy8dg3he4r]

Brilliant content ! Very helpful clip ! Much appreciated ! Thanks a lot!

[@thomasandreassosna9093]

A good lesson, taught in a very friendly way! Thank you!

[@Verbalaesthet]

Excellent tutorial! You're a good teacher. I will remember 3 = Z because in German script the Z also looks like a 3. And SH looks like the Chinese character for mountain 山 which is pronounced SHan.

[@annk1019]

I thought of shan too 🙂

[@ktrayan1]

The SH also looks like a Hebrew S/sh sound

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@@ktrayan1 And looks like Arabic Sheen = SH ش

[@sillyboxcat]

Вери найс видео! Благодаря.

[@reef6826]

Clearest explanation I have seen yet, thanks.

[@JenniferSaxin]

Thanks for this! I'm trying to do family tree research for my husband and soon realised I needed to learn the Cyrillic alphabet to get any further.

[@janerussianchannel4669]

I love your videos. They are very helpful and educational. I am finding that since I have been learning Russian I have been able to read a little bit of Ukrainian, some Bulgarian and some Serbian when, when Serbian is in Cyrillic that is.

[@HeroManNick132]

If you paid attention you'll notice that all of these alphabets have some different pronunciations of some letters like for example: "И" in Ukrainian is pronounced as the Russian/Belarusian "Ы" while in Bulgarian as "ЪЙ" and "I" in Ukrainian is pronounced as "И" which is in every Slavic language except Ukrainian and Belarusian where "И" is pronounced as "Ы" but this letter is not in the Belarusian alphabet. "Щ" in Ukrainian is pronounced as "ШЧ," while in Bulgarian as "ШТ" and in Russian as soft "Ш" like "ШЬ." "Г" in Ukrainian and Belarusian is pronounced as softer "Х". In Ukrainian "Ґ" is "Г" which is rarely used in Ukrainian, while in Belarusian there is not even a "Г" sound there - just a soft "Х" sound like Ukrainian. "Ї" is only represented in Ukrainian as the equivalent of the Bulgarian and Russian "ИИ/ИЙ" or the Serbian "JИ" sound. Belarusian Cyrillic also it have a unique letter "Ў" (which is just like J or Й this is just "У" short). Every Cyrillic alphabet have some unique letters (except maybe Bulgarian and Russian alphabet).

[@maklavmakedonluka3338]

Im a macedonian living in germany trying to learn the cyrillic Alphabet and this video "somewhat" Helped me so thanks

[@jovan2krofi233]

твоите не те учат?

[@HeroManNick132]

Македонец, който да не знае как да пише и да чете на кирилица? Явно достигнахме до такова ниво, където все повече хора, които живеят извън страната си, ще стават все по-невежи и по-невежи... Жалко е да се гледа това нещо... И да както Йован те попита, твоите родители не са ли те учили или изобщо не са се интересували дали знаеш как да четеш и да пишеш на кирилица?

[@youhavenoprivacyandownnoth8289]

@@HeroManNick132 ако бг изостави варварицата и приеме латинските букви като Турция, ще просперира

[@crimsonfarts6856]

basically a bulgarian in Germany?

[@maklavmakedonluka3338]

@@crimsonfarts6856 Well no Just a German state Citizen With Macedonian Roots Trying to Learn the Cyrillic Alphabet and get along with his day.

[@rustymakely1057]

Golypot , I like you’re teaching style, thank you !

[@antoxatxa]

As a half greek and half bulgarian due to my mom i've come to hear bulgarian everyday at home and see how massive of a language it is. As a result of that (and other factors like living in germany and speaking mainly greek) i've never tried learning bulgarian because i was scared. My mom and my whole family from bulgaria were sad and they thought i should learn it since family, culture, heritage etc. Now that i can finally read, write and speak greek and german without any problem, now that i grew up and matured and now that my love for languages has grown in the past years even more (trying to learn korean, italian and in the future arabic) i feel finally ready to start learning bulgarian. Hopefully i can make my family proud. Thank you so much for the video. Learning the alphabet is always the first step in learning a language so thank you for starting my and many othrs journey that is bulgarian.

[@sahkopi4607]

Благодаря! Световната общност има нужда да види, че тази азбука е наша, а не руска.

[@aleksandrkurbatov2058]

У Вас что, какие-то комплексы?! Американцы, говорящие на английском, и, пишущие латиницей, как-то вообще не переживают по этому поводу. Или Вы думаете, что итальянцы, при любом удобном случае, будут кичиться, что полмира пишет буквами их предков?! Это же глупо🤦🏿‍♂️

[@sahkopi4607]

@@aleksandrkurbatov2058 Няма комплекс. Ние дори се радваме, че толкова много държави изпозлват нашата азбука. Ние сме по-малка държава от Русия и много често хората ни бърката или смятат, че сме руснаци. Такива видеа помагат за разпространението на нашата култура и история.

[@berzengi1]

@@aleksandrkurbatov2058 при чем тут комплексы? у болгар просто нет ы э Ё и поэтому алфавиты различаются

[@HeroManNick132]

@@berzengi1 Ы, Э сме ги имали преди 1945-та година, както и други странни букви като например Ѫ (голям/большое юс). Ё е изцяло руска буква. Но интересен факт е, че само полският език е запазил тези букви като Ѫ, Ѧ = Ą; Ę

[@stefanfilipov1574]

@@aleksandrkurbatov2058 Недей така Александре, че точно ти като руснак ,да ми говориш за комлекси и история е малко лицемерно. Няма нищо комплексирано, в това да се знае историята, каквато е. Но може би било нещо непонятно за вас, руснаците. Все пак създадохте една цяла държава, само да се изтъкнете, като по-великата нация. Сам ще те оставя, да се сетиш, за коя държава ти говоря. :)

[@fakuri913]

it's suprisingly easy, thank you

[@jraeflowers8300]

this really helped with the soft sound letters..like a lot!!

[@Ukepa]

Victor, thanks a lot! We have a new hobby, reading Cyrillic!

[@carolinbaghoomian2906]

You made learning easy! Thank You!!!

[@kremenamicheva1220]

Amazing video and wonderful delivery, thank you so much Благодаря много! A few additional notes from a native Bulgarian: About Ж and the snowflake example - actually snowflake is снежинка in Bulgarian, so it actually contains the letter Ж :) ь is "er maluk" because it could never be at the beginning of the words, therefore no Capital version, thus the "maluk" = small letter; Ъ, ъ is a fully qualified vow in BG :) rarely at the beginning - ъгъл = angle. Ай хоуп ит уаз хелпфул! :)

[@HeroManNick132]

Забрави да споменеш, че Ж е все едно 2 К-та залепени един за друг. Както Я-то е обърнато R, така и Ж-то е съставено от обърнато и нормално К.

[@ichbin545]

ъуъ

[@ichbin545]

Зззз

[@ichbin545]

@@HeroManNick132 вроде и на русском написано, но ели как поймёшь ,что тут написано

[@YaShoom]

В русском есть слово "жук" - довольно похоже.

[@Ministry-of-Offense]

Great explanations of Cyrillic for beginners.

[@islaadele1212]

Love the way you help me remember. Thank you!

[@vibratoryuniverse308]

Thanks golyplot, I am currently studying Orthographies (Greek / Hebrew / Cyrillic / Sanskrit / Hangul) and this super helpful !!

[@user-ww6dw4by9w]

Cirrilic as a sub prodact of original hellenic - greek alphavito come with many similarities

[@janerussianchannel4669]

You had mentioned the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, for anyone who is interested in learning Serbian, Serbia uses to alphabets, the Cyrillic alphabet and the Latin, but be warned, their Latin alphabet is pronounced way differently than how we pronounce the Latin alphabet. I know this because when I started learning Russian I started exploring other Slavic languages. Also, if you want to get really good at learning the alphabet, don't use digital flashcards, make your own flashcards because the more you write the alphabet yourself the better you're going to be with it and the easier it's going to be for you to remember it. I will also mention that it is very helpful to watch movies in the language that you are trying to learn, and listen to songs in the language you are trying to learn and find the lyrics to that song in English and in their native language. Trust me, it really helps. When you hear somebody singing in that language and hear how they pronounce those words and the accents they have on these words it helps you to understand the words better when you hear people speaking them.

[@user-xh9td7ts1l]

Serbian cyrilic is even different than other, we have ћ which is kinda like soft ч, аlso ђ(dj or dy but it is realy unique to serbian language), џ(dz, дж), and we have letters љ, њ which are нь and ль.

[@janerussianchannel4669]

@@user-xh9td7ts1l thank you. I think Serbian us a very beautiful language too. I've decided to add Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Belarusian to my list. I'm learning Russian so I might as well add other Slavic languages to my list and become a polyglot.😁

[@user-xh9td7ts1l]

@@janerussianchannel4669 good luck

[@user-xh9td7ts1l]

@@janerussianchannel4669 and also Serbs don't have я, й, ь, ю, э, щ. And we say ja instead of я. We use j for example you tube we read ju tjub(ју тјуб). Practicaly, every letter is one sound.

[@janerussianchannel4669]

@@user-xh9td7ts1l thank you! I'm going to need it.😁

[@english4hispanics]

Nice stuff, man! Thanks !

[@nikolayteoharov9361]

I am a native bulgarian speaker and i found the explanations in the video very interesting

[@sabtuchannel9590]

I m falling in love with Bulgarian Language... From Borneo Island Sarawak

[@ZachBelcher94]

great lesson, but some of the visualisation exercises for memorisation were overly abstract / confusing, otherwise a good and direct lesson, thank you, I learned a lot.

[@theatomicmom]

Great video! I felt like I was back in my first Bulgarian class. :)

[@oggi2728]

WOW ! Great job ! Thank you for making Cyrillic alphabet easier for other people ! I will definitely recommend your channel to my friends who learn Slavic languages ))

[@user-lr2hs9ok9j]

I love how you use the language that gave birth of cyrillic alphabets for example. 🇧🇬

[@user-vo7cw1xx3r]

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[@RR_theproahole]

Cristian Kostadinov oh man I can read your name

[@fans7065]

@@user-vo7cw1xx3r а че смешного? Можно тоже посмеятся?

[@bananamen2316]

Wdym? I don't hear him speaking🇲🇰 🇲🇰

[@JustSlav98]

@@bananamen2316 Cyrillic was created in Bulgaria. There was no Northmacedonia during this time. It takes you 2 secs to google

[@AlexEEZ]

it's a good idea to mention this is specifically meant to explain how to pronounce cyrillic letters the bulgarian way. there are noticeable differences between russian and bulgarian cyrillic pronunciations, like "щ" in bulgarian being pronounced "sht" differing from the softened "sch" in russian

[@golyplot]

07:39

[@AlexEEZ]

@@golyplot 👍

[@HeroManNick132]

@@AlexEEZ In Ukrainian it is pronounced this letter as "ШЧ"

[@mndjoy]

The cursive z helps so much! Rote memorization is not easy for me; I think almost exclusively in mnemonics and metaphor, so this is a godsend. Thank you!

[@Lana-qe2vg]

Vey very helpful! Your a great teacher and adorable too!!!

[@keno502]

Romanian here, gotta say, pronunciation is almost identical to ours, (probably due to slavic influences), but learning the alphabet is a bit hard. Either way, well done, very good tutorial.

[@liquidh6344]

5:10 The Ш which looks like the Chinese character 山 (means mountain or "shan" in hanyu pinyin) . Interestingly, both starts with the sound "Sh"!

[@nicolasvallejos.2906]

Looks like the kanji in japanese, "yama" means mountain lol

[@kleinter]

Great video. Much appreciated! :)

[@khecke]

This was very helpful to get the correct sound of the letters.

[@Vajicgaja]

Да ли је руска, српска, бугарска, да ли су је направили Ћирило и Методије или је већ постојала, потпуно ми је свеједно. Свеједно ми је и чија је верзија старија, све док постоји ћирилица. Поздрављам сва словенска племена било да пишу или не ћирилицом. Настави са добрим радом.

[@volkhen0]

Pozdrav

[@FaustRSI]

The letter "Щ" only appears in the Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian alphabets (if we count Slavic ones). The pronunciation is different in each of them. In Bulgarian it is pronounced as "Sh+T", just like in this video, in Ukrainian it is more like Sh+Ch, and in Russian it is just a softened Sh, just like in the word "She", just the sound is a bit stronger.

[@HeroManNick132]

Well in Old Church Slavonic this letter is pronounced like "шти" and Bulgarian kept its "шт" pronunciation. Not sure why you Russians and Ukrainians desided to change it to "шь" or "шч"

[@FaustRSI]

@@HeroManNick132 I am neither Russian nor Ukrainian, just somebody who does their homework before posting or sharing anything. In fact in eastern Slavic languages at first it was common to pronounce it as sh+ch, this pronunciation gradually was changed in Russian (but kept in Ukrainian) since about 19 century. Of course, there are still some Russian dialects, especially in the South, that keeps it same or similar as in Ukrainian. Interestingly, in Lithuania the official transliteration of letter Щ is based on Ukrainian, even for words translated from Russian, i.e. "šč" (sh+ch). Not sure if anyone else uses Bulgarian variation, maybe Macedonians.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@FaustRSI Well, I'm Bulgarian (but I'm not this guy from the video as you assumed lmao). And in Macedonian there is no Щ at all it is ШТ. But in Bulgarian you'll never see this combination except for 1 word - "пустошта" (the wasterland) and just "пустош" means (wasteland). Also "ШЧ" exist in Bulgarian too but it not very common to spot. 1 word that comes in my mind is "кошче" which means "basket" or "trash can" Funny how some people sometimes pronounce "Щ" like regular "Ш" like "ще" sometimes you may spot it as "ше" or for example at the word "общност" the T-s are mostly not pronounced in everyday speech. So "общност" will be more likely "обшнос" just like at the word "педераст" - the last T is not pronounced, as well in the word "отвертка" (the 2nd T is not pronounced).

[@mjg5318]

Thanks man! about to go to university to study spanish and opted for russian (from beginners) as a second language. This helps a lot.

[@adamgaude5922]

this video was extremely helpful. thank you

[@PC_Simo]

5:00 Back in high school, my Russian teacher referred to «Ч» as the ”Number-4-S”; so, that’s a familiar mnemonic device, for me 😆.

[@davidsturm7706]

We learned it as an upside down chair. Ch!

[@PC_Simo]

@@davidsturm7706 Well, that helps, too. For us, I don’t think that would have been possible; because, apart from Russian and German, our teacher didn’t really know squat about languages; I mean, she thought that ”Let’s go!” was Swedish 😆.

[@JustSlav98]

Bro this is Bulgarian alphabet and the bulgarian way to spell it is the correct one . Thats because the Cyrillic alphabet was created in Bulgaria not Russia :)

[@Sc00terNut]

When I studied Russian in high school I learned to read the Cyrillic alphabet in literally a day. I love the way Cyrillic looks when written.

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Bro Cyrilic is 1000000000 Made in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

[@annielicheva]

It's really interesting to see our alphabet, in another light. I think it's explained really interesting

[@dejan1389srbija]

Хвала ти за овај видео. 👍👍👍👍

[@star_t1]

This Cyrillic is only for Russian. Serbian Cyrillic have letters like ć, č, š, đ, dž, lj, nj (ћ, ч, ш, ђ, џ, љ, њ)

[@yonekduhyote]

A lot of these Cyrillic consonants can be used in Chinese i.e. Chen Chan Chu Zheng Zhu Zha Tsu Tsi Tsa from Cu Ci Ca Shi Sha She Cyrillic is already used in Mongolia

[@00opiumm]

Mongolia uses cyriliic because they were created by russia as a puppet state

[@d_doctrine5901]

Chen Chan Chu - Чен Чан Чу Zheng Zhu Zha - Женг Жу Жа Tsu Tsi Tsa - Цу Ци Ца Shi Sha She - Ши Ша Ше Some bulgarian words that can be made only with those syllables: женшен - Ginseng жужа - I'm buzzing шише - bottle чу - he/she/it heard ши - he/she/it sew цица - tit Or he/she/it is sucking цици - tits

[@rbfailomkyodn4537]

Good video, well explained. Congrats!

[@volodimirkun]

Dude, you have both english and russian f-ed up pronunciation ... That`s a gift, bro...

[@HeroManNick132]

He explained the Bulgarian one... Plus you sound like you can talk him better...

[@Maplesyrup2003]

Спасибо!!!!! It helped alot🤗🤗

[@crimsonfarts6856]

bruh that ain't russian

[@ognjenpetrovic5843]

Expert mode: unlock Serbian Љ, Њ, Ћ, Ђ and Џ

[@milicailic8717]

😭✋🏻

[@HeroManNick132]

Љ - ЛЬ (if it is near A - ЛЯ, if it is near У - ЛЮ) Њ - НЬ (same thing near A - НЯ, near У - НЮ) Ћ - ДЖЬ (softer ДЖ sound and works just like Љ, Њ) Ђ - ЧЬ (same thing as your all soft letters just a soft Ч sound) Џ - ДЖ (hard ДЖ sound) J - Й/Ь (you missed to mention it)

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

LL, Ñ, CHY, JY, J

[@asitwaghmare8144]

Great video. Could you please make a video featuring small case Cyrillic letters and the cursive Cyrillic alphabet as well.

[@implusoAzuul]

You make it easy to understand. Very clear an very helpful! Thank you!

[@dimbo5618]

Благодаря за това видео

[@HeroManNick132]

Българин ли си? :D

[@imtheweirdone6208]

I am Serbian this is kinda awesome seeing as we have the same ancestors and speak a langue so close yet so far away хвала из Србије

[@HeroManNick132]

Ти нали знаеш, че граничиш със славянскоговорящи народи, освен с унгарците и румънците на север и на югозапад с албанците. Така, че не е изненада защо. Но разбира се имаме разлика в кирилиците. Вие нямате ,,Й, Ѝ, Щ, Ъ, Ь, Ю, Я," но вместо това имате ,,Ђ, J, Љ, Њ, Ћ, Џ."

[@danicadabic9789]

@@HeroManNick132 da, Vuk Karadzic je izbacio neka slova i dodao nova. Kod nas ne postoje "meki znakovi" i slova koja se pisu ali se ne citaju. Preuzeo je pravilo Johanna Christopha Adelunga - "pisi kao sto govoris, citaj kako je napisano". In English - Indeed, Vuk Karadzic reformed the (written) language by ditching some letters but he add some new ones. Serbian Cyrillic today doesn't include the letters that used to be written but were not pronounced. He adopted the system from the German philologist Johann Christoph Adelung - "Write as you speak and read as it is written". Note: this reform is still a point of contention in Serbia. While some say it perfected the language, others think the language lost a lot of its richness.

[@1suitcasesal]

Great video. Makes things easy to understand.

[@sirin4606]

bro i just subscribed:) Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩