Learn Russian letters on the streets! (on the example of signboards)

[@NatashasAdventures]

What’s your favorite Russian letter?

[@futureretro3322]

Φ , its the same in greek :)

[@G-ra-ha-m]

Д, it is the first I learned!!

[@evanzedd2088]

Жжжж 🐞 and Рррр 🐯

[@TheWilder30]

How do you say Beautiful in Russian?

[@NeoKesha]

Ы, потому что всем поим друзьям приходится объяснять, что это звук, который произносишь, когда тебя ударили в живот

[@ghut-wz2sr]

Love this lady very much. She is very proud of her town and country and wow she's so smart..

[@herzart212]

and pretty

[@poke-champ4256]

@@herzart212 when i saw this comment just has one reply i knew it was about her looks. which is the only reason im here so...

[@edmontonboy99]

@@poke-champ4256 When I saw this comment and saw two replies, I knew one of them would involve “pretty” and I thought the other reply would be like “SIMP”

[@Cheetos439]

simp

[@alvinmonero3462]

@@herzart212 Her pretty face is half the reason I come here. She (or whoever actually runs this channel) Is good at marketing these vids.

[@davidbaker8364]

My favourite Russian letter is "Ж". It just looks so cool.

[@terwit1549]

"Ж" looks like a bug. The bug in Russian is "Жук"

[@jordan9339]

@@terwit1549 Like Женщина. Because Russian women are beautiful.

[@terwit1549]

Russians generally say - "Девушка". It does not depend on age. "Женщина" is something official

[@ARTOMYS]

@@terwit1549 дурак? Это зависит от возраста. Ты бабушку или девочку женщиной назовешь? Девушка - это конкретно молодая женщина, дословно - девственница.

[@terwit1549]

@@ARTOMYS ПНХ

[@АнатолийАнатолий-п1д]

I'm a native Russian, but I really like how you've chosen to teach foreigners Russian alphabet by demonstrating real Russian signboards, along with pieces of regular live in Russia. I know that when I first tried to learn English, it was hard for me to grasp foreign culture and, I think, I'd find such pieces of English culture helpful. They are not much, of course, but they still make you feel like you're already there, and it's a nice comforting feeling for someone trying to learn a new language.

[@christinafacts444]

Your English is almost flawless. If you ever want to trick native speakers, just get rid of 90% of your punctuation and no one would ever know.

[@АнатолийАнатолий-п1д]

​@@christinafacts444, thanks, I'll do that :3

[@СтаниславПилипенко-я5с]

The girl, especially for you, was looking for bad landscapes. :) This is enough in any country. Russia, over the past 30 years, has gone through a lot of bad things. And now, in any city in Russia, you can find very unattractive architecture, etc. But there is also a lot of new and good things. The girl did not show this. (Google translator)

[@АнатолийАнатолий-п1д]

​@@СтаниславПилипенко-я5с, I'm not sure there is such thing as good or bad landscapes when it comes to conveying the spirit of daily life in any country. Because the point of it is to give people the feeling of what it's like to live there and go places. If you just show the most beautiful places, you will convey wrong picture, it's like when you are a tourist and you only remember tourist attraction spots after leaving, not the narrow streets or the courtyards with kids playing with their sticks. I've seen many Russians trying to showcase Russian attractions and architecture (mostly in Moscow with the latter), but what they showed never felt like Russia to me, because they have omitted the bad pieces of roads where puddles form after rain or the Soviet Union-old buildings with ugly graffity and swearwords painted on them that I grew up seeing every day. Or the people, their tired or gloomy faces when they hurry to work or to other important places, all busy and worried and trying to be punctual and being frustrated with our municipal services etc. The point of this exercise is not to demonstrate how cool we are by picking the most beautiful places of Russia, but to relay the real picture with both the beautiful and the ugly, so that the foreigners could feel the life here even if they haven't been to Russia once. And if someone thinks it's more respectful to Russia to show only good stuff about it, then I disagree strongly, because there can't be any respect without acknowledgement of true state of things.

[@СтаниславПилипенко-я5с]

@@АнатолийАнатолий-п1д In the 1990s, European and US politicians actively supported corruption in the countries of the former USSR (this is a fact). What is corruption (for real), we learned after the collapse of the USSR. In the days of the USSR, it was almost nonexistent (as it turned out). A lot of resources were taken from the former USSR. The people have become very poor. All these resources supported the economies of Europe and the United States (in the first place). It was a real genocide of Europe and the United States against the peoples of the former USSR. This is exactly how it was (I don’t know what your media say there, I experienced it all myself). Wherever Europe comes in, it only gets worse (with a few exceptions). Now Russia has just begun to recover from the shock of the 1990s. And now in Russia it is much safer and more comfortable than in many other countries. Yes, somewhere in the cities of Russia there is the architecture of the 1990s. But this is less and less. The West brought great grief to the countries of the former USSR. I'm from Ukraine. Ukrainian oligarchs are guilty of Ukraine's troubles (in the first place). They, too, were raised by Western politicians. I know what I'm talking about. Since independence, the population of Ukraine has dropped from 52 million to 30-32 million. Even before the Maidans, Ukraine lived better than Russia. Now the comparison is in favor of Russia. In Ukraine, there is now a real junta and fascists. And Europe (oddly enough) does not see this.

[@huyhuynh312]

I love Russian old song's, always been wanted to learn Russian for a long time, Темная ночь song is one of my favorite. Love from Vietnam!!

[@ShahidHussainArzu]

I liked the method adopted in teaching Russian letters.I would definitely another lesson.

[@ichhassediewelt7625]

люблю Вьетнам:)

[@vladimirlazarev2267]

Зачем я, носитель русского языка, 20 минут смотрел про русский алфавит на английском языке? o_O

[@Bonpoc4er]

захотел почувствовать себя иностранцем

[@mikewishnevski6665]

Просто девочка красивая

[@ВикторТитов-щ6и]

Аналогично, зачем я это смотрел не отрываясь)))

[@limeya4099]

Я тоже)Девушка красивая просто)

[@klmbI]

@@mikewishnevski6665 И голос приятный

[@tierfuehrer2]

Oh this is the smartest thing of you to teach the letters on streetsign and such. When I was in greece, I learned the greek alphabet the exact same way.

[@bradmoyer9737]

I understand from your videos that public smiling isn’t the cultural norm in your country, but it doesn’t change the fact that you have a beautiful smile 😊 that lights you up when you use it. Your videos are interesting and informative, Thank you for taking the time to do them!

[@boredgrass]

The 'monument to the endangered letter.' That got me🤗🤔🤨🙃🙄😎

[@dustymiller65]

Poor letter with the two dots on top, nobody ever remembers to put those on. Ëë

[@Jose-so1hx]

@@dustymiller65 Letters with Diacritics UNITE!!!

[@hughmungus1767]

If I'm remembering correctly, Russian had an additional letter that wasn't used heavily so the Bolsheviks dropped it when they seized power in 1917. Is the one in this video that same letter or is it a different letter?

[@HANSMKAMP]

In Belarusian the dots MUST be written. If you don't, it's a spelling error.

[@alanshadastrokeanddiedinho2897]

That letter isn't even on the Russian keyboard in the Google translation page.

[@perttiheinikko3780]

I don't know anything about the Russian language but if I ever started to learn Russian, you'd be my teacher of choice. Best wishes from Finland!

[@Ulexcool]

just don´t Simo Häyhä her please...

[@perttiheinikko3780]

@@Ulexcool well boy, before it would ever come to that, they would Arthur Harris us 100 %

[@nelsonfranks2065]

Probably the best basic Russian alphabet lesson I've ever seen. Brilliant to tie it in with signs on the street!

[@prviproleter]

I just love the way you dress. So simple and tasteful. You're absolutely beautiful! Whatever you do: never change!

[@jorgemartins1893]

Hi from Brazil, Natasha. You are a wonderful “professora” ( teacher in portuguese ).

[@nnawnbs]

@@JackSmith-ou1dg учительница* учитель is male teacher

[@lenadima5168]

@@nnawnbs училка)))

[@Natashanjka]

@@nnawnbs учитель is a man and a woman. Учительница is a feminitive. It's a colloquial speech. But if it's an official document, for example, then only учитель is acceptable.

[@ldgaming4213]

Profesora is professor in Spanish as well!

[@Valentin_I]

@@ldgaming4213 professor is профессор in Russian

[@DCEntropy]

Never been to Russia yet, but have always been fascinated by it. Back when I was in High school, I used to take my class notes in Cyrillic, but phonetically in English. Confused my teachers. And I had a girl I used to write notes to in class, so she learned how to write in it too. :) Keep up the excellent videos.

[@mgk920]

Kind of like the bottles of Russian Standard vodka on the back bar of one of my favorite watering holes here in Wisconsin - one side of the bottles have the brand name in English, phonetically spelled out in Cyrillic, the other side in straight English.

[@jasinta5390]

i do that toooo hahhah everybody always looks at me weird but its so much more fun

[@сергейдимитриенко-х9ю]

@@mgk920Brand name in English, spelld out in Cyrillic🤣 It has Russian name in one side, and English name in the other side "РУССКИЙ СТАНДАРТ ВОДКА" -"RUSSIAN STANDARD VODKA"

[@Pavel1560]

я поляк и очен люблю буквы Ш, Ч, Я, Е, Ё, Ю потому что у нас в польском тоже такие звуки есть. Но нам нужно писать две буквы для одного звука вместо одной: Sz, Cz, Ja, Je, Jo, Ju. :)

[@alexeig127]

Thats because cyrillic alphabet was made exactly for slavic languages, while poles where to much affected by german influence

[@Pavel1560]

@@alexeig127 I know that, but polish is mainly influenced by latin, french and greek, not only german. :)

[@ShamanKish]

ŠĐČĆŽ

[@evgenyp.3137]

Вы тратите больше чернил, когда пишете :)

[@borisszczukin7547]

А мне нравится польское написание.👍

[@Master0fPuppets7]

теперь я выучил английский .

[@ЛешаБорисевич-ч1ъ]

а я наконец-то алфавит :)

[@Michel_Moutouse]

я тоже!) Я теперь знаю "рашен наташа" )))

[@Ksyusha_Kalinina2]

@@ЛешаБорисевич-ч1ъ + хд

[@brad8549]

did you watch it backwards by mistake?

[@Russiagirl]

❤❤❤

[@johnsmart964]

Thank you very much for this very interesting video. You are a great ambassador for Russia.

[@b.a.3673]

the hard sign and soft sign still stays a mystery for me ^^

[@fernandolamadrid9889]

Russian has two versions of each consonant sound. When you say the vowel [i] as in "easy" or the semivowel [j] as in "yes", you lift the body of your tongue towards your palate. Besides your normal consonant sounds, Russian has a whole series of palatalized consonants, where you raise the body of your tongue AT THE SAME TIME that you pronounce it. To write these consonants, you follow them by a soft vowel (я е и ю), or, if there’s no vowel sound after them, you use the soft sign (ь).

[@JesusChristSaves2024]

It's basically a silent letter. It's like how the letter "g" produces the pronunciation of the word "sign".

[@Kitulous]

@@JesusChristSaves2024 it changes the previous consonant tho. Sign [saın] but sin [sın] so it changes the vowel While топь [topĵ] but топ [top] -- the consonant is changed

[@darrenehhhhhhtill8051]

@@fernandolamadrid9889 why tho

[@sumrose7972]

@@darrenehhhhhhtill8051 when she said the the word with and without, I was like... Um that's the same word, it sounds exactly the same!. Haha or.. xaxaxa ;) I was watching a Russian youtuber the other day, and he said a word with his mouth open, and the front tip of his tongue curled up! My tongue can not do this, ever, so I might be slightly screwed with russian language.

[@dustyfun5944]

This video is informative and entertaining as well. I would recommend it to anybody interested in learning russian alphabet, because it does not only teach about russian letters and their pronounciation, but it demonstrates their application in a very realistic and authentic way. Furthermore in this video it can be seen, what Russia looks like in the far eastern parts. Although I knew the russian alphabet before, I could find still some usefull information in it. Dawai!

[@jackiew6598]

I saw this video for the first time about a year ago and couldn't get the Russian letters out of my head. Then recently I started studying Russian and as soon as I learned the alphabet I watched this video again to review. I think this video makes a great review. I'm enjoying studying Russian and want to continue learning this beautiful language. When I was learning to read my native English as a child I spent so much time walking around with my mother while she was running errands and I read all the signs. I think signs are a great way to learn and review letters and words.

[@danielfife243]

This is an exceptional learning (as opposed to teaching) video which helps one to remember the alphabet. The cultural and linguist cues and associations help reinforce the experience.

[@macjc5]

I love cheburech! We have Cheburechnaya restaurant in NY too!

[@ГликодинГликодинов]

Is there cat's, dog's and bum's meat in your chebureks too?

[@2Oldcoots]

Excellent teaching skills on display here!

[@yamigekusu]

This person reminds me of my French\German language teacher from high school! She was from Croatia, but also knew Russian and in downtime, she sometimes wrote some words she knew and told about pronunciation and whatnot. She made me interested in learning some languages

[@alij9167]

Thank you. Your teaching went much much smoother than the formal way of just introducing letters and repeating them several times. The only thing I had problem with was "sh" honestly I couldn't even hear the difference between the two " sh"

[@yarroudayo]

the first one "sh" ( Ш, ш ) sounds like in eng words "SHine" or "SHop". The second isn't "sh".. this is mostly like closer to "shch" ( Щ, щ ). You can get it from rus word "SHCHavel'" that means "sorrel" in eng or thats how calls the russian soup

[@LordJinkies]

I'm gonna have to watch this again and again. Every time you said "foreigners have a hard time ...", I have had that same problem. This is the best Russian pronunciation video I've seen.

[@James-re6co]

Your hometown in Russia looks very much like many hometowns in America. We are not really so much different as we are alike. Thank you for what you do.

[@victorramsey5575]

Youre a very good teacher. I appreciate the effort you put into this video. You are great! Cheers from Georgia USA.

[@davidsalinas1628]

Loved the lesson using actual steet signs wish there were more lessons like this.

[@Strohkopfs]

Just started learning russian. This helped a lot, especially the explaination how words are pronounced differently without certain letters.

[@abdulabdanahib9617]

Кому тоже в рекомендациях попалось

[@sergo9112]

Мне

[@ВикторТитов-щ6и]

я в последнее время видео по английскому смотрю. И вдруг это, но все равно посмотрел)))

[@ДаниилНалбандян-м9у]

Похоже пора заново Русский учить

[@ВладимирСлужительРоссии]

@@ДаниилНалбандян-м9у я тут посмотрел иностранку Нурию, она учит Русский. Токо же ощущение посетило. Но у меня другой вопрос, почему мне ютуб подсунул вначале Нурию, теперь Наташу.

[@TheKingsOfCookie]

I found your channel a week ago, very interesting content, seeing your life in Russia especially in the Far East region which I don’t know nothing about. I am thinking about learning Russian so this video was super educational. Keep up the good work, greetings from Germany :)

[@downhilltwofour0082]

Thanks for sharing. I hope some of the young folks around the world see this!

[@robertgirvan5239]

I love languages and studying them. Natasha has done a great job here with this video. It is very creative to teach the Russian letters by showing them in her city; one can learn a bit about Russian life as well. She knows a lot, and has a very natural presentation style. I would like to read some of the great Russian poets I like in their own language. This is a good beginning! Thanks, Natasha Robert, Canada

[@tytorubio3271]

Wow, pharmacie in dutch is apotheker. That sounds much closer to the russian word than i thought it would..if only all the words would be this similar, i could be speaking russian in no time. This was such a fun video! Thanks for this lesson!

[@gleggett3817]

Both words coming from apothecary.

[@tytorubio3271]

@@gleggett3817 oh yes apothecary! (they arent derived from english if thats what you are saying. It comes from latin/greek language )

[@gleggett3817]

@@tytorubio3271 from the Latin apothecarius "shopkeeper" into old French. Pharmacy is also from Latin/French with Greek underpinnings.

[@tytorubio3271]

The Dutch language is older than English, even some of the English words have their origin from Dutch. I dont know about Russian

[@gleggett3817]

@@tytorubio3271 Old Dutch and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) are cousins. Old Dutch "Irlôsin sol an frithe sêla mîna fan thên thia ginâcont mi, wanda under managon he was mit mi" versus Old English "Si ðin nama gehalgod. Tobecume ðin rice. Gewurde ðin willa on eorþan, swa swa on heofonum.'

[@richardcheatham9490]

I'll start this from the beginning and perhaps it will sink in a bit more. One day-post Covid 19-I hope to travel to see locations associated with the the great Russian writers (Tsarskoye Selo, Peredelkino, Dostoyevsky Steps, anything Pushkin or Akhmatova-and the list goes on). Thank you, Natasha, for creating this learning tool. Ричард

[@MattTee1975]

I've been trying to learn Russian - you've been a big help with your videos. Thanks!

[@theosib]

Putting the IPA in there made all the difference to my ability to follow along and understand what sounds you're making. Thank you for doing that!

[@garrick3727]

I might have to watch that one a few more times. If little kids can learn this, so can I. Eventually.

[@alexmandelli3994]

I knew already russian letters, they were not difficult to me to memorize because I learned old greek alphabet at high school... Very helpful video about pronunciation though, thank you Natasha :)

[@BKPrice]

When I was young I got a book that taught Russian and studied it a bit just for fun because I was bored one summer. I learned a bit of grammar but nothing I remember. I also memorized the alphabet at the time. I don't remember all of it, but I recall one time a few years ago - which would be the equivalent of 25 or 30 years after I memorized the alphabet - I was playing Geoguessr. I moved around a bit trying to figure out where I was. I saw a sign in cyrillic and was able to figure out the word Kaliningrad. I thought it was very cool that I was able to remember an alphabet that I hadn't really looked at so many years later, and even now whenever I see cyrillic in anything I find it fun to try to work out the sound of the word, even if I don't know what it means.

[@shardanette1]

Thanks for the tour of your town. The way you discussed it, I always thought it was smaller and more rural.

[@KhrisAsaurus]

"As you can see this store is closed, I don't know why, and... uhm... let's move onto the next letter!" - 😂😂😂

[@michaelmacdonell4834]

This seems to sum up several aspects of my life!

[@stefantkalcic1491]

So, god. damn. relatable.

[@OrangeC7]

I like how every few letters there was an unexplained jump cut, it seemed to add a little bit of humor that made the video that much nicer to watch. I'm not sure if she did it on purpose or not, but I quite liked it, especially because it was a little subtle as well

[@Kyokka]

@@JackSmith-ou1dg do you know we aren’t communists anymore hai

[@demiannevile]

Ого, заморочилась) Гуд джоб!

[@hascleavrahmbenyoseph7186]

When I went to Moscow on Google roads I was happy to see signs I understood, such as "BAHK" so I began to study and learn the Russian alphabet. This video has been very helpful to me. Thank you.

[@FSKRadmin]

But still "БАНК". "В" in Russian means V

[@stephenheart4468]

Thank you. I enjoyed your video a great deal. I have been to Vladivostok, Moscow, St Petersburg and many small Russian towns. It was very enjoyable to tour Spassk with you, as it reminded me of many of the towns I have visited in Russia. I have learned the Russian alphabet, but your explanation was very helpful. Большое спасибо.

[@yamabushi170]

Thank you so much, this is the best lesson on the Russian alphabet I've found and I'll be referring to it over and over again I have no doubt. Thumbs up!

[@judgejase7583]

Thanks for your brilliant, clear, concise and educational introduction to the Russian alphabet. Being from Australia, I was always confused by how some English letters meant something completely different in Russian. Your presentation skills make learning a lot more pleasant.

[@a.o.yaroslavov]

Это самая лучшая пропаганда Русской культуры, спасибо тебе!

[@spacemanjupiter]

Ah, my first lesson for Russian. I've always been curious every time I see written Russian. Very interesting video. I found it very complex and a bit confusing. However, this was definitely better than going through a course online. You would be a good teacher.

[@maddiesdirtysyringe5601]

Your approach to teaching Russian is very effective thank you,,From America with love

[@showmustgoon4167]

Love these natural examples 😍😎😃🤣😁😀😉 by such a teacher 😚

[@saw76]

3:41 только у нас могут придумать такое название ЕВРО окно, евро-ремонт и т.д... Евро окно на Дальнем Востоке)

[@ХЕЙТЕРЫ-ы2б]

у нас на базаре продаётся даже еврошвабра...

[@pifpaf2725]

@@ХЕЙТЕРЫ-ы2б а-ха-ха

[@harm-reduction]

так ниче удивительного я думаю имеется ввиду евротехнология, типа окна эти пришли из европы

[@Планета-щ1п]

По-началу считалось, что обычный ремонт - это из отечественных материалов и по местным ценам. А Евро - соответственно иностранные (европейские) материалы и цены. Думаю так. Это не стиль. Потому, как можно сделать евро-ремонт из евроматериалов в любом стиле ...да хоть в африканском.

[@bears28805]

Good job! I was in St. Petersburg in 1995. I struggled, but I could pronounce the name of a hotel. Nice thing about Russian, everything is spelled EXACTLY how it is pronounced.

[@GGSpriteEr]

Так мило, уехав из спасска в 2010 году, внезапно осознать, что начало снимается в том дворе, в котором жил 12 лет=)

[@haroshea]

ааааааааааа, ору 🤣

[@admjen1]

thanks so much from Australia - such a great way to start to learn Russian and such wonderful channel showing life in Russia...thanks :)

[@norbertschmidt]

Thanks! It was fun to learn something new and I really like the way you explained it!

[@NatashasAdventures]

So what you think is located above the pharmacy? We have such suggestions so far: a bed , a pestle, sea wave, and avalanche.

[@evanzedd2088]

It’s smth liquid

[@koos48]

A pestle no doubt.

[@redwolf6950]

It might be a piece of cotton on skin

[@jb2010231]

It might be nothing just a graphic to attract your attention to the sign and make it stand out or it could be an action graphic with a cloud of dust to make the sign look like it's moving fast. A business that provides a service will sometimes use a sign like this to suggest they have fast service.

[@massivereader]

Possibly highly stylized version of a bandage wrapped around an arm at the elbow, the dark spots on the white are a bit of blood from an injury leaking through.

[@G-ra-ha-m]

Thanks Natasha, you are a star! Much appreciated, and such a creative and interesting way to teach. The chemist sign (and one or two others) look like they are reusing an old sign from a previous tenant. Unless it is supposed to be a pestle (пестик - almost sounding the same). You mentioned the Greek connection of some of the letters. I'm not an expert in greek but I have found it helpful for these: Phi = Ф = 'ph' or F Pi = П = 3.14* = P You have a nice town / city, it is easier to remember things when they vary, I will watch it a few more times however, as the hard/soft bl, b symbols are quite subtle for me. I thought the market was funny, because as you explained about the masks, just out of shot (through the gate) was a lady who possibly wasn't wearing one, which I found rather hopeful! Also it's very useful to hear the letters, some sound quite different to the alphabet conversion sheets can imply. Я find the alphabet is a key to unlock quite a few words such as Instrument = Инструмент and System = Система etc. Спасибо, Наташа.

[@NatashasAdventures]

Спасибо for such a comment! I liked you thoughts. Some words in Russian are just cognates of the English words: компьютер - computer, телефон - telephone, интернет - internet. As for the masks, it's so absurd because they make people to wear the mask in a supermarket, but nobody wears it in a bus... In my remote town the virus is not bad, so people don't care about it or they're just tired of it.

[@gamewizard1760]

This is how I slowly learn Russian. I watch several Russians on KZbin, and noticed the large number of Russian words that can be learned from watching them walk through their towns. Stores have words on them, street signs have words on them, menu's, books, and many other things that you might see in a Russian blogger's videos. You may not become fluent, but you will be able to function on some level if you can read street signs, labels on packages, and signs in shop windows.

[@Matoakas]

I've been watching your videos for a couple of days now. I really enjoy them. Your good ar editing, which is something you should consider working with.. media production or something like that. Or you could, I think, easily be some kind of a lecturer. You have a pleasant voice so I really like and it's easy to listen to you. And you have this talent of making things really interesting. Not everyone can do that. Also, thank you for this video..I'm trying to learn to read Russian on my own. So I have written all them 33 letters down in Russian and the Englisg equivalent, letter sound and the letter names in russian/ pronunciation. So you are really helpful

[@RiosTikvic]

We are moving to ANAPA Russia next year and we have to learn Russian Language. We speak Croatian as well and it is close to Russian.

[@lenadima5168]

Анапа - хорошее место, с пляжами и прочим. Там тепло. Кстати, достаточно недалеко от Анапы был построен знаменитый мост в Крым - можете и его поглядеть.

[@BackLooking]

Hi, I´m from the Czech Republic. We used to learn Russian laguage at school. Actually Советский Союз used to be presented to us as our idol and protector. I can still read Russian words but not without problem - I really have to focus and recall what is what. But when I was about10-12 years old (1987-89) I could read and write easy texts in азбука fluently. But when I hear your pronuncinantion I think our Czech teachers couldn´t speak good Russian. It sounds much better than they taught us. Then there were political changes and everyone started to learn German and English.LOL

[@marlboro9tibike]

Im from Slovakia, around the same age. When you can read azbuka, its quite easy understand lot of words, isnt it?

[@BackLooking]

@@marlboro9tibike It is! :-¨) Ano, v mnoha směrech je to podobný jazyk

[@ardab8170]

This is pretty interesting. You speak good english with a nice russian accent.

[@gladdie10]

What a great way of teaching us the basics of your language! Thanks!

[@Quarky_]

Such a nice video, fun, creative, and interesting! And it's quite evident how much hard work you put in, very thorough with the phonetic symbols for all your examples :)

[@aoelp]

It's really helpful to have been to Greece several times to understand Cyrillic. Obviously it's derived, similar to Latin hence the similarities.

[@erhangultelin4986]

Hello

[@plamengenov2949]

it comes from Bulgaria...not Greece!

[@Takoe976]

А,Б,В,Г,Д,Ђ,Е,Ж,З,И,Ј,К,Л,Љ,М,Н,Њ,О,П,Р,С,Т,Ћ,У,Ф,Х,Ц,Ч,Џ,Ш. Привет из Сербии 🤗 Поздрав из Србије 🤗 Greetings from Serbia 🤗

[@Sofronic]

@Velcro 809 Него шта! И ми ћирилицу за трку имамо :) ! Сада нека професорка изговори Ђ и Ћ ако уме. ЧЕБУРЕЧНАЈА, знао сам одмах да је то БУРЕКЏИНИЦА :) .

[@dustymiller65]

I think you're missing some Russian letters, no? And the order is not correct; now that's really confusing.

[@Takoe976]

@@dustymiller65 Russian and Serbian letters are very similar, but not all are the same. Those are Serbian letters, I just wanted to point out similarities 🤗

[@annabelholland]

Ive heard that Serbian uses Cyrillic and Latin

[@bobrotron]

@@annabelholland yes and they have both variants of almost all streetsigns. Wonderful guys:) I really love Serbia

[@virnus1]

Спасибо Google, это то что мне нужно.

[@duendecigarra1393]

Thanks Natasha i apreciate your help . Natasha is The first name i knew from Russia when i was 5 years old from The Misha bear cartoon . :) . Learning from You everyday . A little bit from time to time without rushing myself . You tuve is magical in The sense that You don't have to go to Russia in order to have an exelent native speaker as yourself .Although I lived un USA 10 years ,I AM in nicaragua , My motherland , and from here i decides to learn Russian . I loved that language since i AM a little kid . Gracias Natasha , muy agradecido por tu ayuda . Aprendo un poco a la vez .

[@geoffreyraleigh1674]

The best lesson for the alphabet and pronunciation I have seen. Subscribed and looking forward to the next one. Cheers!

[@phillipmoore9012]

If I remember how to spell and pronounce this one word tomorrow, I'll consider this video a success. My father was a betepah of WWII.

[@68404]

Betepah would be closer. Be proud of your dad :-)

[@prunar]

That thing over the Аптека sign is probably a chemist's measuring spoon for dispensing powders.

[@NatashasAdventures]

I guess it’s right!

[@steveweeden7647]

Makes sense.

[@jgeur]

ya soglasen...sorry i don't have a cyrillic keyboard

[@hughmungus1767]

That sounds reasonable. In some countries, a mortar and pestle is displayed in the sign for a pharmacy; this conveys the same idea of the pharmacist mixing substances to make medicines.

[@lkrnpk]

I wanted to learn Russian letters on the streets with Nataly, but then I realized I already know all the Russian letters ;D ''Наталиииии, утоли мои печали''

[@tonyclifton265]

my grandfather used to collect stamps in the 1970s and his collection had some rare russian stamps. when i was a kid i used to think they said "NOYTA CCCP" but now i realise they said "POCHTA SSSR" / SOVIET POST. спасибо наташа

[@dbst4894]

Thank you for this brilliant video. I will use it to show my students images of a Russian town and let them repeat the letters of the language.

[@vilterusne2251]

"Однако понял, что нельзя ори­ентироваться на цвет, когда вместо мясной лавки попал в ма­газин электрических принадлежностей. Свою первую букву «А» он выучил в «Главрыбе» на Моховой, а потом и «Б» - по­тому что удобнее было подбегать к магазину со стороны слова «рыба». Дальше Шарик начал упражняться в чтении и очень хорошо стал ориентироваться на улицах Москвы" ну это так, а вообще ролик понравился.

[@foolanogt1310]

I can slowly read and sound out Russian writing but won't know what it means. If I see a word a lot, I look up it's definition. I'd say this is the most realistic way of learning a new language 😂

[@gabbyhyman1246]

It is my experience as well. Sometimes I feel like I'm studying the actual Rosetta stone from Egypt. If we leave this earth we will find that they speak Russian on Mars. 😁

[@foolanogt1310]

@@gabbyhyman1246 I hope Elon musk finds a rock on Mars with the word "blyat" carved into it with primitive stone tools, just so we can all lose our minds over it

[@walterzielinski6654]

Absolutely loved the lesson. Being Polish l have always found the similarities among the Slavic languages--the Eastern and Southern branches employing the Cyrillic alphabet; the Western using Roman letters--to be fascinating. I could easily recognize many familiar synonymous words but the real pleasure was the parallel use of dachas in both countries for places of gardening and rest during weekends. Given the tragedy that many languages are expected to disappear during this century l once worked on the development of a universal Cyrillic alphabet that would unite the elements of the Belarus, Russian and Ukrainian alphabets, but had to give that project up for lack of time. After seeing this video however, l'd like to try again, and to do something similar for the southern Slavic group of languages. The goal, one alphabet for three languages, with translations that could be easily recognizable by any travellers transiting from one country to the next. Just a thought that was prompted when l read that the Ukrainians (post 2014) were going to adopt a Romanized alphabet, ostensibly to further differentiate/distance themselves from the Russians. l had to laugh at the idiots. Given that Kievian Rus was the cradle of Slavic culture and birthplace of the Cyrillic alphabet, you have to wonder how much more stupid and clueless the American invasion into Eastern European culture can get. One would like to hope this embarrassing development will be driven to extinction quickly. Best wishes Natasha. And my hope someday for peaceful relations between our 2 countries...

[@NamelesshunterGaming]

i have been trying to learn russian for about one year now. but this is the first time I understand the hard- and soft sign

[@tonyfowle6757]

You have a calling young lady, well put together. Natural educator, keep the good work up.

[@Axemantitan]

There is a Russian folk music group from Saint Petersburg called Otava Yo. They preserve the letter Ё in their name: Отава Ё

[@nigelgericke2533]

You're a realistic ambassador for Russian culture, and an excellent communicator

[@sabrinaramelli5013]

This was one of the coolest ways to see and hear the Russian alphabet. I was a teacher and taught kids whose first laugague was not English, so hearing the slight differences was interesting and sometimes hard. Tah k you!

[@danielwacker2433]

Спасибо за отличное видео! И ам трыинг то врите тхис коммент витх кыррилик леттерс. I hope it was not too bad. Please correct me if I was wrong. п.с.: How do you write the english W in russian? Привет из Дании!

[@NatashasAdventures]

If you just want to replace English letters with their Cyrillic equivalent, your sentence is correct. But there is another way. You can write it with the English pronunciation but in Russian letters, then it will be Ай эм траинг ту райт зыс камент виз сириллик леттерс. Anyway, good job! And we write W in two ways: it can be just В (v) or as У + vowel that follows it. For example, Emma Watson in Russian is Эмма Уотсон. But the same surname for the caracter of Dr. John H. Watson in Russian is Доктор Ватсон. In some words it's officilly В. For example, Wisconsin in Russian is Висконсин, not Уисконсин. But I think using У and a vowel is more correct. Because for Russian В English has V.

[@enminghee2926]

I remember P, R and D by thinking of my math and science classes in school. P is a pi, R is a rho, and D is a delta.

[@bpekim1]

Thank you, Natasha. I’ve tried to learn the Russian alphabet and your method is so practical it is very helpful in a way I cannot get from texts. I still cannot pronounce the formal word for “Thank you” - it twists my tongue up several different ways every time I try.

[@gios7752]

Thank you for sharing and taking the time to educate us. The Russian language seems very complex but you make it more approachable.

[@pappadam2818]

"russian letters" *Bulgarians entered the chat*

[@VampireSpork]

I was just about to say it :D 🧐

[@Ilinden-dv7vt]

Well, isn't it odd that she knows Salute is french word, but still doesn't know that cyrilic alphabet is from Bulgaria?

[@williamjordan5554]

@@Ilinden-dv7vt which got it from greeks.

[@gogamagogov161]

Болгары - суть ветвь булгар, которые сейчас - татары) А татары - "russian" для большинства народов)

[@VampireSpork]

@@gogamagogov161It's History. Learn history. :)

[@heidiislas9579]

Such an AMAZING video. Great job! And thanks for the content!

[@lombard2692]

First video of yours I see and I watched it beginning to end, I searched Russian Alphabet quite some time ago and now I'm back with the same search except this time I found your video, thank you for the lesson it helped great deal and refreshed my memory.

[@studebaker4217]

The UK needs a monument to the endangered apostrophe, which some thickoes can't cope with, including local councils.

[@therealchayd]

I always thought it was overused, especially by market stall holder's and advertising copywriter's (those two were deliberate :) )

[@lucymcnamara4558]

The USA, (where I’m from), needs a monument for punctuation in general 😂.

[@mgk920]

The seriously misused apostrophe in the USA

[@Kitulous]

and also the UK needs a monument to é. I've only seen people spell the word "café" with an é in English textbooks

[@therealchayd]

@@Kitulous I think that's why everyone here (at least in the Thames Estuary area) pronounces it "kaff" lol

[@kgwediwise7092]

Very good way of teaching the basic letters. Thank you

[@niravelniflheim1858]

Super good, thank you! I will watch this a few times over until I learn all...

[@soulgamblers]

you are an amazing young lady!!! High intelligence and a great speaker/presenter!!!

[@chiefjoboo]

This is a very creative way to teach the letters! I am learning a lot!

[@Tortuosit]

If russians tell me about hard/soft sounds, hard/soft sign... My ears tell me: all sound the same. Also as for Ш и Щ

[@ЕвгенийАндреевич-л1с]

think in german: "sh" is Ш, "sch" is Щ

[@mike20809]

@@ЕвгенийАндреевич-л1с Absolutely wrong, ш is sch in German and щ is somewhat like in ich

[@matthewmckenna3109]

Actually she didn't explain that bit very clearly. She could have shown the contrast in pronunciation more than she did. There's a pretty big difference in the sounds of the paired hard and soft consonants.

[@equim7363]

Hard "Ш" is like in 'Sean', and soft "Щ" is like in 'shit'. lol

[@whukriede]

@@ЕвгенийАндреевич-л1с Wasn't Щ shtsh, and Ш sh, but the "t" is now lost? ... By the way, German does not have "sh", only "sch" which is the same as English sh and Russian Ш. We actually write "Schaschlik". English sh sounds a tad lighter though than German sch in most cases and for most speakers because the tongue is positioned slightly higher.

[@theknifesong]

7:18 CatDog!

[@3001st]

Russian is quite different from the west European languages. I wonder about the origins and evolution of the Russian language. Can you make a vlog on this topic?

[@NatashasAdventures]

This should be a huge investigation! Because here we have to mind the history of all Slavic language family, to find what was their origin and how they were developing. One day I'll make such a video! But I recommend you to watch videos about Russian and the Slavic languages on the channel called Langfocus. He makes good languages explanations.

[@ВладимирПутин-е7м]

Russian, whilst using a lot of Greek letters in their alphabet, also is derived from Indian SANSKRIT. Some of the letters Stalin 'banished' during one of the 'purges' were Sanskrit letters that some people had forgotten the meaning of. But these letters are/were actually very important. The Stalinist Purge supposedly was responsible for making spoken Russian sound a little 'harsher' (according to my dead Grandfather who was an English teacher in Australia and helped teach language at a school in BALACLAVA (Melbourne, Australia) with a big Russian community.) My grandfather didn't teach English to Russians, he was just the English teacher at an Australian school in Melbourne that had 'the biggest Russian community in Australia). Anyway, original Russian is derived from Sanskrit, and adapted to use the Greek Cyrillic Alphabet. If I was a Russian language expert and in a position of power I would try my damnedest to have all the original Sanskrit letters restored to the Russian language. It's a badge of honour having original Sanskrit in you language. I'd be very proud of the fact. WATCH: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5OQgJ2Xhbtno5o Russian used to be slightly softer and more 'sing-song' like Indian but was 'hardened' with the Stalinist purge of letters of the Russian Alphabet; I believe Russian Alphabet used to have 38 letters back in the early 1800's. (I am probably wrong about the 38 but can't be bothered checking.)

[@ВладимирПутин-е7м]

@@NatashasAdventures - Russian is derived from original archaic Sanskrit. Russian is actually a fantastically old language, with many derivatives. Did you know that Siberia is an Indian / Sanskrit derived word that means 'Military Base' or 'Military Outpost' ..? You Russians never changed it, you just adopted it into your language event though it is Sanskrit and old archaic Indian. The history behind the migration of language is fascinating and something to be proud of. Another thing, in northern Italy there was a people 'who no longer exist' called the Etruscan. It's fascinating, The Etruscans 'disapeared 'without a trace' a melinnia ago. This is all 'hidden history' and the powers that be trying to erase peoples identity, but the Etruscans is a 'miss-pronunciation' of how the 'other locals' referred to the 'Etruscans'. Old Latin used the derivative (not sure if that is correct) meaning 'E or (something) which as actual 'these' or 'those'... those Russians 'Et (silent T) Ruscans = Russians = Ruse (Kievian Ruse) (my spelling is bad, and I don't speak Russian or Sanskrit, but I have several friends that speak bother and that is where all this 'theory of mine' comes from. Etruscan = E(t)-Ruscan = These Russians... living in Northern Italy a melinnia ago. But history tries to tells to think something different. I"m interested in your opinion on all this. WATCH: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5OQgJ2Xhbtno5o

[@NatashasAdventures]

@@ВладимирПутин-е7м It's really fascinating how some Russian word are close to Sanskrit, I think it's because Sanskrit was a source of all IE languages. But I disagree with the version about the Etruscans. It sounds unscientific. Like, some people say that the word London comes from "lono Dona" (bosom of the Don river)", or that Russian word for rainbow, "raduga", is "duga Ra" (arc of Ra God) which somehow should mean that Russians are related to Egyptians...

[@jackwalker9439]

Have you ever heard Hungarian or Greek languages? Those languages are really eeird at least

[@guibox3]

This is great! Before I went to Greece, my friend who I was going to see there gave me a crash course on the Greek alphabet and many verbs. Even though I could not understand what the words meant, I became proficient at being able to read and pronounce the Greek words I would see on the TV or on the shops when I was there. Now, thanks to you, I can make some sense of the Russian letters and how to pronounce them! I can already see that there are similarities between Greek and Russian in the alphabet.

[@chico-te]

Yes, because the Russian alphabet was created in the 9th century based on the Greek alphabet.