Russian Alphabet for Beginners - Easy guide!

[@dankirkland1602]

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.

[@NoMusicTheory]

I just wanna understand the music and war.

[@ricojes]

One day, Fedor is going to teach and explain the grammar used in russian memes.

[@katiecurrie9709]

Why are Russians so angry makes me cry😂

[@LOFI_VN]

@@katiecurrie9709 hi bro

[@a-garden-of-worlds]

That might be very helpful actually but idk I've only just started learning Russian 😅

[@Elizabeth_EllonWind]

Да, мы так и учимся говорить в России, на мемах

[@Lcrxc]

@@Elizabeth_EllonWindcrazy man 😂❤

[@Christopher-cf6wm]

U R really Good. Yeah. Really Good! Greetings from an 'old New Jersey Guy' living in Scandinavia/Sweden-Finland for 40+ years. Spasiba :)))

[@shaunphillips6160]

I don't know where it comes from but I always see when they write it down in English the "a" on the end is always an "o" So it spacibo )) don't ask me why 😅 I'd love to know why?

[@Кирилл-я7б6е]

Pojalysta moi dryg

[@FrozenMermaid666]

It is written with o and pronounced with a sound - from what I have noticed, most of the o letters in Russian are pronounced a! (Also, I noticed that there are words in Russian that are cognate with the Norse / Icelandic / Danish / Norwegian / Dutch word etc, for example, words like krus / tallerken / blik / vetr / krútt / verð / blink / ver etc, I could tell that they are cognates when I saw some of the Russian words, and I am pretty sure that the words nebe and letat are cognate with the Latin words nieve / nube / nevel and levitate, and the Russian word for language yazik is cognate with the Celtic words for language yezh and iaith from Breton and Welsh and with the Slovene word jezik!)

[@judd442009]

Excellent presentation of sounds of Russian alphabet. Your choice of English examples for the Russian sounds is especially helpful.

[@NigerianCrusader]

YEP MAN

[@rosalinethomas4665]

Not for me😢. Some is exactly luke my language

[@bridgeriver5440]

This is perfect examples for start beginners like me. Thank you😘

[@Sokkawithanokka]

The fact i actually remembered all of your examples and the sounds as a forgetful person shows how good you are at teaching!

[@Virikel]

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. 😁

[@artemis4932]

how the hell do you mix a scottish jew and american indian

[@griffenssfantasy2787]

OMG I love how this video was. So exciting, happy, funny. This is how I remember things. PLEASE MAKE MORE LIKE THIS!!

[@jennasjams]

I love how he was popping in and out! 😆 Laying down by the stove 😂... hilarious!

[@jennasjams]

I have words taped all over the inside of my house 😆

[@tls7642]

I like ur pfp!!

[@pirston2934]

@@tls7642 same I like urs too

[@CaioFran]

@@jennasjams Hey, what a great idea. The city hall staff should do this everywhere in the city.

[@CaioFran]

These are Fedor's classes, one day he is teaching you advanced grammar, and on the other day he teaches you the Russian alphabet.

[@NigerianCrusader]

AND SAME IS FOR DAGGERFALL ONE DAY YOU ARE EXPLORING A DUNGEON, AND THE OTHER YOU ARE JUST DOING JOBS AROUND THE CITY

[@Lorkhanable]

@@NigerianCrusader same for battlefield 4 one second your giving ammo to your teammates next you're rocketing helicopters

[@NigerianCrusader]

@@Lorkhanable YEP

[@justbreathe5466]

The way he said "And now you can say... Как!" Just that tone when he said it 😂

[@rosalinethomas4665]

Kak is a ugly word in ny language! (Afrikaans) 😂😂😂😂😂

[@fadjeja3141]

Kak means shit in Dutch😂

[@downbadpumpkinrendergaming1740]

@@rosalinethomas4665 ek will russies leer maar dit gaan n bietjie moeilik wees met kak

[@FrozenMermaid666]

I would pronounce it like kah instead, because in Dutch it means dooh-dooh, for example, the Dutch word kakhuis means 🚽 and it literally means dooh-house in Dutch, so, I cannot keep a straight face when I see or hear this word because of that - and, in Icelandic and Norwegian the word for cake is kaka / kake, so, that also makes me unable to keep a straight face! 😂

[@Themopedmechanic]

@@rosalinethomas4665kom je uit afrika? Ek is hollander En ek leer Afrikaans

[@Alberto309]

This new format is frickin' awesome! Спасибо за это видео, Федя! 😁

[@veronicafleitas412]

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

[@almahfoodhij1179]

Zdraste, you are the most energetic teacher in the KZbin💖 your new Russian student all the way from GCC

[@tna_handyandy5173]

lovely мама. Her smile reminds me of people that like to have fun.

[@maximvmoutput]

Im learning Russian to scare people ingame

[@shaetteb1272]

I'm learning it for the real life version of tarkie. Might be useful to be able to interrogate POWs.

[@s6plyer]

How much your progress?

[@maximvmoutput]

@@s6plyer 0

[@s6plyer]

@@maximvmoutput try to learn alphabet first week and make word with them

[@maximvmoutput]

@@s6plyer nah, i’d give up

[@sithknight7740]

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.

[@Abyssinia696]

As a Russian, I also find English letters and language funny

[@beanapprentice1687]

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.

[@Jelly27Fish]

4:05 Actually... as a native English speaker who's been learning Russian for over 2 years, now (and am only rewatching this, to help a friend who's just starting out); the "sh" in both shrimp AND shoes are BOTH "Ш". We don't pronounce "Shoes" with a "Щ" sound. Some English words that ARE actually pronounced with a "Щ" would be "Shin", "Shelf", "Shit" or "Shingles".

[@FrozenMermaid666]

English and all other Germanic languages only have soft SH sound, not the Ш from Russian, so the Ш does not exist in English at all - and the double vowel letter I am pretty sure it’s a mix of a variation of the sound that is used in some English words at the end (for example, in words like kitten and hidden, the sound between T / D and N which isn’t spellt at all) and in Norse in words like vindr and hestr and vetr etc and an i sound sometimes, though in Norse and English it is softer and shorter and a bit more towards a schwa sound, and, in other words it is only that sound, but sometimes that double letter in Russian is pronounced like a normal i / y sound, so it depends on the word! (I actually learned the Cyrillic alphabet years ago, but it’s still so hard to read, especially the letters B and X and H and the letters for the i sounds, which I keep confusing them with the Latin letters and with the N letter, so I cannot process them fast and I have to read the word letter by letter!)

[@HunterRNXK]

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

[@ВладимирАфанасьев-ч8ъ]

А зачем учить алфавит?

[@christinacarr7768]

​@@klavier285the alphabet is on a separate tab at the bottom.

[@klavier285]

@@christinacarr7768 You're right. I see that now 👍

[@Nasteno4ika]

В смысле зачем учить алфавит?! Это основа языка вообще - то 😅

[@gagebarnett2230]

Surprised this isn’t more popular, great job!

[@Mdg307]

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! 🙏🏻

[@jennasjams]

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)

[@ricojes]

*lovely видеть ваш город

[@jennasjams]

@@ricojes благодарю вас! I'm obviously one of the beginning learners 🤗

[@algion24]

That was his dad i believe

[@jennasjams]

@@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.

[@vmusatov]

@@jennasjamsyeah, he started with пап, and there was a translation on the right starting with dad

[@Rosey5858]

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

[@владиславкорнилин]

you can start from the little dialogs in comments using simple phrases like what's up

[@langolingo]

Learn each letter using a repetition method. Under 2 months I managed to learn all the letters at my own pace.

[@thecameltoendallhumans6204]

brilliantly constructed explanation, well done!

[@Nupagade246]

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

[@meb3153]

Your content has really come along way and compliments your excellent teaching skills. большое спасибо

[@Mattexe77]

I don't speak Serbian but know the alphabet and that made this much easier, so many similarities.

[@briboski911]

Thank you, this was the first video i watched when i started learning Russian. I can now speak kind of of fluently thank you

[@sethother8012]

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.

[@sethother8012]

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" :(

[@cicik57]

X is different letter- it is russian "h"

[@sethother8012]

@@cicik57 I know, i caught my error, hence the comment above yours cuz i can’t edit comments from iPad

[@howdy4596]

I'm 48 speak Spanish and English buy always wanted to learn Russian. So here I am thank you

[@EfekaanM]

Большое спасибо за попытку научить нас русскому языку в увлекательной игровой форме. Большое спасибо за ваши усилия. 😁👍

[@владиславкорнилин]

And tell me that you are not russian.

[@Dan-tx5jp]

Идеально

[@ajithakumari1175]

Спасибо🙏😊

[@brainnotfound239]

@@ajithakumari1175 You can´t imagine how happy I was when I was able to read this without looking up my notes!

[@ransyoe]

​@@Dan-tx5jpI want to make sure I learned how to read Russian, is this idealho?

[@jaragon2492]

Good shit right here! Gracias homie, From a Mexican trying to learn Russian.

[@NexyiaArt]

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!

[@soapsodaa]

learning russian for my boyfriend right now, thank you for this video man

[@Anatolianshah]

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!

[@pattysherwood7091]

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 .

[@carynmartin6053]

Just found your channel! Beginner here, using Mondi for a few weeks now but I need much more help! Happy Victory Day!!!

[@HellonihaoJohnnyHola]

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 .

[@amandas.6500]

This was great, I needed this three years ago when I was taking a beginner class. Also, love the editing!

[@renebouman-emmen9359]

Так это твои мать и отец? Как чудесно! Здравствуйте, мать и отец Федора! Ваш сын отличный парень. И хороший учитель.

[@janslehmann05]

You are so likable! You’ve gained a new follower! Thanks for your fun video.

[@sirikornindrayodha9655]

This was so helpful and entertaining at the same time. Thank you!

[@Alaelh]

your mama is soo sweet i cant god bless her.

[@outback-hq-7408]

The editing is so good!!

[@MICHAELinNCusa]

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.

[@micmac_billyjack]

I need this video 🙏🙏🙏. I have had a hard time interpretting the cyrillic alphabet which has been holding me back from learning more Russian. Thank you !!! ❤

[@octoberflower6943]

Omg thanks! I'm Senegalais and always wanted to learn Russian language

[@Daerryon]

The video has a good rythm, it gave me back the motivation to learn

[@margaretbell8050]

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.

[@RapidCycling07]

Excellent video Fedor! Thank you!

[@AngelikaDark]

OMG! I am so glad I found this channel again! This Russian dude is super cute, and he came up on my feed and I had no clue what to search?? "Hot blonde Russian dude teaches you Russian" did not get the results!!

[@Hello7717]

One of my fav videos of you!

[@n5o413]

Спасибо, trying to learn Russian right now from Duolingo, but it helps hearing it from a real person.

[@skytocaa]

Получается?

[@n5o413]

@@skytocaa Немного, это медленное начало. Большую часть времени мне приходится использовать перевод для ввода текста, так как его трудно читать.

[@shuraimelahi5210]

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 😢😊

[@orisphera]

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.

[@MrMG-il5hv]

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

[@orisphera]

@@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

[@Yasirsama63929]

Thanks man.

[@veronicafleitas412]

Thank you for your video!

[@Wassim191-w6r]

Who s here just to learn russia to make their friend group more funnier

[@fateneverknew]

cringe

[@maqeelafzal]

After getting to master Arabic, now your video has convinced me to try Russian language

[@mohammadsulaimanrasooly2575]

Useful class with eloquent pronunciation may you be happy, healthy and successful always.

[@reneeemigree9004]

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.

[@jackypan2038]

you're just too good

[@fogandwhirlwind]

God bless you. Thanks for these examples of how the letters sound.

[@Han3D]

Best video for learning Russian alphabet

[@arushmendhe4096]

WOW. GREAT VIDEO. BOTH CONTENT WISE AND SO WELLL PUT TOGETHER. SO MUCH EFFORT PUT INTO THE VISUALS.

[@tavohernndezTvInc]

Great video! Very helpful. Thanks a lot!

[@aminam9594]

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

[@footprint_594]

This is amazing. Thank you, god bless!

[@dpiec]

Cool video, I love the new style! Классное видео, очень понравилось хотя буквы уже знал)

[@smalls5001]

Yes I also love the new style :D

[@khan.hassan]

Excellent presentation

[@esterherschkovich6499]

Спасибо ❤using your brilliant channel 😊

[@Zoom-ez8ps]

Блин, никогда не умел произносить русские буквы, спасибо что помог, бро! Даже не знаю как я жил 17 лет до этого 👍

[@priyadarshiniprasad5747]

I think you forgot to talk about the letter 'Y' :) Love your videos, by the way. Helped me a lot 🎉

[@1DrBar]

The very bes explanation of the Russian alphabet. Great stuff - thank you.

[@thomaschevrierlaliberte5884]

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!

[@savitasuni3168]

Lovely I am from India today I learn Russian alphabets from you very easy thanks

[@theeasternfront6436]

You explain things very well!

[@Suna_Badea]

My best friend speak russion and I tried my best to learn it to just fore her

[@NotAMultistan_yt]

How's it going?

[@shymaasoulfit]

Thank you so much you have done it as a piece of cake 🍰 ❤😊

[@robertsummers3386]

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.

[@iDrawthings.]

I'm learning Russian because it sounds cool thank you

[@Reddchannels]

Thanks dude :)

[@MashaTheGalaxy-hh4xw]

thank you brother for learning this russian alfabet easy, please post some video like this every day for others learning about russian language, thank youuu❤❤🎉🎉

[@chronos313]

Wooow! Thank you so much Fedor for this video.

[@dmitriykholodkov5861]

Хоть русский вспомню малость и возьму на вооружение способ объяснять произношение букв. Кстати примеры просто бесподобны.

[@PeskyBurb]

I feel accomplished that I already know mom, how, and tobacco. Practically already fluent and not even 5 minutes in. 10/10

[@YonkeyTech]

Nice video. I realiest how much easier it became to learn the russian alphabet, with the english words that sounds familiar. Positive review 😂👍😎

[@talitoonthetrack]

Bro is going to be my key to studying russian Spasibooo Fedor

[@smalls5001]

Thank you so much for this спасибо!

[@Wookierabbit]

3:48 - 4:11, ~~OMG~~! You've unlocked the secret for me! Thank you so much!

[@pravoslavn]

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.

[@KA-nr6ye]

This was explained so well, thank you

[@Jojo-wz7mb]

Thank you so much!!

[@AllEgg-ru]

Какая же крутая энергетика у этого чувака😊

[@youngdraco206yt4]

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

[@Faruk1Russia]

love you Russian language From Bangladesh❤

[@bennuask2611]

You are the very best Fyodor!

[@DaMakemake]

wow, this is so good! спасибо!

[@c.knoxville5998]

This was fantastic. You are doing a great job. Keep it up.

[@cloudslady3400]

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 😭😭🙂

[@checopacheco420]

Привет Федор очень хороший урок я люблю🤩🇲🇽🙏