How to Learn the Russian Alphabet in 7 Days

The Russian Cyrillic alphabet has 33 letters. That sounds daunting until you realise that about ten of them look and sound exactly like their Latin equivalents. A few more look familiar but sound different — the famous false friends. And the rest, while new, are learnable with simple visual memory tricks.

Here is the seven-day method that works: Day 1 — the familiar letters (А, Е, К, М, О, Т, etc.). Day 2 — the false friends (Р, Н, В, С, Х, etc.). Days 3–4 — the new consonants in two groups. Day 5 — the new vowels (Ё, Э, Ю, Я, Ы). Day 6 — the signs (Ъ and Ь). Day 7 — full review with real Russian words. By the end of the week you will be able to sound out any Russian word, which changes everything.