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The Russian Language and Alphabet
There are 33 letters in the Russian
Alphabet. It was invented by Saint Cyril, a Macedonian monk. Russian
Cyrillic is based on the Greek Alphabet. It does look exotic, but it does
not take long to learn how to read in Russian.. Russian pronunciation is
very simple. You will be surprised to find many familiar words as English
and Russian have the same Indo-European origin.
Listen to the following word and see whether you can guess what it means.
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