Have a Look at Russian July 14, 2012
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These things look confusing at first, but if you put that with some little phrase book on your breakfast table and have it around for a while, you’ll see.
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At “Petersburg city” there is a good and more complete listing : petersburgcity.com
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The letters are as old as ours and go back to the same sources, to the Greeks and beyond, to the Egyptians or Phoenicians. A good example is our letter A which is the same in Russian:
Originally it was the picture of an ox head with its horns and was called Aleph. The Greeks used it to represent Alpha. The Romans used it as A.
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The last word is kuknya which is a kitchen, and just above it is bannaya, which is bathroom.
The drawing is by Gring from an Assimil Russian course.
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Below is a graph to show where the Cyrillic alphabet is used. –
According to tradition it was invented by the two Saints of the picture, Cyril and Methodius, who went to Russia as missionaries more than 1100 years ago.
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The Cyrillic alphabet is one of my favorites. It looks so intimidating, but once you get the hang of it, it is actually quite easy to read :)