The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Very good, Maria! Yes, the special symbol ь means that the previous sound is softened. But do not worry about it. My aim is that you understand Russian and Russians understand you. The special symbol ь can wait in this task. Mитрополит is pronounced as it is written in Russian: MeetropolEEt (the las...

Mитрополит is Metropolitan metropolis is митрополия Maria, you presented not the pronunciation, but the way the letters are read in the alphabet. It will be difficult to read it. Imadint you read with English Alphabet-prononsiation, the word "kit" will count as "keeaitee". It is ...

Jean-Serge, this is not the first time you help me and write me what I am going to write. And you write it even better. My English is very slow. Sometimes it takes me a lot of time to write something. I would like to add several mote short names, including people from this cafe. Barbara (VarvAra in ...

I am very glad that somebody likes it!

Now please try to read these words, these are names of the Russian and Ukrainian cities:

Омск, Киев, Санкт-Петербург, Суздаль

And also this:

Россия, Украина, Казахстан

Church-slavonic text in Russian letters is even easier to read than Church-slavonic text in Church-slavonic letters. And the meaning is the same. But Modern Russian translation of Church-slavonic texts is usually not so deep as its old original. So if native Russian speaker reads text in Church-slav...

Left column is a text of service in Church-Slavonic language written with Modern Russian letters. Many church books are published like this.

Right column is the same text translated into Modern Russian.

Maria asked me: "Hey, Alexander, could you start a Russian class here in a new thread?" It is my pleasure! First step is to read in Russian. It is easy! Most of Russian words sound as they are written. So you need only to remember the letters and just to read the word letter-by-letter. (En...