Here are the letters we know (in alphabetical order):
Capital
Small
And here are some words that use those letters. See if you can figure
out how they're pronounced before you click the speaker.
Word
Means
meal; food
date (as in "date of birth")
a girl's name
over; above
not
but (rather)
To help you with the pronunciation, we put an accent mark on the syllable that
gets the emphasis in multi-syllable words. Most beginning textbooks or
phrasebooks do this also. You won't see the accent marks in Russia, though.
On the next page, we introduce three letters that will help you find out what
the Russian word for any object is.