ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an idea of how the Russian alphabet works. The letters have the same (or almost the same) shape as some English letters and (even better) stand for similar sounds. A lot of Russian letters are usually pronounced in only one way. In any language there are rules of putting words together into phrases and sentences; that’s what grammar is, in a simplistic kind of way. In different languages there are some rules which are similar and some which are different. The crucial part of pronouncing longer words in Russian is Stress. Russians struggle to understand words with a wrong stress, so it is important to learn to produce correct stress. As stressed vowels in Russian words are longer and louder than others, it makes them very pronounced and in a way superior to those away from the stress. In addition to Russian consonants combining in peculiar ways, in some Russian words, one may have a double consonant.
