The first form of ы was something like "ъі" (like hard "i/и" sound) and then it "evolved" into ы

Seeing the older versions of Cyrillic we could say someone was drunk while inventing some of those letters,makes me glad for modernization of Cyrillic scripts

If you've never learned the original Glagolitic, you will see that Cyril was even more drunk than you're accounting for! I think the monastery in Bulgaria created Cyrillic just so that people wouldn't think Cyril was a big jerk for creating Glagolitic.

The later scribes were the ones who seriously drank heavily. When you consider the letter ꙮ, multiocular O, you know something's not right... :)

​@@frieber247 In the oldest manuscripts we find all combinations of ъі, ъи, ъι for the ы-sound. But he couldn't have thought about it as a hard и, because in the old church slavonic system ꙑ was actually a hard ѧ (ę). и and ы were different endings, first one being the nominative plural, second one the accusative plural. Also ъ wasn't just a hard sign back then but had the sound of a short u, like in "foot". The inspiration for this digraph was greek οι, which was most likely an [ü] in that particular time, from what I understand about middle Greek.

I thought Ж was like "Zh" (in zhuyin: ㄓ) lol But wait... Sooo, R chinese is not really like an english (from USA, not UK) R sound? I tried to learn the pronunciation of chinese (in pinyin) and i thought R was like an english R

That means water

I’m chinese and am also confused as to what that guy means lol

Funny how Ж looks like 2 K (and one of them is inverted) and I'm Bulgarian lmao.

@@HeroManNick132 Lmao that's so true! (Btw, i love your language :3)

Cyrillic is based on Greek letters. Lots of similarities.

@@vanessas2454 Yes I did a year of Ancient Greek in school, and 2 years of Latin. They have both been a huge help with Russian, and it has been a joy to experience and learn a living language with a working case system.

train your grRRowl skill - развивайте свой навык РЫЫчания это поможет

When you hum the "e" sound like a mantra, but set it a few octaves lower, you have an ы . I find that the easiest way to adjust your ear.

to pronounce this letter "ы" you have to stretch your jaw a little and tighten your throat

It is pronounced as uuy

The misused special name Sophia only reflects me, and must be changed!

"Брать" has more soft ending due to the "ь". Pronounced more like brat' than brat. "Брат" has normal, more hard "t" ending

Удачи тебе!!!

음악 не должно произноситься со звуком "г" в конце 👁️👄👁️ она должна быть глухая - к)

@@user-de2to2df7z нуууу, я привыкла, что обычно 음악 идёт в контексте и озвончается до «г». Забыла про патчим вне контекста 😅 듣는 음악이에요 그 음악이 괜찮아요 Когда слушаешь, всегда звонкая.

@@daemor02 аа, ну так-то да конечно))) просто если даёте типа транскрипцию, то если забудете, кто-нибудь может неправильно запомнить 😅 да и не в 100% случаев после неё идёт гласная 🤔 банально 음악과 춤 и всё, опять К.. 😄

@@user-de2to2df7z уговорили, поправлю транскрипцию. 😄

Блин, а всё-таки прикольный этот язык корейский) Никогда не был любителем восточных языков, но этот комментарий меня прямо заинтересовал корейским

Because the "f" consonant doesn't really appear initially in many native Russian words. Words that begin with this sound are usually loanwords like "факт" or "фантазия".

We used to have all these letters in Staroslovenski except for Э which is a russian mutation of Є which was pronounced je at the start of words and e in the middle or end of words. If you wanted to make a je sound in the middle or ends of words you would use Ѥ.

Damn, i red the whole sentence just to realize its just russianized english.

@@thedamntrain ой спасибо за поправку

ואני אוהב ללמוד רוסית

NO NOT Ь

Д may be a hard or soft sound. Easy. Дверь - hard Дети - soft Донести - hard Холодильник - soft

@@daemor02 You mean to say that д in дверь and донести is pronounced the way an English D is pronounced? I am still learning Russian, so now I am feeling confused. :( Just the same, thanks for your input.

@@sanjayshah7350 They ARE actually different 🤔 That is because in English the tip of your tongue touches right behind your teeth wto make the 'D' sound whereas when pronouncing 'Д' the placement of the tongue os slightly 'more forward'. The tip of your tongue touches your teeth or the whole front part of the tongue kind of like presses against the front part of your hard palate 👁️👁️ (Source: I'm a native Russian and I teach English and have a degree in English). I recommend googling pictures to learn about sounds that are similar but have tiny differences, they'll help you

@@sanjayshah7350 But Yulia is also right - there are two ways of pronouncing Д in Russian - when it os followed by certain vowel sounds :)

@@user-de2to2df7z here I thought I had the pronunciation right; as a native speaker of Indian languages, I am used to pronouncing the D, T, DH, TH two different ways. Now I have to look deeper into this again. lol

Эnergy 😃

Depends on situation. If you mean any area outside of building it's possible. Ex. На улице идёт дождь.

@@olegpetrov2617 so to say “I am outside”. Я Улице?

@@S.JReads я на улице will be 100% ok

@@olegpetrov2617 thanks

@@S.JReads you're welcome

🇷🇺💜🇸🇴 i mean im from somalia

Russian alphabet is son of Greeks. А - is "Alpha" (Α, α), Б & В are from "Betta" (Greece have no V or W), Г - like Greek "Gamma" (Γ, γ), Д - like "Delta" (Δ, δ), З - like "Zetta" (Ζ, ζ), П - like "Pi" (Π, π), Р - like "Ro" (Ρ, ρ), Ф is "Fi" (Φ, φ) e.t.c

@@ethiop_frum Yes, but only because the linguistically more appropriate Glagolitic was deemed too different from Greek so it was replaced by the Greek-looking Cyrillic. (Modern Greek B is a V sound, by the way.). Letters like Ч Ц Ъ and Ь and Щ come from Glagolitic, not Greek.

@@davidsturm7706 Greek word alphabet is prounsing of two letters "alpha" and "beta". But the russian word "алфавит" shows that the Greek letter "beta" in the Middle Ages was pronounced as "vita". Greek "Basil" turned to Russian "Василий". Glagolic alphabeth was like beta-version. That's was "fork" in Slavic proto-linguistic in VII-VIII cc. And You can find Jewish alpfabet and You must see "Shin" (שׂ). You can find Ethiopian alphabet "Aboogida" and compare it with Glagolic alphabeth (where M is መ too). So, You can find Coptic alphabeth... My idea is: The two Greek brothers created the alphabet for the Slavs, knowing Slavic grammar and phonetics well, carefully selecting ready-made symbols from various Mediterranean systems to indicate the letters. Two new systems were created. And time has shown the survivability of both systems in different situations.

@@davidsturm7706 Did You see Old-Slavonic letters in reality? Find some... Like that: yandex.ru/images/touch/search?text=%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%20%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE&img_url=https%3A%2F%2Fst2.depositphotos.com%2F1033434%2F6968%2Fi%2F950%2Fdepositphotos_69680247-stock-photo-christian-ancient-psalter-with-text.jpg&pos=0&rpt=simage&source=wiz&ts=1622916464576

You are right! 1. Г in "огонь" sounds like true Г. 2. Г in "хорошего" (primarily in the endings of adjectives) sounds like В. It's illogical for modern native speakers too. Anyone would be glad if it was spelled "хорошево". We have to learn the rules to write such words down correctly. 3. Г in "лёгкий"/"легко" sounds like ХЬ/Х correspondingly. It looks like these cases are rare exceptions.

In my opinion, English R and Russian Р are different enough from any other sounds in these languages so they could be used interchangeably. IDK if it's OK to replace R by Р in English, but it's definitely OK to replace Р by R in Russian. It would be perceived like stronger accent but that's all. Ь, Ы and Щ are more important. It's inadvisable to mess up with these letters/sounds. "Брат" vs "брать" or "мишка" vs "мышка" or "диод Шоттки" vs "щётки" (English speaker nightmare) is like "dock" vs "dog" or "beach" vs "bitch" or "man" vs "men" (Russian speaker nightmare). Replacing one sound by a similar one existing in the language is making a native speaker suffer. It would be perceived as speaker's having mental issues but not as having a nice accent.

@@sekrasoft hearing р in English in place of r is probably fine: it'll just sound like a fun accent. I really have trouble with ь and ш, щ. I'd really love to have a ten minute video where a native repeats брать a dozen times, then брат, and goes back and forth between them, then do the same with Ольга and олга, шашлык and щащлык, etc. Normally you only ever hear these sounds used once or twice, and the "wrong" sounds never. It's hard to pick up these differences when you're not immersed in them from childhood.

@@setharnold9764 The videos on the topic seem to be more theoretical than about hearing the difference. So I recorded mine :) It doesn't cover theory, however, contains a lot of sound combinations: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aaigabR7pr6nqKs.html The video is split in several sections for some "theory" stuff and certain set of cases. My spoken English and picture are not the things to be proud of, but I hope you find the Russian part helpful.

@@sekrasoft oh my goodness!! Thanks! I've only watched a few minutes since I'm at work but this looks exactly like what I needed! I'll watch it later tonight. Thank you thank you thank you!

@@setharnold9764 You're welcome! Please don't hesitate to ask if it's something wrong. I'll try to do my best making some sounds more distinguishable. Some of them came out too similar. P.S. Wow, the time difference is between our locations is huge. It's 6 a.m. in my hometown now. I'm the opposite of an early bird, so it's time for me to sleep.

Wait what?

Я makes a "ya" sound and the letter З is a z

Уй is a diphthong that starts with the back vowel у and glides into й. . Ы is a single sound. A monophthong.

@@davidsturm7706 If уй were to be pronounced as a monopthongic single syllable, would that equate to , or be similar to ы?

Ы sounds closer to i for such words as Live or Bill in US english. Even harder.( in difference of soft ea in Leave).

@@se777en73120 I hear it resolving to the English short OO sound ..ʊ.. In IPA, пожалуйста is pɐˈʐaɫʊstə. Or a schwa, pɐˈʐaɫəstə. Ы is middle ɨ, not back ʊ.

Allow me, a native English-speaker who is interested in Russian, clarify: these letters may be perfectly normal for a native Russian-speaker (or any other Cyrillic alphabet), but are weird for most other people. In particular, ы, ь, and ъ don't have many equivalents in other languages, while ж, э, and д don't look right to an English-speaker. In short, it is all about perspective: what is normal to one culture is weird to another. Kind of makes me wonder if there are any English letters that Russians find weird?

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions They are all just the same letters facing the wrong way. Seriously, I'm a native English/Spanish speaker who has been studying Russian for a while and I just don't find them strange. Speaking of that, you forgot to mention я and и. An important thing to do when learning an unrelated language is mentally draw a line between them and don't try to force the new language to fit into that which with you are already comfortable/familiar.

@@shreddder999 Coincidentally, I am a native English-speaker who was learning Spanish at school, and is teaching myself Russian through the internet! Also, when you said that we should "draw a line" between the languages, you've got a good point! After all, we would both know that there is a large difference between "embarrassed" and "embarazada"!

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions and the list goes on. Many more false friends. A friend of mine thought sopa was soap. I suppose he can eat what he wants and I'll eat what I want. Carpeta and many other false friends between Spanish and English.

@@shreddder999 There are plenty of more humorous false friends throughout languages! I don't think your friend was thinking of washing his hands _with_ soup! As we both said, same thing goes with the Cyrillic letters!