Cyrillic
Cyril and Methodius, brothers and Christian monks, are at the foundation of the Russian script. It is called Cyrillic because Cyril invented it, in the primitive form of the Glagolitic alphabet, which was revised and simplified after his death. Cyril and Methodius came from Thessalonica (Greece) and were missionaries: the script was meant to translate the Bible and spread the faith.
Three short clips (more under the videos) about the history of Cyrillic.
Cyril and Slavic Christianity – Christian History Made Easy
(Rose Publishing, 2012, 2 m)
Cyril and Methodices
(Museum of the Bible, 2017, 1 m)
The creation of Cyrillic Script / История за кирилицата
(Elektrick Me, 2018, 3 m)
More
- Old Cyrillic Alphabet with Pronunciation (Slavyansk, 2017, 6 m)
- Countries that use the Cyrillic (Jips, 2017, 2 m)
- All About Cyrillic and Greek script (Greek and Russian Club, 2017, 26 m)
- Fun Fact about the History of Russian: Alphabet Reforms of 1918 (College Russian, 2018, 4 m)
- What’s the Russian Alphabet Called and Where Does It Come From? (RussianPod101, 2018, 2 m)
- Cyrillic script (Principia, 2019, 14 m)
- How did Russian language come about? (Comrade Helps, 2019, 3 m)
Read
- 4 reasons why Russians use Cyrillic (Russia Beyond, 2019)
- Where Did Russians Get Their Alphabet? (Amazing Russian, 2018)
More
Language
Verbs work for those who want to make sentences. There - work and make, there you already have two. And try to make Russian out of that sentence if you if you don’t know работать or делать. So work, also on your vocabulary.
Even with bad news there is good news: there is a lot to learn from it. Russian news articles are excellent teaching material, even for the more advanced student.
The sixth noun, in Russian предложный падеж, is for most students the first one they learn. The reason is simple: the sixth grammatical case itself is.
And then it became war. Or should we say began the special military operation. On
February 24 2022 Russian troops entered Ukraine. It was allowed
neither war nor invasion be called, but it was akin to both.
This often comes as a setback for students of Russian: of (almost) every Russian verb there are two. Which do mean approximately the same thing, but express very different things. So you need to know both, and of both learn the conjugations.
Making mistakes in Cyrillic is no big deal. Everyone does. But wrong Cyrillic, that’s the biggest mistake you can make. And the worst thing you can do with that noble Cyrillic can do.
