Learn the Cyrillic alphabet in one video 

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In Russia we have such a prank -- borrow your friend's smartphone and change Russian key alphabet to Bulgarian one, letters are same, but the order is completely different, to find the right letter you need a time and to suffer a little, also the friend may not immediately understand what happened

Tom Holland has Growned a lot that he teaches us how to pronounce Cyrillics

Сперва я подумал, что автор просто забыл букву "Ы", а в конце ролика понял, что речь идёт про Болгарский язык ))

Awesome content. Hello from Russia 🇷🇺❤🇧🇬

Vuk Karadzic(serbian linguist from 19century) once said write the way you speak,and read as you write

Hello, sir! Very good lesson. I know nothing of Cyrillic...I'm American, a professor of French language. I enjoyed the pace of your speech and your devices to memorize the sounds. Best of all your encouragement is warm, friendly, and sincere. Thank you kindly.

I am an Arab who was taught French ,then English then German at a very young age ,,Cyrillic seems intimidating at first but once you know the difference ,it is very easy to read ,much more accurate than English ,,the flipped or rolled r is the same for Arabs & Italians .

I learned a lot of Cyrillic with those examples in phonetic translations. Spent 30mins on 9min vid. I wish you could provide more of them. I'm learning Bulgarian for vacations. G'day from Poland

Using the Cyrillic alphabet for english words is a smart way to learn. I never thought of that.

Много благодаря за първи път виждам някой който да учи хората на български!😃 Thank you very much I saw for the first time someone who teaches people Bulgarian!

Благодаря! Световната общност има нужда да види, че тази азбука е наша, а не руска.

That's the best explanation I have ever seen so far! Nice job

Your language is awesome. Hello from Czechia 🇨🇿

As an english (and spanish to some extent) speaker; the letters only having one sound a piece is something I'm not used to, and _very_ grateful for.

Cyrillic remains forever a Bulgarian achievement.

The Cyrillic "Д" comes from the Greek "Δ" and has been modified for typographic fonts to look consistent with other letters in a line of text.. If you write the letter "Д" by hand as a Greek delta, everyone will understand what you wrote. The same applies to the letter "Л", you can write the Greek lambda (Λ). Λето - Leto - Summer Δом - Dom - House The letter "Ц" is taken from the Hebrew alphabet "צ" (tsadi), as well as the letter "Ш" of the Hebrew "ש" (shin)

This was so helpful! I have been using duo lingo for a few months and this 10 minute video was exponentially more helpful!! Thank you so much for making this man. Since I have watched this I have been flying through my studies. I will always recommend this to anyone that wants to learn Cyrillic/Russian. Cheers! 😊

Very nice! I’m Bulgarian and I can read and easily understand all “Slavic “ alphabets and languages, because of the Bulgarian alphabet: Also there are A- аз Б- буки В- веди Г- глаголь Д- добро Е-ест Ж- живете ..( Глаголица ) ... Nice work 😊

Being russian and speaking Russian language respectively, I admire your job at explanation of our phonetics. Good job, you made it look kinda easy!) Also I’d like to add, that letter «Щ» should not be pronounced as «sht». Actually it’s similar to «Ш», but softened at the end, so it’s more of a «sh’». It’s crucial to mention because otherwise people can be struggled by hearing «shtuka» (thing, piece or just something undefined) from the foreigner when he is speaking of a pike fish (щука). Best wishes and keep it up 👍

Good video! My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

0:46 "there is no variation in pronunciation" Devoicing, vowel reduction and iotation are very common. There are also some other subtleties.

Thank you very much; this is hugely helpful. The mnemonics are really easy to remember, as is your description. I had been struggling for days to remember even a few letters, but with just one viewing of this video, I had memorized all of them.

Im a macedonian living in germany trying to learn the cyrillic Alphabet and this video "somewhat" Helped me so thanks

I swear to god I thought this was impossible to learn. And then after a 10 min video I no longer see weird symbols when looking at Cyrillic. Thank you so much!

I m falling in love with Bulgarian Language... From Borneo Island Sarawak

For the past one year before every Russian test or class review, i come back to this video and this only. I have noted down what you teach and revise my Cyrillic with your help. Thank you so much i have been doing very well in learning Russian as a foreign language in my Университет. Ilook forward to bettering my understanding of Russian language within 2023. Love from India 🇮🇳 Спасибо вам ❤

Thankyou so much for making this, i have been trying to learn the Cyrillic alphabet for 2 months, and this has been the first helpful source. Thanks soo much

I love to learn Bulgarian language. Also you teach very well. Please continue from basic until advance level in Bulgarian.

shorter and way much easier than the other videos i have watched to learn cyrillic alphabets. thumbs up. cheers.

This is an excellent video, Viktor has done everyone a real service. Many thanks.

I'm smiling so much because this is helping me read the current news. I understand some words

You have inspired me to learn the script. Brilliant idea to use the letters and sounds to write english as a way to learn.

Вери найс видео! Благодаря.

thanks dude! One of the most helpful videos out there

This is teaching the Cyrillic alphabet taken to a new level!

Such good explanations thank you so much.

Nice video man, I would live to see a video comparing differences between pronunciation of Cyrillic letters of other Slavic languages (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian/Macedonian), I think you as a Bulgarian have a nice position as a bridge from East to south that you are able to pronounce all the different sounds (like ч ћ/ќ ђ/ѓ џ from Serbian and Macedonian). Cheers

this video is the one that helped me the most, love your explanation and ways to help remember the letters! Thank you

As a half greek and half bulgarian due to my mom i've come to hear bulgarian everyday at home and see how massive of a language it is. As a result of that (and other factors like living in germany and speaking mainly greek) i've never tried learning bulgarian because i was scared. My mom and my whole family from bulgaria were sad and they thought i should learn it since family, culture, heritage etc. Now that i can finally read, write and speak greek and german without any problem, now that i grew up and matured and now that my love for languages has grown in the past years even more (trying to learn korean, italian and in the future arabic) i feel finally ready to start learning bulgarian. Hopefully i can make my family proud. Thank you so much for the video. Learning the alphabet is always the first step in learning a language so thank you for starting my and many othrs journey that is bulgarian.

The explanations and visual links used and the way its broken into groups are perfect

Excellent tutorial! You're a good teacher. I will remember 3 = Z because in German script the Z also looks like a 3. And SH looks like the Chinese character for mountain 山 which is pronounced SHan.

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Thank you, Victor. Extremely helpful!!!

You made learning easy! Thank You!!!

Thank you so much for this! I'm learning Old Romanian which was written with the cyrillic alphabet and I'm having such a hard time working with the papers my teacher gave me. You made it way more clearer and easier to remember the letters.

Thank you! I'm learning the cyrillic alphabet primarily so that I can sing Russian choral music using the original text only. I've found that, after using this video as a starting point, I've made very fast progress in learning the cyrillic alphabet by binging youtube videos consisting of Russian choral music (Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Chesnokov etc.) with a musical score that can be used to follow along. It's great because, aside from the fact that the music is typically awe-inspiring, the syllables are typically slower than speech, oft-repeated and also written separated. I definitely recommend this method for people that can read music.

A good lesson, taught in a very friendly way! Thank you!

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I love your videos. They are very helpful and educational. I am finding that since I have been learning Russian I have been able to read a little bit of Ukrainian, some Bulgarian and some Serbian when, when Serbian is in Cyrillic that is.

This guy is the most optimistic man in the world to think that YT viewers can learn the Cyrillic alphabet in 9 minutes and 34 seconds.

Thanks! Very detailed! I just noticed that actually many letters are pronounced like those in pinyin, which is basically how you spell in mandarin. Very interesting!

I love how you use the language that gave birth of cyrillic alphabets for example. 🇧🇬

Expert mode: unlock Serbian Љ, Њ, Ћ, Ђ and Џ

You are a genius. Loved your video. Man, it helps a lot.😀👍 Will practise with it.

Thanks for this! I'm trying to do family tree research for my husband and soon realised I needed to learn the Cyrillic alphabet to get any further.

Thank you so much for this and for making it easier to memorize them, appreciate your help 🙏☺

The letter "Щ" only appears in the Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian alphabets (if we count Slavic ones). The pronunciation is different in each of them. In Bulgarian it is pronounced as "Sh+T", just like in this video, in Ukrainian it is more like Sh+Ch, and in Russian it is just a softened Sh, just like in the word "She", just the sound is a bit stronger.

I just came across your channel and I love it. Though I’ve only watched this video, I have to say that you are fantastic! Thank you for explaining the Cyrillic alphabet in a way that anyone can understand. I have always wondered about the Cyrillic alphabet and how letters are pronounced + which letters are similar/different from the Latin/Roman alphabet. I’m gonna have to watch your video a few more times but that’s okay with me. 😃

I am a native bulgarian speaker and i found the explanations in the video very interesting

it's suprisingly easy, thank you

This Cyrillic is only for Russian. Serbian Cyrillic have letters like ć, č, š, đ, dž, lj, nj (ћ, ч, ш, ђ, џ, љ, њ)

Clearest explanation I have seen yet, thanks.

Thank you for sharing the knowledge. You are amazing!

You had mentioned the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, for anyone who is interested in learning Serbian, Serbia uses to alphabets, the Cyrillic alphabet and the Latin, but be warned, their Latin alphabet is pronounced way differently than how we pronounce the Latin alphabet. I know this because when I started learning Russian I started exploring other Slavic languages. Also, if you want to get really good at learning the alphabet, don't use digital flashcards, make your own flashcards because the more you write the alphabet yourself the better you're going to be with it and the easier it's going to be for you to remember it. I will also mention that it is very helpful to watch movies in the language that you are trying to learn, and listen to songs in the language you are trying to learn and find the lyrics to that song in English and in their native language. Trust me, it really helps. When you hear somebody singing in that language and hear how they pronounce those words and the accents they have on these words it helps you to understand the words better when you hear people speaking them.

great lesson, but some of the visualisation exercises for memorisation were overly abstract / confusing, otherwise a good and direct lesson, thank you, I learned a lot.

Brilliant content ! Very helpful clip ! Much appreciated ! Thanks a lot!

Golypot , I like you’re teaching style, thank you !

Да ли је руска, српска, бугарска, да ли су је направили Ћирило и Методије или је већ постојала, потпуно ми је свеједно. Свеједно ми је и чија је верзија старија, све док постоји ћирилица. Поздрављам сва словенска племена било да пишу или не ћирилицом. Настави са добрим радом.

When I studied Russian in high school I learned to read the Cyrillic alphabet in literally a day. I love the way Cyrillic looks when written.

Dude, you have both english and russian f-ed up pronunciation ... That`s a gift, bro...

Victor, thanks a lot! We have a new hobby, reading Cyrillic!

0mg!!I've been having a hard time on prouncing each word right but I couldn't get it. Thanks to you cause you make it so easy to understand. You deliver it well, this is probably the best video that I watched.

Amazing video and wonderful delivery, thank you so much Благодаря много! A few additional notes from a native Bulgarian: About Ж and the snowflake example - actually snowflake is снежинка in Bulgarian, so it actually contains the letter Ж :) ь is "er maluk" because it could never be at the beginning of the words, therefore no Capital version, thus the "maluk" = small letter; Ъ, ъ is a fully qualified vow in BG :) rarely at the beginning - ъгъл = angle. Ай хоуп ит уаз хелпфул! :)

Vey very helpful! Your a great teacher and adorable too!!!

Спайсиба! I'm new to writing words in Cyrillic alphabet but I tried. This felt good. Thanks for the help!!♥️

I am Serbian this is kinda awesome seeing as we have the same ancestors and speak a langue so close yet so far away хвала из Србије

5:10 The Ш which looks like the Chinese character 山 (means mountain or "shan" in hanyu pinyin) . Interestingly, both starts with the sound "Sh"!

this really helped with the soft sound letters..like a lot!!

Great explanations of Cyrillic for beginners.

Thanks golyplot, I am currently studying Orthographies (Greek / Hebrew / Cyrillic / Sanskrit / Hangul) and this super helpful !!

Romanian here, gotta say, pronunciation is almost identical to ours, (probably due to slavic influences), but learning the alphabet is a bit hard. Either way, well done, very good tutorial.

Thanks man! about to go to university to study spanish and opted for russian (from beginners) as a second language. This helps a lot.

The cursive z helps so much! Rote memorization is not easy for me; I think almost exclusively in mnemonics and metaphor, so this is a godsend. Thank you!

Спасибо!!!!! It helped alot🤗🤗

Благодаря за това видео

Love the way you help me remember. Thank you!

БРАВО Виктор!

it's a good idea to mention this is specifically meant to explain how to pronounce cyrillic letters the bulgarian way. there are noticeable differences between russian and bulgarian cyrillic pronunciations, like "щ" in bulgarian being pronounced "sht" differing from the softened "sch" in russian

A lot of these Cyrillic consonants can be used in Chinese i.e. Chen Chan Chu Zheng Zhu Zha Tsu Tsi Tsa from Cu Ci Ca Shi Sha She Cyrillic is already used in Mongolia

It's really interesting to see our alphabet, in another light. I think it's explained really interesting

coming from a maco background I was rofl at Штутгарт, Чалендџ and Ситуација. very enlightening, thank you, very informative video, will send it to my Aussie friends

5:00 Back in high school, my Russian teacher referred to «Ч» as the ”Number-4-S”; so, that’s a familiar mnemonic device, for me 😆.

Why is RU-vid recommending this to me, I am Bulgarian Also, some Russian people commented on the "Щ" sound which is softer in their language, in Bulgarian it is spelled exactly as "sht"

Great video. Makes things easy to understand.

никогда не думал, что павел дуров будет объяснять, как читать кириллицу

Oh thats bulgarian lessons , im russian and i was wondering why there are so many mistakes

This is the Bulgarian alphabet. Other Cyrillic alphabets differ.

Great video! I felt like I was back in my first Bulgarian class. :)

bro i just subscribed:) Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩