To someone who speaks English or another European language, Russian may seem to be a difficult language to learn. This is due to its pronounciation rules and conjugation of nominal and verbal roots. Like many Pacific Island languages, Russian has different forms of conjugation for different genders, declensions and inflections. The Russian alphabet is written in the Cyrillic script, which was named after its 9th Century inventor, the monk St. Cyril. Like the Greek and Roman alphabets, Cyrillic has a basic principle of one letter per phoneme.
Some letters resemble the Roman alphabet but is never pronounced as such.
Some look like inverted Roman letters and some, as obscure as a non-European foreign script.