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How to speak russian
Learn the russian alphabet.
The alphabet is a good place to start when you're learning to speak russian. Russian is a phonetic language, which means that more or less every russian letter corresponds to a single sound.
Once you have learned to pronounce every letter of the alphabet correctly, learn what other sounds the letters can make for example o can be a sometimes in russian. The russian alphabet is derived from the cyrillic alphabet and consists of 33 letters, including 11 vowels , 20 consonants and 2 letters which make no sound, but make a word sound harder or softer.