I have begun to learn the Cyrillic (Russian) alphabet. How exciting! Lol It's a little bit of remembering, but really lots of things remind me of English in some ways; particularly the way words are spelled. They use a different symbol to create the same sound, but some words are spelled the same. But not the word "love". That word is pronounced "lyooblyoo" so I love you is "ya lyooblyoo vas" (YA lyublyu vas in Google translate...).
Oh Soul I love that idea. Is your princess helping you? We could all help you practice. x Such a shame my Russian friend left this forum. x
She will video call me later, and I will likely speak only Russian. I should probably learn a few more phrases for this. Soon enough my course in Russian will begin. I wonder how much it will help though.
Learning the alphabet is probably easier than remember different words. Because I'm sure there will be plenty that don't exactly mirror English. I know earlier I got a little mixed up by the word for hockey, despite it being reasonably similar to English! хоккей - In the book I'm studying from (Get Started in Russian) "X" is purportedly pronounced like "ch" in loch (Scot), so I thought "It's pronounced Ch-ockey?".