Comments by "" (@Hand-in-Shot_Productions) on "RUSSIAN 101: HOW TO READ RUSSIAN" video.

  1. Now you know that it is "SSSR", and not "Си-Си-Си-Пи"!
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  2.  @decemberstragicdrive  As an American that is learning Spanish (and from this video, a bit of Cyrillic), exactly! ЯЯЯ would be read as "Yayaya" in English or "Llallalla" (since a double-L makes the sound in Spanish as Y in English) in Spanish, so it's not exactly laughter! The Spanish J is pronounced more like the English H (hence words like "jalapeño" or "La Jolla"), which is best approximated as the Russian kha (Х), so the Spanish laugh is best translated the same way as any other laugh: Хахаха! I may add that this comment goes to show how languages may pronounce letters differently, even in the same alphabet, and even more differently in different alphabets! An English speaker may be forgiven, even for thinking that Mexicans laugh with "Jaw-jaw-jaw!", and most certainly for thinking that Russians laugh with "Ksa-ksa-ksa!"!
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  3.  @luisserna7985  That is the letter thorn, and it makes the "th" sound. It was once used in the English, Old Norse, Old Swedish, and Gothic alphabets, and it is still used in Icelandic. In English in particular, it was used in Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, so "the" was once Þe. Although Þ was never pronounced as "Y", it can resemble that letter in Gothic scripts, hence why "Ye olde" is often used in modern times to invoke a medieval or early modern aesthetic... even though it is just Þe olde ("the old"), and the real "ye" was "you"! As for the origin of the letter thorn, it comes from the rune ᚦ (Thurisaz) in the Elder Fuþark alphabet, hence it's historical Nordic usage. In fact, you could see the Þ be used in the word Fuþark! For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter) For the rune: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurisaz For "Ye Olde Shoppe" (which Shakespeare would read as "You Old Shop"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_olde
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  4. As an American, how silly! I mean, saying that Cyrillic is "communistic" would implicate every Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and so forth (including people before the Soviet era, White Russians during the Soviet era, and Memorial Society members after the Soviet era) as wanting to abolish private property! Not to mention that linguistics isn't politics or economics! What is a White Russian?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_movement What is the Memorial Society?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_(society)
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  5. I guess that's: "Army, Dad, Army!". What is Roman's mom yelling about?
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  6. Exactly! I'm not the only one here who knows what Юрий was wearing on his helmet!
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  7. As an American that can speak English and Spanish, I guess English can say "ny", like how the Spanish "Cañón" became "Cañon" in English, then lost the tilde and gained a Y to become "Canyon".
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