Re:Ogden's Basic English
by rvba on Monday October 05, 2020 @11:35AM
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Do you know any good resource to first learn Cyrillic alphabet?
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Re:Ogden's Basic English
by 082349872349872 on Monday October 05, 2020 @12:41PM
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I knew greek before, which has substantial overlap.
Flashcards would probably be the fastest method, but I'm not cramming, so to pick up the rest of the characters, I:
- watched the relevant episodes of Спокойной ночи, малыши for letterforms and pronunciation. (phonic segment is about midway through, nearly always at the same time, IIRC)
- read plenty. VK memes at first, news headlines for the proper nouns later.
- watched lyric music videos to work on reading speed.
Duolingo is good at teaching Cyrillic.
Be warned, though, that it takes a while for an English speaker to recognize the difference between hard consonants and soft consonants. In fact I got the point where I didn't think that I could tell, but was able to successfully guess 10x in a row. I got them right, but it really felt like I had no idea. Very weird experience.