*~* Alphabet and Pronounciation *~*
For those of you familiar with Russian, this will be a cake-walk. Voshla (вошла) uses the Russian/Cyrillic alphabet. For those of you not so familiar with it, fear not, it is pretty simple.
Letters that are almost the same as English:
Аа = 'a' in father or car
Кк = 'k' in kitten (replaces English 'c' in words like cat)
Мм = 'm' in man
Оо = {stressed} 'o' in spot, {unstressed} like 'a'
Тт = 't' in tap
Letters that look like English, but sound different:
Вв = 'v' in vet
Ее = 'ye' in yes
Нн = 'n' in no
Рр = 'r' in run (but rolled)
Сс = 's' in see (think : cent or center)
Уу = 'oo' in boot
Хх = 'h' in hello (usually 'ch' in Scottish 'loch')
Letters that look different, but sound familiar:
Бб = 'b' in bat
Гг = 'g' in go
Дд = 'd' in dog
Зз = 'z' in zoo
Ии = 'ee' in see
Лл = 'l' in love
Пп = 'p' in pot
Фф = 'f' in fat
Ээ = 'e' in fed, 'eh' in bleh
New letters and sounds
Юю = 'u' in universe
Яя = 'ya' in yard
Ёё = 'yo' in yonder
Жж = 'zh', 's' in pleasure
Цц = 'ts' in sits
Чч = 'ch' in chips or church
Шш = 'sh' in shut
Щщ = 'sh' in shut, 'sch' (with tongue at 'ch' position)
Ыы = 'i' in bit or ill
Йй = (letter used to form diphthongs) 'ой' is “oy” as in boy, 'ай' is “igh” as in sigh.
See! Simple. No fancy font for this one.
*~* Stress
A one syllable word is always assumed stressed.
Two syllable words have the first syllable stressed.
Three syllable words have the second syllable stressed.
For words with more than three syllables, the third syllable is stressed.
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