This guide will enable you to read cyrillic, through exercises. There are 4 tabs to learn the different kinds letters, one tab with a quizz including all letters, and one tab to practice reading russian towns.
The reference language is russian, and even though other languages such as bulgarian or ukrainian have specificities, they are not very different from a reading point of view, so what you learn here will be 95% valid.
Vowels
Knowing the vowels is the most important thing to read cyrillic.
There are two difficult letters : И -> i, and Y -> U.
normal vowels
vowels with the y sound at the beginning
Cyrillique
Latin
a
a
Э
e
o
o
y
u
И
i
Cyrillique
Latin
Я
ya
E
ye
ё
yo
ю
yu
Ы
y'
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Greek letters
Letters Gamma, Delta, Lambda, Pi and Phi are greek letters.
Cyrillic
Latin
Г
g
Д
d
Л
l
П
p
Ф
f
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The trap letters
Some letters are confusing because they have a similar shape to a letter of the latin alphabet, but have a different pronounciation.
Cyrillic
Latin
C
s
B
v
H
n
P
r
Letter B and mute letters
I grouped both mute letters and letter B because they look alike.
Cyrillic
Latin
Ь
'
Ъ
"
Б
b
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Other letters
The other letters are all some kind of variation of the "ch" sound.
