What does ))) mean in Russian?

))) means “LOL.” That’s the first thing that you should know about Russian text messaging. Typically, instead of “normal” emoticons, Russians use brackets.
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What is f in Russian?

Ef or Fe (Ф ф; italics: Ф ф) is a Cyrillic letter, commonly representing the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, like the pronunciation of ⟨f⟩ in “fill, flee, or fall”. The Cyrillic letter Ef is romanized as ⟨f⟩.
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How to pronounce the Russian R (“Р”)

What sound is ы?

Pay attention to the pronunciation of the vowels ы and и. Note that ы sounds like [ i ] in ill, whereas И и sounds like [ee] in meet. The letter ы never occurs as the first letter in the word, therefore it is never capitalized.
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What letter is й?

Short I (Й й; italics: Й й) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. The short I represents the palatal approximant /j/ like the pronunciation of ⟨y⟩ in yesterday.
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What is p in Russian?

Pe (П п; italics: П п) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

Is Russian a rare language?

Worldwide, it’s almost as popular as French and Arabic, and even more widespread than German. There are around 260 million people speaking Russian around the globe.
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What is Z in Russia?

Outside Russia, the symbol has been banned from public display in various countries. The “Z” symbol has been pejoratively called a zwastika or zwaztika, in reference to the Nazi swastika, or pejoratively in Russian and Ukrainian as “ziga” (Russian: зига) in reference to Sieg Heil.
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How to pronounce э?

The Russian letter “э” is pronounced [e] like in the word “edit”. But be careful, remember that the Russian letter “e” is pronounced [ye] like in “yellow”. You have already learnt that “и” has a sound [i], similar to “three” or “free”.
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Is Russian hardest to learn?

Russian is widely believed to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. This is mostly true, if you have no knowledge of other Slavic languages (e.g. Bulgarian or Czech). The grammar rules in Russian are very complex and have numerous exceptions.
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What is the most forgotten language?

What letter is ь in Russian?

By the way, in Russian “ь” is called мягкий знак (myah-kij znak), which means “soft sign”. “щ” is pronounced like [sh] + [ch] (fresh chicken) or like [s] + [sh]. “ю” is pronounced like the English word “you”.
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What is ы in Russian?

The twenty-ninth letter of the Russian alphabet, called ы (y) or еры (jery), and written in the Cyrillic script.
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Is V pronounced as f in Russian?

Usage. In Russian and Bulgarian, Ve generally represents /v/, but at the end of a word or before voiceless consonants, it represents the voiceless [f].
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How many languages have died?

Currently, there are 573 known extinct languages. These are languages that are no longer spoken or studied. Many were local dialects with no records of their alphabet or wording, and so are forever lost. Others were major languages of their time, but society and changing cultures left them behind.
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What language is Д?

Letter. The fifth letter of the Russian alphabet, called дэ (dɛ), and written in the Cyrillic script.
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How is Ʒ pronounced?

To make the /ʒ/ sound:
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When to use Ь?

Ь has a much wider usage than Ъ in Russian; Ь can be used at the end of words or in between two consonants, and it indicates that the preceding consonant is soft. Neither Ъ nor Ь can be a stand alone letter or the first letter in a word.
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Do Russians say V instead of W?

Since there’s no /w/ in Russian, whenever a /w/ appears in English it is sometimes replaced with a /v/ consonant sound – that does exist in Russian.
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What is ъ in Russian?

In Modern Russian, the letter “ъ” is called the hard sign (твёрдый знак / tvjordyj znak). It has no phonetic value of its own and is purely an orthographic device. Its function is to separate a number of prefixes ending in consonants from subsequent morphemes that begin with iotated vowels.
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Is Russian spelling easy?

The Russian Alphabet Can Be Challenging
32 While most of Europe uses an alphabet that descended from Latin, the Russian alphabet is Cyrillic. There are a few similar letters, but right from the beginning, you are going to have to learn an entirely new alphabet to really learn the language.
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What letter is Ь?

The soft sign (Ь, ь, italics Ь, ь) also known as the front yer, front jer, or er malak (lit. “small er”) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Old Church Slavonic, it represented a short (or “reduced”) front vowel.

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