Russians use Cyrillic, an alphabet that’s completely different than the one we use. Some of their letters that look identical to ours have completely different pronunciations. And then they have a whole bunch of letters that don’t even look like letters. Here’s what it looks like:
А Б В Г Д Е Ё Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь Э Ю Я Yo
How different is it?
This is a poster promoting a new TV show by English chef Jamie Oliver. The large word in the center is Russian for “Jamie”.