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St Petersburg, Russia: How to say Jamie in Russian

August 27, 2013 Jim Leave a Comment

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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”.

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