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For a couple of months at this point, I've begun to learn to read Cyrillic, specifically the Russian alphabet. Currently, I can comprehend everything written in Cyrillic, although not at a speedy pace. At long words I usually stutter, reading in chunks of about 7 to 8 letters.
I know some very basic Russian by this point, although I'm focusing more on getting to read Cyrillic at a good pace, then learning the language. It's different for sure, besides being odd coming from a Latin-based alphabet. Whenever I'm tired, my brain just reverts to Latin and mixes the alphabets up, the end result being quite funny.
Printed Cyrillic is fine, the handwriting is on a whole another level. If you ever think your handwriting is ugly, just search up ugly handwriting in Cyrillic and you'll be proud of yours. It sometimes makes absolutely zero sense, every Slavic speaker out there literally has their own mashup of print and traditional cursive letters in their handwriting. Although that's the fun in it.
Russian itself is a very phonetic language, compared to English, and I can say that I like that. Although the grammar rules, such as reading "а" instead "о" when the syllable is accentuated and the soft в still mess me up when reading. Although I still want to practice reading before extending my vocabulary and tackling the language more in-depth.
До свидания!