Show find russian tough expert says its easy can you pronounce mir no bogrod golynski lwow orel luki or its as simple as a b c in fact simpler to pronounce these russian war cities according to father konstantine st stant lne auroroff part time instructor in russian at pennsylvania state college russian is an easy language anyone can learn to read it in two or three hours declares father A auroroff u in english there are some 60 sounds in russian there are 32 and only two or three of them are not used in english to begin with he be stresses russian rusian s is a phonetic language there arent three or four different sounds lor for the letter a for instance as there are in english a in russian Is always pronounced as in bar other russian letters represent the english sounds of b d long e f g as in go k or c 1 m n long 0 p r with a trill s t long u v and z combinations ot of english letters such as ye ch sh and ya are used as one character in in russian some ot of the sounds ya lin familiar to english ears are an b pronounced as ooch hoch a ah sound like the french j and a ts is combination as in nuts |