(Kind of) learn to read Russian in 15 minutes!

This cartoon introduces you to the letters in the Russian alphabet, a subset of Cyrillic. It's pretty good... it has a lot of terminological problems, and some outright errors, but as a pragmatic and quick guide to learning the letters, it gets the job done. Enjoy! It continues here...

A world of languages...

Twenty-three languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people of the 7.2 billion inhabitants of earth. (There are at least 7,102 known languages.)

Russian is spoken as a mother tongue by 166 million people (and by many others, for whom it is used as a language of study or business). But not all the speakers of Russian are from Russia... Click on the infographic to embiggen in!