Learning Russian -- Part II

The first hurdle to learning Russian is the Cyrillic alphabet. Five letters are easy, just like ours: A,K,M,O, T. Eleven others are mostly Greek, and then there are four that make a sibilant sound. The tricky letters are Latin in style, but different in pronunciation: B is ”veh,” H is “en,” P is “er,” C is “ess,” E is “yeh,” X is “khah,” and Y is “oooh.”  The Cyrillic letter for I is sometimes written like U, and the letter T can look like a lower case m.  So...

 The storefront sign says “Coffee House.” The sign on the kiosk transliterates to "Pit Stop."