I'll abstain from the quiz, since I was a Russian major! But, as a Russian major, I've been asked so many times about how hard it must have been to learn the alphabet and how hard the language must be because it has a different alphabet. My response: The alphabet is the least of it; I think we spent a half hour learning it in class, then maybe another class learning how to write it in cursive. And that was it. The alphabet is really quite easy (as you allude to here).

To make the alphabet even easier, you should take off the accent marks that are on the various words you have in this post -- they're only there as guides for learners to know which syllable gets the accent. Russian doesn't use accent marks.

And, I always thought the д looked like the Greek "delta (d)" and л looked like the Greek "lambda (l)", so that could help people out, too. And з looks like the uppercase cursive Z in English.

The language itself (grammar, rules)? Very hard. Two verbal aspects on top of conjugations; three genders; six declensions; plurals that depend on whether a number ends in 1, 2 through 4, or 5 through 0; sentences with no verb...

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