Gadling teaches you to read the Cyrillic alphabet in 5 minutes {Gadling}

Mar 31st 2009 3:39PM The letter И doesn't make the short i sound. It makes the long e sound. And the comment about accents is true: Russian doesn't use them. But as non-native speaker who can be considered fluent in Russian now (after living there for 4 years), I can attest that stress is one of the more difficult aspects of the language. I'm still not very good at guessing the stress of unfamiliar words. So be thankful for accent marks whenever you get them.