Dear gRomoZeka. I thank you for fourth time. I hope we keep in touch and I learn to discuss in Russian language soon.
You are welcome! I'm glad I could help.
Quote Originally Posted by Konstantinos View Post
It was easier than I thought. I believe that learning to write in Latin alphabet (for English) when I was 7 years old was harder than learning to write in Cyrillic alphabet now (I am 24 years old). But both alphabets (Latin and Cyrillic) derived from Greek alphabet so finally I believe it was easy to learn to write in this alphabets. For example the letter В в is written with the same way like Β β in Greek (and it is pronounced with the same way).
Thank you for your input, it's very interesting to know. English native speakers often comment on how hard cursive is, so I always wondered what people whose native language uses non-Latin script would think.

A connection between Greek and Russian is slim, but it's there.
I had a book of linguistic puzzles as a teen. One of the "problems" was a short text in Greek spelled in Cyrillic letters, which could have been translated into Russian even without any knowledge of Greek language. At first glance it seemed gibberish, but could be deciphered after some hard thinking.
(I can find it if anyone is interested).