@UhOhXplode
When I say Latin alphabet I generally mean Latin-derived alphabet. English uses a Latin-derived alphabet as such it does have some common characters with the Cyrillic script. As for the Greek alphabet characters like: “П”, “Д”, “Р”, “Х”, “Г”, “Л”, and “Ф” are similar to Greek characters. Knowing these Greek characters did make remembering Cyrillic a bit easier but isn’t necessary. I always thought that the plain text version of Л looked more like “Λ”, the capital version of Lambda from Greek, but that is only because Greek characters as used heavily in engineering, math, and science. I have been looking over the MasterRussian courses between classes. I had no idea that RT offered Russian lessons hearing and trying to understand spoken Russian will be most helpful.