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As you know almost all the words come from Latin or/and Greek and have a reason to have such spellings. Let me explain these you've mentioned above. But I agree some letters are silent, which by the...

Sorry but you're wrong. Who told you that?[/quote]

You take people to litterally.
When I say "they don't pronounce half the letters", I don't actually mean half.

But there are lots of...

But, if you look at the whole alphabet:

Г is called глаголи
Д is called добро
Е is called єсть

etc.

The names have meanings.

In Ukrainian they have:

Алфавіт - from Greek alpha, beta
Азбука - from Old Church Slavonic az, buki
Абетка - from Ukrainian a, be,

I doubt it, unless he studied French. What do you mean by he understands? He can understand when someone talks or can guess when he reads something?[/quote]

I expect written, because in French...

My Spanish friend says he understands French.

German and Dutch is a better comparison IMO.
Or French and Spanish maybe.

Hmmm, Spanish and Portugues are considerably closer to each other than Russian and Bulgarian.

Notice Bulgarian Аз = I
is found in Азбука. (Аз = I in Old Church Slavonic also)

Please tell me you didn't think Polish and Czech could be mutually intellible with English. That sort of stupidity should encure the death penalty.[/quote]Well that was a dumb typo. Let me change...

Please tell me you didn't think Polish and Czech could be mutually intellible with English. That sort of stupidity should encure the death penalty.

Well for the most part.

Ъ in Bulgarian is an ultra short vowel, or schwa, like the final a in Banana.
Bulgarian is Български. As far as I know, there is no reduction of vowels (e.g. O) as there...

Very close? Don't be silly.

Russian and Belorussian, yes very close.
Russian and Bulgarian... not really.

Well, Old Church Slavonic which is what Russian evolved from, was the language of...