Elder Chase Quinn's missionary blog

ELDER CHASE QUINN'S MISSIONARY BLOG by his mother Elaine

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

You Say What?

Старейшйна Quinn (Elder Quinn) is studying Russian for his mission in the Ukraine. 


Elder Quinn wrote on 6/27/11: ..."so for right now I would probably give myself a B- as far as language goes. I can read anything and can teach lessons but it is getting harder to understand our investigators/teachers, because they are starting to talk faster and use new words. But it is going really well. I've been thinking a lot about that talk about the man who cuts back the bush so that it will grow better. I'm pretty sure I'm being cut back really far." 

The Cyrillic alphabet is used for the Russian language.  For those of you not familiar with this alphabet (like myself), here it is...   


The Cyrillic Alphabet and its pronunciations...


Russian alphabet and pronunciation

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