EXERCISES FOR 1ST-YEAR RUSSIAN AT DU

THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET, TRANSLITERATION, AND SPELLING RULES

Directions: If you have activated your computer's Cyrillic writing capability, proceed with the following exercise. For the first 5 examples, provide the information requested about the vowels which follow the hard and variants of consonants. For the next 5, provide the proper vowel as demanded by a spelling rule. For the last ten, provide the Russian equivalent of the transliterated letters. After filling in an answer, click anywhere on the page to see whether it is right. Press ? to see the correct answer.

  1. П + А = .
  2. НЬ + У = .
  3. СЬ + О = .
  4. ОЙ + А = .
  5. Л + Ы = .
  6. Ш + Ы = .
  7. Щ + Я = .
  8. Ц + UNSTRESSED О = .
  9. Ж + STRESSED О = .
  10. К + Ю = .
  11. zh = .
  12. ch = .
  13. ia = .
  14. e = , , .
  15. i = , .
  16. shch = .
  17. ts = .
  18. p = .
  19. s = .
  20. r = .

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