| 1 | the Latin letter or combination of letters you type in Russian using the Latin keyboard |
| 2 | you have to really "rrroll" your tongue to get it to sound Russian :-) |
| 3 | the hard sounded "h" ("house"), also compared to "x" sound when pronounced in Spanish (ex.: "México"); is usually transliterated as "kh" |
| 4 | is called the hard sign and used in modern Russian spelling only as a separation sign |
| 5 | is called the soft sign and is generally used to indicate the softness of consonants |