Russian Tutor teaches students of all ages face-to-face and online

Most people never try to learn Russian because they see Кириллица — the Cyrillic alphabet — and assume it's a code they weren't born to crack. It isn't. It's 33 letters. You can learn to read them all in a single weekend. And right now, that matters more than ever. A new iron curtain is descending — not of steel and wire, but of blocked apps, banned domains, and severed connections. Millions of Russians are cut off from the global internet. Millions of Ukrainians are fighting to tell their story to a world that can't read it in the original. The distance between "us" and "them" is being measured in alphabets. You already know more than you think. Look at these: А, Е, К, М, О, Т — you just read six Russian letters. Кот means cat. Том means Tom. Right now, in this moment, you can read Russian words. The rest is just 27 more letters. Some are friendly fakes (Н is N, Р is R, С is S). Some are wonderful surprises (Ж sounds like the zh in treasure). None of them will take you more than a minute to learn — and together they'll unlock one of the world's great literary languages. Tolstoy. Bulgakov. Akhmatova. Dostoevsky. The dissident bloggers writing from VPNs. The Ukrainian poets writing under fire. They're all on the other side of this alphabet. Come learn it with me. 33 letters. One weekend. The wall comes down.