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» Kerry Kubilius - Cyrillic Stumbling ...

Well, I hope that Cyrillic doesn't change too much! While it can be confusing to English speakers, it's fairly straightforward in terms of pronunciation (unlike English). One of the most frustrating aspects to learning Russian (or any other language with a Cyrillic alphabet)is the "similar" letters that are actually quite different (Cyrillic P is the Russian equivalent of the "r" sound, etc.), and inversion between the two alphabets is almost inevitable. I think it's the languages that are changing rather than the alphabet - with the constant influx of foreign and technological terms, languages using the Cyrillic alphabet are having to adopt or adapt words to suit all the time.