Letterform · Sound · Memory
Learn the Cyrillic alphabet, one chiselled letter at a time.
Bukva is a specimen book for the mind. Turn each page, hear the sound, and stamp the letter into place with short, confident drills — your progress is saved to your account.
Я
The specimen book
The core Cyrillic alphabet
А К М О
Familiar friends
a · k · m · o · t · ye
В Н Р С
False friends
v · n · r · s · u · kh
Б Г Д З
New shapes
b · g · d · z · i · l
Ж Ц Ч Ш
Hissing letters
zh · ts · ch · sh · shch · y
П Ф Э Ы
The rest of the roll
p · f · e · y · yo · yu
Я Ъ Ь
Final group
ya · ʺ · ʹ
The other way round
Inverted drills
See the sound, find the letter. Inverted drills show you the Latin transliteration and ask you to pick the matching Cyrillic letter — a harder test of real recall.
a · k · m · o
Familiar friends — inverted
А К М О Т Е
v · n · r · s
False friends — inverted
В Н Р С У Х
b · g · d · z
New shapes — inverted
Б Г Д З И Л
zh · ts · ch · sh
Hissing letters — inverted
Ж Ц Ч Ш Щ Й
p · f · e · y
The rest of the roll — inverted
П Ф Э Ы Ё Ю
ya · ʺ · ʹ
Final group — inverted
Я Ъ Ь
Beyond the basics
