And here are some words that use those letters. See if you can figure out how they’re pronounced before you click the speaker.

Word	Means
еда́	meal; food
да́та	date (as in "date of birth")
А́нна	a girl’s name
над	over; above
не	not
а	but (rather)

To help you with the pronunciation, we put an accent mark on the syllable that gets the emphasis in multi-syllable words. Most beginning textbooks or phrasebooks do this also. You won't see the accent marks in Russia, though.

On the next page, we introduce three letters that will help you find out what the Russian word for any object is.