A small taste of the Cyrillic alphabet

At first the long street names and crazy letters are quite daunting, but then you start noticing words like ресторан resemble the word restaurant when you realize that the p is actually an r sound. кафе is also obviously cafe, with the phi type letter is an f sound. Can anyone guess what this word means бар...now you've learned the most important words when traveling in Russia: restaurant, cafe and bar ;)

• да (da) - yes
• нет (nyet) - no
• туалет (toalet) - toilet
• пожалуйста (pazhalsta) - please
• проверка пожалуйста (shyot pazhalsta) - check please
• спасибо (spaseeba) - thank you
• привет (zdrastvoot-ye) - hello
• до свидания (da sveedanya) - goodbye

MacDonald's

Starbucks

Subway