u/Diligent_Staff_5710

I've been trying to learn Russian for a couple of years, as an English speaker. I'm not very good at it yet but I adore it. First few months, I wasn't reading or typing much of anything in English. Just focused on learning Cyrillic alphabet, and the bemusing wonders of the Russian language.

Since mastering the alphabet, I find that in unknown English words - particularly acronyms, abbreviations - my brain came to default to Cyrillic. I would read the Englush/Latin letters as Russian sounds. This has only amused me, now having a dual alphabet brain.

Yesterday, however, I encountered a genuine problem 😄. I had an eye sight examination. Ages of reading wall charts with dozens of different lenses in, being asked to read the bottom two rows of letters. Being in England, the letter chart has Latin letters, and I have to read them aloud to show the optometrist any vision problems.

But all the letters that our two alphabets have in common, like P, H, but have different sounds, I kep getting wrong. Telling the optometrist I could see an N when actually it is an H. Telling him i see an R when actually it is a P. I struggled over every letter, working hard to try pronounce it in the requested English language.

Afraid i was going to end up with quite the wrong lens prescriptions, i had to explain my difficulties to the optometrist. I can read the letters correctly, with clear sight, but am pronouncing them wrong.

I bought postage for special delivery parcel yesterday and paid the fee to have it collected from home, as usual. It was due for collection between 9 and 11am, but now it's half past two in the afteroon and i have no idea if they're ignoring it and customer service told me I can't leave the house till half past five, but that the posties stop at two.

Usually we've had a regular postie. He always collected parcels and delivered tracked parcels between 9 and 10 in the morning, like clockwork.

Yesterday he told us that it was his last day on our round. They've moved him. Now we are to have 3 new posties doing our round, and he said we'll probably only get post a couple of times a week. (Normally it's only once a week, except for guaranteed tracked parcels.)

Are they just not even coming for parcels every day anymore now too?

I bought special delivery, guaranteed delivery next day by 1pm. I have a really bad feeling that they're not going to collect it today, as promised, and won't possibly get delivered tomorrow morning.

Anyone know if the app is offering next day delivery after collection, but local delivery offices no longer honouring this?

I've noticed that for recent orders, once they are out for delivery today, i no longer ever get a "delivery due between" timeslot. I used to always get this, for many years. Have they removed this feature?

Why don't iTalki teachers want to use iTalki platform for giving lessons? When this is the platform prospective students are enrolling on and booking from. Why do teachers choose to hold their lessons using an external platform, like Zoom, Skype. What don't they like about using iTalki's own existing infrastructure for calls/video calls?

In English, we all are taught and use a sentence learned since primary/elementary school, which uses all 26 letters of our alphabet. It's used, for example, to see what all letters in any font/typeface specifically look like, or to test fountain pens for handwriting performance.

The sentence is something like : the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

It uses every letter of the English alphabet.

What is an equivalent Russian sentence, which uses every letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet?