Makes spelling hard

For me its the hard signs xd.

Yeah the consonant clusters are pretty harsh.

The worst thing Bolsheviks forget to get rid of during their script reforms.

Imo is the duality of O letter.

They merged most letters which were pronounced the same like Yat and Ye.

But O can be read as either O or A, depending on the acute accents in the word (which most native speakers don't use).

Like in spasiba, which is written as spasibo.

it is?

Or Maskva, it's written as Moskva.

Which is why its best to use former USSR states media.

Which means thank you and Moscow.

They have beginner knowledge but love Russia a lot.

Like a good amount of Ukrainians simplify it a LOT.

They just assume it's either too easy or too hard to constantly try correct if I had to guess.

@T. Raven Yes. It's confusing. The Russian cyrillic is for most part a phonetic alphabet after their reform, with the exception of their O letter, which sometimes is read as A.

On the end of words, O will always be read as A, as with the spasiba case.

But for the other ones, you need to learn the placement of acute accents.

Or you could just rely off other speaker's lack of knowledge on pronounciations

Writing in Russian is hard enough as it is

or you could just slur the letters together

All the noun endings, my lord!

Soft signs are easy for me, as its the same as our ć, ś, ń, etc.
But we don't really have the hard signs counterpart.

Wait do you have soft Ls?

Yes.

Our default L letter is that.

Ł is the Russian L.

I thought that was an English w.

Yeah.

Looks like I've been pronouncing some cities wrong?

Wait how does it work?

There is that nice site which renders each of the Polish letters in the cyrillic script, I used it heavily.

All of them except for Ę and Ą could be easily rendered using cyrillic.

cyrillized polish would be easier to understand tbh

Wait how is Ž represented?

Ж this letter.

Ż.

For Ź we use Z + soft sign.

@Rigmond Polish L is the Russian Ль (L + soft sign).
Polish Ł is the Russian Л (the default L), which is the same as English W in White.

http://steen.free.fr/cyrpol/index.html

I assume its a dialect thing as the default Russian L is often also pronounced like an L.