Russian Word for Today

In an effort to master Russian before I go - or at least be able to understand a street sign - I will post a word of the day/week/hour for my education, and everyone else's enjoyment ;)

The tricky thing about the Russian language, besides the fact that it's in Russian, is that they use the Cyrillic alphabet (at least the Czechs had the courtesy to use letters I knew!). So besides just learning new words, the "H" sounds like "n", the "P" sounds like "r" and the "Y" sounds like "o".... not to mention that there are a bunch of interesting looking symbols that apparently are letters too.

I'm not trying to rag on the Russian language too much, it's obviously worked for them for thousands of years and hundreds of millions of people around the world speak it. And if they can learn it, so can I...right??

We'll start with the basics..... The words are listed in English, Cyrillic and Russian

Hello Привет Privet

Goodbye До свидания Dasvidania

And one which will be very important for me...

Do you speak English? Говорите ли вы по-английски?

Govorite li vy po angliyski?