Cyrillic looks like a wall. It’s actually a short to-do list. Because Serbian and Montenegrin Cyrillic is perfectly phonetic — one letter, one sound — you can genuinely learn to read it today.
Published 26 June 2026
The trick is to stop treating all 30 letters as “new”. Split them into three groups: the ones you already know, the sneaky ones that look Latin but aren’t, and the genuinely new shapes. Suddenly it’s only a handful to memorise.
These map straight onto the Latin letters you’d expect, so there’s nothing to learn:
А a · Е e · К k · М m · О o · Т t · Ј y (as in “yes”)
These are the only ones that can trip you up, so give them an extra minute:
That last row looks exotic but each is just a single sound — and Serbian/Montenegrin Cyrillic even has a one-to-one match with the Latin alphabet, so every Latin letter you learn has exactly one Cyrillic twin.
Read these slowly, sounding out each letter:
If you just read those, congratulations — you can read Cyrillic. The rest is only practice.
Here’s the reassuring part: Serbian and Montenegrin are also written in the Latin alphabet, so you can begin learning the language immediately and pick Cyrillic up whenever you like. In Gora you can tap any word to hear it and see it, in either script, so the alphabet sinks in naturally while you learn real phrases — no flashcard grind required.