[abenedic]

I have found from the opposite way that the English alphabet is not so dissimilar to the Cyrillic. Once you get past that a bectop is a vector, and everything is nearly the same. I find there is a vitality in the region that I cannot find anywhere else, but it feels like living when I am there. I have been to many countries in the region and they all feel close to home.

[acqq]

> bectop is a vector

BEKTOP (K everywhere where you’re used to C) just like the use of B,K,P in modern Greek, e.g. coma is κώμα rho is ῥῶ, B, βήτα (beta character) is pronounced "vita."

[int_19h]

If you know Greek alphabet already (which many people do from math & science, or heck, even Greek societies in the USA), looking the shapes of the capital letters in it gets you almost all the way to explaining the differences between Latin and Cyrillic, since Greek is the common ancestor of both.

[krn]

> I find there is a vitality in the region that I cannot find anywhere else

> I have been to many countries in the region and they all feel close to home.

That was my feeling, as well. I felt much more at home in the Balkans than I felt living in the UK, even without knowing the language.