Watching Alice in Italian wonderland was pretty fun!

How do you even read Russian if you don't know its alphabet

So what you gotta do is settle the island with a bunch of Germans, then get conquered some centuries later by the French. Steal all the vocabulary from French - especially the vocabulary of the nobility - but keep the German grammar. Then just for fun when you are about to standardize your spelling with the invention of the printing press import a bunch of Dutch people to do your spelling for you

Fun fact, Poles in their infinite wisdom switched from using Cyrillic alphabet which naturally maps to Polish sounds https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/polishcyrillic.htm

"Write as we speak"

The biggest lie of the russian language.

In theory yes, but pronounciation of о depends on if it has stress or not and stress of the word you have to just know.

There are 8 letters in that phrase, and 5 of them are silent....

I dont know italian, but the time i spent there, i get the impression that there are almost no silent letters.... just read the words out loud as is

Although it's rich criticizing them in the bastard of a language that is English