Russian Loan words in English and from English and other languages, and letters, H, X, P and R in Russian and Greek

Problem
I looked up Russian loanwords in Wikipedia and accidentally found myself not on the words in English taken from Russian but the Russian words taken or derived from English and other languages.

Answer
However, this proved most fruitful.
Spin down to words from Greek and you see which letters are similar or the same in Hebrew, Greek and Russian. These are three languages I have been learning, my number one aim being to understand and memorize the alphabets.

Cyrillic	Greek	English
А	Α	A
В	Β	V
Г	Γ	G
Е	Ε	E
К	Κ	K
Р	Ρ	R
с	ς	S
Ф	Φ	F
Х	Χ	H

So three letters from both Russian and Greek can be learned simultaneously.

They are:

The P which is R. 

How can you remember a word to relate the P and R? Imagine writing R quickly and you get the letter P in Russian or Greek.

Alternatively combine the letters P and R into a word, ideally with three or four letters.

A word starting PR - pram, prefer, press, priest.

Pa -R

Paw. Par. Pair. Pare.

PeRfect.

Po-R

Pour

PuR

Pure. Purr.

 Or prefer. 

Fi which is F

X which is H.

FiF

I looked at the circle with the line down and thought, imagine that is a symbol for a swimming fish. In English it's the letter F for fish.

(TH)
When I went back to the page for the Greek alphabet, I discovered that Theta is a circle with a horizontal. Horizontal like the top of the letter T is theta.

F
However a vertical down the middle of the O is Fi.

H

I looked at the Russian and Greek X which is H in English. I never grasped that before. Now I can see that it is an English H which has been pushed together by trains or spanners, like Russian and Greek trains pushing in from left and right, to make an X in Greek and an X in Russian.

Russian and Greek are two languages with challenging alphabets. The Cyrillic alphabet, used in Russia, also comes in handy when visiting Bulgaria.

Here are some loanwords in Russian from English.

English	Russian
basketball	баскетбол
bodybuilding	бодибилдинг
business	бизнес
businessman	бизнесмен
chips	чипсы
computer	компьютер
football	футбол
film	фильм
filter	фильтр
hamburger	гамбургер
jeans	джинсы
office	офис
sport	спорт
tennis	теннис
internet	интернет
motor	мотор
sweater	свитер
robot	робот
auto	авто
automobile	автомобил

I have many posts on learning Greek and Russian. You can also learn Greek and Russian using Duolingo.

duolingo.com
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Russian/Loanwords
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/which-is-easiest-language-for-you-to.html

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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