"The rest of the Russian vocabulary is built a little bit like German : roots are assembled to make whatever word you need, even if the way those words were assembled is sometimes mysterious." )))
how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/languages/russi...
under Vocabulary section.
"The Cyrillic alphabet looks awesome when you don't know it. Russian texts appear to be obscure and barren. Westerners that can read Russian are seen like Egyptologists, adventurous scholars or monks."
under the Spelling section