Jeg er en norsk også! Jeg håper at jeg kan hjelpe. :) But, for this purpose, I will explain things in English because I learnt this strategy in English :) Think of the Russian alphabet as you would a Latin-based alphabet (to the best you can). Think of the Russian alphabet as 4 categories (divide them into these 4 categories when you study them). Category 1: Letters that look like English/Norsk and sound like English/Norsk (А, К, М, О). Category 2: Letters that look like English/Norsk but have a different English sound (В, Н, Р, С, Х). Category 3: Letters that do not look like English (look like Greek) but have an English sound (Б, Г, Д, З, Л, П, Т, У, Ф, Э). Last Category: the unique letters to Russian/Cyrillic (Е, Ё, Ж, И, Й, Ц, Ч, Ш, Щ, Ы, Ю, Я). Ъ and Ь are unique in that they are modifiers to a given word. But if you think of them as such, it will make it easier to absorb. :D and then it will be easier to learn the order.