Here are the two ordinary letters.
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l as in left
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p as in pie
And here are the dramas!
This is a picture of a violin. Some vicious villian has violently divided the violin in two. Look at the shape of the violently divided violin. Here is a Russian letter that looks like the divided violin and has the consonant sound of v in violin.
This is a picture of a surveying instrument on a tripod. You use the surveying instrument to measure how big your yard is. Right now you are probably screaming, "Yaaaaaargh. I've never seen anything so stupid or far-fetched." It is stupid, but it's the best I could do to show you something that looks like this Russian vowel which sounds like ya in yacht or yard.
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