[NorthMountain]

When I was learning Russian, I noticed that I was instinctively using a phonics method to learn the words.

You learned English that way. The Roman alphabet, and all the languages that use some variant of it, are phonetic in nature. The same is true of Greek and Cyrillic.

[fishtank]

Yep. That’s because “sight reading’ creates shothill reading abilities, instead of how a phonetic method creates literacy.