Comment by rootbear
I don’t speak Russian or any other language written in Cyrillic, but I learned the alphabet years ago for reasons. It has come in handy when looking at pictures of computers and other tech, where many of the words are cognates with English. Words like “register” and “control” are clear in some of the pictures linked to here.
I’ve also learned how to read a language’s phonetic alphabet.
Always funny when someone asks “hey, can you read this $language”, then I read it out aloud to them.
Then they ask what it means and I’m like “oh, I have absolutely no idea, I just know how to read it”