Turns out spoken Russian is like spoken French. One needs to learn it with ears not eyes (of course this is true for any language but I find some languages are much easier to go from writing to guessing how to pronounce words)

My three words for today were numbers: 1. десять - 10 - ten - kymmenen 2. сто - 100 - one hundred - sata 3. тысяча - 1000 - one thousand - tuhat