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Help with Russian?

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jonessoda

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About pronunciation. The way I was first taught Russian cyrillic, ? was pronounced "shch," like in "hash check," and ? was the vowel in "sit." But the way my Russian professor says it, ? is "shshy," like a long, soft ?, and ? is like a German u-umlaut gliding to a short ?. Is the way my professor pronounces it just a feature of certain accents/dialects (in her case, Moscow), or is that for all Russian, or what?
 
My Russian professor pronounced ? the way that you were first taught. He pronounced ? as a kind of back of the throat 'i' sounding vowel. It's very hard to describe. Almost like Fonzie's "Hey" or whatever it was that he said on that show. 😛
 
Typical of Moscow dialect. You learned it correctly, but your prof is also correct because dialects and accents still reflect the language. Don't be intimidated. 🙂

Cheers ! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: thehstrybean
I wish I knew Russian...Sadly, I'm a poor German student...
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Deutsch ist wunderbar... ich wunsch das ich Deutsch sehr gut sprechen, aber ich spreche nur ein Bisschen.

 
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