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| ElfoEscuro Diglot Senior Member United States cyworld.com/brahmapu Joined 6290 days ago 408 posts - 423 votes  Speaks: Portuguese, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 18 27 October 2007 at 12:16am | IP Logged |
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I have a question about Russian. I have heard that Lenin spoke Russian using an uvular trill ([R]) instead of an alveolar trill ([r]). How does that sound to Russians?
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6273 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 18 of 18 28 October 2007 at 4:00am | IP Logged |
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I couldn't comment on Lenin's pronunciation, though recordings of his voice exist, I believe. He may have had a slight Volga region accent, considering where he was born and raised. He grew up in a rather cultured middle-class family that would probably be called "upwardly mobile" today (technically he was in the Tsarist "service nobility" by virtue of his father's civil service rank), and he may have been taught to avoid pronunciation that was thought uneducated. On the other hand, in his later speeches he consciously avoided language that would go over the head of his listeners who were often illiterate or semi-literate. Whether he would alter hs pronunciation habits as well, I don't know. Certainly early editions of Pravda used simple Russian and limited vocabulary.
I would learn Russian first. There are far more materials in Russian, and knowledge of Russian would make later Ukrainian study significantly easier. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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