albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4389 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 1 of 15 03 September 2013 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
I am going through my assimil course , in a lesson it seems to me they say рассказывать like if it were
рассказыть so without ва . i have listened many times . Can it be possible ? Is it common in russian to
swallow some syllables ?
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 2 of 15 03 September 2013 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
albysky wrote:
I am going through my assimil course , in a lesson it seems to me they
say рассказывать like if it were
рассказыть so without ва . i have listened many times . Can it be possible ? Is it common
in russian to
swallow some syllables ? |
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Yes, it is. It's strange that it appeared in a textbook however.
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Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4235 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek
| Message 3 of 15 03 September 2013 at 12:45pm | IP Logged |
Да :)
And for some of us it is more than common, hence the problems with pronunciation in other languages...
But the correct spelling sounds quite clear
Edited by Via Diva on 03 September 2013 at 12:46pm
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 4 of 15 03 September 2013 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
I actually love this aspect of Russian, since I always swallow syllables when talking
anyway.
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 5 of 15 03 September 2013 at 1:29pm | IP Logged |
Isn'it typical for all the languages?I
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 6 of 15 03 September 2013 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
Not as much. But I meant for me personally since even when I speak French or Swedish I
speak twice as fast as most natives and swallow half my syllables.
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 7 of 15 03 September 2013 at 2:47pm | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
I actually love this aspect of Russian, since I always swallow syllables when talking
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As someone learning the language this is one aspect of Russian I do not like very much. Being still at a lowish level, it is very frustrating listening to Russians speaking quickly and swallowing syllables so often that I don't get the meaning, even though I probably know more words than I think.
On the other hand, it might mean that as a non-native, I can get away with a more sloppy pronunciation:)
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 8 of 15 03 September 2013 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
Ogrim wrote:
On the other hand, it might mean that as a non-native, I can get away with a more sloppy
pronunciation:)
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Unfortunately not. Not any syllable or sound can be swallowed, and this happens in rapid
casual speech. In slow foreign speech it would sound funny.
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