megazver Triglot Newbie Lithuania Joined 5994 days ago 34 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Lithuanian, Russian*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Polish
| Message 17 of 24 26 July 2011 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
No. It's quite common to mix them up or to overcompensate and shove some in where there
shouldn't be any, though.
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Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4976 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian
| Message 18 of 24 01 August 2011 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
Like christian, I like doing an imitation of a Russian accent at times, for entertainment purposes.
I recorded a voice video to try to explain my interpretation of the accent. For anyone who's interested,
it's here
Edited by Tecktight on 01 August 2011 at 8:17pm
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Jurga Triglot Newbie Lithuania Joined 5437 days ago 19 posts - 24 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Latvian Studies: German, Arabic (classical), French
| Message 19 of 24 03 August 2011 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
Oh, Russian accent. I'm from Lithuania so I sometimes meet Russian people and their
accent...well, I do not want to offend you but when I think 'Russian accent' I see some
aggressive-looking guy with shaved head. Sorry. I do not have anything against these
people. (When I think 'Russian language' I think about much more pleasing things, trust
me;))
Russian accent somehow makes words (of many languages) sound harsher and I wonder why as
Russian itself is so melodious.
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 20 of 24 13 August 2011 at 11:30am | IP Logged |
schoolzombie wrote:
but when Russian speak English they somethimes forget to add the
words: the, a, and an. is that true? |
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Of course, it is true because there are no articles in Russian.
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Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5273 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French
| Message 21 of 24 13 August 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
There are no articles in Russian or other Slavic languages, i.e. errors in using a(n) and the, usually omission but
sometimes hypercorrection.
Heavy palatalization of most every consonant (again, this is not true of all Slavic languages).
Dark L tending towards W (this does exist in other Slavic languages, such as the Polish Ł and in Bulgarian as well.
Trilled R and difficulty pronouncing the English R.
Vowel pronunciation simplified to a reduced set of vowels.
No "glide" on the vowels (this is something common with a lot of other language speakers, since those languages
also lack vowels).
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Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5056 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian*
| Message 22 of 24 13 August 2011 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
I've never seen anyone who had problems with English retroflex "r".
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VityaCo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 7081 days ago 79 posts - 86 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French
| Message 24 of 24 23 August 2011 at 2:39am | IP Logged |
Here in America, people often told me that I have a German accent.
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