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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 17 of 17 14 May 2014 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
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Russian doesn't have real diphthongs. I think you're misunderstanding the "pronouncing vowels separately" part. Sometimes when it's needed for clarity, we actually use glottal stops like in Danish, but when there's no ambiguity, articulating the vowels too clearly can sound artificial.
However, the vowels are still affected by reduction/their position wrt stress, and one of them is always at least a bit stronger than the other. Of course it's the stressed vowel or the one closer to the stressed syllable. And if they are pronounced too clearly, it might sound like you're stressing the vowel, which is confusing, especially if you have other pronunciation problems too (including intonation). Theoretically поработаешь with a strong e can sound like a casual "по работе едешь". The ending -ешь is even more similar to the word ешь, obviously, but fortunately in most contexts it's clear enough that you're not speaking about eating. Also, it's a bit of a misnomer to call я ё ю e vowels. These are letters denoting a vowel AND either й or a change to the previous consonant. After a vowel they should just be treated as separate syllables, with the caveat that й is weaker than usual between vowels, and especially in endings it can disappear completely. Essentially you just apply the same rules as always. I think the instructions in textbooks are given mostly with English speakers in mind, since they turn even single vowels into diphthongs. I'd say that if you have trouble reducing the vowels naturally, you can simply make sure to pronounce the stressed ones louder. But then you need to be confident about placing the stress. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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