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| littlelee Newbie Canada Joined 5002 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 2 14 September 2010 at 12:01am | IP Logged |
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Today was my first day of Russian class and we were just going through the alphabet
today. We got to ы and I've been totally stuck on it. My prof kept asking me to repeat it, and she said it sounded right... but I know the right sound came out as a fluke and now that I'm at home, I can't remember the sound well enough to recreate it. I know it's just my first class (I'm in this class three days a week) and I will have tons of opportunity to get it down, but I was wondering if there are any tips on how to master it better, or maybe a clip of someone just repeating it's sound over and over so I can get used to the sound and practice it? For English native who learned how to say it, how long did it take and was it as frustrating for you as it seems to be for me? lol 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5343 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2 of 2 14 September 2010 at 12:47am | IP Logged |
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This is the toughest one to master, I think. My breakthrough came when I stopped trying to approximate the sound in terms of familiar English phonemes, and simply learnt to move my tongue further back in the mouth whilst pronouncing "ee" till it seemed about right. It really is a very different sound.
Palatalisation was also quite difficult for me at first, but I quickly developed the sounds by initially cheating and adding an adjoining "y" sound straight after. I'm still very far from native pronunciation, but on a good day can persuade Russians that I might have heralded from the Baltics. ;) Edited by Teango on 14 September 2010 at 1:15am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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