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Марк
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Message 18 of 23

12 February 2014 at 8:09am | IP Logged

"Откуда" is one word. Your pronunciation is very good. there are just a few moments with vowel reduction: you often pronounce an [a] instead of a schwa.
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Марк
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Message 19 of 23

12 February 2014 at 9:42am | IP Logged

Arabic seems to have a frightening consonantism. Rare consonants, very many "throat" sounds, which are difficult because we run the back of the tongue worse than the front part, plus emphatic consonants.
Hindi is easier in this respect, I think but there are a lot of vowels too.
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Message 20 of 23

12 February 2014 at 10:11am | IP Logged

Josquin wrote:

tarvos wrote:

It is true that Czech has h as opposed to ch. Russian,
Polish and Serbo-Croatian however don't

Fun fact: The Silesian dialects of Polish do have the [h] vs. [x] opposition, but
unfortunately they're the only ones. Speakers from Warsaw don't even hear the difference,
just like Russians.

I'm not well-versed in Polish dialects, but thanks for the tip.
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Марк
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Message 22 of 23

12 February 2014 at 10:58am | IP Logged

mitsos wrote:

Ooops!Wrong link.This is not me speaking .That is a native Russian speaking :)
This is the correct
link.
And this is the wrong
one with the Russian native.

What you are saying is strange.According to you she misspronounces words.Is she
speaking a dialect of Russian?What part of Rusia do you come from anyway?

I'm from Moscow. I think that's just too careful and thus a bit unnatural pronunciation. You pronounced the names of the letters correctly.
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