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 Message 9 of 10
19 February 2015 at 4:17am | IP Logged 
jeff_lindqvist wrote:
Believe it or not, but a pinyin chart explained Russian phonology
better than any confusing shch/sjtj transliteration I'd seen.

ш - sh
щ - x


I find x can be pronounced a bit lighter than щ but it's a much better approximation.
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 Message 10 of 10
20 February 2015 at 8:51am | IP Logged 
I'm just beginning to learn Russian, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but what helped me with pronunciation was the following:

The FSI Russian course (link) has in the first lesson on the alphabet (p37-38) with a lot of minimal examples like ба–бя, ди–ды. If you download the corresponding part off the audio files and cut it into pieces (for example with Audacity), you can create a nice little Anki deck full of questions like: What did you just hear? сы, зы, or зи?.
It helped me a lot to learn to hear the differences, whether I am correctly pronouncing them myself I can't check with this method of course.
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