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sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me.

Indeed, learning to hear and convey the softness of consonants requires some effort and training. Shortly, soft consonants are pronounced with a different tongue posture, usually with the tip of the tongue pressed against the lower incisors. Try to say the English [t] - [d] with the tip of the tongue pressed against the lower incisors and you will pronounce them soft = with a soft sign.

​@@DenisFedorov I'm coming back to this video a month later and I can already hear a difference. It makes me happy to see I'm making progress. I'll keep working hard! Thank you for your help.

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Richard Dias Ribeiro this is the best reply over this topic I’ve found on KZfaq so far too, for real. I’m finally starting to understand too. Thank you too.

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You're welcome!

Glad it helped!

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Thanks!

It’s my pleasure to be of help.

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Thank you! 😃

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Спасибо за просмотр)

Спасибо

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Спасибо за комплимент!

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Thanks. Words that end in a soft sign actually end in a soft sound. So what you need to do is to teach yourself to pronounce isolated soft sounds. There are 15 soft sounds. If we try to find analogies in English, here is what I find: БЬ = b in bee ВЬ = v in veal ГЬ = g in geese ... So, English has soft sounds too))

So nice of you

Noted! To pronounce -сь, you need to strongly press the tip of the tongue against the lower front teeth.

Thanks. Basically yes, it is "muh-eh" or "meh-eh"))

Thanks! If you want my videos in some sequence, start here denisfedorov.com/Free-Alphabet.htm + After subscribing, on the day 2, you'll get my guide on textbooks, and there it will be also discussed how to start learning Russian.

Denis Fedorov thank you very much! Keep up the good work :)

The two ‘3s’ are different: з and э , former is Z. Latter is E. б is B and в is V. Do you have a Russian keyboard?

Next come new words learning (vocabulary) and the wonderful world of the beginner's Russian grammar))

Denis Fedorov thank you

Thanks. In practice, learning to pronounce soft sounds properly requires not hints but a more serious approach which usually involves work on each sound. So, that would be a very comprehensive long video. I'll think about it.

You're welcome! Red Alert provide a rich foundation for the Russian pronunciation, but one can always use some more training.

Yes, I do.

Denis, I have just started to learn Russian for a few days. Do you think I should learn some basic grammar first before caring too much about pronunciation ? Or I should make sure my pronunciation is decent before moving on ? (I am interested in enrolling your course, but I am not sure if it is the best moment for me to enrol right now, considering I have just started to learn Russian for few days. However, I wanna stress that learning russian has always been one of my life goals for years, but I just did not have enough time back then. Indeed, being fluent in russian is one of my dreams. )

Probably it is correct. (The thing is that we can interpret these "kji kj-ji k-ji" differently)

I understand, thanks!

There is no "extra softness." The soft sign makes preceding consonants soft (in word-final positions) and breaks the confluence of a vowel and a consonant (=small pause). Thus, -мья and -мя sound differently because of a small pause inserted.

Frankly, these are not easy questions to be answered in a comment. However, shortly, "Я in ОБЪЯСНЕНИЕ sounded like И" -- yes, this is correct, it did sound as [и]. This is called “vowel reduction”. Reduction of vowels is basically what happens to vowels in unstressed positions. There is a whole set of Russian pronunciation rules that exist within this concept. In this case, “Я” became [и]. "МЕ sounded to me like МЭ and ГЕ sounded like ГЭ" -- this is somewhat true too. The thing is that there is no such a sound as “E” in the Russian language, only a letter “E” which comprises of 2 sounds, [йэ]. That’s why you hear [э]. The letter “E” is a soft vowel which means that it influences the preceding consonant. So, basically what you were hearing was [г’э] - [м’э], where the apostrophe sign means that the consonant is soft. To learn more about this, google “Russian soft consonants”.

@@DenisFedorov Thank you so much for spending your time to respond. I will take a look at vowel reduction and soft and hard consonants.

Could you be more specific with your question? Concerning "O," maybe the answer is within the following pronunciation rule, "the unstressed |О| is pronounced as |A|." As for the omitted Я, I don't know to what word/example this question refers to.

@@DenisFedorov My whole question refers to 8:34

Your question refers to the Russian Pronunciation Rules in general and to stressed/unstressed vowels in particular. At 8:34, both О and Я are unstressed. In Russian, we naturally deemphasize unstressed syllables so much that they begin sounding "simpler." So, the unstressed O is pronounced as A. The same is with Я. When stressed, it is pronounced as "yah;" when unstressed, "yih."

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did you write private brat in Russian?

+The Syrian eyes that's good I'm trying to learn Russian

+The Syrian eyes thank you so much brat wish you the same

True.

Да.