Russian Minimal Pairs - Letters Ы and И (Russian Pronunciation Practice)

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
In this video, we´ll be working with Russian minimal pairs. In case you don’t know what they are, these are words that sound pretty similar, the only difference is just one sound. And today we´ll be working with the letters Ы and И. I will give you lots of practice so that you finally learn to distinguish these two sounds. If you´ve been looking for Russian pronunciation practice exercises (with audio!), you found them! Russian letter bl causes a lot of troubles to Russian learners but I´m sure you can master it. Together, we can improve your Russian pronunciation.

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@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

HOW MANY WORDS DID YOU GUESS RIGHT? :)

@shahamin457 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know how many words have you gift. But I have correctly guesssed 80% of them.😄 Very hard to distinguish them😁

@johnmosbrook9964 3 жыл бұрын

Got 'em all right. The trick is 'ы' words have a more glottal sound (more tongue pressure on roof of mouth). 'и' words are pronounced with the tongue more forward (less contact with roof of mouth).

@gabriellerussell8484 2 жыл бұрын

First time listening: I guessed a bit less than half correct. I am definitely going to have to listen to this a few more times to really hear the difference. Thank you for the chance to practice hearing the difference this way.

@BoostYourRussian 2 жыл бұрын

The result will get better over time!

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@jeffrachelburkhalter3783 Жыл бұрын

I love the sound of Ы, but my pronunciation is a bit hit and miss at the moment. Looking forward to getting it right every time. Thank you for the help. :)

@BoostYourRussian Жыл бұрын

You´re welcome!

@danielneiva4444 3 жыл бұрын

excelente aula

@maraj8215 3 жыл бұрын

Kristina your last video about consonant clusters is amazing!!! Thank you so much for your dedication and time to make these videos I'd sincerely like to see a tutorial of yours explaning how to pronounce the letters Е and Я depending whether they're in the stressed syllabe or not. Sometimes it can be tricky!! Again, thanks a lot!!

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video idea, Mara! Glad you liked the training :)

@YaShoom Жыл бұрын

What's difficult? Just say instead of them И and that's it... =)

@kc17821 3 жыл бұрын

Good teaching!

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Kenneth!

@alelupoli 3 жыл бұрын

Second time watching, already improving 😊 wont stop until i can get them all

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Keep crushing! :)

@julesclarke6140 4 жыл бұрын

"I know how you feel about this sound" AAAAAH yeah, that's me hahaha

@BoostYourRussian 4 жыл бұрын

🤣

@julesclarke6140 4 жыл бұрын

@@BoostYourRussian Also, I've been told this movie is pretty famous even in Russia so, when we're trying to pronounce Ы we're like : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8xkhcJl1siqiJs.html

@maraj8215 3 жыл бұрын

Coming back to this video after watching the rule of first И!! I didn't know that rule Kristina!! Love the way you explain things, very clear and precise, in a way that it's impossible to forget!! About the video the rule of first И. As I told you I didn't know that the pronunciation of и could change in such scenarios, but I had read somewhere that the pronunciation of И changes to Ы when it comes after the hard consonants Ш, Ж and Ц. For example, in машина. So I guess this is also a rule of reduction, right?

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you´re enjoying the training! In writing, ы is never used after ж, ш, щ, ч and only used after ц in several roots. In speech, ж, ш, ц are always hard (non-palatalized), while щ and ч are always soft (palatalized) in Russian. Hence, all differences in writing are purely etymological: there are no differences at all between the first syllables in цыпленок and цирк; жёлтый and Жора, and so on.

@ImIncognito-hh6xf Жыл бұрын

I can tell the sounds apart I just need to learn the tongue position of ы so I can pronounce it

@user-uw3hc3hu2n 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks kristina

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@osterne1 5 жыл бұрын

Great

@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@zulkiflijamil4033 3 жыл бұрын

Стена can it be pronounced as [стинА], yes the pronunciation course you sent through e mail is very helpful. Thank you , Kristina.

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, correct!

@user-li8rb2vg2t 2 жыл бұрын

[s̪ʲtʲɪn̪ˠ'a]

@YaShoom Жыл бұрын

@@user-li8rb2vg2t здравствуйте =) А откуда вы взяли такую транскрипцию? И откуда в Н веляризация? =)

@markbr5898 5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for this, Kristina. Very difficult first time round. Then I started to try to get a clue from the preceding consonant. Hard before ы and soft before и. Am I correct about that?

@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

Not exactly. Strictly speaking, there are no hard or soft consonants. Almost every consonant can give both hard and soft sounds depending on which vowel follows. For example, hard л in ла and soft л in ли, hard м in мо and soft м in ме. Does it make sense?

@markbr5898 5 жыл бұрын

@@BoostYourRussian Thank you. So, in fact, ы and и DO have different effects on the consonant before. Am I right?

@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

@@markbr5898 yes, exactly. Ы makes the preceeding consonant sound hard, and И makes it sound soft!

@fz7n71 3 жыл бұрын

I got 50% right :) Actually, very helpful Kristina, but takes some getting used to for English speakers.

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

For the first time, 50% is a great result! Yes, it definitely takes some time to learn how to distinguish these two sounds

@daveliggett1328 4 жыл бұрын

I think key is how many did you "guess", because i could mostly only guess. As in most languages, context is the most important factor in understanding.

@BoostYourRussian 4 жыл бұрын

I guess you will have to mostly only guess if you haven´t practiced enough in order to distinguish one sound from the other. In this case, yes, it´s almost impossible to guess correctly without knowing the context

@YaShoom Жыл бұрын

No, it was important here to catch the differences by ear in order to train your phonetic hearing, and not reset the recognition function to the context.

@YesNoWhatYouDoing2 3 жыл бұрын

Give us the sounds of ТЫ, ТЬ, ТИ, ЧИ, учительница

@davidlandsnes326 4 жыл бұрын

Distinguishing between и and ы after the sound "р" always gives me trouble. The one I misidentified was "рысь - рис", the very first example. Everything went fine after that. Even "время" and "в Риме" continually confuse me. [Add to that "рым" (which means "eye bolt") and the confusion is multiplied.] Thank goodness for context, and the infrequent mention of eye bolts in daily conversation. Somehow пары - пари caused no problem. Perhaps the sound being in the final position, and being stressed, helped. Это отличное упражнение для "тренировки" звука и голоса. Спасибо.

@BoostYourRussian 4 жыл бұрын

I hope you´ll get better at this over time! Though honestly, after all these years, I still can hardly distinguish a couple of English minimal pairs (bad / bed, sit / seat, etc.). Knowing the context is usually the only thing that helps me distinguish them

@bhami 3 жыл бұрын

@@BoostYourRussian "bad" can vary in the US with regional accents. E.g. I grew up in suburban NY and say something like BEH-yud, sort of a diphthong, while a Midwesterner might use a more open, pure vowel, sort of BAAAAD.

@bhami 3 жыл бұрын

And a similar example with almost the reverse variations is the word "horrible", which I (and President Trump, who is also from greater New York) pronounce HAH-ruh-bull (open pure A), but midwest or west coast might prefer to say WHORE-uh-bull (less open A, almost a diphthong). Bottom line, there aren't a lot of consistent rules, and everything is ultimately case-by-case idioms. 😮 And to expound further on "bad", in the deep South they might say something like BUY-yud, where the extreme diphthong almost becomes two syllables.

@bhami 3 жыл бұрын

Here's a wonderful 1958 video showing some of the subtle regional American vowel differences between half a dozen different speakers: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZ6KgdGdvty8p2Q.html

@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle 3 жыл бұрын

Im not even learning russian, I just think the language is beautiful and this came up in my recommendations. I actually managed to get most of them right, its just when trying to pronounce it fast it messes me up when speaking :(

@BoostYourRussian 3 жыл бұрын

Great result! What is your native language?

@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle 3 жыл бұрын

@@BoostYourRussian A hindi dialect known as bengali (I was originally born in India).

@PScaman 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! It's difficult to believe the ы sounds is always the same. Sometimes it's very clear like сыр and sometimes not. Does it change? PS I have one for you. What's the difference between "this" and "these"? (Two sound changes)

@BoostYourRussian 4 жыл бұрын

No, it doesn't change. It just sometimes we pronounce it clearer than other times. Oh I still don't hear the difference between this and these! Luckily, it's easy guess which is which from the context.

@PScaman 4 жыл бұрын

You can just make the i longer for the plural (that's approximately right) but the s changes to 'z'. I still can't hear the difference between ш and щ. Sometimes in your verbs explanation (and I offer this advice in all humility) the way you say 'model' sounds more like 'modal', which is another kettle of fish!

@gerald5310 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know how many you said, but I counted 32 correct ones! 😊

@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

That´s awesome!

@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

I just counted, there are 40 pairs in total

@gerald5310 5 жыл бұрын

I just need to do your pronunciation course again... that's the best program for pronunciation out there!

@BoostYourRussian 5 жыл бұрын

@@gerald5310 Good idea! Yes, there are several exercises on this in the course. Anyway, 32 out of 40 is still a great result. Thank you for your feedback!

@Blade-oz7cj 5 жыл бұрын

In Madarin there is "jade" and the first sound in "calendar" Can you tell me which one ы sounds more like? Or neither. I will never have trouble with ы again! ☺

@kotbaiun3688 3 жыл бұрын

As I hear, 四 and 子 is closer, for example, 老子 in Russian is Лао Цзы (I'm a native Russian speaker started to learn Mandarin recently)

@Flora-vo9ds Жыл бұрын

(Just noticed the comment was three years ago. Well, in case anyone else wonders this question.) To me bl is like “e-yu” pronounced really fast (yu like the Mandarin word jade). N is like English word Eve, but you stop before v is actually pronounced haha.

@JJSloan Жыл бұрын

I must have a tin ear, most of the pairs sounded the same to me. Russian seems harder to me than Chinese as far as the range of sounds you have to recognize and pronounce.

@BoostYourRussian Жыл бұрын

I have to admit that most English pairs sound the same to me too :(

@user-pl1ki7bq6o 4 жыл бұрын

I think i can get all of those thank you very much mom.

@BoostYourRussian 4 жыл бұрын

Great result! You´re welcome!

@cc10higa 25 күн бұрын

I got most of them correct. I got a few wrong

@BoostYourRussian 22 күн бұрын

Keep crushing it!

@critiqueoflife 2 жыл бұрын

At least on the first time through, alas, every single one sounded exactly, exactly the same. Theory: you're having a little fun with your loyal students! Else, more study required!

@BoostYourRussian 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I swear they don´t sound the same to native speakers! You just need to train your ear (says a person who can´t hear the different between "ship" and "sheep" after speaking English for 15 years 😆)