This is much clearer than any other Russian teacher trying to explain the same thing. Thanks a lot!

This dude is one of the best teachers out there. But you can try to cheat sometimes with a mid sound in between A and O... in the back of your tongue, opening your mouth not too much. In time you will learn how they sound, and stop cheating, till then stick with this trick. Thats what Ive been doing Lol...

Тry guessing which O is stressed in the word Домодедово (Domodedovo - an airport in Moscow)? None. E is actually stressed so it sounds like ДамадЕдава (DamadЕdava)

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It's important to mention that it's not typical of all the Russian people, because in nothern regions people pronounce all the unstressed 'O' vowels just as they're written. You will hear that for example in Arkhangelsk, Kostroma, Vladimir, Vologda oblasts, Karelian Republic, etc. But of course the way of pronouncing an unstressed 'O' as an 'A' is more widespread, because it's typical of southern and central regions, where the main cities are located.

Спасибо учитель. This lesson was very informational. I really like your videos.

Thank you so so so much moy braat

What I did while I was learning English is exactly that. I have learnt to write English and 1-2 years after that when I became good at it I started watching videos in YT with Auto-Generated English subtitles and that's how I learnt the pronunciation. I think the same will work with the Russian for you (and for me ofc cuz I am here to learn Russian :D).

Молодец, мой брат!

Brilliant tip, thank you.

Great video and amazing content! Keep up the great work 💕

Great advice keep it coming

Thank you very much! Your advices makes me feel more comfortable with my learning process.

"МолокO": In this word the last letter is stressed. But the first two "o" are not the same. The pronunciation of the first "o" (/a/) is slight different from the second. The pronunciation of the first one is more closed than the second one. :) The same happens with the word "потолок". At least according to linguistic rules :) In the oral speech these "o" are pronunced as exactly the same /a/.

love this video. Help dedramatize the learning process. Спасибо Fedor!

Thank you so much for this advice. This encourages me to keep learning Russian. :)

Thank you very much for this lesson

Thanks this helped at lot your a good teacher👍🏾

Ok... I have found my Russian tutor.. tgis guy is very good for beginners

"Don't be afraid to make mistakes" is such an important concept when learning a new language. Although I was not the best at German in college, I received honors simply because I was not afraid to try. I made some pretty embarrassing mistakes! In high school, my class had a Russian exchange student, Jakob. His English wasn't always perfect but he was not afraid to try, and we all loved him for it. One day he accidentally said a curse word. He realized what he had said as soon as he said it, and clapped his hand over his mouth. As high schoolers do, we couldn't help but burst out laughing, but all 30 students got up from our desks and gave Jakob a giant group hug. His bravery to speak and make mistakes still inspires me today.

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Thanks for the tip. I was getting so confused with the 'oh' and 'ah' sounds for O. Spasibo.

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In my experience even though I am in no way fluent If I was to see a word I didn't recognize I would have a very good chance of getting it right cause I know what sounds Russian and I can tell if something sounds a bit off So my advice is to just absorb the language and listen to it

great advice! finally something else to yeah just learn all of it as there is no rule :D

Hey Fedor, My difficulty is in understanding the order of words in Russian sentences. I can hear and understand individual words when you speak but when I try to construct a sentence myself I’m very unsure in what order the words should come together

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when o is under stress, it shows it true spelling 😅

Very well expressed. What about Я when it's not stressed?

though, since my native language is french, i learn russian from french and in the french-russian dictionnary, there is accent on stressed letters in it... Maybe in english-russian dictionnary, there is to (that could help to learn if it's stressed or not... )

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the same with хорошо?

So tovarish is pronounced tavarish? Cause I've been pronouncing the O haha

It's interesting to notice that this change in pronunciation from "O" to "A" doesn't happen in Ukranian language...

Well, when you are stressed, you are somebody else xD

Привет, В каком штате вы находитесь? В США?

Excuse me but WHAT IS STRESSED?

wouldnt that be counter productive? because for those months you pronounced o as oh when it should have been ah you are teaching your brain that in that word it is pronounced oh. I would think that by doing that would only deepen your mistakes i guess

in 'оно' for instance... why don't they just spelled it 'ано'?

He's not right when he said "Everytime you see 'A' you say 'A'. For instance the word часы is pronounced чисы. (Chasih=Chisih)

This is kinda the same bullshit like the der die das in german language. The russian alphabet has both the letters for A and O, yet the words are mostly written with O, so now you have to memorize with which O is O and which is A. Makes zero sense and makes life unnecessarily harder. Яблоко, you could write it as яблака, pronunciation would be the exact same but no-no-no that makes way too much sense, let's just memorize every single O individually. Most of the time i remember how to say something but i have no clue if ita written with а or о. Like спокойной ночи. I usually type the words in google translate and listen very carefully how it is pronounced. I really like to learn this language, just let some frustration out because of the confusing things about it

If I say oblako, they will think I am Ukrainian.