Ohhhhhh! I understand perfectly nowwwe! Thank youuuuu!

As a native English speaker, this is very difficult for a few reasons: First, learning Russian takes a lot of practice in not only speaking, but also listening. Having spoken English my entire life, my ears are only trained to hear the sounds of my native language. It is tricky to pick up on the subtleties of Russian, and still, I have a hard time hearing that difference here, although your video did help me notice, the way you mentioned the й sound along with the vowel - that was very helpful and I've not heard it explained that way before. Second, and this is one of my biggest pet peeves - romanization. I hate it when Russian words are spelled out in the Latin alphabet. As someone who is learning Russian it makes it very confusing to try to read, and in this case, misleading. This, I believe adds to a lot of confusion with English speakers not understanding ь and ъ. I'll explain: When Russian is romanized, the soft sign becomes an apostrophe ( ' ). In English, an apostrophe means something is cut short, basically, but it's not even pronounced. So, as an English speaker, when I see читать spelled out in the Latin alphabet, (which I try not to look at) it says chitat' . Whereas, as far as I can tell, the т is pronounced actually more in this word? I am still figuring it out, of course. Basically, any beginner in Russian is going to have a hard time hearing the difference especially with something like мат and мать and even hearing the difference, so this video is very helpful - especially as those two words are very, very different. All Russian sounds are their own, and listening lots and lots is the best practice: в doesn't sound exactly like v, same with л and l, etc. And hard/soft sign is one I'm always working on.. but listening helps, and one other thing that I do, as well: Many things in Russian are hard at first. The first of these that comes to mind is of course, cases. With these things, I've found the best thing to do is worry about it later. I've kinda filed hard/soft sign as something to fix later, if I'm corrected, for instance, saying семя instead of семья by a Russian speaker I'll be more likely to remember. Usually when I read Russian I don't even see the hard/soft signs - I just kinda skip over them, and sometimes don't see them. Anyway, thank you very much for this video, I'll check out your others!

This is the best description ! Thank you so much 🤗 Liked and Subscribed! ✅

I just found you! Of course I subscribed. Thank you!!! You have a calming speech. )) It is a nice break from the longer lessons where I need to memorize phrases.

Thank you! This was very helpful!

this channel is the best!

TBH I pretty much ignore the hard/soft signs and none of my Russian friends seem to care

Please make more videos like this 😛😛

O God, this is divine city, breathtaking views. Some of the statues are not decent enough to look at. The present Government should adopt better measure in this regard. They may be replaced by some other aesthetic art. Anyhow, the great city, great glimpse indeed!

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Нихрена себе,а почему мне начала эта хуйня вылазить? Странно но окей,да я русский поэтому даже не думайте мне писать что я не русский а просто юзаю переводчик