I am amazed that so many people want to learn our language! I personally feel honoured that people enjoy our language and culture.

Guys we wont survive without this man, protect him at all costs.

I've been doing this thinking I was being lazy with my pronunciation, but I'm glad Russian doesn't have to be so difficult.

In singing, we change voiceless consonants to voiced to conserve air. Like “f” loses the compression but “v” doesn’t. The voiceless consonants let out too much air and can affect your singing negatively. So it’s the exact opposite.

Вы так хорошо объясняете наш сложный язык, везде бы таких учителей :)

I’m an American living in Russia for 9 months I haven’t learned any Russian but this video really helps with some of the rules in the Russian language. Very cool

man I'm brazilian and I just realize we already pronounce like the native russian when we talk with our own accent. It must be for this reason that many russian teachers in my country also sound so fluent in portuguese.

Thanks, I had noticed that Russian always flowed nicely and when speaking I would choose whichever sound like it fitted, now I see why, thank you!

Hey I’m South Indian native Tamil, been learning Russian just for how lovely it sounds

Не знаю зачем я смотрю видеоуроки по обучению русскому, но мне нравится) Ранее не задумывался над тем, как я произношу обычные слова. А ведь всё так и есть, по факту!

So the main rule of this lesson: be lazy Nah but thank you for this. I have some russian roots and I've been practicing my russian for a couple of years, and your videos really helps a lot!

This video is the best illustration that I've seen to explain voiced and voiceless consonants. Спасибо!

you are the best man. this is so easy and fun. СПАСИБО!

Good video, thank you. Happily, I feel like this transition happens naturally as you speak more. I say 'happily', because I'm glad to know it's not wrong, or the development of a bad habit! 😂

Thank you, it’s wonderful to have access to this information.

Thank you!!!! I needed this!! You are a great teacher!! Спасибо!!!

Thank you Sir , this is my first time here , I am arabian , Learning English,Russian and German I loved ur Channel keep going 😇

Thanks for the tips! Russian sounds are very similar to portuguese. Make a video colab with "Vem a mim lingua russa", russian says his pronunciation is very good

Wow, I’ve learned so much in this brief video!!! Thank you so much! Sbasiba!

I so needed to see this -- thx

One of the most useful videos and best explanations I’ve ever seen on the Russian language.

Native slavic language speakers also use the "trilled" R.

OMG your enthusiasm is infectious. I'm learning and retaining the knowledge because you make such simple lessons exciting 😂

God Bless you for making this video, lol ty ty ty!!!!!! You just simplified so much of my learning

I have definitely noticed these pronunciations, but thanks to you Fedor, I know what this is now and why it's done.

Very helpful!

Finally I got to know this. Super helpful for my pronunciation 😁

Very good explanation !

I thought I was hearing that in certain scenarios. Awesome! Great tip! Love your channel. Learning Russian over here in New Zealand (coz I think it sounds awesome!) Just using Duolingo app and your KZfaq channel to learn. I'm 2 years in, and apparently duolingo tells me I know 1300 words now. Go me! 😁😁😁

Fantastic lesson... When I understand something's reason, I learn more easily... Thank you

This is very helpful!

Very useful tips! Спасибо Фёдор!

One of the best videos ever

Спасибо вам Феодор! Очень интересный урок. Я никогда не понимала. С Наступающим Новым годом! 🎉

Best teacher ever

I didn't know this but was doing this unconsciously 🙂

TRUUUE! Non-Russian pronunciation betrays the fact that a person pronounces all sounds very carefully. To sound in Russian you have to "eat" a lot of sounds. But here it is important not to "eat" everything in a row, because phonetic rules still exist 🤭

This makes so much sense for the word всё. Спасибо учитель😊

Спасибо, Федор! Ты самый лучший!

So I wasn't going crazy!!!!!!!!!! LMAO Thanks Fedor!

Thanks, this will help me talking faster

This lesson is gold for a begginer like me

Excellent!

such a goldmine to stumble upon. спасибо!

Devoicing assimilation occurs in English also. In the -ED ending, D becomes a T when a voiceless consonant precedes it (worked----> workt)

Ты великий учитель и тренер. Жаль, что я не знал тебя много лет назад. Я имел удовольствие изучать много языков в течение моей жизни и большая часть моего успеха была через друзей, которые помогли с ключами, как вы здесь. Ты как большой друг! Спасибо!

Been studying russian for 7 years already and not until now I learned how to pronounce Дед Мороз, раз и через correctly.

German has something similar, translated literally it means "end sound hardening." It changes the way consonants at the end of words are pronounced.

I love being aware of these. I tried to learn these tricks for my own native language, Spanish, and I honestly can't tell the difference. Being aware of these changes in English, Chinese (with tones), french and Russian make me feel under control and like I'll be able to master pronunciation.

I actually tested myself, before he gave each correct pronunciation & I got 100% of them Correct! The reason is that I've listened to hundreds of hours of Native Russians talking & I've already been practicing my pronunciation.

And yet the final "Г" in БОГ gets pronounced as an "h" and not a "k". You gotta love Russian! :)

wow, what is this editing? The videos are so much nicer than 2 years ago. Good content teacher

Спасибо большое за видео)))

Вы самый лучший учитель! , большое спасибо!

I’m a speech pathologist and the couples are produced in the same place and literally it’s just one with your motor on lol voiced and the other is voiceless no motor lol. Very interesting.

That is so cool! We do the same in Bulgarian, for example, it's spelled хляб but pronounce it with a п at the end

well explained

great, that explains a lot!! 😅

Спасибо.

I notice with род столом, you also pronounce the o in под like an unstressed o (like а)

Thank you so much for making this video I don't know if my comment inspired this but thank you anyways.

Спасибо 🙏

Спасибо друзья!🤜🤛

7:00 you said "i hope none of this stuff is clear now" but might should have said "i hope that this stuff" or if you said "i hope now of this stuff" then we'd say "now, i hope that this stuff..." thanks for the tips. this will help me for sure

I think I've been accidently doing this with some words lol or maybe I've been saying the voiced consonants so much I've made them faster to say lol.

Thanks for this! The other simplification that I observe, which is not usually called out, is that Щ is usually pronounced Ш.

великолепно как всегда, спасибо за совет

Спасибо

это видио очeнь полeзный, спасибо. ты хороший учитeль

Very useful stuff! Another way to look at the devoicing at the end is to ask a question: is the voiced consonant at the end of the word followed by a vowel? If no - devoice it, if yes - voice it. So, in the example Fedor is using at 2:50 he is basically adding a vowel after "Г" and it becomes more ДРУГЭ than ДРУГ 🤭

I know the D example from blayt

Приятно видеть, что не один я задаюсь вопросом: "зачем я смотрю уроки по руссокому для иностранцев?"😅 Почему-то очень интересно... Загадка (pronounce as zagaTka btw) 😅

It's funny how you say why you don't use the voiced ones on the end - because it's harder and takes more breath as you say, and yet we do in English anyway, obviously. Off the top of my head, флаг and flag. Both are spelled the same and have the same meaning, but we pronounce the 'g'... I guess we're just not as lazy. I kid, I kid, I have spent a lot of time learning Russian because I love the language, I just wanted to make a joke there. Thanks for your great videos, man. I watch a lot of them :)

I'm a native Russian but it's not a problem to me to pronounce друг as /drug/, and пробка as /'pro.bkə/.

Word final de-voicing. Remember this from Uni Russian

As Russian i confirm, this was amazing.

There is another trick: you can change г to х (not to к) in the end of the words. Eg друх, Петербурх, etc. Keep in mind that this is to simplify the pronunciation, so don’t emphasize it too much

It sounds like a prononciation rule we have in French. If there's a conson at the end of a word, and the next one starts with a voyelle, the sound is linked. C'est sont chien (the T is silent, we don't hear it) C'est avec lui (the T is linked with the A, we hear TA)

Yup 7:17

In German, we also have this 👍

I understand some things now

Final consonant devoicing is not "easier" per se. It's only easier for those, who are used to this kind of pronunciation, e.g. native Russian, German or Polish speakers, because it's their natural speaking habit. For everyone else its actually harder, because you have to remember to devoice final consonants. 🙂Speakers who are used to do the opposite in there native language (e.g. Ukrainians or Serbs) have no problem with breathing etc. when pronouncing voiced consonants at the end of a word. 🙂

an exception: Бог. Neither k nor g sound at the end!

пацталом!😆

if you quickly say "поезда-поезда-поезда" you can hear dirty word..

Interestingly, English is the other way around, like how the plural s gets voiced to a z, and the t in butter gets voiced to d. Do any Russian consonants go from unvoiced to voiced?

That's insane, Finns do that all the time.

Здравствуйте,Спасибо, что научили нас русскому языку.

I tried learning Russian years ago and have been studying Ukrainian (I plan on studying Russian again after Ukrainian). Ukrainian is so much easier pronunciation-wise than Russian... I'm not an expert and definitely not fluent, but from what I can see, Ukrainian is pronounced exactly as it looks, while Russian is more like English where you can't be totally sure how to pronounce words based on the spelling.

Как там виктория?

I thought he would tell us something special, but bruh thats one of the simple russian pronounciation rules....

I think this is pretty self evident if your listen to Russians talk. I imagine it's actually much harder the other way around, for Russians learning English to get used to voicing the end of words: tent = ten't

is it okay for ы to sound like и while talking?

It's funny cause it's not really a trick, it's just proper grammar ha

Russian is slow paced language, Unlike my language 😅

как интересный

я бы никогда не выучил, если бы не был носителем

Привет, Федор. Which level of Russian is the course for?

Скора поцани доидут до езика падонкаф. Енто буит хохма

Cusndo hablas español desde nacimiento ya es facil.