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How To Pronounce Russian "R" (SPOILER: You Don't Have To Roll It) Deep Dive with Exercises
This video is a deep dive into how to pronounce the Russian "Р". I described several exercises I would recommend to people who are struggling to pronounce this sound, as well as techniques that can help you identify and get used to it.
00:00 Why you don't have to roll your Р right now
01:47 American English has a Russian Р
04:02 Reminder to do a warm-up
05:28 Exercise 1
07:01 Exercise 2
09:24 Practising the hard Р as in ра, ро, рэ, ры, ру
13:52 Russian Р does not resemble R
14:44 Tip for the hard Р
15:51 Practising the soft Р as in ря, рё, ре, ри, рю
18:19 Tip 1 for the soft Р
19:13 Tip 2 for the soft Р
19:32 Tip 3 for the soft Р
20:25 Practising Hard/Soft Р with syllables
21:24 Practising with real words
23:03 Another tip for the hard P
24:56 Some final tips
If there is a topic, grammar or an aspect of phonetics of the Russian language you want me to explain, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments. See you in the future videos!
To book lessons you can contact me here: thatpashakovalenko@gmail.com or @thatpashakovalenko on Telegram.
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How to Pronounce Ы in Russian
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Hi guys! In this video I'm explaining how to pronounce the letter Ы in Russian. Some other tips that could help also: - make the "У" sound and try smiling while you do it; - think about the second syllable in the word "roses", this is one of the cases where this sound in English sounds very much alike to Ы in fast Russian speech, even though the resonances differ slightly in opinion; If there i...
Common Mistake for English Speakers Who Learn Russian: Soft and Hard Consonants
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Hi, guys! My name is Pasha Kovalenko. I teach Russian for English speakers. In this video I'm talking about the difference between soft and hard consonants, or in other words palatalization. I found it to be quite tricky for native English speakers to pronounce soft consonants in Russian words. Here I'm explaining how to pronounce them. If there is a topic, grammar or an aspect of phonetics of ...
Learn Russian with Soviet Cartoons: Трое из Простоквашино, часть 2
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Hi, friends! The video is advised for A2-B1 Russian learners. For parts when I speak Russian, there are subtitles. Do turn on Russian subtitles if that helps you understand. In this video we are going to learn some Russian with the Soviet cartoon, Трое из Простоквашино. This cartoon is dearly loved in Russia as well as other post-soviet countries. It's the second episode in the series, I will s...
Learn Russian with Soviet Cartoons: Трое из Простоквашино, часть 1
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Hi, friends! In this video we are going to learn some Russian with the Soviet cartoon, Трое из Простоквашино. This cartoon is dearly loved in Russia as well as other post-soviet countries. The video is advised for A2-B1 Russian learners. For parts when I speak Russian, there are subtitles. Do turn on Russian subtitles if that helps you understand. It's the first episode in the series, I will st...
Stereotypes About Russians. Russian Rants
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Hi, I'm Pasha. I teach Russian for English speakers and English for Russian speakers. Here are some stereotypes about Russian people that I've heard about. Enjoy. If you have any questions about Russia, the Russian language, or Russian people, let me know in the comments. I'll try to answer them in my future videos.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT
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Hi guys and ladies, in this video I'm going through some of my favorite books written in Russian. I hope here you'll find some Russian literature you didn't know about and you might want to read it in Russian with me or on your own. 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - "Похороните меня за плинтусом", Павел Санаев: www.litres.ru/pavel-sanaev/pohoronite-menya-za-plintusom/chitat-onlayn/ (link to buy) 03:57 - "К...

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  • @INNOCENTWIZZARDS
    @INNOCENTWIZZARDS วันที่ผ่านมา

    качя 🙂

  • @Daria-c7n
    @Daria-c7n 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of the most helpful videos about Soft and Hard consonants! Thank you and I hope you keep posting Russian vidoes🥲

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Daria-c7n thank you! I will. Took a bit of a break

  • @fariesz6786
    @fariesz6786 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i keep having this intrusive thought that there is no softness distinction on /r/ but i think i confuse it with some very different language (probably Irish)

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@fariesz6786 what do you mean by that? Do you mean that you can’t identify it when you hear it? Or that you can’t reproduce it?

  • @trufflefur
    @trufflefur 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ц is hard but allows ЦИ to be soft

  • @Rationalific
    @Rationalific 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ыyat.

  • @robinharwood5044
    @robinharwood5044 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    To write Russian cursive, all you need to do is a set of inverted “u” shapes. It’s bound to mean something.

  • @mariootjezh
    @mariootjezh 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I don't hear the difference 😭😭

  • @goldenheart3887
    @goldenheart3887 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    “You don’t have to roll your P” Me, an American, reading that as an American would: PFFT-

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sounds like a great articulation warm-up!

  • @alexagori
    @alexagori 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Главная ошибка Запада в том, что они думают, что в расее большинство русские. Х.й! Русских начал уничтожать Ванька Кровавый, а закончили краснопузые. Так, что как Катьку не называй, все одно - Параша!

  • @NikichPlayer
    @NikichPlayer 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫ

  • @radidov5333
    @radidov5333 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thats the same sound "y" in guarani

  • @rtperrett
    @rtperrett 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As an example in English, isn't the m in music? Isn't that palatalized for simply just a y glide before the u?

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, most consonants + [j] as in music or new resemble Russian soft consonants. Same as if you try to pronounce them with an И as is often recommended when we are tought these sounds. The tongue movement is similiar. The difference is, however, in the lenght of that [j]. If it's too pronounced and too long, Russian speakers register it as Петья, and not Петя, for example.

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Or as if we are tought in Russian phonetics, there is no [j], it's not identified as [j] in soft consonants. It's not [tj] but [т']. Russian phonetics finds this difference quite important and it's mirrored in our transcription.

  • @Jake_Silva
    @Jake_Silva 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks!

  • @jamtheripper8230
    @jamtheripper8230 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ы!

  • @EmilioAt77
    @EmilioAt77 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey, mate! I've just found your channel and this video was pure gold! 👏🏻 As a native Spanish speaker, this is deffo the hardest sound in Russian, I reckon I didnt find great difficulty with others in general 🤓

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@EmilioAt77 thanks a lot for the comment!

  • @Svyestoslavvx
    @Svyestoslavvx หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every russian speaker or learner had now to speak out loud to see if they really know how to spell it anymore

  • @albuscorvus6544
    @albuscorvus6544 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ЫЫЫЫЫЫ😅

  • @NicoleGomez-j1w
    @NicoleGomez-j1w หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey, instead of translating it would be nice if you did comprehensible input, showing images so we can understand what words mean

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@NicoleGomez-j1w if you watched both of the episodes, you would notice that I do that sometimes. The format, whoever, is aimed to get through the whole episode so that people can watch later themselves. If I stop and explain every frame, that would be a 200 hundred episode series.

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@NicoleGomez-j1w I plan to make more comprehensible input videos in the future. But it doesn’t work for this particular format of reviewing a cartoon.

  • @oleglozinskiy5216
    @oleglozinskiy5216 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫЫ

  • @Erika-us6xz
    @Erika-us6xz หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a Russian named Яся I really appreciate your effort to explain this topic!

  • @matanpokoj373
    @matanpokoj373 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should probably put a latin 'R' in your title too, to clear up any confusion and ambiguity

  • @heck_fy
    @heck_fy หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you!

  • @KISS_78
    @KISS_78 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you♡

  • @Leon-desu
    @Leon-desu หลายเดือนก่อน

    When you come to Russia, ask a gopnik to play with you and when he hits you in the stomach you will finally be able to say this sound

  • @skripnigor
    @skripnigor หลายเดือนก่อน

    Native Russian here. If you know a bit about EQing probably you have an idea of what low-pass and high-pass filters are. Here are some approximations: щ = (sh) ш = (sh) + (low pass filter) т + (high pass filter) = (t) т = (t) + (low pass filter) ж = (j) - (the plosive part) + (low pass filter) и = (ee) ы = (ee) + (low pass filter) д = (d) + (low pass filter)

    • @punpcklbw
      @punpcklbw 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      First time I see it explained this way 😆 probably the nerdiest one

  • @user-ConnorKaroThompson
    @user-ConnorKaroThompson หลายเดือนก่อน

    Распространены ли эти микроволновые печи в России?

  • @viniciusjr8756
    @viniciusjr8756 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Наш слон

  • @ИльяМакаров-е1й
    @ИльяМакаров-е1й หลายเดือนก่อน

    Улыбочку ыыыыы

  • @annjean7427
    @annjean7427 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Не знаю, почему это видео появилось у меня в рекомендациях. Пришлось вслух произнести Ы, чтобы проверить, не разучилась ли я говорить

  • @QWEASDZXC199
    @QWEASDZXC199 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Хахахаха, эта обложка с мемом, просто заставила меня нажать на этот видос 😂😂😂

  • @mechamapping
    @mechamapping หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was so easy for me to pronounce it because we have the same sound in Turkish. We have İ i and I ı so instead of the letter I i that we use in English we have two different I s. So in Russian I ı is ы İ i is и

    • @tasse0599
      @tasse0599 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's cool to know. I always wondered what that letter is when I saw it in Germany

    • @anvoidlessness
      @anvoidlessness หลายเดือนก่อน

      no, thats different vowels. turkish I sound means unrounded high back vowel [ɯ] but russian Ы sound means unrounded high central vowel [ɨ]. technically english [ɪ] sound more approximately to russian [ɨ] than turkish [ɯ]. moreover, many people actually pronounce this sound that way, especially south russians. so if you will pronounce english ɪ instead of russian ы, no one will notice that.

  • @ПростойЧеловек-к8г
    @ПростойЧеловек-к8г หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can say this letter and when I say this letter my bass launches out

  • @annalaskina4402
    @annalaskina4402 หลายเดือนก่อน

    А2?!. 😮 Если студенты с А2 это понимают - они круты, снимаю шляпу.

  • @tornadot2025
    @tornadot2025 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It reminds me of the Korean "Eun" sound. It seems to be guttural and come from deep inside of your abdomen.

  • @viniaz2997
    @viniaz2997 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Отлично всё объяснил, мне понравилось! Вроде всё понятно и дожно быть просто в дальнейшем. Отличное упражнение для начала могло бы быть прекрасное русское предложение с пятью ЛИ подряд "Полили ли лилии?"

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@viniaz2997 отличная идея!

  • @florin-titusniculescu5871
    @florin-titusniculescu5871 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ы is the nonwritten sound that goes between b and r in brrrrrrrr

  • @fellowcitizen
    @fellowcitizen หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks! Please cover the pronunciation of "Volha"!

  • @idopshik
    @idopshik หลายเดือนก่อน

    Это одинаково для всех во всех языках. Дело в правильной артикуляции. Вот ей и нужно обучать ( но это дико скучно, неинтересно). Да ещё и нужно очень много guided практики.

  • @lifeofyama
    @lifeofyama หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:18 th-cam.com/video/At8v_Yc044Y/w-d-xo.html

  • @elkigirl123
    @elkigirl123 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is most useful to just put letters on the screen and pronounce them to hear the difference. It’s often over complicated. The soft vowels are a glide, preceded by a y. In other words yo instead of o and so on. Not a vowel y but a consonant y. This affects the preceding consonant. The y right after the consonant raises the tongue and affects the consonant. Then there are the small handful of consonants that are considered either hard or soft on their own. You just memorize them.

  • @underpivo_yoshi
    @underpivo_yoshi หลายเดือนก่อน

    Быть не может, чтобы под видео о русском языке не было 100500 тысяч ру комментов

    • @UnQuacker
      @UnQuacker หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ну тут, в целом, мало комментов как таковых.

  • @TallTravels
    @TallTravels หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jesus, 15 minutes on how to pronounce this sound! Ok I will watch, this is Ы ' s last chance with me 🤣

    • @edonan85
      @edonan85 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Please do it, imho this video is a goldmine of effective tips and information

  • @thieph
    @thieph หลายเดือนก่อน

    Romanian language use more than most slavic languages this sound, except polish. Turkic languages use more

    • @thieph
      @thieph หลายเดือนก่อน

      Î/â in romanian

    • @thieph
      @thieph หลายเดือนก่อน

      Încântat for example, or împărat(emperor)

    • @sledgehog1
      @sledgehog1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      European Portuguese as well(unstressed "e").

    • @thieph
      @thieph 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@sledgehog1 is not the same

    • @sledgehog1
      @sledgehog1 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@thieph To me it is.

  • @Snowy_315
    @Snowy_315 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so this is the sound I make when my math teacher asks me something I don't know... I understand now

  • @GustawStudios23
    @GustawStudios23 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact: Yery (thats what the letter Ы is called in English) is the only of the yer letters (keep in mind they don't really have any relation to the proto-slavic "yers"s but I use the term "yer" just for convenience) of the cyrillic script to still have a phonemic value in russian, the others, yer/Ъ and yere/Ь (yer and yere were what ъ & ь were called before the reform of 1918) are the other “yer”s.

    • @UnQuacker
      @UnQuacker หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean, ы is basically ъ+і.

  • @Marguerite-Rouge
    @Marguerite-Rouge หลายเดือนก่อน

    Personally, I focus on the consonant just before the letter ы. If I pronounce the consonant in the hard manner, the sound ы will be automatically correctly pronounced. Fortunately, I know only one context where ы is pronounced alone, without any consonant before it, it is in the title of the soviet film "Операция ы и другие приключения Шурика", so I generally pronounce ы correctly. For me, the most difficult sound in Russian is the letter р (both soft and hard). For context, my native language is French.

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Marguerite-Rouge merci pour votre commentaire! I only can compare П to English P! I don’t know French that well yet. Do you think that the French p is similar to the English one?

    • @Marguerite-Rouge
      @Marguerite-Rouge หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pashakovalenko690 Sorry, I wrote р in the cyrillic alphabet! In French, we use the uvular trill to pronounce the sound r, but in Russian, it is an alveolar trill very difficult to reproduce for a French speaker.

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ ah you mean the Р! Then I misunderstood you. The Р is def very different from the French one. The lesson on Р is already on my list, so it will come out sooner than later

    • @Marguerite-Rouge
      @Marguerite-Rouge หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pashakovalenko690 Большое спасибо! Я посмотрю видео с удовольствием!

  • @butterflyagnieszka
    @butterflyagnieszka หลายเดือนก่อน

    how about л? this is the hardest one for me, it doesn't sound always the same 😭

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@butterflyagnieszka thank you for the comment! I’ll add it to my list of topics.

    • @timon7376
      @timon7376 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It depends on what goes after л,it"s pronounced either with tongue tip or the back part of it lifts up.

    • @idopshik
      @idopshik หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm russian person, and also can't pronounce it correctly, especially with "a" after it. And many others also can't, so don't worry too much.

    • @UnQuacker
      @UnQuacker หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@idopshikа как вы <л> произносите? О_о

    • @idopshik
      @idopshik หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@UnQuacker прикинь, никак с твердыми гласными (больше похоже на "в". С мягкими без проблем. И таких полно если прислушиваться.

  • @joshadams8761
    @joshadams8761 หลายเดือนก่อน

    French also has vowels that are subtly different to their English counterparts. When the French produce the sound spelled /i/ in IPA, for example in the word “y”, they bare their teeth, giving the sound intensity. The vowel in “beat” is more relaxed.

  • @LucretiaEv
    @LucretiaEv หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm just a beginner trying to learn Russian on my own and your videos are very interesting - I like the technical explanations (as I'm a foreign language teacher myself too). I didn't know that пиши has the same sound as мы. They sound so different to me (for context I'm a native speaker of Spanish and a C2 in English). I would have said (from what I hear) that the и in пиши is closer to the short i (like in "ship") in English. But the sound in мы sound so much tenser and "deeper" as you described at the beginning. Am I too wrong? :D

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LucretiaEv thank you for your kind words! Which syllable in пиши do you have in mind? You mean the second right? We pronounce it as п’ишы. I think it’s maybe me exaggerating it a bit to get the point across. In fast speech and how I pronounce it in пиши it’s very dialled back so it’s closer to like “ship”. Also the consonants has to have something to do with it. M is much tenser, than ш.

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But then the more I think of it, пиШЫ и МЫ, ы in them sounds the same. And I in ship is a point of reference, but it’s not exactly the same. I think it’s the consonant before them that affects our perception and also it affects their pronounciation slightly. With M we close our mouth and then it’s sort of like an tense explosion in the vowel. With Ш it’s a hissing sound, there is already air going through, so Ы is adapts to this sound and is affected by it.

    • @LucretiaEv
      @LucretiaEv หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pashakovalenko690 Now that you mention it that way, I think I understand what you mean. But in short, I feel I can say the unstressed version of ы better than the stressed one for sure 😅

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ I know exactly what you mean lol!

  • @CheLanguages
    @CheLanguages หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this again Pasha, this is probably the sound I struggle with the most.

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CheLanguages thank you for the comment!

    • @CheLanguages
      @CheLanguages หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pashakovalenko690 No problem. I'm finding your channel very interesting and I you're clearly knowledgeable. I hope your channel will get the recognition it deserves. Could I perhaps share this video to my viewers?

    • @pashakovalenko690
      @pashakovalenko690 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ yes, I would very much appreciate if you could share the link to my videos or channel with your audience!

    • @CheLanguages
      @CheLanguages หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pashakovalenko690 спасибо