0:26 - Check yourself: Can you hear the difference in pronunciation? 1:43 - Examples of Voiced & Voiceless consonants in English and in Russian 2:30 - Difference between Voiced & Voiceless consonants in Russian 4:13 - Examples of voicing in English: S pronounced as [s] or as [z] 5:05 - De-voicing of *final* *Hard* consonants in Russian ❗️ 6:25 - How do you pronounce Russian surnames that end with -ов/-ёв/-ев? 7:01 - Russian consonants: Voiced & Voiceless ⇨ Hard & Soft 7:33 - De-voicing of *final* *Soft* consonants in Russian ❗️ 8:18 - Words with different spelling, but similar pronunciation 9:05 - When does Г sound like [к] & like [х]? The word *Бог* = God 9:48 - Assimilation. Examples in English 10:18 - Assimilation in Russian 10:43 - Examples of *middle-word* *De-voicing* in Russian ❗️ 12:28 - How do you pronounce *дождь* = rain? 12:40 - Why do we need Voicing & De-voicing of consonants in Russian? 13:05 - Assimilation: Russian prepositions (example: *из* = from) ❗️ 14:54 - Assimilation: Russian prepositions (example: *в* = in) ❗️ 16:31 - Examples of *Voicing* in Russian ❗️ 18:03 - Note about Л, М, Н, Р 18:49 - How you might be mispronouncing - сн - 19:29 - Pronunciation of К/Х, Т, С, Ш before a В 19:46 - Phrases to check yourself 👆 Russian Pronunciation: Hard Sign (Ъ) vs Soft Sign (Ь): th-cam.com/video/76Zqi9to-yc/w-d-xo.html 👆 This video is a part of a Jump-Start Guide for Learning Russian: th-cam.com/play/PLpgpVaWoAiTEF8aNQvPnFCLBrtIeF3tqa.html
I am new to learning Russian, but your videos are by far the most helpful. I get to see your face, hear you and see the text. Keep it up! You are helping so many.
I have been studying Russian for 6 months now. I've had a lot of classes and although I knew of some devoicing there was so much I didn't know until today. Thank you!
If you keep doing such a great work like this, I think I'll be able to make my dream of living in Russia come true, after all. Can't wait to learn the Russian Cases from you! Тысяча благодaрностей))))
Stunning lesson! I understand now why written Russian can sometimes sounds so different to spoken Russian. Think I need to watch your video a hundred more times!
I'm happy to hear that! Here's a whole playlist on Russian pronunciation, you might find it helpful as well: th-cam.com/play/PLpgpVaWoAiTF7qeZnkArrYt2Fd6CJf2au.html
i noticed exactly ONE and only one error suffice in English sounds like ICE not ISS so "suff - ice" not "suff - is" nor "suff - iss" Like I said you pronunciation is perfect so I figure you will be happy to hear i DID listen carefully. You speak so well!
hahaha thank you. I do make tons of mistakes like that, I wonder if I can even hear that difference in pronunciation between the two. They say, the reason why kids learn languages faster, is because our ear is able to distinguish more sounds before we turn 7, and the older we get, the more our ears adapt to filter only the surrounding sounds.
@@RussianComprehensive You can. саф айс = suffice is из саф айс из = suffices stress is on the seCOND syllable suffICE suFFICE or even sufFICE are all ok. double F here means you can split the syllable before after or in the middle. Double ll is longer and softer than single L. but double FF does not change the pronouncation from F to V. It does however let you split the syllable where you prefer. English never shifts F to V so far as I see those two letters are always like France or Vampire respectively. Likewise V and W also never shift in English. V is always like F and W is always like U. You speak so well, it's truly impressive.
So much useful and interesting information organized in one video, excellent job. Could you make a video about the silent consonants/silent letters that occur in the Russian language (if these exist) and their relation to the phonetics of this language through examples, please. It would be a very attractive video for us and for your channel. greetings!
This video is so well made! I have a doubt that I cannot find an answer to. As you show in some examples at the end, devoicing / voicing sometimes works across word boundaries, as in "Как вас зовут" being pronounced "Как ваз зовут" because of the "сз" consonant combination. However, are boundaries crossed like that for consonant+vowel pairs? (Apart from clitics like prepositions в, к,с, etc which actually "attach" to the following word and thus do work like that, as in в университете). For example, "ход" is pronounced хот in isolation, but "хода" is pronounced as written. Could the phrase "ход актёра" be pronounced as written with д too? Since the same "д+а" appears as in хода. Or is that wrong for vowels, and unlike say "ход дня" which according to the video rules is pronounced ходдня, the previous one must always be "хотактёра"?
Yes, words in a sentence sound connected, as in a flow. Prepositions in particular, are not independent, they're just "helpers", thus, they are being attached to the next word, and almost never stressed. So, you pronounce "в университете" and such as one word, [вунивирситЕти]. "ход" on its own will be pronounced as [хот], right, but in the plural form (ходЫ) it doesn't end in д any more, so it won't get muffled into a т. Same w/ "ход актёра" and such.
PS: Nope. This is gonna be hard: I have ALWAYS said "kaK dielah" and "hanDbags".🤔I also say "cuP board" to people since I lived in Tennessee and they said "the kuhbo'd" or something similar with a weird accent so I thought they were wrong and I immediately corrected myself once I saw it written "the CUP board", LOL! (But I'll usually point and go "over there" to avoid saying such a pesky word!)😋I also say SALmon and ALmonds and those who don't pronounce the L drive me nuts. So this is gonna be difficult for me. You have, however, taught me a few words: besides paftoriatch, I have learned atdiejatch, and the differences between ootchit and ootchitsa and learned new to me verbs: izootchatch and zanimaettssa. (I am not anglo-saxon and English isn't my language so I don't know the typical English transcriptions with the "zh" it's a "J" to me!)
Am I correct in thinking that de-voicing is a one way process for the 13 letters in the video, e.g. a hard consonant final letter is converted into a soft final letter, but not vice versa. Great videos , thank you.
Right, only voiced consonant becomes voiceless, not vice versa: гарАж - гаражИ [гарАш - гаражЫ] = garage(s) But: ГарАж бы покрАсить! [гарАжбы пакрАсить] = we should paint the garage
@@RussianComprehensive thank you! I mean honey) and also I can’t really distinguish differences between words end with -с and -cь / -ф and -фь. (т/ть л/ль are fine) Is there any tips for better understanding? Moreover, when consonants are inside words eg - д- and - дь- , besides separating syllables like apostrophe, is there any difference on THAT consonant i.e.д itself? I’ve watched your video about soft and hard sign but still have no clue. (-з-/-зь- and - с-/- сь- and etc) is it just about speaking louder or softer? It’d be great if you can make another video about words comparisons like брат and брать (this example really helps me a lot when understanding differences between т and ть) And just wanna let u know, you really are one of the very best Russian teachers on youtube!!! Your videos reeeaally helped a lot!! Thank you so much)))
One reason is gramar. Consonant ending nouns, without ь, are masculine and thus if you see the word душ as a noun, you automatically take it (correctly) as masculine noun. When you see сушь, you know that it might be masculine or feminine, and in this case it is feminine. If it were spelled суш, even though it sounds the same the rule would tell you that it is a masculine noun, but it is not! Similar thing happens with words like ночь (feminine) or луч (masculine).
This reminds me why I quit Russian over 40 years ago: TOO COMPLICATED! I also don't understand declensions and what are cases supposed to be and can't find a video at your channel. I discovered your channel less than a week ago, been watching some videos, I really like you as a teacher but it is one h of a complicated language! Add to that the fact that my memory isn't what it was. This language doesn't make sense to me: every language I speak, I possessed right away. Not so with Russian. The words are just "sounds" to me that make little sense. I look at my favorite color and how can it sound like "zeylioni" in Russian?! I very much want to learn it but I NEED a channel with REPETITION, REPETITION and REPETITION. One that I can play while I do the dishes, brush my teeth etc and can repeat the words until they "sink" in. That said, I really appreciate you as a teacher. You are very good. Your videos are very intimidating. Well, not your videos but they are very long and there is so much info that makes sense the way you explain it but that I fail to grasp. I wish you would ALSO make REPETITION (paftoriatch, I learned that verb from you!) :) videos and videos with cartoons showing the different words. I have watched videos where you have briefly used some words (like to wrestle, to swim, and here the list of words that include backpack and snow) and I cannot memorize without a drawing, a comic or cartoon. It is very important to have that. I also need them CONJUGATED and "declinated" (declensionated? English is my 3rd or 4th language) to be able to use them. I find myself very frustrated, especially when I listen to your president and I want to understand what he says but it's impossible. I feel like I could study Russian for 10-12 years and never have enough vocabulary to understand him. To make matters worse, the translator changes the words you give here to another verb, another noun for the same. I switch from Eng-Rus to Rus-Engl and the word has changed on me! I don't mean the ending, I mean a whole different root/word! Enough to make me give up all over again, yet I feel my future will bring me to your country in the not so distant future. Also not understanding what so many Russian teachers are doing leaving such a great country for Vietnam? Please return to making videos soon! Thanks for your videos and sorry for the long post.
@@RussianComprehensive Thank you so much and that is from my country, LOL!! I just listened to the only course they have for free here. I find it interesting that they teach syllables in reverse. For now I will stick to the free stuff on YT :D Someone else recommended the Mimic Method. I went to their website & it is all free, just need to make an account. Are you returning to Russia soon from Vietnam and will you continue to make videos? I really enjoy learning with you, I have the motivation, my problem is memory (working on this with natural remedies) and being overwhelmed by wanting to be fluent now, LOL! I am thinking moving to your country, which might be the only livable one on the planet soon... but there is a test for Russian fluency. 🥹
0:26 - Check yourself: Can you hear the difference in pronunciation?
1:43 - Examples of Voiced & Voiceless consonants in English and in Russian
2:30 - Difference between Voiced & Voiceless consonants in Russian
4:13 - Examples of voicing in English: S pronounced as [s] or as [z]
5:05 - De-voicing of *final* *Hard* consonants in Russian ❗️
6:25 - How do you pronounce Russian surnames that end with -ов/-ёв/-ев?
7:01 - Russian consonants: Voiced & Voiceless ⇨ Hard & Soft
7:33 - De-voicing of *final* *Soft* consonants in Russian ❗️
8:18 - Words with different spelling, but similar pronunciation
9:05 - When does Г sound like [к] & like [х]? The word *Бог* = God
9:48 - Assimilation. Examples in English
10:18 - Assimilation in Russian
10:43 - Examples of *middle-word* *De-voicing* in Russian ❗️
12:28 - How do you pronounce *дождь* = rain?
12:40 - Why do we need Voicing & De-voicing of consonants in Russian?
13:05 - Assimilation: Russian prepositions (example: *из* = from) ❗️
14:54 - Assimilation: Russian prepositions (example: *в* = in) ❗️
16:31 - Examples of *Voicing* in Russian ❗️
18:03 - Note about Л, М, Н, Р
18:49 - How you might be mispronouncing - сн -
19:29 - Pronunciation of К/Х, Т, С, Ш before a В
19:46 - Phrases to check yourself
👆 Russian Pronunciation: Hard Sign (Ъ) vs Soft Sign (Ь): th-cam.com/video/76Zqi9to-yc/w-d-xo.html
👆 This video is a part of a Jump-Start Guide for Learning Russian: th-cam.com/play/PLpgpVaWoAiTEF8aNQvPnFCLBrtIeF3tqa.html
The best explanation I have ever seen on this topic. Thank you indeed! ❤❤❤
You can't imagine how helpful this video for me. All questions are answered. Thank you very much! ❤️❤️❤️
I am new to learning Russian, but your videos are by far the most helpful. I get to see your face, hear you and see the text. Keep it up! You are helping so many.
Thank you for your kind words!
I have been studying Russian for 6 months now. I've had a lot of classes and although I knew of some devoicing there was so much I didn't know until today. Thank you!
Greeting from Indonesia ! 🇮🇩
Thanks for the lesson .
Спасибо !
I just love it your lesson i love it soo much thank you
If you keep doing such a great work like this, I think I'll be able to make my dream of living in Russia come true, after all.
Can't wait to learn the Russian Cases from you! Тысяча благодaрностей))))
haha looks like you're done with the Instrumental case already
Stunning lesson! I understand now why written Russian can sometimes sounds so different to spoken Russian. Think I need to watch your video a hundred more times!
I'm happy to hear that!
Here's a whole playlist on Russian pronunciation, you might find it helpful as well:
th-cam.com/play/PLpgpVaWoAiTF7qeZnkArrYt2Fd6CJf2au.html
It's absolutely incredible, how do you do that?
You make everything easier
Excellent video on this topic (Произношение)!!! Thanks a lot.
Thank you
you're such a beautiful person. wish i could pronounce russian half as well as you pronounce English. Your pronunciation is perfect.
i noticed exactly ONE and only one error
suffice in English sounds like ICE not ISS so
"suff - ice" not "suff - is" nor "suff - iss"
Like I said you pronunciation is perfect so I figure you will be happy to hear i DID listen carefully. You speak so well!
hahaha thank you. I do make tons of mistakes like that, I wonder if I can even hear that difference in pronunciation between the two.
They say, the reason why kids learn languages faster, is because our ear is able to distinguish more sounds before we turn 7, and the older we get, the more our ears adapt to filter only the surrounding sounds.
@@RussianComprehensive You can.
саф айс = suffice
is из
саф айс из = suffices
stress is on the seCOND syllable suffICE suFFICE or even sufFICE are all ok. double F here means you can split the syllable before after or in the middle.
Double ll is longer and softer than single L. but double FF does not change the pronouncation from F to V. It does however let you split the syllable where you prefer.
English never shifts F to V so far as I see those two letters are always like France or Vampire respectively. Likewise V and W also never shift in English. V is always like F and W is always like U.
You speak so well, it's truly impressive.
Always helpful
Hello. I really like this lesson very much.
Здравствуйте. У вас отличный канал. Миллиард блогодарностей.
Спасибо, Зулкифли!
Thank you very much
So much useful and interesting information organized in one video, excellent job.
Could you make a video about the silent consonants/silent letters that occur in the Russian language (if these exist) and their relation to the phonetics of this language through examples, please.
It would be a very attractive video for us and for your channel. greetings!
This video is so well made! I have a doubt that I cannot find an answer to. As you show in some examples at the end, devoicing / voicing sometimes works across word boundaries, as in "Как вас зовут" being pronounced "Как ваз зовут" because of the "сз" consonant combination.
However, are boundaries crossed like that for consonant+vowel pairs? (Apart from clitics like prepositions в, к,с, etc which actually "attach" to the following word and thus do work like that, as in в университете).
For example, "ход" is pronounced хот in isolation, but "хода" is pronounced as written. Could the phrase "ход актёра" be pronounced as written with д too? Since the same "д+а" appears as in хода. Or is that wrong for vowels, and unlike say "ход дня" which according to the video rules is pronounced ходдня, the previous one must always be "хотактёра"?
Yes, words in a sentence sound connected, as in a flow.
Prepositions in particular, are not independent, they're just "helpers", thus, they are being attached to the next word, and almost never stressed. So, you pronounce "в университете" and such as one word, [вунивирситЕти].
"ход" on its own will be pronounced as [хот], right, but in the plural form (ходЫ) it doesn't end in д any more, so it won't get muffled into a т. Same w/ "ход актёра" and such.
PS: Nope. This is gonna be hard: I have ALWAYS said "kaK dielah" and "hanDbags".🤔I also say "cuP board" to people since I lived in Tennessee and they said "the kuhbo'd" or something similar with a weird accent so I thought they were wrong and I immediately corrected myself once I saw it written "the CUP board", LOL! (But I'll usually point and go "over there" to avoid saying such a pesky word!)😋I also say SALmon and ALmonds and those who don't pronounce the L drive me nuts. So this is gonna be difficult for me.
You have, however, taught me a few words: besides paftoriatch, I have learned atdiejatch, and the differences between ootchit and ootchitsa and learned new to me verbs: izootchatch and zanimaettssa. (I am not anglo-saxon and English isn't my language so I don't know the typical English transcriptions with the "zh" it's a "J" to me!)
Curious how come your English is so good?
Am I correct in thinking that de-voicing is a one way process for the 13 letters in the video, e.g. a hard consonant final letter is converted into a soft final letter, but not vice versa. Great videos , thank you.
Right, only voiced consonant becomes voiceless, not vice versa:
гарАж - гаражИ
[гарАш - гаражЫ]
= garage(s)
But:
ГарАж бы покрАсить!
[гарАжбы пакрАсить]
= we should paint the garage
Thank you. @@RussianComprehensive
are мед and нет end like the same if д is devoiced at the end of the word?
Yes, both will end with the a voiceless [т].
Only do you mean «мед» as a slang word for a medical university, or «мёд» as honey? :)
@@RussianComprehensive thank you! I mean honey) and also I can’t really distinguish differences between words end with -с and -cь / -ф and -фь. (т/ть л/ль are fine) Is there any tips for better understanding?
Moreover, when consonants are inside words eg - д- and - дь- , besides separating syllables like apostrophe, is there any difference on THAT consonant i.e.д itself? I’ve watched your video about soft and hard sign but still have no clue. (-з-/-зь- and - с-/- сь- and etc) is it just about speaking louder or softer?
It’d be great if you can make another video about words comparisons like брат and брать (this example really helps me a lot when understanding differences between т and ть)
And just wanna let u know, you really are one of the very best Russian teachers on youtube!!! Your videos reeeaally helped a lot!! Thank you so much)))
I loved your channel !! Your videos are very concise and clear. You' have great communication and teaching skills! Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
Привет, Джон! Спасибо! I'm happy it helps!
why т does not devoiced в in твой?
Т is already devoiced. You mean, why it doesn't get voiced? It'd be an exception: th-cam.com/video/imiXGhO-Kc0/w-d-xo.html
I wonder why they put the soft sign after a letter that is always hard.
old habits 😁
One reason is gramar. Consonant ending nouns, without ь, are masculine and thus if you see the word душ as a noun, you automatically take it (correctly) as masculine noun. When you see сушь, you know that it might be masculine or feminine, and in this case it is feminine. If it were spelled суш, even though it sounds the same the rule would tell you that it is a masculine noun, but it is not! Similar thing happens with words like ночь (feminine) or луч (masculine).
This reminds me why I quit Russian over 40 years ago: TOO COMPLICATED! I also don't understand declensions and what are cases supposed to be and can't find a video at your channel. I discovered your channel less than a week ago, been watching some videos, I really like you as a teacher but it is one h of a complicated language! Add to that the fact that my memory isn't what it was. This language doesn't make sense to me: every language I speak, I possessed right away. Not so with Russian. The words are just "sounds" to me that make little sense. I look at my favorite color and how can it sound like "zeylioni" in Russian?!
I very much want to learn it but I NEED a channel with REPETITION, REPETITION and REPETITION. One that I can play while I do the dishes, brush my teeth etc and can repeat the words until they "sink" in. That said, I really appreciate you as a teacher. You are very good. Your videos are very intimidating. Well, not your videos but they are very long and there is so much info that makes sense the way you explain it but that I fail to grasp. I wish you would ALSO make REPETITION (paftoriatch, I learned that verb from you!) :) videos and videos with cartoons showing the different words.
I have watched videos where you have briefly used some words (like to wrestle, to swim, and here the list of words that include backpack and snow) and I cannot memorize without a drawing, a comic or cartoon. It is very important to have that. I also need them CONJUGATED and "declinated" (declensionated? English is my 3rd or 4th language) to be able to use them. I find myself very frustrated, especially when I listen to your president and I want to understand what he says but it's impossible. I feel like I could study Russian for 10-12 years and never have enough vocabulary to understand him. To make matters worse, the translator changes the words you give here to another verb, another noun for the same. I switch from Eng-Rus to Rus-Engl and the word has changed on me! I don't mean the ending, I mean a whole different root/word! Enough to make me give up all over again, yet I feel my future will bring me to your country in the not so distant future.
Also not understanding what so many Russian teachers are doing leaving such a great country for Vietnam? Please return to making videos soon! Thanks for your videos and sorry for the long post.
You might want to try the Russian Pimsleur, they focus on repetition
@@RussianComprehensive Thank you so much and that is from my country, LOL!! I just listened to the only course they have for free here. I find it interesting that they teach syllables in reverse. For now I will stick to the free stuff on YT :D Someone else recommended the Mimic Method. I went to their website & it is all free, just need to make an account.
Are you returning to Russia soon from Vietnam and will you continue to make videos? I really enjoy learning with you, I have the motivation, my problem is memory (working on this with natural remedies) and being overwhelmed by wanting to be fluent now, LOL! I am thinking moving to your country, which might be the only livable one on the planet soon... but there is a test for Russian fluency. 🥹
if you had the 10 sec rewind button i wouldve literally payed you lol
I think, youtube has it, for free 😄
So, "кровь" and "кров" are pronounced the same?
not really, the first one ends w/ a soft [фь], the second one ends w/ a hard [ф]
@@RussianComprehensive Спасибо большое!
Can you give me private classes?
Hi Midlaj, I think you asked me that before. For 1-1 tuition, contact me via email (in description) or here: www.italki.com/teacher/1541515
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Chale no estoy entendiendo xd
ahora puedes usar subtítulos!
@@RussianComprehensive tanks for your time, it's much easier learning with this videos, saludos desde México :)