That moment when you've been learning English for 20+ years and used to think that your English is quite decent and then you realize you've been mispronouncing the goddamn "cat" the whole time.
I'm Russian who live in Canada for 30 years. I know I have problems with my pronunciation maybe 1 or 2 letters. But now I realized that I have all 10 and maybe more. I'm going to start working on improving my English pronunciation. Thanks teacher.
@@antontsyndrin4470 она произнесла "Фейсбук" замечательно, совершенно по-русски, изменив всего один звук в слове. Получилось как будто она сказала не английское слово с русским акцентом, а просто русское слово. Я тоже упал под стол от неожиданности :)
What I learned from making this video is that I REALLY have to learn Russian!! If you're not a Russian speaker, what are the mistakes in this video that are also relevant to you?
Hey Hadar! Thanks for this great video! I'm Serbian speaker but all mistakes are also relevant for me.Probably bcs Russian and Serbian are both Slavonic.Thanks again,you are amazing as usual 😘😘😘
I'm British interested in linguistics and trying to learn Russian. I thought you were going to talk about Russian but I found it was American English. But i was mesmerized by your linguistic descriptions of American English - it was quite fascinating. :)
Thanks for this! I'm a native Russian speaker but have been in the US for many years and I've been told that my accent is nearly nonexistent now. But I still find your video very helpful. The only part I'd slightly push back on is the part about the two L sounds. I think it's not a good explanation for those Russians who are having trouble with the accent because what you think is a "light" L in Russian isn't pronounced the way you think it should. Understandably, you're not hearing the nuanced difference because you're not a Russian speaker. We call it the hard consonant versus the soft consonant. The hard one is pronounced the way you pronounce the "dark" L in English. But the soft one isn't what you think it is. It's more like the English L in a word like "leave", but the tongue is even more flat against the upper part of your mouth. Actually, way more of it touches the surface. So it's a completely different sound.
Wow, I was really convinced that Russian is your mother tongue - you sound exactly natural imitating Russian sounds. You have a very good ear for accents and auditory memory!
I'm not from Russia, but people always say I talk in Russian accent, watched this video and I actually do, you got a lot of worlds exactly how I say it.
Perfect! Thank you so much, Hadar! I know that I have a strong russian accent, but never knew so well WHY! )) I should bookmark this lesson and practise regularly.
As somebody who teaches Russian to English speakers and English to Russian speakers, I have to say your pronunciation of Russian and the English spoken by many Russians is spot on. I am astounded that you cannot speak it. Subscribed 👌
My goodness, it's brilliant! I agree with all the typical mistakes, and some of them are like pain in the neck for me ^_^ This video is a diamond for every Russian (Ukrainian, Polish etc.) speaker! Now I have a feeling you can read the minds of the students :D But seriously, you are a superb teacher, and I'm happy to have found you exactly when I needed it badly. May the Schwa be with you :)
Thank you, Hadar! This video is invaluable for russians, ukrainians, etc. I'm a self-learner (for now) and have been periodically looking for this information, piece by piece. And boom - now it's in one place and with perfect explanation! And with comparison to our native sounds! I discovered 4 or 5 mistakes new to me, but more importantly, I've got better undertanding of other prononciation errors I was already struggling with.
This is a gem. I've been living in US for 25 years and always wanted to lessen my Russian accent.this video is amazing. I've learned soo much, despite practicing speaking English for quarter of a century. Thank you a billion. P.S. besides very well another word we Russian say wrong is "vodka" we always pronounce it as "wodka".lol
Thanks a lot for the video🙌🏻🤗I haven’t watched anything like that before on RU-vid, I’m Russian myself, though I’ve been learning English for several years, pronouncing some English sounds is still a pain in the ass😃🙈I appreciate you being so thoughtful about your Russian speaking students👌🏻👌🏻😍
It’s not helpful only to Russians but to Russian speakers in general. I am Kazakh and I do the same mistakes. Thank you a lot! Improvements are needed :)
I`m a Russian speaker and I found your video is very useful. You have pinpointed the most common difficulties we face while speaking English. I would add the words `clothes`, `thing`, `vegetables`, 'cucumber' are often mispronounced by Russian speakers. Especially `clothes` is a top mispronounced word. `Th` sound is extremely hard for us. I`m surprised that you didn`t mention /ɜ/ and /ɔ/ because most Russian speakers would pronounce 'work' and 'walk' in the same way. It also happens with 'word' and 'world'. We will just say 'wOrk' (with Russian 'o' sound).
Im from ex-yugoslavia, this really helped me. We all slavs have kinda the same accent, russian accent is a bit agressive but others are pretty strong and they just bit in your ear. Thanks for this, helped me a lot
Thanks for adressung this mistakes. Supprisingly making "O" instead of "OU" is one of the most common mistakes, which even advanced Russian English speakers make.
Russian has the sound A like in 'cat', but it occurs only between two palatised vowels and when it is stressed. Like in word пять [pʲætʲ] 'five'. Yes, there isn't that energy as Americans produce, and it is just an allophone of /a/, so Russians can't recognise and pronounce it seperately. For more info check out the Wikipedia article on Russian phonetics)
I wonder if these cases sound like thick accent for native American or British English speakers: 1. Lacking aspirated consonants: [p][t][k] instead of [pʰ][tʰ][kʰ]. For example: can - [ˈkæn] instead of [ˈkʰæn] (in Russian there are no aspirated consonants) 2. Reducing endings like -ing to -n, -ed to -t, not dropping but pronouncing really quick and quiet.
This is an amazing video. Or... This is the most amazing video I've ever seen. You pronounced Russian sounds so well. Thank you, from a native Russian speaker. 🙂
What the American video blogger doesn't realise is that in Russia they are taught standard British pronunciation at school and language faculties of universities, so that's why Russians pronounce words like "after" and "last" with the long sound [a:] as it is in RP.
This is like the best summary of those tipical mistakes I´ve heard being an English learner since 5. THANK YOU!!! I apreciate so much you approach at explaining those things! Also when you try the Russian accent it is perfectly accurate. Спасибо!
Большое спасибо за ваши видео! Очень интересно слушать. Буду работать над устранением указанных вами ошибок! Many thanks for your videos! Very interesting to listen to. I will work to eliminate the errors you indicated!
I am a Russian speaker and I'm working with a coach now, we found out that Russians pronouns the Long A /ei/ sound incorrectly, cause in Russian languagre we have a version of that sound - й - which is a derivative of long e sound, so we close the jaw (move the jaw up) when it should be kept in the same position for /ei/
Thank you so much! I really have a great problem with 'very well' and I don't hear the difference between "man" and "men" so I'm not sure that I pronounce "man" correctly. There is also a difference with "t" sound - you didn't note it
@@hadar.shemesh it's definitely th, t and d, when I speak fluently I always forget to watch them. And I have big troubles with all the vowels, yes. In this video for me personally the most helpful was the advice about the æ sound, I don't know why but I've never thought of really opening my mouth, and today I've heard the difference. When you explain how to pronounce all the sounds it appears to be very easy and I can do all of them and while reading aloud i sound pretty fine but when I just talk, all the stupid mistakes show up again)) Thanks for your work!
"very well" is ok since we hear it pretty often and the phrase just gets remembered as is. it's the word "vowel" (which is only used in specific conversations) that is hard to pronounce for us Russians :)
Cause I`m from Russia this video seemed very helpful for me, though I don`t have many of these mistakes. By the way it`s funny watching how you try to imitate Russian accent, especially the sounds TH and R. Studying Russian in private school, I listen to these mistakes almost every day. Sometimes it hurts my mind. Thank you for the lesson, Hadar!!!
Спасибо, хорошая работа. п.с. Но, мне кажется, для кого-то их родные акценты - это индивидуальность, самоощущение, идентификация)) К тому же, инстинкт интуиции на язык не включается, если его произносят не ясно (а неясным для человека кажется чужой акцент).
