Jerusha Stuart If you put aside enough time to just focus on learning, you can learn any alphabet on Earth in under a week. The hard part is remembering words/spellings/grammar
lachezar nikolov problem is h is pronounced n and p is pronounced r. The moment she said those letters are confusing I gave up lol. My mind cant keep up with this.
I know I'm supposed to pay attention to the tutor speaking/teaching Russian but I couldn't help but hear a little kitty saying meow at 2:59. My ears are that sharp.
I never said that there was... Sir, I was just pointing out the obvious in what I was able to hear at a distance behind the microphone. I hope you weren't assuming that there was a problem, because the word, "Problem", didn't exist in the older comment. Just saying. LOL *Scarasm* *^^*
Thank you! This probably one of the BEST Russian alphabet videos. It looks great and I love that you break up the letters and then practice words with those letters bit by bit. Thanks so much for such a fantastic video. I will definitely watch this EVERYDAY!!! :-)
Pause it. If you are having trouble hearing the pronunciation differences in letters like I was with these ones, "Ч Ш Щ" slowing the video helps. Some sounds from foriegn languages are very hard to second speakers to learn if they ever do at all. That why no matter how much you rehearse an accent you can't always fool a native speaker.
If you don't have time to repeat then you probably do not have time to learn any language. Learning a language requires time and focus. You are destined to fail if you are missing half of the equation.
I learned both, the Russian and Ukrainian alphabets, in less than one hour on the same day. Since I speak Spanish as my native tongue I have absolutely no problem with the pronunciation and I love how we can roll our "R" with the tip of the tongue. Great video! 👍🏻
While I do like this video as it's very basic, it does miss out some important issues such as why is o sometimes pronounced as an a? To which I've googled and found out that depending on the word, different letters are stressed. When an o is stressed, it won't change in pronunciation(for beginners, it'll have a little article above the o to indicate that in some books I believe) and when an o is unstressed, it'll sound like an a. Thanks for the video btw!
Unstressed o tends to sound like uh in modern Russian. However, it is not that important a case. For example, native Ukrainian speakers that also speak Russian tend to pronounce o as oh everywhere when they speak Russian. It is not such a major problem to mention it in this video... There are lots of such minor traits: for example final devoicing when ov becomes of, etc.
Thanks for the tutorial! This was very useful. I spent a couple hours writing out all the letters and learning pronounciations, then wrote all the words down under the respective letter that they contain, as well as pronounciations. Now I can read russian pretty well, as well as i have a useful study guide to look back to :)
Hahah this is so cool, I'm Serbian and I understand most of these words :D (mama, most, mesto, maska, sto, testo - litteraly same as in Serbian (except we read 'e' as 'e' not 'ye')) :D
+AstekOst Also svet, ton, ananas, um, hor, tron, bar, kobra, grom, gitara, da, dom, dva, zona, znak, zaraza, mir, vino, slova, stop, pasta etc. etc. etc. :D Too many similarities :))
+AstekOst It's interesting how in Serbian ''pravo'' means 'forward' and in Russian it's 'right' hahah if a Russian told me to ''idi pravo'' I would go forward xD Also 'pravo' means law in Serbian and if you tell someone ''ti si u pravu'' it means ''you are right'' so maybe Russians kept this meaning of ''right'' for directions also...Very interesting :D
+AstekOst Your Č is killing me because we have Č (ch) and Ć (ty) and that's it but I can't tell the difference between your Č, Č with soft symbol and T with soft symbol...Grrr :D
Great video! I watched it, despite that my head was hurting by the end... but still! I don't care if I get headaches while processing the alphabet and its' diverse sounds, I'll strain myself to learn what I can! Getting headaches and thinking I can't progress won't stop me from loving the language, which keeps me on track to learning everything possible, that is; to the best of my ability!
Man, the soft sound is not easy to catch. It's almost like the presence of that sound changes the vowel of the PREVIOUS syllable if anything. Really nice video by the way!
Russian alphabet looks so easy to me. But that could be because the first second language I decided to learn was Japanese. In comparison almost any writing system looks easy.
You should learn Hindi. Duolingo (free app) is going to be adding that language eventually. I want to learn Russian simply because I like hearing that language.
मुधे सितार संगीत पसन्द हैं Not yet. I want to learn it but I think Arabic writing is far more difficult than Russian. I do have friends trying to help me with it.
Years ago, folks struggle to learn new languages. Today, we just use handphone to live translate whatever language we don't understand. Times really change but old timers still stick to learning the language.
@@jase37 Busted grammar does not make some completely ununderstandable. People understand when they try to understand. There is a reaching out to someone struggling or someone with less than perfect pronunciation or grammar. Language teachers crack the whip to get students to reach a higher standard. The rest of us mere mortals will accept the effort or reject it depending on our level of snobbery.
This took more than the stated 10 minutes since I watched it several times. Very useful coverage of the alphabet using both words and sounds. An excellent idea to help you learn a challenging subject. Big thanks!
At 8.50 you start with the 'Letters without a sound'. Unfortunally your wrote 'withuot'. You are helping me/is with russian, so i/can do the same and help you with english. Thank you for this video.
Sorry for the clumsy English. Russian is the only language in the world, which you can use only the vowels to create speech. For example: Э! А я? ( Ech! Ach ja? ) This means - Hey! And what about me? Если я в чём то ошиблась, исправьте меня, лады? :)
I'm russian but I don't speak it. And my moms not russian but my dad is and he is in prison since I was 2 years old and I never learns the language and I want to and I know how say hi and no and yes and water and I love you and thankyou and dog
This is much more interesting than taking some dusty old book my father used to learn from,this will get me well on my way to getting used to using sounds i never used to create with my mouth before :D Хвала пуно ! Поздрав из Србије
