Why O sounds like A in Russian - Russian pronunciation - Vowel reduction 

This is the most wonderful video ever. The "o" has been driving me crazy. Thank you so much!

As a Russian-American, who hasn’t spoken Russian since childhood, I’m trying to re-learn it and you’ve been a huge help! PS: Your accent remind some so much of my mom’s😅 I can barely hear it by the way, you clearly are a linguist! Спасибо!

Spasib''o'', I've been asking myself why the hell I keep hearing an ''a'' sound sometimes when a '' o'' Many thanks :)

i speak russian fluently, but my friend about 3 months ago wants to learn. i told her to watch your videos, and she can already speak quite a bit! it’s amazing how well you teach! 💕

...it is a stressy situation not to know when to stress! Thank you!!

Listening to Russian people speaking in television (e.g. news channel) helps me alot to pronounce any words, though I'm not really understand the meaning but still enjoyed.

There's an airport in Moscow called Домодедово (Domodedovo) and guess what, the stress in on the E, so basically all the Os are pronounced A.

Спасибо за совет. I am from czech republic and I say sorry that it's so complicated to everyone who is trying to learn it also 😂 After watching the video, It would be nice to have more examples for adjectives and everything becuase it's always so nice to hear a native speaker say the words like they are supposed to be said. overall, lovely video. thank you for sharing with us the mysteries of russian language and of the words like молоко or окно. my rule of the thumb is to always read only the last O as Ó, the rest is A (apart from adjectives)

ты читаешь мысли людей... что они хотят знать... идеальный учитель... только женщина может быть таким лучшим учителем

Very useful video thank you for good teaching 👍

When the vowels а, о, е, э, я come anywhere after the stress or there is more than one syllable before the stress, we pronounce them as a short sound /ə/.

You have really helped me with this russian O, it had been bugging me for months and thank you for such an informative video.

Hello! I'm belarusian and I speak and know russian, but I watch all of your videos to practice my English. I would like you teach English to Russians, who studies this language. You are so good teacher!

Finally the mistery is solved (at least for me) :D

Удачи в поисках буквы Ё, товарищи иностранцы. Точнее, точек над ней. =)

Thank you so much!

Спасибо за ваши помощь. Я изучала русский язык в университете (6 месяцев да мало) но я очень мало научилась, мои преподаватели были добрые и хорошие но не для преподавать к служению. Много студентов вернули на своих странах и много выбрали учить на английском из-за ^языка^. Мы иностранцы, нам нужно люди как вы (teachers who did studies for teaching not just because she/he is native so let's hire them). Огромное спасибо

Word stress in Russian unpredictable, but once you know on which syllable the stress is, everything else is logical.

Great to know! I'm only starting out in learning Russian, but I'm sure this would come up. Most likely I'd end up writing it off in my mind, though, as English does similar things with weird and different pronunciations which makes it hard for learners of the language.

Thanks

Thanks! I am moving to Russia from the US on January 6th! Your videos are helping with my extremely limited Russian!!!

your might feature a letter...... like...... г......while teaching children ...educational channels often .... start the program with ....today learn the letter ...B ..or the letter D....the can of course be just a section of your lesson plan.... I am learning at a elevated rate....nicely done

Thanks!

Thank you for the great explanation!

Great video. Most adverbs end with o, are not stressed. For example, ва́жно, тру́дно, интере́сно ... Exceptions are смешно́, легко́ ...

We need more videos about the vowel reduction please

Большое спасибо! У меня есть всегда проблемы с произношение, но это будет мне помогать)) До скорого))

so far the best channel Ive found for learning russian language :)

I started learning Russian few days back and it has been messing with my mind since day 1! Thanks for the video!

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как я сюда попала, будучи native speakers 😃 вы прекрасно объясняете!

We love you very much

similar to Spanish, we add a tilde to the stressed syllable/vowel, thanks for the video, it's making more sense now

Excellent!

Portuguese has something like this too. One tip is to pretend you're screaming the word to a friend, in some cases the intonation will come naturally in your mind. Also definitely listen to russian people speaking.

Thank you!!! This has been driving me crazy on my favorite language learning app.

Спасибо Дария! I have been puzzled by this for a while. 🤔 It makes spelling and sounding out written words quite challenging. Your explanation is going to help a lot. It will definitely be noted down in the тетрадь! Благодарю! ☺

its a big for help me because its is more important and useful for me

Sometimes Very irritating (i also feel)..but it's lovely experience to learn Russian language because it's very good to spell..everday i give 2 hours to the language..

The best chanel to learn Russian! Спасибо

Спасибо 🙏🏼

It would be nice to have someone to study with but for now I am learning when I can online....You are terrific Daria thank you for the videos as they are a big help

Thank you Daria ! Amazing !

Thank you 🙏

I am just starting to learn russian, and I only know like 18 letters of the alphabet and 5 words of vocabulary but I needed to know this, thank you professor !

This is an excellent explanation for something that really puzzled me. Thank you.

The schwa e made it clear. Now I understand.

Thank you for that explanation!

Thank you I've subscribed your channel

If I could like this video twice I would!!!! Thank you, Daria, @Real Russian Club #realrussianclub #russianpronunciation #russianlessons

Thanks for the explanation.

So helpful!! I've been curious about this, thanks!

Oh my gosh. This clears so much up.

I binged watching these videos.

Thanks been wondering this forever.

"...to make your life a little bit easier"

Awesome ! Best explanation ever ! - Thanks Daria ! Your lessons are always great !

wow thank you, been struggling with this since learning russian! spacibo! :D

You are my favorite teacher 😉

A pronunciation tip for English speakers is that the unstressed 'о' is pronounced like the 'i' in 'cousin'. (Obviously most Scottish people would disagree since they don't swallow the 'i' sound like English people do. Weirdly I found that unstressed 'о' sounded like several different sounds until I got used to it, depending on what letters were around it. First time I heard it, молоко sounded like ma-lu-koh. I guess that is the English-speaking brain unconsciously translating it to more familiar sounds. But when I listened closely, I could hear the two unstressed vowels were the same sound. But I still have to concentrate to hear them as the same sound rather than different ones.

You are such a great teacher!! Period.

This was helpful! ! Спасибо учителbница.

that was very helpful, i'm just starting to learn russian and this has always been a doubt of mine. thank you!

Great!

I have a suggestion for a video. In American english we indicate a question by raising the pitch of our voice at the end of the sentence. Usually. But in conversing with my друга по переписка she placed the inflection in the middle of the sentence. This might be worthy of a lesson. Love your work. Спасибо.

Thank you! Very helpful!

I saw an Instagram story about someone criticizing your nose, I just want to tell you that you really are beautiful as you are: D And I appreciate your videos anyway.. you´re amazing, greetings from Nicaragua Central America.

Great video! Thanks! I had hoped there would be some sort of rule for how to know which vowel is stressed, however these tips sure help a lot, большое спасибо!

Little but super helpful info!

Great easy to understand video

Спасибо Daria, now I can pronounce the Russian words that have o's with more confident.

Thanks. Большое спасибо.

Your videos are always so helpful! Thank you 😊

Thanks Daria. I’ve been curious about this for a long time.

Thank you . it did make it easy

Доброе утро, мам. Thank you so much for clearing my doubts. Take my love and stay safe. до свидания.... from India

Oh dude I thought Russian was easy to learn ... But .. you've made me change my mind ...

Daria, your lessons and tips are great and useful. Yes, thank you.

Молоко

Good job👍👍👍 hoping for more

wow,! this is wonderful thank you so much Дарья

GROZA!

Even as a slav(serb) this rule is very unsual. There are a lot of similarities between Serbian and Russian,but the rule about O is just weird.

The fact that O sounds like A is the smallest of my problems. What drives a man crazy is that H sounds like G. "Gitler and Mannergaym ate a gamburger together."

I admit that your Russian pronunciation is excellent, like that of native speakers 😃

Glad I found this today.. I was going to search for it otherwise. I am still puzzled as Russian has Accented Versions of the same letter... but still uses the same letter for 3 different sounds and yet has 3 different letters for the same sound.. И & Й... У is like Й? I get different examples from different teachers etc.

Красивые волосы какие! 💖

I've been looking for more info on this situation! Thanks for the information. it's like in english the word 'Body' you kind of saw it Bawh-dee and that's how I've been applying the unstressed O in Russian.

I'm not trying to learn Russian, but i have Russian friends, and lately I've been wondering why it is said as spasiba if its written as spasibo, along with many other things. Also, I noticed that many Russian people who speak English tend to say A instead of O sometimes. Like for example, instead of 'police' I've heard many of my Russian friends say 'palice', along with other things.

Daria, Thanks again !

you answered my big question xD thank you so much

You would think that they would teach you this rule when learning the alphabet, but nooooo! =) thanks lady!

Thanks! Your instruction is very helpful.

This is one where it is only going to get used to it via speaking with Russians.. I reckon it is also down to how regional or drunk the speaker is?

I'm still learning Russian as a black American 🇺🇸. God bless mother Russia.

Thank you so much! I had this very question!

Finally, the video that i was searching

Greek Alphabet: We have 1 Letter for the aw sound and another for the oe sound, I hope all Alphabets coming from me have something simi- Cyrillic Alphabet: +v+ (I'm saying cyrillic alphabet because in some other languages using the cyrillic alphabet this is the case)

This pronunciation (A krotkoje) also exists in Bulgarian and Serbian, and funnily exists in Romanian as well, only it's written distinctively in Bulgarian and Romanian as its own letter.

Thank you very much teacher, this is a very useful lesson 💓👌