Russian - a fast spoken language? | WordReference Forums I can ordinarily understand spoken Russian fairly well, but the correspondents on this program would speak, as someone above quiped, like machine guns Someone else mentioned Japanese, but the Japanese news presenters spoke unhurriedly and seemed to be enunciating with such care that I felt I could reproduce what they were saying even though I don't speak a word of Japanese!
Русский (Russian) - WordReference Forums Welcome to the Russian forum, please check this out! - Добро пожаловать на русский форум! Пожалуйста, ознакомьтесь с правилами
Russian: Transliteration in other languages - WordReference Forums There was (probably still is) a Russian language newspaper in Buenos Aires Unfortunately, the name of one Argentine province sounds all too uncomfortably like a major Russian obscenity, so whenever the name came up in print, the newspaper always transliterated the name into Russian using an English transliteration system!
From - Russian equivalents - WordReference Forums So we have 5 expressions - words for the English "from" in Russian: с из от у судя по Can someone make it clear to me when and where to use any of them? Thanks (This is my second thread about this issue: с экскурсии)
Russian eyes - WordReference Forums According to my Russian etymology dictionary (Shanski - Ivanov), the word "glaz" started to be used in the written language in the late 16th and early 17th centuries There seems to be no Common Slavic root that can be reconstructed
In English, why does a Portuguese accent sound Slavic? A major difference of Russian is the absence of dropping the unstressed vowels (at least in a minimally careful speech), so the European Portuguese may be regarded as representing a remote (and probably even not inevitable) future of the Russian vowel system
Russian Persian Similarities - WordReference Forums the russian ,Blyat is essentially the same as persian Bale the russian Nyat is persian Na although russian is more akin to what people of eastern iran speak like the russian Koche appears in eastern iran too , people of western iran would say Tooleh Sag , but here most people say Koche Sag
Russian speaking Ukrainians - WordReference Forums According to my "only Russian-speaking" "Russian language teacher" born, raised and educated in Kiev, Ukraine (hope that makes it clear), people like her pronounce the Russian letter Я as ye or yi, never as ya So number "5" is pyet not pyat and "I" is yi not ya She said there were no other major differences
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Polish, Russian: (dis)similarity of sibilants - WordReference Forums Polish equivalents for Russian ч ш Ж are rather cz sz ż The Evolution of sibilants in Polish and Russian In regard of the comparatively large inconsistencies of English pronunciation, Polish equivalent for English g (in "gym") or j (in "DJ") can be dż as well as dź