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| 13 Aug 2012 05:49 PM |
| Could anyone help me or give me some advice please? |
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| 13 Aug 2012 05:52 PM |
| That's great, do you know the alphabet? If not, I can post it with the sounds of each letter and examples of those sounds. |
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| 13 Aug 2012 05:53 PM |
| Sort of, I was watching this video on YouTube of kids singing it, It was a bit fast but quite catchy. |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:03 PM |
Well, I'd need you to know it enough that you could transliterate anything from Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) to Latin (this alphabet). First the vowels because I don't want to post it all at once. Also you don't have to sing the alphabet in order to know it. I don't even know the English alphabet in exact order.
А а: a (ah) example: pAcific E e: e (yeh) example: YEllow Ё ё: yo (yoh) example: YOlk И и: i (ee) example: mE Й й: i/y (ee kraht-koy-yeh) short i. this is always beside another vowel to make a new vowel sound. like ай is one syllable and rhymes with hi О о: o (oh) example: nO У у: u (oo) example: rUde Э э: e (eh) example: mEt Ю ю: yu (yoo) example: YOU Я я: ya (yah) example: YArd |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:09 PM |
A few consonants. Eventually I'll put it in the right order, just not now.
Б б: b (beh) example: Bed В в: v (veh) example: Vine Г г: g (geh) example: Good Д д: d (deh) example: Doom Ж ж: zh (zheh) example: pleaSure З з: z (zeh) example: Zebra |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:24 PM |
К к: k (kah) example: Cat Л л: l (el) example: fLower М м: m (em) example: Moon Н н: n (en) example: Noob П п: p (peh) example: Potato Р р: r (er) example: Red С с: s (es) example: See Т т: t (teh) example: Table |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:33 PM |
Ф ф: f (еf) example: Flоor Х х: kh (khа) gutturаl h Ц ц: ts (tsеh) example: caTS Ч ч: ch (chе) example: CНina Ш ш: sh (shah) example: SНut Щ щ: sch (schah) pronounce a long сh, the еnd will sound likе this, no Еnglish equivalent |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:41 PM |
Ъ ъ: written as ' or sometimes " (tvyord-ee znak) just prevents palatalization of last letter Ы ы: i/y (how do i write a pronunciation for this...) example: sIlly Ь ь: written as ' usually (myahg-kee znak) slight palatalization on last letter |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:42 PM |
| Order: абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя |
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| 13 Aug 2012 06:47 PM |
Hmm... I'll give you some short words in Russian, then you transliterate them (put it in the English alphabet). Example: папа is papa because п is p and а is a. You can peak at my information on the alphabet.
кот цветок стол здание шляпа море |
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| 13 Aug 2012 08:18 PM |
| щ is pronounced like 'fre*sh ch*eese'. |
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| 13 Aug 2012 10:02 PM |
| Yes, you can pronounce щ like a Byelorussian, шч. |
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| 13 Aug 2012 10:22 PM |
| Russian щ is a voiceless palato-alveolar fricative. Just like s is, but s is a voiceless z. In other words it's a really soft sh. |
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| 14 Aug 2012 02:21 PM |
I should teach you about some letter combinations that make completely different sounds than anything in the alphabet. Remember Russian is a very phonetic language but you'll just need to know these. There's only very few words that break the phonetic rules, for example пожалуйста, where the уй isn't pronounced. pah-zhal-stah
дж: j (English one) яй: yay (rhymes with hi) ай: ay (above sound without first y) ей: yey (sounds like yay, rhymes with hey) эй: ey (above without the y sound in front of it) уй: uy (lol no example search for the pronunciation) юй: yuy (same as above with a y sound in front) ой: oy (rhymes with boy) ый/ий: iy/ii (longer и sound)
If any of those й's don't have the accent above it, and are и's, they are two different syllables. аи: ah-ee
Also, if e, я, or ю come after a vowel, the sound of the last vowel is similar to ай, ей, ий, etc. ая: ay-ya (ay rhymes with hi!)
That being said, my name means blue in Russian, transliterated to Cyrillic it's синий. ий :Ь |
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| 14 Aug 2012 09:57 PM |
| O also sounds like A if it's unstressed, I believe. |
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| 14 Aug 2012 10:09 PM |
| Yeah, it's like the o in cOver. Sounds like uh. A is like ah (example: cAt). |
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| 15 Aug 2012 03:14 AM |
| The sounds for Russian letters are really similar to Polish letters. I'm Polish, and I'm learning Russian. xD |
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| 16 Aug 2012 05:03 PM |
| It's a little confusing, but I'll understand it one day. |
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| 18 Aug 2012 09:52 AM |
| I'm the same person as above. Anything specific you'd like to learn? Numbers? Colours? Animals? |
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