I have an old text book from the 80's that was made by the Soviet government for English speakers trying to learn Russian - "Russian for Everybody". The first 100 pages are just about pronunciation, and it is filled with incredibly detailed descriptions and diagrams of where to put your tongue and how to voice different vowels and consonants. I wish every book on language started like this, it is amazingly useful. I'm pretty good at picking up pronunciation, but listening will only get you so far, sometimes a noise will just fall out of a native speaker's mouth, and you will have no idea how to make it. In America I think we do an especially bad job of teaching pronunciation, we just hammer away at grammar and vocabulary, and quite often the teacher isn't even a native speaker to begin with. I've had other Americans ask me "why are you speaking Russian with a Russian accent?" - what a joke!
I also have one of them i think, the title, date and description coincide, but in this one, each sentence was translated into 4 different languages. I wonder if it is the same one
I like how your accent is now. You’re easily understood, yet you still sound like you hold your Russian culture. It’s like how some people have Southern, or even Mexican accents, yet it’s easily understood. I like those kind of accents. 😸
that's funny because I asked this to a Russian girl and she doesn't guess the same. But I agree with you. to me , Russian and Portuguese phonetics are very similar.
you have a very beautiful accent i mean we understand everything and you're pronouncing everything харашо lmao 🤗 keep doing your videos because i love them
And one more thing about learning accent. I have found that in any language I actually learn a lot about pronunciation by listening to the way someone speaks English. There are clues that help in pronouncing whatever their native language is from how they sound in my language.
I think the Russian accent sounds nice personally. What is the typical opinion Russians have when English people have an accent while speaking Russian?
Depends on who you speak to. Some people don't like it because they're not used to it and it's difficult for them to understand, but others roll with it. What's best, is when the Russian speaker speaks English, and then can listen and understand you when you speak with an English accent. THAT, my friend, will get you places.
Your accent now is definitely not a stereotypical Russian accent, as with most of the Russian teachers and bloggers I see on UA-cam. You all are very clear and obviously work hard. I wouldn’t immediately know what country yours is from if I didn’t already know. I was ironically thinking about this while watching your videos and then you explained why in this video. And yes your original accent is what I would have expected as stereotypical. So this is indeed good advise for anyone learning any language. Even for someone trying to learn a regional accent within their own native language, like an American learning the British accent. I can remember doing something like this when learning Spanish as a child.
Yeah! If you want to be easily understood, change your accent. You don't have to assimilate and deny your heritage, but you can make it easier for other to understand you!
Your vids are interesting and educational. I´m learning russian at night school here in germany. When I practice my russian at home I try to imitate another voice not natural to me, I find it helps me pronounce better and helps with gaining confidence(an awkward inconvenience). I´m 68yrs old by the way.
Ich nehme an, du sprichst auch Deutsch! Ich finde es fantastisch, dass du mit 68 Jahren noch eine andere Sprache lernst! Meiner Meinung nach ist Russisch noch shwieriger als Deutsch. Denkst du das auch?
Amazing video! I plan on watching all of your videos to learn Russian. I like your personality and the way you explain things! Your English is awesome for a Russian. I am multilingual, and an avid language learner. My ambition is to learn this language fluently (B2) within the next 25 days. I study for easily 5+ hours a day, not counting the music I listen to in Russian. Thanks for everything!
yooooo word up Fedor! - Recently I have got 2 compliments from different people in my gaming community that I have no accent... This is pretty cool considering I don't know a whole lot of Russian to speak yet - but they have heard me say common stuff and of course "Я не понимаю Русский язык..." and stuff like that. Of course - your advice is perfect - have a role model and to watch others closely. Immersion is important too you gotta be a nerd and soak in some movies and music always. You are a wonderful teacher, and you have really become quite natural - people may know you are from abroad but they probably don't know where by hearing your voice, at least here in California. I salute you - and thank you for your awesome channel!
Great advice, thank you. The biggest challenge in mastering the American accent is that, just like in Russia, there are various dialects, depending on location. A Bostonian and a Texan can understand each other, but either dialect may be confusing for someone trying to learn English. I would suggest listening to the news on the radio (if people still listen to the radio these days); most newscasters use a standard American accent, regardless of location. I hope this helps.
thanks for the video! it would be great to see a video about filler words in Russian to help us sound extra native. for example, the word "like" in English when we put it in sentences as a filler, but the Russian equivalent of these words
really like your videos especially the one which inspires me a lot! russian is really difficult for me but i'll definitely keep up on it! thanksss so much for the motivation vedio!
Being Norwegian really helps with the pronunciation, I never noticed how similar Norway and Russia are Btw I actually really like the Russian accent, it sounds cool
Intressant att ryska är lätt att uttala för en norrman. Jag är svensk, men jag är inte säker på huruvida det hjälper eller ej. Anmärkningsvärt nog tycker jag att just Fjodors sätt att prata påminner om min svenska brytning. Jag frågade i en kommentar om han har någon dialekt eller något, men en ryskkunnig sa att han inte har det. Men han är den enda jag har hört som talar på det sättet.
One way to practice and improve pronunciation is to record yourself. Easiest is with your phone; you can record a video of yourself and listen afterwards.
This is very good advice. Thank you! I have been listening to/watching UA-cam episodes of :) I love them because the vocabulary is fairly simple and repetitive, and the content is geared towards teaching all different types of concepts and contexts to children who have very limited vocabulary. **The first time I watched an episode I had to reduce the speed to 75% because normal speed was just way beyond my comprehension!! -- But after two weeks at the slower speed, I tried listening at normal speed again and was amazed at how much I could now understand!! Also, it brings back lots of memories! A lot of the characters are the same, and I actually think I like Зелибоба more than Big Bird ...
With Farsi (and any language really) I found it really helps if you try to do that languages accent as if they are speaking English (or whatever language)
Thanks for the tips. I would like it if you could talk about what are the most common and not so common pronunciation mistakes that you see people do when learning Russian. Best regards.
I have been trying to learn Russian for sometime. I know the basics in Russian, like Hello, good morning, great, bye, etc. One thing now is trying to learn the Russian accent. Fedor, you have teach the Russian accent. I have heard a few persons try to teach the Russian accent here on the internet but it was not good.
I studied Russian from 77 to 78 to go Russia in 80. Going there think I was able to talk and understanding how to survive for 3 weeks. Going there people understand me but I cannot. I Discovered back to Germany that my teacher was ucranian and not Russian.
Funny story on this subject. Was working in Tunisia for several years, where French and Arabic are spoken. One of the locals asked me how to say something in English. I carefully and deliberately told him, and he repeated it back to me...exactly like I said it. I am from Texas and he said it just like a Texan!!! Realizing this, in my "best" French, I quickly told him, "No, no! Don't say it like I do! I have a provincial accent. Go ask Mr XYZ"! Was in the oilfield there, and half the locals sounded like Texans when they spoke English.
My advice - focus on pronunciation from the start (if you have the time, even do only pronunciation exercises before you start anything else in your language learning journey - this is how babies start learning their native language as well). There are two main reasons for this: 1) Having good pronunciation comes hand in hand with training the ear, thus it helps also with your listening comprehension skills and makes the overall language learning process much easier in the long run and 2) it takes much more time to correct bad pronunciation later than when you invest focus time on pronunciation in the beginning. To train your ear for correct pronunciation it can be very useful if you listen to yourself compared to native speakers. A good and easy way to do that is to use an audio recording program like audacity (free) make two tracks, put a native speaker source on one track, and record yourself on the other track after listening to the native speaker (do this on word by word or phrase by phrase basis in the beginning, later you can do longer passages). Then listen to both the native speaker and your recording and try to compare and find the differences in pronunciation and then record yourself again trying to get closer to the native pronunciation and redo as often as you want until you are happy with your results.
I've loved most of your videos. As I've been learning Russian these have been very helpful. I'm not so sure listening to native speakers and just adapting is great advice unless of course, you are fluent and just have crap pronounciation skills. There are many words that the stress point of the word changes its meaning so you have to be careful just swapping pronunciation I would think. Like the Russian word "Myka". if the emphasis is on the Y (Moooka) then the word means "flour". If the emphasis is on the A (Mookaa) then the word means "agony".
According to me, the most important part of learning Russian is to learn it grammatically and phonetically correctly. I also speak fluent Russian as a Bangladeshi but I do not care about my accent much because most importantly natives understand my Russian. Recently just uploaded of me speaking Russian if anyone is interested to have a look. :)
I'm a native American English speaker. In recent months I've been viewing several different Russian teachers here on UA-cam, and I make the following observations: -Many of these Russians (including you, Fedor) tend to say "in" instead of "ing" at the end of English words. Use the back of the tongue, not the front! -Not just Russians, but I heard a Dutch guy who had a very light English language accent, except that he kept unvoicing final consonants that should be voiced! Note that sometimes this needs to change with different versions of similar words, e.g. "breath" (unvoiced "th") versus "breathe" (the vowel of course changes, but also the "th" becomes voiced!) -Luca Lampariello is a polyglot who has made lots of fascinating videos about general principles of language learning. He notes that although most languages such as English are not "tonal" in the sense that Mandarin Chinese is, it is still important for accent reduction to understand the tone contours of words and sentences. -Finally, Rachel's English is a superb channel for language in general and English in particular. Be sure to check out her video here about how American English needs to go back and down in the throat, compared to many other languages "Rachel's English: Best English Accent - Speak like a Native Speaker - PLACEMENT". ua-cam.com/video/2W-KUSb3DTM/v-deo.html
We learned Welsh and French in my school and it always annoyed me, the amount of people who would use their general Welsh (we're English speaking Welsh) accent to say French words.
I agree with Loor... KEEP your accent, do not wipe it out ! Americans look up to Europeans as if they have have a depth and a culture which we lack here in the USA. Americans speak LOUSY English (both phonologically and grammatically.) Russian and German accents are KOOL !
Even though I have been learning Croatian for some time, I keep having trouble with Russian. My problem is mostly with palatalizing too hard I think. Like when I would say быть I would pronounce it like быц. I keep telling myself to calm it down, but when I hear a native speaker, it sounds like a fast, compressed cymbal sound from a drum set. Croatian, thank god, only has a couple palatalized and softened letters like lj, nj, đ, and ć, but they don't palatalize nearly as often as Russian. The downside to Croatian pronunciation though, is that it uses "r" as a syllable or vowel in words like tvrd, krv, and iscrpljen (yes, you have to pronounce all of it, letter by letter)
mick s Hey, good luck with Croatian! It's one of the easiest languages, when it comes to pronunciation, really. It's basically said the way it's written. Just learn alphabet and you can pronounce every word.
I have heard from several people that it helps to learn a song in Russian, or a poem or a line from a play, and try to copy exactly how a Russian speaker or singer does it...as many times as necessary until it sounds just the same. I have had some success with this method but only with the words contained in the text or song. Is this a good method? How do I use this to help with the general pronunciation in conversation?
I wonder if there are differences in accents among the different regions/cities of Russia At least if there is a difference between St. Petersburg and Moscow?
As far as i can judge there is no difference. Except Vologda may be. In Vologda they say o instead a when o is without stress. For example word молоко usually sounds like малако. But in Vologda old people say молоко. And there is some accent in Perm. They swallow some sound and say ы instead of a or e. I cant explain it properly. And in Karelia stress is usually on the first sound. Like пИрог instead of пирОг. But young people usually dont have accents.
If you learn a Russian accent like a movie actor would to come across believable as a Russian, would that be a good way as well to pronounce words correctly?
I find, if I think as if I were a child and hearing / seeing everything for the first time, I learn language a bit better. Starting as a child would learn. Easy for me, but my brain, it is not a child's brain. It is near 4, but I am learning Russian and Spanish, more R than S.
I've only met one person from RUS who had no trace of an accent. Once I got him talking, it started to come out on certain words. He⬆️has an accent that's identifiable as UKR or RF, but it doesn't impede understanding him and definitely isn't thick.
I wish i could hear my own accent when I speak russian, but its often hard for me to tell when something i said sounds off. I get being self conscious about your accent, but trust me English speakers think the russian accent sounds dope.
Great advice for improving pronunciation in Russian. I have a question and a request. The TV show "The Americans" has a lot of dialog in Russian. This sounds like proper Russian to me, spoken by native speakers, but I'm still learning. It would be great if you made a video where you went through some of the dialog from this show. Огромное спасибо!
Thx. I love some Russian songs - But even if I study the lyrics and try to learn them by heart, I indeed have troubles with how to sound "correct". Although I have the advantage that as an Austrian I speak a more melodic and flexible German than Germans. But I have the same problems in french...
Hahaha , I come from the south so I have a very close accent. Plus my father is slavic, he's Czech. So even though I don't speak almost any russian I can still sound russian!
Thanks, Fyodor! This might seem like an odd question (and this video is old so I don't know if you'll see it), but can you offer any tips on speaking English in a convincing Russian accent? I'm working on my theatre skills and would like to develop accents for the characters I play.
учусь по-русски, но русский язык сложно. пишу лучший то говорю, а ещё плохая пишу. мне нужно практика. мне нравится все твой видео. I have noticed at times that you sound like a native speaker. When you have a Russian accent, you breathe out the words very heavily. In English, we do not breathe out multisyllabic words. We breathe out some syllables and we breathe in some syllables. I've noticed you sound the most American when you breath in as you say a word and you sound the most Russian when you breathe out a bunch of words. In English, we ALWAYS take a breath at the end of a sentence or phrase or where a comma should be. If you say, "The dog ran away" then you have to say the sentence so you end the sentence letting out a breath, in this case at the end of "away". This means you have to take a breath on the syllable "a" and let out the breath on "way". If you read traditional poetry (nursery rhymes, sonnets, couplets, etc.) then you will learn to hear how words are stressed in English and when to breathe in and to breathe out. Here is an example: Stressed syllables are capitalized. You have to say the stressed syllables very loud. You almost should be shouting! Unstressed syllables are not capitalized. You have to whisper the unstressed syllables. You have to pause at punctuation. / counts as punctuation TWINKle TWINKle LITTle STAR / HOW i WONDer WHAT you ARE / UP aBOVE the WORLD so HIGH / LIKE a DIAmond IN the SKY. Here is a link to look at: www.developingteachers.com/phonology/rhythm_rods.htm You say words fine. You just need to learn to take breaths when native speakers do. It is very obvious if you watch your videos, at least in my opinion. One day, I hope to speak really fast in Russian like how you speak English really fast. Vocabulary is very hard! That's why I find it difficult to write or what I think. You have given me motivation to keep trying! Спасибо
I had a question... Because a lot of the words are very long do you have brail for those who are blind? Do those plaques become very large when it had directions on it? Idk or was just a weird thing I thought about lol 😂
@@elenaf4631 haha thanks, it was just a weird thought cuz the words do get very long like" international airport" for example I just see being a very long plaque 😅😅 thank you for being nice about my stupid question, I've only been studying for 8 months still very new 😅😅
@@christinag960 Yeah, the words are quite long) Actually, you asked a question 6 months ago, so I'm surprised you answered me. Your question is not stupid at all, it’s even nice. 😄 It's a pleasure to talk to such a nice person. Good luck with learning the language. Greetings from Russia 😘
Привет Федя. Меня зовут Норман из Англии. Ты мене многа ромагаешь. У меня вопрос - как выговорят АЯ и ОЕ быстро? Спасибо большое за все. Я люблю твои уроки. Норман
здравствуйте! с трудом поняла ваш вопрос, но попробую ответить. "ая" выговаривается как "айа", а "ое", как "ойе", из-за того, что перед буквами "я" и "е" стоит другая гласная. звуки "й" и "а", а также "й" и "е" произносятся один за другим. при произношении звук "й" плавно перетекает в звук "а" или "е", но ни в коем случае они не произносятся раздельно. это правило работает со всеми йотированными гласными (я, ю, ё, е), если перед ними стоит другая гласная. спешить в произношении не стоит. сначала пробуйте медленно, если получается, постепенно ускоряйтесь. надеюсь, я правильно поняла ваш вопрос и смогла помочь. удачи в изучении нового языка! :))
Hi Fedor, do you hae any movie recommendations? or series? I'd love to watch some movies/series in russian with english subtitles. I am in my third week of Russian class and i am practicing everyday whenever i can. I am Chinese and Russian is really hard for me to pronounce especially the R. My goal is to speak Russian like a native speaker :D
I tried to make a comment from my old phone because I can use Cyrillic on it, but the iPhone ap for UA-cam has no place for comments. Too bad. I have a question about the Russian letter that looks like bl. I have had a difficult time understanding the soft sound. Today I think I started to hear the difference. In Russian, many consonants sound as if they have the equivalent of the Spanish tilde, like saying" tyelyephone" instead of "telephone". Does the bl eliminate that "tilde" sound?
Watch Joss and Janik, a couple of a Mexican girl and a German guy, they are the best, they make different videos such as trips, games, tips to speak better Spanish or German, hip-hop, etc.
I know the dialects you teach us are native to the Moscow, St. Petersburg areas...but if I travel to Vladivostok for example, will my dialect still be understood by native Russians?
Your RCHP tee is distracting lol. In regard of accent, I don't mind my accent too much while speaking foreign languages I learn but I would do my best to pronounce each word exactly how native speakers pronounce words.
Я живу в штатах меньше трёх лет и никто не замечает акцента. Когда в разговоре всплывает тема того откуда я, люди удивляются и говорят что я, скорее всего, живу в Америке с ранних лет. И когда я говорю что приехала несколько лет назад, все дико офигевают))) Твой акцент все же очень заметен. Но американцы, скорее всего, не смогут угадать откуда ты.
Be Fluent in Russian да это же неплохо. Я это просто к тому, что видео называется "как говорить без акцента" и все же акцент есть и заметный. Есть люди ищущие именно уроки по акценту. И я - одна из них. Из всего ютуба лишь пара человек реально впечатлили.
havent had much of exposure of germans speaking russian but im sure it doesnt sound awful bc you dont have an english accent, i even think german speakers have pretty good potential to speak russian at good level compared to english speakers
To all the Russians learning English: your accents are sexy. Keep your accents!
Yes!!!❤
Given the fact that some Americans hate Brittish accent and vice versa, kinda meh...
thanks
хуйня, по крайней мере, так говорят учителя в школе
Эта правда
I have an old text book from the 80's that was made by the Soviet government for English speakers trying to learn Russian - "Russian for Everybody". The first 100 pages are just about pronunciation, and it is filled with incredibly detailed descriptions and diagrams of where to put your tongue and how to voice different vowels and consonants. I wish every book on language started like this, it is amazingly useful. I'm pretty good at picking up pronunciation, but listening will only get you so far, sometimes a noise will just fall out of a native speaker's mouth, and you will have no idea how to make it.
In America I think we do an especially bad job of teaching pronunciation, we just hammer away at grammar and vocabulary, and quite often the teacher isn't even a native speaker to begin with. I've had other Americans ask me "why are you speaking Russian with a Russian accent?" - what a joke!
That’s amazing!! Who’s it by?
I also have one of them i think, the title, date and description coincide, but in this one, each sentence was translated into 4 different languages. I wonder if it is the same one
Recently, I watched the movie солярис and I understood a little. I felt happy. Really thank you!
Но книга лучше))
and are you watched "Andrey Rublev"? - how hard its to understand, better than Solyaris?
vinllga and *have you watched
*how are hard is it
Хендай солярис хуйня
your "russian accent" part was hilarious:)
Дарья и Федор, вы оба мои любимые преподаватели русского языка!!!)))
хаха спасибо:)
Hello! I wasn't expecting this... But I kinda shouldn't be surprised. They both teach Russian, after all!
Hello Daria 😃
I like how your accent is now. You’re easily understood, yet you still sound like you hold your Russian culture. It’s like how some people have Southern, or even Mexican accents, yet it’s easily understood. I like those kind of accents. 😸
Pronunciation in russian is an easy job for me since I'm brazilian. I was very surprised to find out how similar the phonetics are.
Some foreigners, when listening to portuguese, think it's russian, I have heard it several times.
The same happens to me since I'm a native Spanish speaker.
Renan Souza oi também sou brazileiro e estou tentando falar mas num tah dando pra falar ы
@@carovegan94ec60 Spain Spanish or Spanish of the Americas? Spain Spanish and Greek actually sometimes sound similar.
that's funny because I asked this to a Russian girl and she doesn't guess the same. But I agree with you. to me , Russian and Portuguese phonetics are very similar.
the way you answer really give us a piece of very good advice for life
"Listen, Adapt, change" - Fedor
you have a very beautiful accent i mean we understand everything and you're pronouncing everything харашо lmao 🤗 keep doing your videos because i love them
And one more thing about learning accent. I have found that in any language I actually learn a lot about pronunciation by listening to the way someone speaks English. There are clues that help in pronouncing whatever their native language is from how they sound in my language.
I think the Russian accent sounds nice personally. What is the typical opinion Russians have when English people have an accent while speaking Russian?
Сергей Анисимов
Haha 😂❤️
As if you're trying to talk, and at this time you have hot potatoes on your tongue. (this is a joke, dude))))
Depends on who you speak to. Some people don't like it because they're not used to it and it's difficult for them to understand, but others roll with it. What's best, is when the Russian speaker speaks English, and then can listen and understand you when you speak with an English accent. THAT, my friend, will get you places.
I get that, Nikolai!
My friend said it sounds cute
Have i ever said, you are the greatest one.
you are fluent in english. but your English with russian accent sounds really good :)
Your accent now is definitely not a stereotypical Russian accent, as with most of the Russian teachers and bloggers I see on UA-cam. You all are very clear and obviously work hard. I wouldn’t immediately know what country yours is from if I didn’t already know. I was ironically thinking about this while watching your videos and then you explained why in this video. And yes your original accent is what I would have expected as stereotypical. So this is indeed good advise for anyone learning any language. Even for someone trying to learn a regional accent within their own native language, like an American learning the British accent. I can remember doing something like this when learning Spanish as a child.
Yeah! If you want to be easily understood, change your accent. You don't have to assimilate and deny your heritage, but you can make it easier for other to understand you!
Righttt, that's why I choose the native teacher when I signed myself up for a Russian class
At my school we learn Russian and French videos like this are very helpful 😁
You speak great English and I think most people wouldn’t want you to lose the accent.
"We want to sound like native speakers, otherwise there is no need for us to study" - Wow
Your vids are interesting and educational. I´m learning russian at night school here in germany. When I practice my russian at home I try to imitate another voice not natural to me, I find it helps me pronounce better and helps with gaining confidence(an awkward inconvenience). I´m 68yrs old by the way.
Ich nehme an, du sprichst auch Deutsch! Ich finde es fantastisch, dass du mit 68 Jahren noch eine andere Sprache lernst! Meiner Meinung nach ist Russisch noch shwieriger als Deutsch. Denkst du das auch?
Amazing video! I plan on watching all of your videos to learn Russian.
I like your personality and the way you explain things! Your English is awesome for a Russian.
I am multilingual, and an avid language learner. My ambition is to learn this language fluently (B2) within the next 25 days. I study for easily 5+ hours a day, not counting the music I listen to in Russian.
Thanks for everything!
yooooo word up Fedor! - Recently I have got 2 compliments from different people in my gaming community that I have no accent... This is pretty cool considering I don't know a whole lot of Russian to speak yet - but they have heard me say common stuff and of course "Я не понимаю Русский язык..." and stuff like that. Of course - your advice is perfect - have a role model and to watch others closely. Immersion is important too you gotta be a nerd and soak in some movies and music always. You are a wonderful teacher, and you have really become quite natural - people may know you are from abroad but they probably don't know where by hearing your voice, at least here in California. I salute you - and thank you for your awesome channel!
All love these videos! Keep up the good work 👍
Great advice, thank you. The biggest challenge in mastering the American accent is that, just like in Russia, there are various dialects, depending on location. A Bostonian and a Texan can understand each other, but either dialect may be confusing for someone trying to learn English. I would suggest listening to the news on the radio (if people still listen to the radio these days); most newscasters use a standard American accent, regardless of location. I hope this helps.
thanks for the video! it would be great to see a video about filler words in Russian to help us sound extra native. for example, the word "like" in English when we put it in sentences as a filler, but the Russian equivalent of these words
James Atherton they say like вот and ну a lot from my experience. Idk why haha
really like your videos especially the one which inspires me a lot! russian is really difficult for me but i'll definitely keep up on it! thanksss so much for the motivation vedio!
Thanks, Fyodr, Fëdr, for making the verydeos!
Being Norwegian really helps with the pronunciation, I never noticed how similar Norway and Russia are
Btw I actually really like the Russian accent, it sounds cool
Intressant att ryska är lätt att uttala för en norrman.
Jag är svensk, men jag är inte säker på huruvida det hjälper eller ej.
Anmärkningsvärt nog tycker jag att just Fjodors sätt att prata påminner om min svenska brytning. Jag frågade i en kommentar om han har någon dialekt eller något, men en ryskkunnig sa att han inte har det. Men han är den enda jag har hört som talar på det sättet.
One way to practice and improve pronunciation is to record yourself. Easiest is with your phone; you can record a video of yourself and listen afterwards.
This is an excellent guide. Very inspiring and motivating. I will implement it. Thank you.
This is very good advice. Thank you! I have been listening to/watching UA-cam episodes of :) I love them because the vocabulary is fairly simple and repetitive, and the content is geared towards teaching all different types of concepts and contexts to children who have very limited vocabulary. **The first time I watched an episode I had to reduce the speed to 75% because normal speed was just way beyond my comprehension!! -- But after two weeks at the slower speed, I tried listening at normal speed again and was amazed at how much I could now understand!!
Also, it brings back lots of memories! A lot of the characters are the same, and I actually think I like Зелибоба more than Big Bird ...
With Farsi (and any language really) I found it really helps if you try to do that languages accent as if they are speaking English (or whatever language)
U r very good teacher thanks 4 the great tips
Thanks for the tips. I would like it if you could talk about what are the most common and not so common pronunciation mistakes that you see people do when learning Russian. Best regards.
Cool👍👕look that song
Thank you so much for showing such great things,.
I love the chillipeppers shirt in this video! Хороши Дэн Федор!
The Mar6le yeah it’s a good group 😃
Nice shirt! Great group!
I have been trying to learn Russian for sometime. I know the basics in Russian, like Hello, good morning, great, bye, etc. One thing now is trying to learn the Russian accent. Fedor, you have teach the Russian accent. I have heard a few persons try to teach the Russian accent here on the internet but it was not good.
Perfect explanation it was!!
I didn't know Yoda was learning Russian
I like your shirt!
You have An accent as welk and i really like it.
I studied Russian from 77 to 78 to go Russia in 80. Going there think I was able to talk and understanding how to survive for 3 weeks. Going there people understand me but I cannot. I Discovered back to Germany that my teacher was ucranian and not Russian.
Вообще-то есть много украинцев, которые знают русский язык лучше украинского.
@@Клаурил , он нихуя не понял
@@ivanivanov10101 С переводчиком
"украинец" - тот же русский. только говор местный.
I’m from Texas... this is going to be harder than I thought
Great shirt!
Helpful video thanks. I love Russian language 😃
CHILLI PEPPERS you're cool as fk Fidooorrr!!!!!😍
thanks teacher.. i don't know if how do i sound like.. need someone to correct my accent i guess.
Pretending my tongue is frozen or paralyzed has helped for me lol
Beautiful accent
Funny story on this subject. Was working in Tunisia for several years, where French and Arabic are spoken. One of the locals asked me how to say something in English. I carefully and deliberately told him, and he repeated it back to me...exactly like I said it. I am from Texas and he said it just like a Texan!!! Realizing this, in my "best" French, I quickly told him, "No, no! Don't say it like I do! I have a provincial accent. Go ask Mr XYZ"! Was in the oilfield there, and half the locals sounded like Texans when they spoke English.
adapt. change. overcome.
Grill Bears, at some point allegedly
My advice - focus on pronunciation from the start (if you have the time, even do only pronunciation exercises before you start anything else in your language learning journey - this is how babies start learning their native language as well). There are two main reasons for this: 1) Having good pronunciation comes hand in hand with training the ear, thus it helps also with your listening comprehension skills and makes the overall language learning process much easier in the long run and 2) it takes much more time to correct bad pronunciation later than when you invest focus time on pronunciation in the beginning.
To train your ear for correct pronunciation it can be very useful if you listen to yourself compared to native speakers. A good and easy way to do that is to use an audio recording program like audacity (free) make two tracks, put a native speaker source on one track, and record yourself on the other track after listening to the native speaker (do this on word by word or phrase by phrase basis in the beginning, later you can do longer passages). Then listen to both the native speaker and your recording and try to compare and find the differences in pronunciation and then record yourself again trying to get closer to the native pronunciation and redo as often as you want until you are happy with your results.
I've loved most of your videos. As I've been learning Russian these have been very helpful. I'm not so sure listening to native speakers and just adapting is great advice unless of course, you are fluent and just have crap pronounciation skills. There are many words that the stress point of the word changes its meaning so you have to be careful just swapping pronunciation I would think. Like the Russian word "Myka". if the emphasis is on the Y (Moooka) then the word means "flour". If the emphasis is on the A (Mookaa) then the word means "agony".
According to me, the most important part of learning Russian is to learn it grammatically and phonetically correctly. I also speak fluent Russian as a Bangladeshi but I do not care about my accent much because most importantly natives understand my Russian. Recently just uploaded of me speaking Russian if anyone is interested to have a look. :)
I'm a native American English speaker. In recent months I've been viewing several different Russian teachers here on UA-cam, and I make the following observations:
-Many of these Russians (including you, Fedor) tend to say "in" instead of "ing" at the end of English words. Use the back of the tongue, not the front!
-Not just Russians, but I heard a Dutch guy who had a very light English language accent, except that he kept unvoicing final consonants that should be voiced! Note that sometimes this needs to change with different versions of similar words, e.g. "breath" (unvoiced "th") versus "breathe" (the vowel of course changes, but also the "th" becomes voiced!)
-Luca Lampariello is a polyglot who has made lots of fascinating videos about general principles of language learning. He notes that although most languages such as English are not "tonal" in the sense that Mandarin Chinese is, it is still important for accent reduction to understand the tone contours of words and sentences.
-Finally, Rachel's English is a superb channel for language in general and English in particular. Be sure to check out her video here about how American English needs to go back and down in the throat, compared to many other languages "Rachel's English: Best English Accent - Speak like a Native Speaker - PLACEMENT". ua-cam.com/video/2W-KUSb3DTM/v-deo.html
We learned Welsh and French in my school and it always annoyed me, the amount of people who would use their general Welsh (we're English speaking Welsh) accent to say French words.
My English not so good. You're perfect me.
Андрей Крюков what
Талгат Губайдуллин my English *is not so good. You’re perfect *to me
I agree with Loor... KEEP your accent, do not wipe it out ! Americans look up to Europeans as if they have have a depth and a culture which we lack here in the USA. Americans speak LOUSY English (both phonologically and grammatically.) Russian and German accents are KOOL !
thank you
Even though I have been learning Croatian for some time, I keep having trouble with Russian. My problem is mostly with palatalizing too hard I think. Like when I would say быть I would pronounce it like быц. I keep telling myself to calm it down, but when I hear a native speaker, it sounds like a fast, compressed cymbal sound from a drum set. Croatian, thank god, only has a couple palatalized and softened letters like lj, nj, đ, and ć, but they don't palatalize nearly as often as Russian. The downside to Croatian pronunciation though, is that it uses "r" as a syllable or vowel in words like tvrd, krv, and iscrpljen (yes, you have to pronounce all of it, letter by letter)
mick s Hey, good luck with Croatian! It's one of the easiest languages, when it comes to pronunciation, really. It's basically said the way it's written. Just learn alphabet and you can pronounce every word.
I understand Croatian, good luck mate
I have heard from several people that it helps to learn a song in Russian, or a poem or a line from a play, and try to copy exactly how a Russian speaker or singer does it...as many times as necessary until it sounds just the same. I have had some success with this method but only with the words contained in the text or song. Is this a good method? How do I use this to help with the general pronunciation in conversation?
I wonder if there are differences in accents among the different regions/cities of Russia
At least if there is a difference between St. Petersburg and Moscow?
As far as i can judge there is no difference. Except Vologda may be. In Vologda they say o instead a when o is without stress. For example word молоко usually sounds like малако. But in Vologda old people say молоко. And there is some accent in Perm. They swallow some sound and say ы instead of a or e. I cant explain it properly. And in Karelia stress is usually on the first sound. Like пИрог instead of пирОг. But young people usually dont have accents.
Would you do a video where we give you words in the comment and you teach us how to do the pronounciation of these words? X
If you learn a Russian accent like a movie actor would to come across believable as a Russian, would that be a good way as well to pronounce words correctly?
I find, if I think as if I were a child and hearing / seeing everything for the first time, I learn language a bit better. Starting as a child would learn. Easy for me, but my brain, it is not a child's brain. It is near 4, but I am learning Russian and Spanish, more R than S.
I've only met one person from RUS who had no trace of an accent. Once I got him talking, it started to come out on certain words. He⬆️has an accent that's identifiable as UKR or RF, but it doesn't impede understanding him and definitely isn't thick.
I wish i could hear my own accent when I speak russian, but its often hard for me to tell when something i said sounds off. I get being self conscious about your accent, but trust me English speakers think the russian accent sounds dope.
Great advice for improving pronunciation in Russian. I have a question and a request. The TV show "The Americans" has a lot of dialog in Russian. This sounds like proper Russian to me, spoken by native speakers, but I'm still learning. It would be great if you made a video where you went through some of the dialog from this show. Огромное спасибо!
a and o in russian
ur so cuuuuute
adapt and change mean the same thing. a better word for adapt in what you're describing would be to mentalise.
Please make a video of you just speaking basic Russian so that we can listen.
Thx. I love some Russian songs - But even if I study the lyrics and try to learn them by heart, I indeed have troubles with how to sound "correct". Although I have the advantage that as an Austrian I speak a more melodic and flexible German than Germans. But I have the same problems in french...
Hahaha , I come from the south so I have a very close accent. Plus my father is slavic, he's Czech. So even though I don't speak almost any russian I can still sound russian!
Спасибо
How accurate is the pronounciation on Google translate.
Pretty accurate but the intonations are weird
sounds correct but not quite human
Thanks, Fyodor! This might seem like an odd question (and this video is old so I don't know if you'll see it), but can you offer any tips on speaking English in a convincing Russian accent? I'm working on my theatre skills and would like to develop accents for the characters I play.
учусь по-русски, но русский язык сложно. пишу лучший то говорю, а ещё плохая пишу. мне нужно практика. мне нравится все твой видео.
I have noticed at times that you sound like a native speaker. When you have a Russian accent, you breathe out the words very heavily. In English, we do not breathe out multisyllabic words. We breathe out some syllables and we breathe in some syllables. I've noticed you sound the most American when you breath in as you say a word and you sound the most Russian when you breathe out a bunch of words. In English, we ALWAYS take a breath at the end of a sentence or phrase or where a comma should be. If you say, "The dog ran away" then you have to say the sentence so you end the sentence letting out a breath, in this case at the end of "away". This means you have to take a breath on the syllable "a" and let out the breath on "way". If you read traditional poetry (nursery rhymes, sonnets, couplets, etc.) then you will learn to hear how words are stressed in English and when to breathe in and to breathe out.
Here is an example:
Stressed syllables are capitalized. You have to say the stressed syllables very loud. You almost should be shouting!
Unstressed syllables are not capitalized. You have to whisper the unstressed syllables.
You have to pause at punctuation. / counts as punctuation
TWINKle TWINKle LITTle STAR /
HOW i WONDer WHAT you ARE /
UP aBOVE the WORLD so HIGH /
LIKE a DIAmond IN the SKY.
Here is a link to look at:
www.developingteachers.com/phonology/rhythm_rods.htm
You say words fine. You just need to learn to take breaths when native speakers do. It is very obvious if you watch your videos, at least in my opinion. One day, I hope to speak really fast in Russian like how you speak English really fast. Vocabulary is very hard! That's why I find it difficult to write or what I think. You have given me motivation to keep trying! Спасибо
Зачем тебе вобще учить русский?
This text has very much grammatical errors.
Me, a Spaniard, Russian is easier to pronounce at least for me, because (normally) it's pronounced as written, unlike English lol
I had a question... Because a lot of the words are very long do you have brail for those who are blind? Do those plaques become very large when it had directions on it? Idk or was just a weird thing I thought about lol 😂
Of course, we have brail
@@elenaf4631 haha thanks, it was just a weird thought cuz the words do get very long like" international airport" for example I just see being a very long plaque 😅😅 thank you for being nice about my stupid question, I've only been studying for 8 months still very new 😅😅
@@christinag960 Yeah, the words are quite long) Actually, you asked a question 6 months ago, so I'm surprised you answered me. Your question is not stupid at all, it’s even nice. 😄 It's a pleasure to talk to such a nice person. Good luck with learning the language. Greetings from Russia 😘
Привет Федя. Меня зовут Норман из Англии. Ты мене многа ромагаешь. У меня вопрос - как выговорят АЯ и ОЕ быстро? Спасибо большое за все. Я люблю твои уроки. Норман
здравствуйте! с трудом поняла ваш вопрос, но попробую ответить. "ая" выговаривается как "айа", а "ое", как "ойе", из-за того, что перед буквами "я" и "е" стоит другая гласная. звуки "й" и "а", а также "й" и "е" произносятся один за другим. при произношении звук "й" плавно перетекает в звук "а" или "е", но ни в коем случае они не произносятся раздельно. это правило работает со всеми йотированными гласными (я, ю, ё, е), если перед ними стоит другая гласная. спешить в произношении не стоит. сначала пробуйте медленно, если получается, постепенно ускоряйтесь. надеюсь, я правильно поняла ваш вопрос и смогла помочь. удачи в изучении нового языка! :))
Hi Fedor, do you hae any movie recommendations? or series? I'd love to watch some movies/series in russian with english subtitles. I am in my third week of Russian class and i am practicing everyday whenever i can. I am Chinese and Russian is really hard for me to pronounce especially the R. My goal is to speak Russian like a native speaker :D
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Фильм Т-34
Сериал Кухня, и старый сериал Даёшь Молодёж, но не уверен что ты субтитры найдёшь
А ну блин, я забыл о субтитрах, но я сам посмотрел без субтитров хотя русский не мой родной язык и прикольный фильм.
Ogromnoe spasibo za urok !
Dick Plat writing Russian with English letters has got to be the ugliest thing ever 😂
@@RuilinLinRyan Согласен
"they know wayyyyyyyy better than me!" 😅😂😂😂😍
I tried to make a comment from my old phone because I can use Cyrillic on it, but the iPhone ap for UA-cam has no place for comments. Too bad. I have a question about the Russian letter that looks like bl. I have had a difficult time understanding the soft sound. Today I think I started to hear the difference. In Russian, many consonants sound as if they have the equivalent of the Spanish tilde, like saying" tyelyephone" instead of "telephone". Does the bl eliminate that "tilde" sound?
bl is ы, and letter taht tou asked about is ь, it makes for example sound m to sound soft like in 'me' compared to 'more'
Watch Joss and Janik, a couple of a Mexican girl and a German guy, they are the best, they make different videos such as trips, games, tips to speak better Spanish or German, hip-hop, etc.
I know the dialects you teach us are native to the Moscow, St. Petersburg areas...but if I travel to Vladivostok for example, will my dialect still be understood by native Russians?
Yes! Our dialects are not that different from area to area, unlike in the US or some other countries. We have maybe 1% different at max.
Спасибо Fedor! Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Your RCHP tee is distracting lol.
In regard of accent, I don't mind my accent too much while speaking foreign languages I learn but I would do my best to pronounce each word exactly how native speakers pronounce words.
Watching Russian TV series on YT helps a lot. Check out "КУНИЯ"
"КУХНЯ"
Я живу в штатах меньше трёх лет и никто не замечает акцента. Когда в разговоре всплывает тема того откуда я, люди удивляются и говорят что я, скорее всего, живу в Америке с ранних лет. И когда я говорю что приехала несколько лет назад, все дико
офигевают))) Твой акцент все же очень заметен. Но американцы, скорее всего, не смогут угадать откуда ты.
Да я даже рад, что заметен теперь. Раньше прятал, а сейчас перестал. Главное, чтоб понимали же.
Be Fluent in Russian да это же неплохо. Я это просто к тому, что видео называется "как говорить без акцента" и все же акцент есть и заметный. Есть люди ищущие именно уроки по акценту. И я - одна из них. Из всего ютуба лишь пара человек реально впечатлили.
@@dashagudym3938 поделишся?
I listen to songs in Russian almost 24/7
спасибо спасибо спасибо
I am not Russian, I am from Kyrgyzstan, but I speak Russian without an accent
ничего удивительного, киргизы высшая раса
I wonder what a Russian thinks about a Dutchman speaking russian ..? Accent ? good ? bad ?
havent had much of exposure of germans speaking russian but im sure it doesnt sound awful bc you dont have an english accent, i even think german speakers have pretty good potential to speak russian at good level compared to english speakers
Федя, как Вас беличать?
Red hot chili peppers❤🤘🏻
I love you
I want to learn Russian and it kinnda sounds hot lol
The strong Russian accent part 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Стронг рашан акцент
Q: Why are you trying to get rid of your accent? It's cool and unique... Just sayN
i dont care about accent as long as i can help u