Letters Е Ё Ю Я | Russian Language

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[@unclewillie3688]

I agree

[@CamoflaugeDinosaue]

If I may through a small suggestion: When you say it "softens" the consonant, I have found that to English speakers that tends to register as "take strength off the consonant" - kind of like slurring it. I found this concept to make much more sense when a Russian speaking friend told me not to soften it, but rather to exit the consonant with a slightly wider mouth position, a slight "eee" pronunciation that drops basically as soon as you start the next vowel. That really helped me.

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Thank you for sharing! I definitely need to be instructive when it comes to softening the consonant.

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[@vrmartin202]

This explanation was so very helpful! Thank you!

[@msmalcelj]

This is gold. I have struggled so much with Duolingo trying to guess the reasoning behind the pronunciation... I'm going through the videos and I might even enroll in the class later.

[@normskilawrence1033]

After many years of hearing a difference in spoke Russian I never knew that there was a rule. Wll done Федр

[@BalsamorhizaSagittat]

I tell you what my wife will be home from Russia on the 24th I want to greet her with better pronunciation of my basic Russian. I hope to keep this up and get some more vocab. THX

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[@Cooltink101]

This was so eye-opening. Thank you so much for making this video.

[@PsychicPi]

This is such a detailed explanation. The only thing I didn't get was why the two o's in yabloko sounded slightly different to me. I'm sure you already have a video on it somewhere, so I'll keep watching and find out.

[@RapidCycling07]

Awesome video Fedor! Thanks man!

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[@johnmaholick4991]

Thank you! Best example and explanation of the pronunciation of these letters I have seen thus far.

[@whispercat56235]

Awesome explanation, I'm learning a lot watching your videos !

[@pegasus5287]

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[@jmjw2004]

i love him but the way he draws his a’s scares me

[@kirsiniementeras]

Russian way to write. Same with "o", they start writing the letter from different point.

[@joannechisena8832]

TEMHO - Seems to me that by softening the T, the vowel stills sounds like it has two sounds. There is still a palatalization to the letter T instead of with the E, which essentially sounds the same. So, with that being said, it seems the same & not necessary. It still has a Y' in front of the vowel. So Soft Consenants or dual sound still make the vowel sound the same. I'm not trying to be difficult, I just fail to hear the difference. Blame it on me being american. My father never really taught us to speak Russian when I was growing up, but I did get to listen to him speak Russian with my grandmother.

[@jaymay3330]

0:43 правильное произношение!(correct pronunciation)0:54 тоже правильное произношение(also the correct pronunciation)0:57правильное тоже( also the correct pronunciation) 1:00 правильно (correctly)

[@rolfidrev4194]

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[@drift752]

Very helpful for a beginner, thank you!

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[@cjpangilinan1447]

It's easy for me to differentiate them because in Filipino we also use 'y' like that. For instance, byahe and tayo. I watched this to make sure that I'm saying it right 😂

[@juliosoeiro4080]

Thank you so much! Very useful.

[@karenjiang6179]

its crystal clear!

[@Jill1228]

Omg hella helpful 🙌🏿

[@nutescuelena8977]

The thing is whether you begin to pronounce the syllable with the vocal itself or the consonant before it.

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[@djsoulfree]

what is number 3 at 5:57 in english please? thank you

[@natureluc8234]

greetings from argentina, this video was really helpful , though my intention is only to learn the basics. Thanks

[@basicinfo6816]

Awesome video... Thanks.

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[@sonjarhea9131]

1:24

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[@leobitencourt4719]

Honestly, to my ears, soft consonants seem pretty natural. As far as I understand, they only appear when there's е, ё, я, ю and ь, afterwards, right? To me, soft Т, for example, just sounds like "ti". Soft Б just sounds like "bi". I don't know if it's because my native language is Portuguese or something, but I noticed I already "understood" soft consonants before I knew about them. Did anyone else have this experience?

[@bonbonpony]

01:11 In that way, Russian alphabet is very inefficient (as in its size), since there already are letters for all those single sounds, so you could just use them in pairs (even some other pairs that are impossible with single letters mentioned above). For example, if there's 5 vowels, it would give you 5²=25 possible combinations already with just 5 letters. But the way it works now, you need 5 letters for single vowels, _plus_ the 5 extra letters for the two-vowel combinations (actually, a vowel with a glide, but the same could work with separate letters, because your mouths would then naturally glide them), so you need 5 extra letters (10 in total) to write what could already be written with the combinations of the existing 5. And you still can't write all of the possible combinations (15 are still missing), so you have to write them down as two-letter combinations anyway :q One could argue that having those extra letters can save the ink. Yeah, if only these two-sound combinations had simpler structure... :P But no, the "ю", for example, looks almost like "I" + "O" which could as well be written separately, if you dropped the squiggle from "И", as it's been done in Latin when they improved the Phoenician alphabet. (Same with the extra squiggles in "д" - why don't just write "Δ", as the Greeks did for thousands of years since?) So it doesn't really save the ink, because you pretty much have to make as many strokes as when you wrote the separate vowel letters :q Looks like another orthographic reform is needed one day... :q

[@grimhavenz]

Same with the Latin alphabet in a way (ignoring English because they can’t seem to work their language with it lol) “K” makes the /k/ sound but the letter “Q” makes the same sound but it has to have a second letter with it (Qu) like in Spanish’s word for what, “Qué”. C is pretty useless too but I guess it can slide considering it was originally going to use that letter but it was used for /g/ too because it was basically г but rounded. So they added a stroke and blah blah blah. X is pretty weird too considering it was supposed to make a /ks/ from Greek but Greek actually used two letter instead of one... but they couldn’t use “KS” in Latin for some reason...

[@spierball]

at 5:40 you say yaboka. buth why is the first an O and the last an A? its the same letter but both are diferent? i see that the ^ makes you say at as it should be and that the last one has a letter befor it. but why do you say it as an A?

[@OneBoundMusic]

It depends on what syllable in a word the stress is on. In "yaboka," the stress is on the first "o," making it long. By default, the other "o" is short: "ah."

[@PanglossDr]

The first o has stress. Unstressed o is always an a sound.

[@qu14torze82]

@@OneBoundMusic the stress is on the ia, not the o. russian.cornell.edu/rdt/

[@jmjw2004]

it’s actually Yabloko, the ^ is a different way of writing л, the letter for L

[@fiki_fire]

very usefull, spasiba

[@shecalledmelisalou]

Very helpful

[@enginnerdedtohoopajoop4604]

first time i saw this (still new to Cyrillic alphabet) the way you wrote "й" by hand looked more like an english "u" to me and also being unfamiliar with the character "э" also made this lesson more confusing for me. nothing you did wrong

[@ishamickley5931]

Same. Im going to hunt for more videos with Russians writing in Cyrillic to see if its easier for curtain letters.

[@Ida-xe8pg]

In cursive й is written as ŭ he made a whole wideo on Russian cursive

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

Й is basically English consonant Y and Э is basically E as in error.

[@b43xoit]

So, it's a difference between being slightly palatalized and heavily palatalized.

[@sebaissa1874]

Фёдор .. thank you so much this video really helped me a lot , I was haveing hard time whith those letters ..

[@nay8771]

English is not my first language but I could understand everything. Thank you 😘

[@PeterSodhi]

Excellent

[@NN-qv7if]

I think e and € are always different sounds, € is more open. e can be iotated or soften the previous consonant. Is that technically correct? :)

[@ЯшаМедведев-в1п]

I think you mean Э not €

[@sapphoenixthefirebird5063]

@@ЯшаМедведев-в1п I think they don't have a Cyrillic keyboard, so they can't type Э, Yasha Medvedev.

[@b43xoit]

@@sapphoenixthefirebird5063 N N should download such a keyboard map.

[@petermanuyeboah9114]

Thank alot you are clearing my negative thinking about Russia

[@baseraazizi6331]

Thanks Very useful

[@basicinfo6816]

Can you upload the subtitle of this video...? Thanks

[@AlexMerenkov2]

Thanks! It was helpful, but it's so similar to Ukrainian. In Ukrainian, we don't have as many extra letters as Russian.

[@stanlij158]

Small question, Why is the я pronounced "ya" like in меня or тебя and not like the shorted a like "teb'a"

[@nathanvetter6311]

Thanks so much I finally get it

[@if-i-was-rude-i-am-sorry]

0 dislikes... WOW! Good job.

[@shannonpickens7695]

Very interesting indeed.

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[@sabrymasoud2314]

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[@japananh1]

thank you so much

[@efethecaptain6]

So at the beginning and at the end of the word they stay the same but in the middle they drop the "y" sound, am I right ?

[@santiagocalizaya8456]

Hi! What about "я говорю" the "ю" is after a consonant, but it still sounds like "ju".

[@isistf9038]

What about when they are unstressed? Я turns into ye and so on, right?

[@b43xoit]

Like in бремя ('time')?

[@sage6183]

menya? or mena?

[@kickster4u]

But it still sounds like you pronounce я as ya in меня but it isnt at the beginning of the word, doesnt come after a vowel, and is not after a hard/soft sign. Wouldn't it just be sound like мэна? instead of sounding like мэня?

[@subhdraghulyani8470]

What is shto uto

[@SamualAnthony]

So, if Е Ё Ю Я occurs after a consonant they are pronounces and one sound, and in all other scenarios they are pronounced as 2 sounds?

[@ishamickley5931]

I understand but Im not sure how to write it in the notebook for a reference. Does anyone have some suggestions or a possible online notebook I can peek at?

[@kennethbaker8641]

To me honest, I still couldn’t get the dropping of й right after the consonants, for example, тебя & меня, I heard you pronounced Tebia and Menia, instead of изба or мэна

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You are an amazing

[@shrekmacdonald6113]

Спасибо видео было хорошо

[@ExodiaSMASH]

Other than that this is very much very helpful!!!

[@guillaumeserouart5558]

I don’t get which syllable is stressed in яблоко? When he pronounces it, it sounds like the stress is on “я”, but the first “o” does not sound like “a”..

[@violinpracice6440]

me too!

[@David_PostsWasNeverHere]

I was trying to pronounce P.

[@mariamhejazy6896]

Thanks for U

[@raffaellegregorryc.1276]

Where is yi?

[@jwelke9]

There isn’t a ji or jy sound in Russian naturally. Possibly if there was a foreign word that needed to be said in Russian that had a ji or jy sound it would be written Йи and Йы respectively. This does happen for example the word for Iodine(element on periodic table) is spelt Йод(Jod) and not Ёд.

[@b43xoit]

@@jwelke9 Don't I see "Рускии"?

[@im0rtalpunk]

Hey man, it's off topic but when does something end in -яя?

[@UncleAl3]

Good question. Soft ending adectives in feminine singular, for example "A blue lamp" is "синяя лампа".

[@ДжагаГаспарян]

si-n'a-ya

[@tellurius4951]

Синяя Передняя Посторонняя Совершеннолетняя

[@h7opolo]

spasibo.

[@chabr1783]

Is you know czech its like ě (ye)

[@vivekanum]

Hi, i am confused with Letter "T". Sometime it sounds "t" for example "Telefone" . and sometime it sounds "Ch" for example "Chebya". Can you please clear this ? Thanks

[@BeFluentinRussian]

Those are soft and hard letters. It's really hard to explain it through the comment. www.russianforeveryone.com/Rufe/Lessons/Course1/Introduction/IntrUnit6/IntrUnit6.htm here's a good explanation of this concept

[@ExodiaSMASH]

I got a little confused, what is the half triangle sign ^ b

[@creativejimi]

It's basically the alternative letter of л, which is an L

[@G-raverobber]

yä yå yo ya got it

[@Lukinhas2012lk]

I have a doubt, so why on "самолет" where "e" is after a consonant it has a sound of "ë"

[@BeFluentinRussian]

It's actually ё, we just write ё as е often. Horrible for learners, but that's what we Russians do.

[@Lukinhas2012lk]

@@BeFluentinRussian Thanks!

[@carmencarter1853]

eë 1-0R

[@TheStrongestChessPiece]

Меня

[@TheStrongestChessPiece]

Ю

[@donwhitt9899]

I thought apple was pronounced yablaka, but you pronounce it yabloka.

[@ixiroxigd5449]

Всем привет I’m Russian 🇷🇺

[@Rbigraff]

Is it seemya, semya or simya?

[@Spewwow]

S'em'ya

[@shadowpastathetf2kidwithau706]

"ПРИКРОЙТЕ МЕНЯ!!!"

[@TheStrongestChessPiece]

Е Ё Ю Я

[@DjLuFin]

Спасибо хорошо!

[@phillipferrell4067]

If you're from Oklahoma, you already know how to say я.