Do I have an accent in Russian?

[@InRussianFromAfar]

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[@alab7931]

People on the internet are going to hate. There’s no accountability. Please ignore them and keep going. You’re helping me and a thousand others on our Russian learning journey and we appreciate you!!

[@bennuask2611]

😍😍😍😍🌺

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Спасибо большое 🌻

[@YaShoom]

Voicing a different opinion and criticism is not hate. And the point here is not so much in responsibility, but in safety from social persecution and violence of a person by society, for expressing a person's point of view. Of course there are aggressive people, but there are aggressive people in life too. Thanks to the Internet, we can express our opinions more freely.

[@latestlindsey5620]

I really don't understand people. You speak slowly so that people can understand and study . Obviously, this is not how you would speak with your Russian friends. Honestly, if people are going to ask stupid questions I would just ignore these clowns 😂 I love watching your channel because you make cool videos. I think it's great the way you pronounce words for a non native Russian speaker. I've seen channels where people speak slow Russian, but they kind of just sound strange and they don't break up the words slowly like you do, they just speak so slow it's literally not even helpful. Keep up the great work ! 😊😊

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Спасибо, Линдси! Очень приятно :)

[@alertaalerta5775]

I really admire your slow pronunciación... Never forget please teacher Sergey

[@insimplerussian]

I got similar comments on my last video (from fellow Russians). When writing these comments, people don't take into account: 1. Regional differences 2. Individual manner of speaking 3. The influence of other languages one speaks on the native language pronunciation 4. The educational nature of the videos & the need to speak slowly Anyway, I think you speak clearly & with a neutral accent. Regardless, what's important is that Russian learners are enjoying your content & learning from the videos you create :)

[@rebeccamiko9156]

Отличное видео! Я поняла примерно 70-80 процентов, когда ты говорил быстро. Ну, было лучше, что ты нам объяснил. Спасибо, Сергей!

[@melchizedeklim8254]

This format, where you explain your word choices is awesome and very helpful. I hope there can be more of these! :)

[@hannahenzel95]

Yass! I hope so! :D

[@suenugent8838]

It takes a lot of patience to explain things the way you did. Thank you. Very helpful.

[@bennuask2611]

I have this impression people on the internet are not fair to you at all. They say stupid things. You are above them. You are simply wonderful. I am thankful to have come across you.❤🎉😂😢

[@ProfesoraVerdura-ch7pc]

Well said

[@mancentral]

Please do more videos in this format. It really help to get from a beginner level to advanced 🙏

[@herratossavainen2320]

you are really good, just ignore them

[@rossleone9140]

Russians speak at 2x speed normally so there is no chance of ever learning without your slow format videos, thanks sir.

[@robertknapp7612]

I learned a lot from your story. One is the use of "koroche" as a "word binder." Very useful. Another is that I'm not quite ready for "prime time" (listing to Russian spoken at normal speed). But with practice, I will improve. Thanks for your great KZbin Channel.

[@deeposco]

Очень хорошо, благодарю вас

[@Titov24]

Best Russian videos on KZbin!!!!

[@PaolaR-x1x]

Wow first time in months that I actually can feel I understand russian! Of course slow speech is easier, but you add these useful words and stuff that books and teachers are missing... I thought my skills were a lost case. Thank you so much, I am motivated again now. Greetings for you and wife from Mexico!)))

[@bennuask2611]

I thank you for your patience, for speaking at the pace that you do, for the sake of learners like me. I find you to be a lovely treasure.

[@ozpasha]

Please do more of these videos. I found it very helpful and there are not many other videos for this level.

[@witjas123]

Великолепно!! ❤ спасибо Сергей

[@muskadobbit]

What an awesome way to help people make the leap from tutorials to everyday speech. I really appreciate this format and find it incredibly helpful.

[@mahlawat12]

Its the best video for us. To learn it like this. Real russian slang n accent broken down so we can understand it. Please make more videos

[@PAULOJAN1]

Очень полезное видео. Один из самых полезных что я посмотрел здесь , ну вот. 🎉🎉🎉 Продолжайте!

[@SlowPolish]

I'm pretty sure that the people who criticize your speaking are not students, but fellow Russian speakers. I also get from time to time some "lost souls" (Polish) who don't understand the idea of my channel 😅. Good job! I don't learn Russian but I watch your videos from time to time because I'm curious how much I would understand 😄.

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Thanks, Alexandra! Appreciate the support from the fellow Language Teacher KZbinr :) Dzienki!

[@TheDelwish]

I'm Russian native speaker. and should say that his natural speed speech is amazing, it sounds like native speech 100%, but I agree, people who could criticize could be Russian native speakers. it's funny but sometimes I see how some people (Russian native speakers) criticize some videos about English with native English speakers in Russian language. (my hypothesis, that it's hypercompensation, Russians can not(or do not want to) criticize russian government, so they criticize everything else)

[@ginamoises3180]

Thank you so much for this flatform it helps me a lot.I'm willing to learn to speak russian and I found this channel very useful...I am a Filipino working here in st.petersburg Thank you have a good day

[@pamelahermano9298]

Thank you for your videos! I’m learning more and more each day. I’m not yet ready for regular speed but the transcript helps. Thank you as well for explaining the contraction of words.

[@KK-cv9bx]

Hello Sergej, thank you for explaining so called "filling words". Greetings from Germany! I'm trying to learn the Russian language for nearly 2 years now. You are a very god teacher...See you soon Katja

[@nexdream7655]

Bravo!

[@juancarlosjuajibioy1419]

Thank you, your videos are very useful to me

[@buffalothunder3479]

Great video, great presentation, great story!!😆 Спасибо!

[@curiousmind7683]

Very useful content as per usual! Thank you so much for your work! 😃

[@Russianspymma]

I absolutely love this video style

[@malte5140]

Thank you, again, for the great video, Sergeij :) We already spoke about that thema: Accent, natural speaking and so on... I never thought you had an accent. only your father 😉 But your fast, natural speak is really different from the easy way of speaking in your videos. And more difficult I really like the idea to explain your phrases and used words. Its great for boosting the vocabulary

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Спасибо, Мальте :)

[@GullolaSodiqova-x2s]

Thanks a lot. It was the best video. Please do like that videos a lot. Good luck. Every day I learn Russian language from your channel. Because you teach Russian language very well. 😊😊😊

[@w3w3w3]

thanks for the video bro

[@gatewayrealtor664]

Привет, это Миша! Я был тем парнем на твоем живом видео, который спросил о разнице между «вот» и «здесь». Так или иначе, прошлым летом я купил книгу на русском языке, которая была слишком далеко за пределами моего уровня понимания. Потом я нашел тебя. Я смотрел ваши видео несколько месяцев и с гордостью могу вам сообщить, что недавно вернулся к этой книге и без труда прочитал первую главу. Ты замечательный. Я училась у Дарьи из Real Russian Club и думала, что она лучшая, пока не открыла для себя тебя! Мой мозг может понимать ваш стиль преподавания более естественно. Большое спасибо! 🙏🏾

[@headbiscuits]

nah man your videos are amazing and are super helpful!

[@andrew_learns_russian]

Приятно слушать тебя с естественной скоростью! И да, все понял)

[@hannahenzel95]

Wooo I watch this second time and I understand when you speak faster! But when I heard this at the first time my brain has error xD

[@antoninakhokhlova9965]

Очень хорошо разговариваете, просто гениально!

[@katherineebenezer608]

Very interesting. I can pick out quite a few words, but not put them together much. You do speak unnaturally in videos, but that is the entire point.

[@KK-cv9bx]

good teacher

[@ProfesoraVerdura-ch7pc]

What an interesting video! I'm fascinated by conversational conventions, and filler words are an important and constant part of human language. Of course you have an accent! All speakers of all languages have an "accent". It's called dialect. I imagine that there are differences between Russian spoken in Siberia and Russian spoken in Moscow or Saint Petersburg. My English on the West Coast of the US is different from many other dialects of English in the US, those of the Southern states, those of the Midwest or the Northeast, not to mention dialects of English spoken in Canada, England, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India...etc. So of course to speakers of those dialects I have an "accent". This format was interesting but for most beginners your regular "level +1" format (that is videos in A1, A2, B1, B2 etc) is the best way to provide comprehensible input. Keep up your amazing teaching; you truly understand how input works when trying to learn another language. Many native speaker instructors of language cannot grasp how much they need to modify their speech to make it comprehensible.

[@bennuask2611]

I loved what you said at the end. Most teachers do not know how to modify their speech. Most people, in general, have no idea how different the spoken language is from the language code. Sergey knows this; I was impressed by that.

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your words :) Yeah, I just did it to show to people how I actually can sound sometimes :) But Siberian dialect would be characterised as such: SUPER FAST :D It's too damn cold outside, so you have to speak fast and straight to the point :)

[@ProfesoraVerdura-ch7pc]

OK that's pretty funny. The Caribbean dialect of Spanish is the fastest and most difficult for non native, and even some native, speakers to understand. It's too hot to spend much time talking!😂

[@O.Anikita]

Отлично!!

[@aliashfaaq6738]

вот это полезное, Спасибо

[@robertshillenn6404]

Вообще мне очень нравится как вы говорите по русски. Так как у меня близкие русские знакомые, мне легко понимать быструю русскую речь. Тем не менее, мне приятно слышать чёткую русскую речь. Я уже услышал речь иностранцев, которые стараются говорить с расслабленным произношением в русском и результат просто ужасен. По-этому я за сохранение чёткого произношения при изучении нового языка.

[@erickaflores9828]

Happy international day of Russian language 🇷🇺 so beautiful language and thank you for making content for us 🤗

[@arthuramchan4740]

Мне нравятся твои видео. 2 моих любимых предмета: русский язык и Вьетнам (1970-71 в Сайгоне)Армия США

[@thomaslangbein297]

I very much like your vlogs and posts. Thanks a lot for interesting and easy to understand material as "comprehensible input" very useful for beginners. But please let me ask a question related to the title of this video. The guttural "R" has already been mentioned. What I think to hear, imho as a non-native speaker, is that the "ы"-sound is pronounced less the "Russian way" but more towards a (for English and German ears more "normal") "ee"- respectively "i"-sound. And the "dark L" less dark? Is this typical for a "Sibirian" accent, if any such thing exists?

[@InRussianFromAfar]

haha, not sure what do you mean by "Dark L" :D

[@thomaslangbein297]

@@InRussianFromAfar Why not?? The L‘s in syllable end position can be pronounced in two ways in Russian, can‘t they? In written form like «ль» or followed by a (after other consonants than L) palatalized vowel like я, е, и, ю it is pronounced like the L in that position as in German or French (light L) e.g. Otherwise it is pronounced like in English or Portuguese in the end position (dark L). I watched, having become interested in that topic afterwards, some videos with Sibirian speakers and I think it’s a feature that they pronounce the ы’s and the end L‘s differently. And especially in Irkutsk 😀the R‘s guttural instead of tongue tip rolled.

[@tayaselebra9391]

Ой, никогда не знала как вы с женой познакомились 😅

[@damian_madmansnest]

You do have an ever so slight accent and when you speak slowly it immediately reminds of English-speaking learners of Russian below your level which hints strongly that you are a native speaker. When you speak fast, the accent does not immediately strike me as foreign, and i would have guessed you were a native speaker with a slightly peculiar manner of speaking.

[@vladimirakimov4919]

Indeed your fast speech sounds much more natural while in the slow speech appear some freaky intonations. Appearently you are good in colloquial speech but miss traditional stage/announcer pronunciation school.

[@SuperScre4m]

you sound like an english speaker, (perhaps american) who is speaking russian. its not as natural russian sounding as it could be i think, but this i no way makes the content worse. everyone ahs an accent. u do an amazing job at what you do anyways! i love it!

[@pbworld7858]

How did a Russian guy become a vegan? Must be rare. I came to this channel because I wanted to improve my Russian and I never thought I would see a fellow vegan on such a channel. Keep up the good work! спасибо

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Thanks! Actually, there are a lot of us in Russia, but still meat culture prevails. For now....😈

[@KienTrung-f9p]

VietNam

[@AlexLiuk-shin]

Прекрасный русский. It`s perfect russian.

[@powerzx]

There is no way to speak without any accent, everyone speaks with their native or learned accent.

[@amarsalem5671]

3to cynep, 3to xopowo, cnacu6o BAM 6pat Cepru! ♥️♥️♥️

[@YaShoom]

Думаю всё дело в том, что при замедлении речи (в начале видео) вы меняете интонацию, ставя как бы ударение на последний слог слова, делая интонацию слегка вопросительной - это, наверно, и послужило фактом, склонившим людей ко мнению, что у вас есть (иностранный) акцент.

[@VladimirTheLeadHead]

I need me a good Vietnamese woman LOL

[@Narendill]

Не знаю, кто там и где видит акцент, обычная русская речь 👍Разве что иногда слышны восходящие интонации в конце предложения или при перечислении (часто характерные для англоговорящих людей, или людей, которые очень много разговаривают на английском).

[@TheDelwish]

честно говоря я бы не смог понять, говорит ли это не русский нейтив, слушая только речь после 1:42. потрясающее владение языком) в очередной раз понимаю, что самая лучшая школа и самый лучший учитель иностранного языка это жена) а вот до 1:42 медленная речь, воспринимается несколько иначе. она грамматически и синтаксически понятно такая же. но тональность другая. в медленной речи у тебя тон и ритм предложения(по восходящей, удлинение тона, в то время как в русском наоборот) становится несколько(совсем на малую малую часть) неестесственной для русскоязычного уха. но это такая тонкость, что не играет вообще никакой роли. куча нейтивов говорит даже хуже. более того у меня есть гипотеза, что существует некий uncanny valley барьер для языков, т.е. когда говоришь идеально, но какая-то нарочитая искусственность без акцента нейтивов наоборот начинает больше задевать, чем неверное произношение слов. так что я бы советовал всем изучающим наоборот сохранять свою изюминку, свой акцент. (и там ниже обсуждают про регионализмы и диалектизмы. я бы советовал вообще не париться. в русском языке, это пожалуй основная особенность этого языка в мире, такой слабый диалектизм при такой огромной площади - это вообще неважно, у вас обычный нейтральный акцент, он что в москве, что в питере плюс минус такой же)

[@InRussianFromAfar]

Я русский, если что😅

[@expat2023]

у меня проблема говорит по русски. Слава Богу могу понимать чуть.

[@russianlearning5817]

Do you pronounce some R's as guttural R by any chance? Is that a regional accent? I don't mind, I've just always been curious. Also, literally everyone has an accent, even in their native tongue.

[@InRussianFromAfar]

haha, well noticed! I really do sometimes pronouns my "Rs" in such way, but that's not regional at all, It's just my own speech impediment :D I had it when I was a kid, but then I've learnt to speak a "proper" R. However, when I'm very emotional, sometimes the guttural R slips in ;)

[@russianlearning5817]

@@InRussianFromAfar Sweet, interesting! Thanks for answering and keep up the amazing work!

[@1949Budapest]

Balsoje paszibo iz Vengrii, sto vü tak gavaritye,sto i ja magu panyimaty,

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Я заметил, что ваши мягкие согласные не полностью мягкие. Это слышится в контрасте особенно, когда сначала быстрый кадр, а потом замедление. Не знаю почему так, может быть и иностранное влияние, а может и ваши личные особенности. В любом случае иностранцы не отличат. А вот при замедлении, получается чешский АСМР из-за специальной интонации, но я думаю что это для усиления чёткости, а не акцент =) Пишу просто что бы вы получили отзыв, возможно это вам пригодится, а может и нет - в любом случае это не притензия. =)

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Посмотрел вашу историю о Красной Шапочке и подтвердилось - согласные не достаточно мягкие (к примеру звук ЧЬ и ЛЬ) и я ещё обнаружил некоторые особенности с гласными, к примеру слова "в лесу" - звук У там звучал как-то "раслабленно", мне кажется звук как в болгарском "Ъ".

[@ugrosha]

На каком языке вы говорите со своей женой?

[@InRussianFromAfar]

На английском и изредка на вьетнамском)

[@JO-ml9ck]

Стрёмно (별로야 슬랭 собственно (это тоже связки слов

[@ivanov1358]

интонацияа, понимааеш, нерусскаяа.

[@suspon]

норм ты говориш на русском даже в начале

[@volodymyrpogynaiko5008]

You have no accent, that ppl are BSing

[@liliya_aseeva]

К сожалению, акцент всё ещё проглядывается. Мне бы показалось что какой-нибудь мордвин или русский, но откуда-нибудь из Прибалтики. Но в целом годно!