How To Do A Russian Accent FAST

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[@MIGUELLUISMONTEPIO]

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[@akm_rpg_xakep]

Итс но тру, вери мистаке иф ю реали тхис тхинк абоут ус.

[@workwithai]

As a Russian that does not have a Russian accent in English. You forgot that we say Rs as soft and roll them and you forgot that much of the hard sounds are back of mouth with dropped jaw and much Russian is actually very soft or soft to hard and hard to soft changes.

[@angeltensey]

thats not really accurate. russians doesnt alter sounds they somewhat already have in russian vocabulary. E sounds like YE only by itself, but in sentence its close to english E in many cases. TH is a problem since russian alphabet doesnt have a functional equivalent. those russian who doesnt bother, instead use soft D/hard T. TH as Z is a ancient soviet academic anachronism. H has exactly the same sounding letter X (not eX).

[@workwithai]

@@angeltensey not true. Because my main language is Russian it is much easier for me to speak the 5 other languages I speak with very little accent. Russian teaches you to bend your tongue like English doesn't. Grammar and reading aside (English is a collection of French and German words that have pronunciation quarks when in English). There are many phrases that you can say that will make people not distinguish a Russian from a native English speaker. I know I typically roll my Rs even in US English which gives me an accent with those words and multiple consonants in a row and W give me issues like "dnes" in Wednesday gives me trouble still, the words like "word" and "world. It also may be that my English is a Philly accent and they have issues with Ws anyway.

[@askveitekstanda]

We Russians don't say "respYEct". We palatalize the "p" sound instead, so this word is pronounced like this [riˈspʲekt]. Though you Americans do this mistake when learning Russian. You pronounce "пять" (five) and "себя" (self) like [pjatʲ] and [seb'ja] instead of [pʲætʲ] and [sʲɪˈbʲa]. [kh] is not a literally two sounds, it's a [χ] sound. So the "how" is pronounced like [χaʊ]. We also use "kh" when translate a Russian "Х" letter into latin symbol, but you americans think it's [k] and [h] sounds together... What is reflected in the pronunciation of some toponyms. [vw]... I really hear this the first time. We just pronounce [v]

[@SuperTigrrr]

Спасибо чувак, ты выразил все мои мысли насчёт этого видео) неудивительно что они выглядят в фильмах настолько нелепо играя русских 😂

[@shivahandedguy]

Идеальное объяснение.

[@ЕвгенияЗэбэст]

Absolutlly agree

[@АндрейБалашов-ы1в]

Я говорил респект, и думал что это выражает моё уважение, или признание!) Но возможно я был не прав, так как повторял за другими глупцами!))

[@dilshod5679]

Прям то что я и хотел сейчас донести до автора, ну куда они лезут😅 ладно чувак старается

[@Loutistic]

OMG, this video perfectly explains why the Russian accent in Hollywood movies bears no resemblance to reality.

[@andrey_bakhmatov]

The author of this video has a very vague idea about the subject. His statements have little to do with the real state of affairs

[@Innerwanderer]

​@@andrey_bakhmatov Chat gpt ahh answer

[@Innerwanderer]

Hi

[@pushdword]

That's what I was about to say. Terrible. The 'R' sound is spot on, because in russian language there are only the rolling R.

[@arthurofdelirian]

2:54 nope, never :) I think you've confused Russian accent in English with English accent in Russian :)) English speakers find it hard to pronounce the link like "не" (like in the word "нет", so it sounds like "nyet"). Also it's good to know that we have incorporated the english word "respect" into our slang language and use it from time to time, we don't pronounce it as "respyekt". Other than that, респект автору 😀

[@sxanep]

Actually we do say more like russian "e" rather than "э". Though he is doing it too exaggerated and it sounds like russian "йе", which we don't do.

[@sergkr2399]

На самом деле они слышат этот звук в русском произношении. Не так артикулировано, как у автора, но он на самом деле есть в русском акценте.

[@anton7354]

@@sergkr2399но зачем носитель русского будет йотировать гласный звук после согласного??? этом не учат в школе на уроках английского, это неестественно и с точки зрения русской фонологии. надо будет знакомых native speakers спросить что им там слышится в слове "нет". 😀

[@marina_mainly]

Тут такое дело: в русском мы смягчаем согласный перед е. И видимо эту особенность хотел передать автор ролика. Но так как в английском нет пар мягкий-твердый согласный (они всегда у них твердые), он передал эту особенность как слышит и наиболее доступным способом для англоговорящих. Я согласна, что русский никогда не скажет респйект. Но вариантов быстро на пальцах объяснить, как говорить согласные мягко, я не знаю.

[@anton7354]

@@marina_mainlyутверждать, что англоговорящие в принципе не понимают что такое палатализация - это изрядное перегибание палки, как мне кажется. ну, то есть, если человек заморочился акцентами, то он может и немного ознакомится с теоретической базой.

[@АртемМилаков-л1в]

Ощущение, что автор почерпнул значительную часть своего спича из американских боевиков

[@IgoArs]

Видео полное г, согласен. Карикатурная чушь.

[@Kppot]

из красной жары и red alert

[@rhapsodyman100]

Какие ваши доказательства?))

[@wrrr1256]

​@@IgoArs носитель смешного русского акцента spotted🥴🥴 единственный проеб так это попытка делать звуки сочетанием букв а не собсна самими звуками

[@offinse9916]

​@@wrrr1256чё. Он по факту сказал. Респьект никто никогда не говорил. Максимум респэкт. Никак не респьект. И Х туда же. Х говорится в русском твёрже, чем в английском, а не добавляется одна буква. Видос глупость. Половина звуков куда ни шло, а остальное клюква. Я сам россиянин, и акцента в английском у меня почти нет. Так что я могу полностью спародировать акцент подпиваса и сравнить его с обычным произношением английского

[@october.w]

I'm a native Russian speaker. My foreign boyfriend used to ask me to speak like the guy in the video. Somehow my natural Russian accent wasn't enough "Russian" for him, lol.

[@фийкё]

Damn... Hollywood ruined everything 😅

[@enpvry]

Have a chemistry exam tomorrow . What am i doig

[@fantasy_worlds]

So how did it go? :)

[@enpvry]

@@fantasy_worlds WENT GOOD ACTUALLY ... The russian helped me. maybe

[@an8strengthkobold360]

​@@enpvrycouldn't have hurt right?

[@Jiyu18819]

Chyemistry u mean?😂

[@justyouraveragehumans22]

You mean VWAT ARE YOU DOING

[@SovietLegacy]

I'm not Russian - actually Australian, but I'm heavily invested in learning the Russian language and accent. I think if you want to learn any accent, then you must learn the language (at least the basics and the sounds of the script/alphabet). But from what I know and gathered from the comments, the Russian accent is quite relaxed/soft with not much tongue or lip movement/posturing. English-speakers tend to think of the Russian accent as harsh or aggressive, like German, but most sounds in Russian are relaxed and/or muted compared to English language and pronunciation.

[@belposha]

why would anyone learn Russian in 2023? (asking as a native speaker)

[@olegbogdanov1801]

⁠@@belposhaтебе его аватарка ни о чем не говорит?)

[@yastyman]

@@belposha нууу... Какая разница какой год? Посмотри, огромный интерес есть к русскому, судя по ютубу. Попробуй понабирать соотв. ключевики в поиск.

[@fqthewest]

Это спойлер на 2024​@@belposha

[@geraltofrivia7633]

​​​@@belposha например для саморазвития, либо изучения культуры другой цивилизации (а культура у нас богатая). Как ещё вариант - для переезда (посмотри, сколько иностранцев к нам переехали, и что говорят о стране) Но судя по тому, что ты задаёшься таким вопросом, ты сама не особо много о нашей стране знаешь (по крайней мере мне так показалось), а может украинка (они тоже "нэтив спикеры") Чекнул подписки из интереса - саб на медузу, я всё понял...

[@dataredata81]

as russian i can say, we don't speak "A/E" sond like ie, respect prononce is no respiect or resp'ect, in this case we use more specific. Yes, E sounds more thinly, but at the same time, more consistent, without sound dropout, without tone floating, with no EE sound after P. this difference is very clearly felt between native speakers and actors imitating russian speech in american movies, especially if you are russian :) in russian this sounds like респЬект or респИект, when it should sound like респект without any additional admixtures in the E sound. This is very strongly felt by the russian ear)

[@ПавелАртемьев-п2и]

О, да, полностью согласен!

[@alexeitimoshin]

It sounds not as real Russian accent, but fake “Russians” in Hollywood movies

[@amarshall2896]

May have been unintentional but you worded this perfectly 😂 “It sounds…not as real Russian accent, but fake” 💀

[@petrbelousov1441]

Bro, don’t be dushnila :)

[@Eronek_]

Dude, just open fortohka)

[@grom_ptiza]

For sure

[@JohnDoe-op3tq]

Absolutely! No one says khow.

[@leliatarasova7522]

Finding myself here as a Russian just may be the funniest thing, I don’t naturally have an accent, but I love playing around with them and surprisingly still can do it when I want to. I would really love a video on the Transatlantic accent, it’s such a deep need in my heart, and I would love to learn it better!

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Thanks for the kind words! And I’ll keep it in mind!

[@alexla_grange8957]

do not speak with this savages

[@scorpio5577]

As a native Russian, I have to say it's not the way we actually pronounce these sounds. Some of them - ok, it's quite similar to what we do, but some are not even close

[@dizzyDElKnobberChokker]

He is trying to simply it. He is aware there are more aspects I'm sure. I am learning how to speak Russian language, and He sounds similar to most Russians I have spoken to. I have heard others speak English with more of a British accent. I agree this video does not very accurately sound like a Russian speaking English, but it is close. I have found practicing speaking English like my Russian friends copying their accents and word choice has helped me understand Russian language better. I also believe it helps me speak better Russian, I try to forget my English all together. So far it is working OK. I will not stop until fluency is achieved.

[@Brandoimar]

​@@dizzyDElKnobberChokker man.... it's just so wrong

[@DrBurdock]

Ну как всегда клюква - как сделать "русский" акцент для голливудского кино. Кто-нибудь хоть раз слышал фразу "Мньйе ньядо за клебом"

[@iloveit5851]

"E" скорее у нас звучит как "Э", либо же просто "И"

[@ardred1]

Да конечно клюква, не согласные надо менять, а иначе произносить гласные, им это не понять.

[@IgoArs]

@@ardred1 меняются в первую очередь как раз согласные, происходит их смягчение, но никакого й там не добавляется, это бред.

[@pikachuru]

на здоровие! ^)

[@rpocc]

Мне нравится две фразы: 1. Pots ellouie my use a loopoo. 2. Yager torfa tveechat

[@ghettoalien]

I’m Nigerian and I must confess I love the Russian language more than any other signature of air vibraiting arooound my year (👂)

[@S4y-My-N4me]

Американский акцент русского акцента английского языка. Потрясающе!

[@ВячеславРусаков-м3ж]

Корректней сказать русский акцента американского диалекта английского языка

[@mistercatyan123]

Так автор знает русский

[@alexeitimoshin]

in Russian language we don't use any “KH” combined sound. It’s the same thing as English [H], but with another position of tongue. You can use “K” sound to set right position of your tongue, then make a tiny gap between tongue and palate and make exhale. That's it, no need to make very strange “K+H”. To sound more realistic with “E” the “Y+E” should be heard as one sound. To make more flat and realistic Russian “E” sound you have to make a wide smile while pronounce

[@Pidalin]

Russians can't even pronounce normal H, as a Czech when I hear Russians speaking, I hear something like "chiet" instead of head where CH means like CH in Czech and other slavic languages.

[@EzhikPravoslavie22]

@@Pidalin если послушать как американцы изображают русскую речь в фильмах, то возникает один и тот-же Вопрос : ЗАЧЕМ ??...😕

[@Pidalin]

@@EzhikPravoslavie22 I can't read that shit

[@vladnikolsky1234]

@@Pidalin idk where you can hear Russians pronounse "H" like that. Only A1 level students maybe. I mean it is kinda clear that English "H" is lighter than Czech "CH" and Russian "X". I would say its a mix between Czech "CH" and "H". Its not 100% accurate but is the closest parallel i can provide. Maybe i am wrong with that example because i am only a beginner in Czech

[@Pidalin]

@@vladnikolsky1234 Yes, English H is not literally Czech H, it's between H and CH, but more close to H.

[@ШампуньЖумайсынба-з8б]

То чувство, когда я смотрю иностранное видео для того, чтобы понять в чём проявляется мой акцент😅

[@8ey3]

да 😂😂😂🤣

[@wayfare86]

ну да, мы же все говорим Респьект тебе, кхарашо посидьели вчьера)))

[@MonolingualBeta]

На самом деле лучше смотреть русские каналы, если хочешь улучшить произношение, они знают от каких звуков отталкиваться и наши типичные ошибки.Я смотрю Phonetic Fanatic, он объясняет всё настолько досконально, насколько возможно.Просто смотря видео на английском такие тонкости в жизни не уловишь

[@PonyGirl004]

@@MonolingualBeta For Americans who are learning Russian, is there a chatroom or someplace people can go to get practice?

[@MYNAMEizCLARENCE]

@@PonyGirl004 Just watch movies or Russian TV

[@hektor7798]

I am Russian and this was very accurate

[@TheActorsAcademy]

😁👍🏼

[@Asian_Sinch]

Glad it gets the approval lol

[@ДмитрийКузьменко-э1ц]

Relly? Even sounds "E" and "H". it was very unnatural. especially "H" in English is a dull sound, and in Russian it is voiced. no "K" needs to be added. just try saying "H" very loudly

[@quickly6065]

​@@ДмитрийКузьменко-э1цAnd the letters ,,d,, and ,,t,, are not softened in Russian.

[@konstantinsafronov7429]

Letter H shouldn’t be KH, it is the letter «х», sounds like a very hard H. You can practice that by saying H as KHA, but without saying the K like you do in the word know. Вот так как то. Надеюсь я правильно объяснил, а то как то не понятно вроде написал.

[@vintovkin]

Well, it is a Hollywood Russian accent, not the real one. In reality, Russian accent is quite soft, lips and tongue are mostly relaxed, pharynx is not so constricted as it is in English. That's why the first thing you need to actually learn to do is to relax your tongue, lips, pharynx and rely on vowels more than on consonants while speaking. Consonants should sound very soft most of the time. Russian articulation is quite similar to the Portugese one . and, btw, /r/ sound is much softer, we don't speak with a trill, /r/ sound in Russian is soft and muffled in most cases. what you did by adding 'y' sound in every other place is also completely unnecessary. We do have 'y' sound but we use it only at the end of some Russian words and almost never when we speak English simply because there's no need to put additional sounds where there are none. for /h/ sound you do not need to add /k/. just remove excessive airstream and make it sound softer. All in all, it was a good attempt anyway, thanks for your great work:)

[@abeleva_vera]

Yep

[@Exyllr]

keep saying that to yourself old mammal

[@e-nglish635]

You don’t know Russian. You sound funny. And you are wrong.

[@vintovkin]

@@e-nglish635 well, I'm a linguist and a native Russian speaker, so I believe I have SOME expertise in this field:)

[@NoHealerJustPain]

Acctually when I heard European Portuguese for the first time I was shocked how Eastern European (Slavonic) it sounds ;)

[@anamerkury8881]

I am russian and I'm not sure about the vw sound. We either mix v and w ("viggle" instead of "wiggle", "wital" instead of "vital) or pronounce w as "ou". If you go for a light russian accent, keep the v-w mixup and add some artificial british accent (it was taught in school) with a rich american "r"

[@Ivan-qk2rn]

this video is a mixed bag. On the vw sound, he is actually talking about this slight difference between russian bilibial v (two lips are touching to make a sound) vs english dento-libial v (upper lip and edge of lower teeth). but it's kinda not a big deal for russian speakers: not mixing those up are a problem, you're absolutely right. and i agree, i've never heard someome palatalizing english consonants (making "ye").

[@cskyla1844]

Informative!

[@xJayAddams]

The kh just sounds like a K which I think it’s wrong 😅

[@igry_s_drevnego_kompa]

@@Ivan-qk2rn I think some of the points in the video are based on Rusiian transcription. The [kh] sound is transcribed like this, but is pronounced differently. And the [ye] is the same, we can write it that way, because the consonant sound before this one is probably soft, and in English they don't have soft sounds. So they probably understand how to write this one down, but they don't understand how to pronounce it properly.

[@nansyraccoon7095]

Никогда не слышала, чтобы W произносили как V, даже самые отсталые троечники и двоечники научались говорить "уат", а не "ват", "уигл", а не "вигл". Где вы вообще такое слышали? .__.

[@alexkachur6358]

I am Russian and I confirm it's authentic. Almost. The only thing you got wrong was YE sound. You pronounce that as a combination of two sounds but it's actually ONE sound. And that's how we detect american spies here in Russia🤣 Other then that, the pronounciation is perfect! 😄

[@EzhikPravoslavie22]

Зачем вы выдали наш секрет, ТОвАриЩ ?... 😊

[@alexkachur6358]

@@EzhikPravoslavie22 Самый Главный Секрет они не знают 😂

[@alexkachur6358]

@@abcd-dk5zpвот сейчас я сам почувствовал себя американским шпионом 😳

[@jamesoo96571]

Все верно, это потому что американцам очень сложно произнести мягкие согласные, они к примеру не могут сказать привет, они говорят что-то похожее на привйет. Поэтому не могут сказать респект с мягкой п, потому что у них нет таких звуков

[@EzhikPravoslavie22]

@@jamesoo96571 неужели все не могут произносить мягкие согласные?

[@igry_s_drevnego_kompa]

Thank you for this masterclass, it was interesting! I am surprised somebody wants to learn it)) I would like to contribule a little. In Russian language we usually make the last consonant sound unvoiced, it is very important. We also do this while speaking English. For example, the word 'dead' should be pronounced as [det], 'bread' is [bret]. It can make you sound much more Russian. Also, sound [w] is often just [v], it's much easier) And the [kh] sound is not so literal [kh]. It's more like [h] but pronounced much stronger. Like, you need to raise the middle of your tongue up, strain it and blow the air out of your mouth with some force. I don't mean to be a party pooper, just want to help a little)

[@eazynice]

Очень качественно разъяснили, однако.

[@igry_s_drevnego_kompa]

@@eazynice спасибо)

[@MultiBadger32]

The friactive 'h' exists in English, especially in some Scottish names and words, so most English speakers will recognise that and be able to imitate it.

[@Stan_R.]

Про буквой "Е" неверно сказано. В русском языке звук YE будет произноситься только в начале слова, после гласных звуков и мягкого (Ь) или твёрдого знаков (Ъ). После согласного будет произноситься без Y. Когда носители английского пытаются делать русский акцент или говорить по-русски, то постоянно произношение этого звука неправильное. Ещё аналогичные примеры - это буквы "Я" (YA), "Ю" (YU или YOO), "Ё"(YO). Например буква "Ю" в русском после гласного звучит, как U в слове Universal, а после согласного, как в слове Blue. "Ё" произносится примерно, как сочетание букв YO в слове York, после согласного звука будет похоже произноситься, как U в слове Burn. С буквой "Я" могу в качестве примера указать сочетание буква YA например в названии компании Yamaha. Но аналога звучания после согласного звука в английском не могу подобрать. Звучит она как более мягкое произношение буквы А.

[@andrey_bakhmatov]

Многие англоговорящие поймут через аналогию с начинающимися на "la ..." французскими брендами (между ла и ля)

[@socksdealer]

It is Hollywood Russian, not actual. Believe me, друг

[@seniordaniel8914]

I and ooo sound is realistic but ye, you are right

[@COEYRN]

I totally 100% agree with you. My 14 year old keeps doing this and I'm like dude you're just going to offend people. Plus that's probably not a real accent that's movie accent. So thank you❤ I now have proof. I can show my 14 year old so he actually believes that Mom may actually be right😅😅 that's a lot of actually LOL once again thank you

[@socksdealer]

​@@COEYRNIn Russia, people also parody foreigners, who in turn parody Russians xD It looks like Ivan Drago on 99lvl. But the funniest so-called "Russian accent" belongs to Arnold Schwarzenegger from the Red Hat movie. By the way, nobody in Russia considers such an accent parody offensive at all, people are used to exaggerate such jokes to make foreigners be puzzled and confused.😊

[@wisdom5167]

Comrade

[@hershey4680]

It kinda says "Actor's Academy" so...

[@mivmilos]

All these pronunciations really sound like a Russian accent, except for this one 3:04 . As a native speaker, I immediately hear that this is definitely not a Russian speaker. "Respyect" or "hyeck" doesn't sound like Russian at all.

[@richi4808]

Они если че не понимают твоих двойных скобок

[@mivmilos]

@@richi4808 Да, сам знаю. Оно как-то само получается

[@Honeybadger0010]

It all depends on how well a native Russian speaker was studying English. Those whose English is limited by their high school English will speak with strong east European accent like the author is presenting here with strong British like pronunciation. Those who have lived many years in North America and actually tried to improve their accent will quickly learn how to properly pronounce th, w, h and oo. But even those who can speak absolutely fluently and even think in English will still struggle once in a while with American spelling of words that have o or u in them. Such as hot and hut. There's a slight difference but most Russian natives will just say "хат". Another big problem for all Russian language speakers is when to use articles "a" and "the" or no article. Even advanced speakers sometimes confuse their use as there are no articles in Russian language at all.

[@Pidalin]

What about words like ship vs sheep? I noticed that some slavic speakers struggle with that, as a Czech, I have an advantage that we have long vowels, so I clearly hear the difference.

[@Olga-ql3lx]

​@@Pidalinthat is really a problem. We just can't hear the difference. That's why it's almost impossible for us Russians to pronounce these words correctly

[@Pidalin]

@@Olga-ql3lx We simplify it to "šip" and "šíp" like if it was written in Czech, which is not always 100% correct pronunciation, but better than nothing. 🙂 Worse are vowels which sound like some schwa or combination of more vowels, that's very hard for us to pronounce. I can do it for separate words, but in whole sentence, I have to simplify it, so words like had or that will be "het" and "det" because even TH is hard to pronounce in whole sentence, especially when there is more words like that. We mostly pronounce D at the end of words like T, but I noticed that some English speakers make that efford to really say D there.

[@dentzw80]

@@Olga-ql3lx ну, конечно же, нет. Всё мы слышим. Если бы вы услышали оба слова от носителя, вы бы почувствовали разницу.

[@_TheIntrovertedArtist_]

As someone who writes and creates character's with diverse backgrounds, this series has been awfully helpful.

[@ignas49]

well i think you should rewrite your russian character because this tutorial is ass, not even close to the real accent

[@nooblegook]

Hi, I'm russian. I don't struggle with w and th sounds at all. They're the easiest to learn. I find it more difficult with the vowels. I do pronounce them longer than necessary even after years of learning english. I botch my r's sometimes but I can get them right when I concentrate. Soft russian vowels are overkill. We don't do that to this extent and we don't soften them in all the occasions. It sounds more like movie russian.

[@faegrrrl]

I'm from Czech-American family with a very good Ukrainian friend. This tutorial is superb. This accent is easy for me hearing it almost my whole life. Well done!! 👏

[@akm_rpg_xakep]

Донт лай фор химселф, бест резулт итс онли спикинг он рушиан лангуаре.

[@CatherineAaBb]

@@akm_rpg_xakep донт лай ту йорселф*

[@nansyraccoon7095]

@@akm_rpg_xakep Ты всё напутал, май френд ))

[@emmanuelgoldstein9079]

It's simple: speak clearly and don't chew your words.

[@marblehurt]

Exactly!

[@ДенисКвочка]

Точно! 😊

[@wolfiecodesh9745]

as the russian native "Ye" is not accurate.

[@MaxShellenberg101]

About the letter R - that's right. As a rule, it is clearly pronounced. The author makes it sound very similar to a Russian accent. Everything else is very doubtful. But I looked at it with great interest. I'm from Russia :)

[@katalinhalmos841]

I thought it would be extremely difficult for me, but surprisingly it's very similar to my natural accent (Hungarian)

[@njdbm8nnfg2j]

Because Russian and Hungarian almost similar to the Finno-Ugric and Slavic ( ancestors ) folk

[@tiquangali]

You definitely have a good ear for accents and the video is great and has some good advices. However as a native Russian speaker i have never heard such accent from a Russian person, i only have heard it in movies. So i definitely wouldn't call this accent "authentic", instead i would call it stereotypical, or even a "hollywood" Russian accent. Of course its not your fault, i bet its kind of the point of the video haha, because its for actors and i guess people already have a strong connection that this "Russian" accent is how real russians speak but i wish there was a change in the movie industry about it. P.S. I'm totally okay with the accent to be harsh and strong, but it just doesn't sound Russian to me (probably because of the ye sound the most, just doesn't sound right)

[@Always-Tired453]

0:39 R 0:55 W 1:30 TH 2:10 I 2:38 E 3:09 U OO 3:40 How 4:15 2 Things: Slow Down Sound Placement 4:53 Bring Sound Back Full Sentence: 5:13 5:34 Etc.

[@user-lt7vt7pd6g]

Очень похоже на мои потуги в английский, когда он делает акцент. Весьма наглядно :)

[@RyujinZero]

I'll be playing a D&D character that I want to give a light Russian accent, and this was very helpful, thank you!

[@richi4808]

Is d and d from russia?

[@JaidenSparda]

@@richi4808it's a tabletop rpg

[@crackedbonesmusic]

Same! I'm learning it for my character

[@waywrdangel4189]

Any tips on lightening the accent?

[@ArtofComics]

Haha, I’m doing the same!!

[@hustleabroad]

I'm Russian and I study how to make a Russian accent lol. Thanks for the lesson

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Glad I could help!

[@hospadipomogi]

жиза

[@ghjjhhddf5990]

О да, тьепьерь я говорю со всьеми на кхорошо звуучащьем руусском языкье, только почьемуу-то тьепьерь я звууучууу как тье ньеймодианцы из Звёздных Войн

[@АркадийПаровозик-ы2о]

2:50 у нас так изображают американцев, говорящих на русском -- "привйет" вместо "привет", например. Забавно,что русские в английском ошибаются точно также, но, видимо, в других сочетаниях со звуком "э"

[@vladey.english]

Все дело в мягкости согласных 😃

[@dylanyarbrough6226]

Speed Reference: R - roll it, like once W - add the vw, "VWHAT?" TH - relace with a z or s sounds, whatever is most appropriate I - replace with an "EE" sound E - add the YE, "VWAHT ZE HYEK" U/OO - make it longer "foooood" HOW - say khow, this is a special case(i think) SLOW DOWN - you Russian english isn't your first language Placement - form your words from the back of the mouth practice sentence(s): How is that possible? You knew that the big red is out. What the heck. With Accent: "khow ees zeat posseeble. Yooo knew zeat ze beeg red ees out? Vwhat ze hyek." remember that russians are cool and you love communism or something.

[@jcatalan1496]

I’m Latino born in the city of Guatemala raised in the US for the past 9 years but I’ve always been attracted to Russian language and their culture and obviously the beautiful Russian girls are every Latino dream 🤣 I really want to learn the language I also enjoy their music a lot and recently I’ve been learning about the Orthodox Church and I’ve been considering for a while joining a Russian Orthodox Church not just bc it’s Russian obviously but because their beliefs align a lot with mine

[@Aloisio799]

Have you recently learned about the Orthodox Church? This is originally a Christian church, which split with the Catholic Church in 1054.

[@fantasy_worlds]

This is so accurate :) (from a native Russian speaker :) ) P.S. Except maybe for the E - YE sound. But so spot on with the "backing down" and slowing down and all the rest. Great one:)

[@wayfare86]

и где же это мы говорим Кхау итс гоин? чушь, у нас есть нормальный звук Хы))) у соседей ещё есть ХГЭ, вот там поинтереснее будет)

[@kornvondorn5275]

no, the ee-sound is exactly where russians make this mistake

[@pierrot1337]

Вообще же не похоже

[@ЭйденПирс-и8т]

Русские: пытаются исправить свой акцент Американцы:

[@joshs6259]

Here for DND.

[@waywrdangel4189]

SAME

[@God.Of.Mischief_1]

SAMEEE

[@RiskyPizza]

DUDE SAME.

[@fr4203]

SAME

[@Breaking-Reign]

100%

[@evgenytumanov2863]

I think YE sound is not really common for Russian people speaking English, I think it is how people imitate the Russian accent, but I don't know why :) I don't know anybody speaking like that. There is no so much "Y" in those "Russian" versions of words like "respect".

[@glitchkot1812]

Let's admit, the accent taught in the video is more similar to how we perceive the English accent in Russian speech

[@vis7603]

I feel your accent more Russian, than my Russian English accent. While I teaching in school teacher always teach us more English accent than “typical”Russian

[@gleand71]

Pretty funny, thanks. I have to agree with most (since I'm a Russian, so I have the kind of accent too). The only one I don't agree with is the "YE" in "RespYEct". Doesn't sound like Russian, I'm afraid. To do it more Russian try to imagine there's no "Y" there (which used to make you separate the "E" from the "p"). You should pronounce the "p" softer instead. "Resp'Ect" - soft "p" + "e" like in the word "yes" (but without "y" - remember?). I believe you know there are two Russian letters for "e": "Э" (sounds like "e" in "empty", "enter" etc) and "Е" (can sound like "YE" in "yes" - often at the beginning of a word - or like ['e] (didn't find another English word for that) "yEs", "ViEtnam" (BUT WITHOUT "Y") - inside a word). Sometimes in Russian you need to put the "YE" inside a word, so you need to separate the previous consonant from the "YE". Russians use the "separating soft sign" to write that: "Вьетнам" (Vietnam - sounds pretty much like in English - with Y: "VYETNAM"). But without this soft sign (Ь) Russians are not going to pronounce an "E" after a consonant like "YE".

[@timbuktu8069]

There was a comedian that pointed out that the Russian accent was very scary. So he learned to do it when in bad neighborhoods.

[@sentar_dv]

I'm Russian and have something to say. You explained YE sound a bit wrong, in you variant it sound strange even for Russians... But i don't know how to explain it by text. It must be heard to understand. About KHOW, also wrong. It's the same H, but sounds a bit more rough. It doesn't sound like there's K. Though, we're writing this K before H, to ephasize this roughness. So city of Khabarovsk doesn't sound like Kabarovsk, but sound like Habarovsk with rough H.

[@АляЗарипова-м7ы]

I'm russian and never heard that we pronounce How like "khow". All the other part is true 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Pidalin]

Yes, you pronounce it like that, Russians (similarly as Serbs) can't hear the difference between normal H and KH (CH in other slavic languages). You say "chjet" instead of head (written in Czech alphabet), for example in Czech with typical accent, we would say "het" because we have H sound, you don't have that sound in Russian.

[@theemperorofmankind1488]

@@Pidalin No, we freaking don't. His pronounciation is wrong. Our KH(it is just a transcription), the actual sound is like your CH, indeed.But the sound that he made is identical to the combination of (K+CH) in Chech, which is complete nonsense in Russian and we don't even have this Frankenstein of a sound in our mother tongue.

[@Irina-c2m]

​​@@Pidalin очень смешно читать, как человек не имеющий отношения к русскому языку, рассказывает как мы, русские, произносим те или иные слова. Совсем что-ли "ку ку"? Несёт какую то отсебятину. Проверь свой чешский слуховой аппарат. Или откуда ты там.

[@Pidalin]

@@Irina-c2m I don't need to speak Russian to recognize Russian accent. Ofcourse it depends on their level of English, but turning H to KH and TH to Z is something absolutely typical and don't deny it please. 😀

[@rinazh.2532]

@@Pidalin Z вместо TH - ок ( хотя это, скорее, относится к людям старшего поколения), но русский человек никогда не произнесет KH вместо H. Неважно какой уровень английского. С чего бы нам это делать? H (X)- буква русского алфавита и у нас нет проблем с её произношением. Откуда вы вообще это взяли. Под этим видео множество комментариев на этот счёт, которые вы, по всей видимости, предпочитаете игнорировать.

[@jairomontalvo4898]

Very good Russian accent, I am learning Spanish very slowly. Like you said, it is important to start speaking slowly when practicing a new language. I have a couple of questions to ask you, if you do not mind. These questions are just for education and inspiration. 1.) Are you an Actor who has been on videos? 2.) What do you mean by forward, backward, and etc. on our voices when we change our languages?

[@ronnienewman8709]

I need this for an npc in a dnd campaign and im so glad i could find this to help since i have some but very little experience

[@fenicklawz6817]

do you mean very leetle? ;)

[@Ерь-е6е]

Yeah for a Russian it sure sounds like middle African or Polish guy stuttering. We don’t use Y between consonants and vowels, instead we just soften the previous consonant being something more of a Spanish n/ñ situation. So it would be rather irresp̃ectable than irresp-Y-ectable which really sounds like stuttering. Additionally we don’t use a K instead of the H we just have the same H with actually the same tongue posture but the only difference is that you actually pronounce the letter and your tongue actually touches the soft palate rather than just “breathing” instead like in English. Again, similar to Spanish, namely to “J”. Also it would be nice if you had mentioned the difference between our T sounds, the difference is caused by actually different tongue posture, in English T is pronounced with a tongue being on the incisive papilla making it sometimes TS instead, whereas in Russian it’s pronounced after the incisive papilla being much closer to the roots of teeth which makes it just a basic solid T never sounding like TS. D is pronounced in the same position, so that’s why Russian D never transforms into a flap T (or just a Russian R based on the way flap T actually sounds)

[@РоманГончаров-г7ъ]

то чувство, когда до сих пор русский акцент изучают по фильмам..

[@Janusz_Zielinski]

Ну тут скорее наоборот, это гайд для актёров как походить на русского на экране. В англоязычном кино с акцентами постоянно играют, это не то, что в русском, когда вся интернациональная команда звучит как москвичи, выросшие на одной улице.

[@Bittergiggle_gaming]

I’m Canadian but for some reason I want to learn this because there’s a character in my game I want him to have a Russian accent

[@3nadsat]

Probably the most common mistake when people read romanized Russian is understanding KH as two sounds. In fact, “K” is just a sign that shows how in this case you need to pronounce the sound "Н" (as hard Н). The sound K in this combination is not pronounced at all.

[@lefroy1]

I thought John Malkovich's (5:48) Russian accent in Rounders was way too over-the-top, and not a good example of the Russian accent.

[@ninadruzhkova4341]

I am Russian and your video helps me to realize all my pronunciations mistakes :-). So I can try to do all your examples exactly opposite zat :-) sounds more natural.

[@shigaevgrammslov7154]

Русскоговорящие люди, которые наткнулись на этот видос ночью такие типо: 🧐🥸🤔

[@make-love-not-war-Z]

ахахахах

[@dargone3231]

For Russian language there are such dialects . Literature ( Donskou) Moskow ( Moscovsky ) Donskou willage ( Selsky) Ural ( Mokshan) Kuban ( Kazacky) Pomeran ( Pomiransky) Surjak ( Ukrainian surjak ) Maloros ( Ukrainian literature) Starorus ( Belarussian) Dagestan ( Caucasian ) Runglish ( English - Russian) Blatnou ( prison slang)

[@celifur]

I am Chinese and many Chinese speak English in the way described in the video！

[@skz_world_domination879]

don't know why I'm watching this as I'm literally Russian. huge respect, this video is really accurate. ofc some people from my country have more "sharp" and easily recognisable accent and there are also ones who's accent is so insignificant that it may even be impossible to guess that they are from Russia

[@gorayso]

Sank you. You toght me khow to do ze porfect Rassian accent. Spasibo!

[@moenimation1189]

Will never find the words to describe how professional your video was looking all over the internet to find something useful but couldn’t thank you for this video for sure I’ll watch your other videos

[@dmitryd6078]

The TH-sound in 'Think' could also be changed to F-sound along with the S-sound. So both 'Sink' or 'Fink' are perfectly acceptable 😂.

[@nansyraccoon7095]

Вот это хорошее замечание! ) Произносить "th" как "ф" - поголовно прям встречается ))

[@Pidalin]

Why you have it that complicated? In Czech, we just turn all TH sounds to D and screw that, it's simple. 😀

[@sergeychalkov4]

I'm Russian and I like to do Russian accent sometimes, especially when people say I don't sound like Russian.

[@sebastianlodge7549]

Recently got cast as Anton Chekhov in a play, so this is very useful thank you!!

[@masarter]

Great points, but you sound just as American speaking russian. It is not Russian accent at all, but some kind of mix between Russian and English. We use it often when we speak Russian with English accent for fun. You have a strong American accent while saying "kh" and "ye", because you say them separately, like "y" and "e" only staying together, but they must sound as one solid sound

[@TheMightyGodJimmy]

I specifically looked at this video because I’ve been told I do a Russian accent whenever I’m genuinely PISSED, I was curious about it because I’d never actually noticed it before and now that I’m watching this I’m realizing it’s… entirely true, I’m Russian but I never grew up in a place where people had an accent even remotely similar so I have no idea where I got that from. 😂

[@quantum_satellite]

Как носитель русского языка, могу сказать, что никто из русскоговорящих так не говорит по-английски - да, есть отклонения в произношениях (самое распространенное - сочетание "th"), но они не столь карикатурны. А в ролике русское карикатурное произношение из разряда " tovarisch, vere (where) iz (is) maj (my) babushka (granny), beer (bear) end (and) vodka ?' В общем, "kakije vashi dokazatelstva"© ?

[@killus6182]

Trying to learn “it’s Natalia. And I am not lonely preschool teacher, I am Russian spy.” As a reference to regular show.

[@Iceisreal]

I used this to scare my bully by using this accent on Halloween as a Russian mafia

[@ruinthuessia1078]

Russian accent just sounds badass.

[@andviktor]

One of the most important points is that when you pronounce the sounds “T” and “D”, press your tongue against your front teeth. Unlike similar sounds in English, in Russian, when pronouncing these sounds, there is no air passage, the sounds are sharp.

[@mattr4375]

As a Russian native speaker, everything is right on the spot. Except for EY and KH. When the accent fakers try to pronounce russian E, they are recognized right away by the language carriers. As a suggestion: don't go for EY or Ya, go for the softening consonant prior to the vowel.

[@jan_kisan]

2:45 this is the single most wrong thing about the Russian accent - or language. as kids we used to make fun of how Americans tried to do a Russian accent - and that is exactly the thing we copied. no. don't bloody do that xD what your can do instead - merge the y sound with the preceding consonant. this is what we do in Russian, and in a strong Russian accent (also in Ukrainian and Polish - although Inn Polish it would sound _slightly_ closer to your description). you gotta say the preceding consonant and the y at the same time, not one after another. it's kinda difficult for those who don't have such sounds in their language, but that would sound authentic. these are the so called 'soft' consonants (palatalized).

[@CosmicNameTaken]

As someone who speaks russian, I agree with most of this other than the k before the h, I find that the beginning of the h uses more breath and it's a barely noticable k, it comes more from the back of the throat, other than that though you earned a like and sub Note: Russian is not my first language, so I could definitly be wrong

[@nadjapek2001]

As a native Russian, I am very surprised that you hear our pronunciation from the back of the throat. We have all the sounds in the front! The main difficulty for Russians is to start pronouncing sounds with the back of the throat, as they do in English. As for K and H, I specifically tried to understand how we pronounce these sounds. And they are side by side in Russian, the tongue drops slightly after K and exhale hhh. We, Russians, are specially taught that English h is pronounced almost silently, just by exhaling x. This is difficult for us.

[@nadjapek2001]

But perhaps you are right, I thought. I talked about the Russian language, but there are Ukrainians and a southern Russian accent, so they have guttural sounds, and this can be reflected in their English.

[@rachella3701]

can you do a tutorial on how to do a NewZealand/kiwi accent next?

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Ill keep it in mind!!

[@hopcroftrick]

Kiwi here - hit me up for a yarn

[@zaazzaaaz1704]

Russian Russian is very patriotic, it was a little funny for me as a native speaker of the Russian language to listen, because right now you are pointing out exactly how you are trying to create Russian words, in fact, the difference in the pronunciation of letters and their depth, Russian sound, it is more accentuated in the allocation of sounds, clear p, sibilant sounds, there are many softening elements in English, this makes porridge

[@leen409]

russian is my 1st language. your russian accent sounds more russian than mine lol

[@IgoArs]

It's actually very bad. I'm Russian.

[@WilliamAlanLong]

This is one of the only accents I can do because I have a deeper voice

[@TheActorsAcademy]

Lol

[@goofybatz]

Playing Mischa from rtc with my friends and i needed to learn this, thank you so much for this!!

[@mtothepofficial]

i love rtc omg

[@goofybatz]

@@mtothepofficial love u for that

[@czesaw3368]

“Khow is it going” made me laugh so much. Because the man said “cow” but the “kh” sound is actually something in between K and H.

[@TheManul4ik]

I've watched this video for understanding how to speak without my russian accent And one thing is very important for russian accent - not open your mouth wide 😅

[@Кливенский]

I'm Russian. I speak English pretty good for many years. But now I know that I need a couple of lessons of Russian accent like that to be more natural Russian😅

[@vasiliynikiforov1976]

С такой инструкцией можно вполне уверенно ходить по небезопасным районам )

[@SantaCluster]

рьеспект май ниггйер, йу донт гйет май мани, ай вил шоу ту йу май макаров И всё, ни один бандос на улице не тронет :))))

[@vasiliynikiforov1976]

@@SantaCluster после слова ниггер речь бы закончилась ))

[@Pipka_888]

thank you very much. I have been living in Russia for more than 17 years since birth, but I have not learned the Russian accent, I already know how not to smile when I go outside and smile without eyes, but the accent was very difficult

[@archertam]

Basically right, except of one point of YE, which is completely wrong.

[@Добрый1337]

In the "Crazy Russian Dad" channel you can listen how our Russian accent sounds IRL. And we are somtimes confuse your articles.)

[@ashleymcdaniel8243]

I learned my Russian accent after watching Child 22 with Tom Hardy but when I was little I picked up the line “I must break you” which is my favorite thing to say (from Rocky when he fights the Russian dude) this video was really helpful as a visual to see the words spelled out with the changed pronunciation. This was quite accurate I’d say and very helpful!! Honestly just practicing a lot with it is the best you can do and like he said, watch and listen to Russians talking in interviews and movies. Very nice!!

[@ПростоИгорь-г8ю]

Русские никогда не снимали фильмов, в которых европейцы и американцы были бы полными придурками, а у вас это было поставлено на поток. И сейчас вам долбят в головы всякое дерьмо. У вас что, интернета нет? Или вы хаваете всю эту чушь потому, что вам просто необходимо чувствовать себя,, хорошими,, и,, передовыми,,? Вам так легче жить? Чем бы дитя ни тешилось - лишь бы не плакало.

[@Highwizardd]

learned mine from killing eve villainelle. kinda lost it so im watching vis vrideo

[@ПавелАртемьев-п2и]

This man in video teachs wrongly. E is not equal ye. In my russian language we change sound of letter m in word "kettle". We, russian, say k in this word softly "мягко". His pronounciation cuts russian's ears.

[@Norizz-h3b]

- I'm Russian, trying to get rid of my Russian accent. - KZbin recommendations: )))

[@ruskiana82]

From a Russian, i give this accent a 9.5 out of accuracy (referring to the st Petersburg russian accent)

[@router8351]

3\10 - максимум

[@nastasia-lgN]

Я всю жизнь думала, что KH и YE возникают из-за того, англоговорящим трудно произносить какие-то русские звуки, а оказывается их реально так учат 😂😂

[@jakobi7160]

Please german accent next

[@TheActorsAcademy]

I’ll keep it in mind for the next one!

[@DaCostaRica48]

im planning to go to school tomorrow and have a russian accent

[@fpshunter]

It sounds like you’re trying to speak Russian with an American accent, and keep that accent to speak English)) but sometimes it was really close) Vuy iZ Zis guy tRyin Too speeK ViZ a Rushn uKcent? Capital letters mean solid sound

[@НазарГолубцов-ж5и]

I am from Russia, and I think that it is not russian accent, maybe indian, but one hundred percent not Russian. Transformation "e" to "ye" it is maybe polish or chezh, but definitely not Russia. Many foreigners on Russia use "ye" and this one is really standing out them

[@Даша3-н1я]

Блиин, он просто раскусил нас. Он изучил нас, теперь его не вычислить, тк он стал одним из нас. Хочешь победить противника, стань им, думай, как он. ))

[@-zogekusari-3264]

Last year on halloween me and my friend spoke in a russian accent the whole time, it was hilarious