How to pronounce Ы in Russian. Ultimate Guide to Russian Pronunciation

[@bagiraramah7560]

Thanks for the video nina.greetings from Nairobi 🇰🇪

[@MichaelB-wm5cg]

Спасиба. I had a lot of fun with this video making eeeee ooooo sounds hopefully the neighbours didn't hear anything. I shall be practising the Ы with the video. Great clear explanation with the tongue position. I have been fairly lazy in my pronunciation of ы by pronouncing it as И. Are there any situations in written Russian where the Ы sound changes depending on where in the word it is placed?👍

[@ninaandrussian]

Thank you! I understand that it takes a lot of effort to pronounce proper sounds in a foreign language, but I wish you to master your Ы! As for your question, no, if you read the letter Ы, you know it's pronounced as Ы. It may sound shorter or longer, but the qualities of the sound are the same. But remember that there are a couple of situations where the written letter is different but the sound it gives is Ы. The most important example: letter combinations ШИ and ЖИ cannot be spelled with ы, only и. But in pronunciation, the sound will be the hard Ы.

[@jofel131]

Thank you for these so useful exercises! I had to stop trying them when my house mate asked me "Are you killing a seal?" from the room right near, but until that I really improved my pronunciation!

[@ninaandrussian]

😂😂😂😂 I hope all this seal killing wasn’t in vain 🤣

[@jofel131]

@@ninaandrussian Not at all! Very detailed but concise :)

[@baileyshayne1532]

"Promo SM"