How to Pronounce Ы in Russian

[@TallTravels]

Jesus, 15 minutes on how to pronounce this sound! Ok I will watch, this is Ы ' s last chance with me 🤣

[@CheLanguages]

Thank you for this again Pasha, this is probably the sound I struggle with the most.

[@pashakovalenko690]

@@CheLanguages thank you for the comment!

[@CheLanguages]

@@pashakovalenko690 No problem. I'm finding your channel very interesting and I you're clearly knowledgeable. I hope your channel will get the recognition it deserves. Could I perhaps share this video to my viewers?

[@pashakovalenko690]

@ yes, I would very much appreciate if you could share the link to my videos or channel with your audience!

[@CheLanguages]

@@pashakovalenko690 спасибо

[@GustawStudios23]

Fun fact: Yery (thats what the letter Ы is called in English) is the only of the yer letters (keep in mind they don't really have any relation to the proto-slavic "yers"s but I use the term "yer" just for convenience) of the cyrillic script to still have a phonemic value in russian, the others, yer/Ъ and yere/Ь (yer and yere were what ъ &ь were called before the reform of 1918) are the other “yer”s.

[@Snowy_315]

so this is the sound I make when my math teacher asks me something I don't know... I understand now

[@joshadams8761]

French also has vowels that are subtly different to their English counterparts. When the French produce the sound spelled /i/ in IPA, for example in the word “y”, they bare their teeth, giving the sound intensity. The vowel in “beat” is more relaxed.

[@LucretiaEv]

I'm just a beginner trying to learn Russian on my own and your videos are very interesting - I like the technical explanations (as I'm a foreign language teacher myself too). I didn't know that пиши has the same sound as мы. They sound so different to me (for context I'm a native speaker of Spanish and a C2 in English). I would have said (from what I hear) that the и in пиши is closer to the short i (like in "ship") in English. But the sound in мы sound so much tenser and "deeper" as you described at the beginning. Am I too wrong? :D

[@pashakovalenko690]

@@LucretiaEv thank you for your kind words! Which syllable in пиши do you have in mind? You mean the second right? We pronounce it as п’ишы. I think it’s maybe me exaggerating it a bit to get the point across. In fast speech and how I pronounce it in пиши it’s very dialled back so it’s closer to like “ship”. Also the consonants has to have something to do with it. M is much tenser, than ш.

[@pashakovalenko690]

But then the more I think of it, пиШЫ и МЫ, ы in them sounds the same. And I in ship is a point of reference, but it’s not exactly the same. I think it’s the consonant before them that affects our perception and also it affects their pronounciation slightly. With M we close our mouth and then it’s sort of like an tense explosion in the vowel. With Ш it’s a hissing sound, there is already air going through, so Ы is adapts to this sound and is affected by it.

[@LucretiaEv]

@@pashakovalenko690 Now that you mention it that way, I think I understand what you mean. But in short, I feel I can say the unstressed version of ы better than the stressed one for sure 😅

[@pashakovalenko690]

@ I know exactly what you mean lol!

[@Marguerite-Rouge]

Personally, I focus on the consonant just before the letter ы. If I pronounce the consonant in the hard manner, the sound ы will be automatically correctly pronounced. Fortunately, I know only one context where ы is pronounced alone, without any consonant before it, it is in the title of the soviet film "Операция ы и другие приключения Шурика", so I generally pronounce ы correctly. For me, the most difficult sound in Russian is the letter р (both soft and hard). For context, my native language is French.

[@pashakovalenko690]

@@Marguerite-Rouge merci pour votre commentaire! I only can compare П to English P! I don’t know French that well yet. Do you think that the French p is similar to the English one?

[@Marguerite-Rouge]

@@pashakovalenko690 Sorry, I wrote р in the cyrillic alphabet! In French, we use the uvular trill to pronounce the sound r, but in Russian, it is an alveolar trill very difficult to reproduce for a French speaker.

[@pashakovalenko690]

@ ah you mean the Р! Then I misunderstood you. The Р is def very different from the French one. The lesson on Р is already on my list, so it will come out sooner than later

[@Marguerite-Rouge]

@@pashakovalenko690 Большое спасибо! Я посмотрю видео с удовольствием!

[@butterflyagnieszka]

how about л? this is the hardest one for me, it doesn't sound always the same 😭

[@pashakovalenko690]

@@butterflyagnieszka thank you for the comment! I’ll add it to my list of topics.

[@timon7376]

It depends on what goes after л,it"s pronounced either with tongue tip or the back part of it lifts up.

[@thieph]

Romanian language use more than most slavic languages this sound, except polish. Turkic languages use more

[@thieph]

Î/â in romanian

[@thieph]

Încântat for example, or împărat(emperor)

[@yoshiokaseejurou]

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