Leo Tolstoy- How to Pronounce the Names of Characters

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[@alonzoq2358]

3:50 Anna Karenina

[@june7343]

THANK YOU!!!

[@guybrielhawk9659]

You’re the best lol

[@Anonymous-rh8jp]

Thanks for saving my time 🙏🏼

[@amandarockhold8390]

3:54 is when anna karenina starts!!

[@sunyata150]

I was surprised how easy it was to keep track of the characters in War and Peace. I had a way harder time with Crime and Punishment.

[@elenageber7893]

Really? Wow, you are super cool. It was difficult for me for the first reading, but the other time was better

[@Hallahanify]

I was so confused who oblonsky was because they go back and forth between calling him Stepan arkadyevich and oblonsky 🤣. I'm just listening to the audio book so its hard to keep track of who all these characters are.

[@RiaLamoreaux]

Yeah I can imagine how confusing it can get!

[@karrenamiller6562]

I always thought Anna Karenina is where my mom got my name from. She was a big Tolstoy fan. Mine is spelled Karrena and is pronounced Kar-Ren-A and this is the only name I've heard that sounds remotely close to it. I've seen people with similar spellings but pronounced Ka-Ri-Na

[@BiltmoreGhost]

I am attempting the novel for the firat time, and learning how to pronounce foreign names will help me greatly. Thank you for making this video ❤ Will help out GREATLY!

[@Fortheloveofclassics]

Loved this video! So helpful!

[@rogerjenkins1407]

Thank you for this! So helpful!

[@chuptee7523]

Thank you this was helpful.

[@radha7335]

I'm glad to find out my initial guess to the pronunciations of the characters' names was spot on. Yay!

[@Scribblescrabbly]

Thank you so much for this! I just started Anna Karenina 3:48

[@leewhite8355]

Reading Anna Karenina ,thank you so much ,helps while reading 🙏❤️

[@newjawn9004]

Many thanks. So very helpful.

[@HarryTarbox]

Thank you very much!

[@sajidrezakarim4059]

So it's Aan-na. Thanks.

[@surenderkumarohlayan6900]

Very useful 👍 thanks ❣️

[@bobjjjjj]

Great video. I just got done reading war and peace and am about 200 pages in to Anna Kerenina so its very handy!

[@RiaLamoreaux]

I am super happy this video helps!!:)

[@stephenleblanc4677]

Thank you!

[@stepanlindolforamos1332]

My name 5:26 And I am brazilian.

[@dkc77]

I have been skipping most of the names while reading 🤪🤪

[@jameslabs1]

Thanks

[@Sara-jy8mt]

great video, dasha! could you please do a room tour next?

[@RiaLamoreaux]

My room right now is a total disaster,so I can't promise a room tour any time soon,because I want to rearrange it and well,just clean it at first, but I will do a room tour once I do all of that:)

[@Sara-jy8mt]

+Dasha Mayon haha okies!

[@RiaLamoreaux]

Thanks for understanding!:з

[@Sara-jy8mt]

+Dasha Mayon no problem ♡♡

[@theaccidentalmaverick1781]

4:19

[@radiantchristina]

i love your russian lit themed videos

[@oscarfhills]

I hear you pronounce Karenina two different ways. ka-REN-een-ah and ka-REN-yeen-ah. Is this a matter of preference? Thank you. Great video.

[@manicmandownup]

When formally addressing someone you say family name, first name and then fathers name? Or...first, fathers, family? Thanks for the video...

[@stanislavatanasov7135]

First, fathers, family. I'd skip father's unless you insist.

[@rebeccahirschhorn5218]

Hello! I know this is a fairly old video so I’m not sure you will see this. How do you pronounce Andrei’s son’s nicknames, Nikolushka/Nikolenka? I recently watched the English miniseries and it sounded VERY anglicized. thank you for this very helpful video!

[@RiaLamoreaux]

hi! nikolushka is ni-ko-lyu-shka , stress is on O. nikolenka is read like it is written, stress is on O!

[@OnTheRiver66]

I wish I had seen this video before I finished, War and Peace. I’m reading Anna Karenina

[@syameze2227]

I'm at the library watching your video which is ОТЛИЧНО, by the way 😉 I don't have internet at home. My question is, is there a way that I could download your video to my computer, and watch it again later at home without an internet connection?

[@RiaLamoreaux]

+Sya Meze hello! Thank you so much! There should be a button underneath the video to download it, if not there are many sites that you can use to download any video you want from KZbin!:)

[@Hallahanify]

Huh I'm on part one I don't know who anyof those characters are

[@Hallahanify]

Oh you were talking about war and peace first lol

[@amalharl9397]

But how do you pronounce Serezha?

[@RiaLamoreaux]

It’s se-ryo-zha

[@annieterniak1799]

Who is this charming girl and what are her qualifications for Russian pronunciation? Is she Russian or a student of the language?

[@RiaLamoreaux]

Thanks for the comment! I am Russian:)

[@colinjensen]

One of the ways you can always identify a non-native speaker _of any language_ is "hypercorrection"/that they overpronounce things, use overcorrect grammar instead of colloquial speach, refuse to use contractions, refuse to elide and dipthongize (slur), etc. This video is a good example of it. Any American reading War & Peace, no matter how many Russian classes they've taken, would say "Rohstoff" instead of "rasstoff" (like /a/pple.) And it's /Rasstohva/, not /Rohstohva/. And of course they'd either refuse to swallow the K in Bezukhov or overpronounce it. An embarrassing example: I've never been to Spain, but in Spain they lisp / theta-ize their soft Cs and Zs. So if your name is Celia, they'd pronounce that Thelia. So again I've never been to Spain but do speak Spanish in the US (which mostly means I speak Mexican Spanish.) And I will occasionally theta-ize a soft C or Z, meaning I'll occasionally catch myself, when trying to impress someone, saying "grathias" instead of gracias." Or, worse, "graciath," which isn't correct at all. But it's how self-conscious second-language speakers roll (and part of the plot of Inglorious Basterds, if you're familiar with that film.)

[@mchobbit2951]

I know plenty of advanced non-natives that will use contractions and colloquialisms, myself included. I think that moreso identifies someone who learned in a classroom and/or from textbooks rather than from natives. Hypercorrection most definitely is a thing we all "suffer" from in one way or another though. Especially when it comes to pronunciation.

[@tykehotep2865]

One Question why do you think Tolstoy was so preoccupied with Teeth (namely strong teeth) he all most mentions them as much as Victor Hugo does the Paris sewerage in Les Miserables LOL

[@RiaLamoreaux]

I’m not exactly sure but that could be because the author himself had practically no teeth at the age of 35!

[@skytte61]

Great video, just wish you spoke a little slower when pronouncing the names 😬

[@hebert415]

Let it be know far and wide that it was I who cast the 400th like!

[@RiaLamoreaux]

Thank you!

[@paranoidandroidmarvin1525]

dear dasha, you mispronounced tolstoy's name. the correct pronunciation is something like tálstoy.

[@RiaLamoreaux]

ummm, being Russian myself i very well know how to pronounce his name. and there is a difference in pronunciation when you speak in english and in russian.

[@paranoidandroidmarvin1525]

thats so weird. could this differ regionally then?

[@paranoidandroidmarvin1525]

liked your video nonetheless. didnt mean to criticize a minor detail.

[@RiaLamoreaux]

yes, I think it depends on the language!