Lesson 1 | The Russian alphabet ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO RUSSIAN PRONUNCIATION FOR BEGINNERS

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This video will help you to start to read Russian as here we take a look at the Russian alphabet, main pronunciation rules and peculiarities of Russian sounds.
Also, this video includes tasks for you to practise together, you always can stop the video if you need more time for answering.
Don’t be afraid of the Russian alphabet! Start reading Russian after watching this video!
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It is the Alphabet r wich is harder to pronounce

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I’ve been teaching myself mandarin Chinese for the past three years. At least Russian has an alphabet. Mandarin hanzi is terrifying.

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You are speaking very clear english so it is very easy to understand.

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I am from Mexico and I have just started to learn Русский. I loved how you explained hard and soft sound, it was crystal clear. Muchas gracias Natasha! 😇

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Thank you very much for your comment! I wish you good luck in learning Russian! 🥰🥰🥰

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This is a smart way to learn the Russian alphabet, I like it.

[@JohnAdams-1]

The Y sounds so pretty

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Russian is one of the tougher languages for a native English speaker to learn. Thank you so much this is not only helped me learn the alphabet but how to pronounce and spell correctly in Russian! You take a difficult and abstract concept and simplifiy it in 20 minutes in such a way for anyone to understand (was pausing and writing notes for retention purposes) Like this was such a good video and I am so happy I found your channel. 😊

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Class! Now I am also very surprised! 😀 I wish you success in your learning! 🥰

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As a Kurd I would say It’s not that difficult to pronounce the Cyrillic Alphabet at some point because we have alot of similar sounds. Thanks for providing us this awesome video ❤️

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I'm Kurdish and I find it really difficult

[@ertugrulozturk5433]

Do you have an alphabet as a Kurd?

[@Rammingkillerwhale]

@@ertugrulozturk5433 I’m from iraq (not kurd) and our accent has a lot from the Kurdish language. Yes, they have their own alphabet a little different to arabic alphabet. As an iraqi it’s easy to pronounce some stuff. Actually I’d say German & Russian remind me a lot of Kurdish.

[@1DrBar]

This is the best introductory lesson I've seen on the alphabet and it's pronounciation, anywhere on you tube. You cleared up some frustrating confusion for me in explaining how the letter e can effect the consonant before it. Thank you very much for such a well paced and logical progression of learning.

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[@Ester_Krupova]

"Hard" vowels: а, э, о, у, ы "Soft" vowels: я, е, ё, ю, и Voiced -> Voiceless consonants: Д -> Т В -> Ф Г -> К Б -> П Reduction rules: 1) Voiced consonant at the end of a word becomes voiceless 2) Voiced consonant followed by a voiceless consonants becomes voiceless 3) О sounds like "o" only when it's stressed, otherwise it sounds like "a" or "ə" 4) Е sounds like "ee" when it's unstressed

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Excelente Video y Explicación Natasha!!!!! (Отличное видео и пояснения Наташа!!!!!) I am trying to learn Russian with several of these apps for mobile phones, I'm using one with Android Было бы здорово, если бы вы сделали такой контент на испанском языке для тех, кто не говорит или не понимает по-английски. Привет из города из Mar del Plata, Провинция из Buenos Aires, Argentina (Город из Мар-дель-Плата, Провинция из Буэнос айрес, Страна из Аргентина)

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This is so useful. Pronunciation is very clear, as a beginner it’s helping a lot. Cool! 👌

[@natasha_rusnow]

Thank you! 😊

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Thanks Natasha, thanks a lot

[@natasha_rusnow]

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Happy to hear that! Thank you for the comment!😊😊😊

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Thank you for the comment! 🙂

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Very helpful. Clearly a lot of work and thought went into this lesson. Th content as presented was very well planned; logical in its format and organization; and in depth even in its concise delivery. Even the editing was well done! Thank you! Yet I am not certain how to pronounce what looks like "bl". Looking forward for more videos.

[@natasha_rusnow]

Thank you! ☺☺☺

[@valentinerose65]

It's basically a very strong letter, like in the video shown, the word "Ill". A strong annunciated letter as compared to the rest of the flat letters that don't get much power in pronounciation

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remember the style- alphabet, The Sound / how i can be part of the sounds /how did you start to learn other language ? as the how we learn Pedagogic - aim ! I saw i video of religions music - orthodox church /how to use your body muscle to articulate sound / get my attentions The muscle we have to produce a sounds . thanks for your approach of guide your Great Culture and language /

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so for hard and soft voices we go like feh and fih. hmmm Thank you for this video I was wondering where to start. Спасибо

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This is perfect! I was really struggling to understand vowels & reduction. I was so lost in my textbook. Speaking of textbook, is there a one that you would recommend for the self-taught student?

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Thank you for the comment! 😊

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Please make words video of vowels and consonants with sound ❤

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here from switzerland ..(french part of the country) thks ofr pedagogic lesson ;) merci beaucoup its à litle bit hard ..because so much letters we dont have..and also contradiction prononciation like here the P we prononce p like papa and you prononce ER ..im so confuse but so curious at same time ..and natasha you so beautiful its hard to focus ;) thks so much for sharing !!

[@natasha_rusnow]

Yes, I understand the difficulty 🙃 It just takes time! Good luck! Thank you very much for watching, commenting and kind words!💜

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Thank YOU for your comment! 😊😊😊

[@MrAterik]

Еще хорошо бы, чтобы вы объясняли как и куда ставить язык и т.п. В разных языках разные звукоизвлечения.

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Just visited Uzbekistan and kazakhsthan and understood Russian is very important to survive there so planning to learn russian and go back after an year or 2

[@natasha_rusnow]

Thanks for this comment! True, Russian is needed not only in Russia! I wish you luck in learning this language! 💪💪💪

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I'm already bilingual, know the roman alphabet, but thanks to loan words I can understand basic Russian. The Greek is PTSD from math lol

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wow my first time learning Russian. The key is to learn the sounds first and make the relationship from to another. BTW since my native language is Spanish it is a little bit easier since most of the words sounds the same.

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Good luck! 🍀😊

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As an Indian and a native Hindi speaker, it wasn't too hard learning the pronunciation of letters as we have different sounds we have in Hindi and due to this video. Спасибо.

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That's great! Thank you! 😊

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Hardest letter for me without a doubt is ы, no matter how many times I hear it pronounced, I just forget it XD

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