0:28 - What do the Hard Sign (Ъ) and the Soft Sign (Ь) sound like in Russian? 1:03 - The function of Ъ and Ь 6:45 - Using Ъ and Ь today vs in the past 7:37 - Ъ in memes / online comments 7:50 - Ь in the middle / at the end of a word 9:24 - Ь after Ж, Ш, Ц 10:11 - Ь after Ч, Щ 11:11 - Ь in "-ться" Long time ago, the Hard sign (Ъ) and the Soft sign (Ь) used to be short vowels. Today, they don't have any sound, they both are used to separate a consonant and a vowel (mostly Я, Ё, Е, Ю), only the Hard sign (Ъ) separates a Hard consonant and a vowel, and the Soft sign (Ь) separates a Soft consonant and a vowel. In some other languages, a similar function belongs to an apostrophe. ❗️ Keep in mind that in fluent speech, syllables with Ъ and Ь (i.e. МЬЯ vs МЪЯ) do sound pretty similar. Read more about Ъ and Ь in the description! 👆 *Learn* *to* *Read* *in* *Russian* in an Hour or So *(Full* *Guide* *For* *Reading* *in* *Russian):* kzbin.info/aero/PLpgpVaWoAiTF7qeZnkArrYt2Fd6CJf2au 👆 This video is a part of a *Jump-Start* *Guide* *for* *Learning* *Russian:* kzbin.info/aero/PLpgpVaWoAiTEF8aNQvPnFCLBrtIeF3tqa
@MazeofL3 жыл бұрын
Where do I vote in order to name you the best Russian teacher on the internet? You deserve the credit. You and your content are amazing!!!
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
😄 Спасибо, Алекс! You're so kind!
@benjiang97892 жыл бұрын
Quite agree!
@danm75962 жыл бұрын
I've only watched half of this one video and I'm convinced too!
@hache3182 жыл бұрын
agreed!
@catboy7213 жыл бұрын
So many Russian teachers go with the whole palatization speech for this, so I found this explanation much clearer and much more practical for language learners. Not sure linguists would agree with the 'apostrophe' view, but this was very helpful. At speed, Russian speakers tend to swallow syllables, so these are tough things for language learners to pick up on
@Sutatu2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I'm learning Russian in Duolingo and during the letters study I came across this hard/soft sign and I just couldn't understand their purpose. But your explanation was so good I'm only 4min in and I already understand it now! It is very similar to Japanese combo letters with 'ya, yu, yo', for example a common mistake I hear people say: Tokiyo (to-ki-yo) when it is suppose to be Tokyo (to-kyo). The 'i' in 'ki' is missing and you don't pronounce it. Other examples from Japanese: kyou (=today) and not ki-yo-u, jyu (=ten) not ji-yu etc... Thanks again!
@julianjohncraft3091 Жыл бұрын
Been studying Russian off and on for 50 years. I've seen/heard hundreds of pronunciation tutorials, and I lived with Russians for three years. Never have I heard so brilliantly unique an explanation of these two sound modifiers. The new ideas and subtle insights are deeply novel with a truly effective result. Fact is, many might show up at first for your beauty, but, lord, are they ever in for a surprise when what else they encounter is a very gifted, unprecedented quality of instruction. Thank you for all of us who are applauding.
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
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@adamoziris21012 жыл бұрын
DAMN, Thanks a lot, you saved my life. I study English with phonetics and I couldn't just jump to another language and left the phonetics aside. I was in a huge struggle to understand the sound of ь and ъ in Russian words, and you were the one that made it clear and useful. I'm really thankful ❤️
@adamoziris21012 жыл бұрын
...sorry for the bad English...
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
imo, hard sign and soft sign are convolunted ways of accomplishing two things - 1) taking Y sound and blending it into the preceding consonant, or 2) keeping a consonant separate from the following Y sound. If Russian had a dedicated letter letter for the Y sound, then the soft sign letter wouldn't be needed at all - the default would be to blend Y into the consonant, and only the hard sign would indicate separation.
@guitarfliud103 жыл бұрын
Ohhhh this was so helpful I’m gonna cry 😭 Tysm! I was so confused for so long!
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
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@adityaheriawanputra48033 жыл бұрын
Oh, it's really clear. Thank you so much for the lesson. :))
@AleksanteriAnttila3 жыл бұрын
Even though I cannot hear the difference in each of those words, this was a big help, thanks!
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
Just give yourself some time to get used to those sounds
@marioedson103 жыл бұрын
Hello Im Brazilian i started to study Russian in this year Im so Lucky i had found this Channel broke my all doubts about Hard Sign and Soft sign. this channel is really helpful you doing a great Job i really enjoying and learning by videos thank for Helping all of us teaching that amazing Language 😊!
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
Спасибо, Марио! I'm happy you find it helpful!
@hebreuisraelita3 жыл бұрын
Eu também
@dayanbalevski44463 жыл бұрын
In Bulgarian they make more sense than Russian because they have a sound in Bulgarian. ь sounds like j (aktjor) (Актьор) - a Actor or Сервитьор (Servitjor) - a Waiter Ъ sounds like 'uh' like in fun in english. It is used like an apostrophe, but it makes a sound between a/o - so it is technically a vowel in Bulgarian. Дърво (Д'рво) (D'rvo) which is "tree" or "wood" - the Ъ is used a "bridge" vowel to make the sounds softer/fluid between two consonants, and not abrupt.
@txdorovaa2 жыл бұрын
In our language, Ъ has its own sound, and it's a vowel
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
interesting. thanks for sharing.
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
I like this very much. that's kind of what it does in russian too, in reality, even though they don't teach that it does that. If Russian made ь indicate the j/Y sound, then they could get rid of 5 of their vowels. Instead of а, э, и, о, у + я, е, Й, ё, ю, + ы it could be а, э, и, о, у + ьа, ьэ, ьи, ьо, ьу + ы
@carloambito3334 Жыл бұрын
Akt’or
@carloambito3334 Жыл бұрын
D”rvo
@elvirasvensson52042 жыл бұрын
You just make me understand something I never did before. Thank you and you earned a new subscriber💪🏻
@samirkhoury2935 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, i've been pretty much confused with the ъ sign, dropped russian and started bulgarian because it has a similar letter yet it's different and i was still confused. Your video pretty much cleared it up.
@amysanchez36992 жыл бұрын
I think the apostrophe made sense for me as a Czech speaker because they're used to make a y/j sound in l', d', etc
@fluteloopsyd3 жыл бұрын
This sooo hard, wow. But at the same time it's never made more sense, so thank you so much; it really helped.☺ But I still don't fully get it.😂
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
You might want to start over from the beginning, here: kzbin.info/aero/PLpgpVaWoAiTF7qeZnkArrYt2Fd6CJf2au It's a break down of How Russian vowels work, Russian Hard vs Soft consonants, and a Reading exercise (3 first videos in the playlist, around 20 min in total). After that, watch the explanation for Ъ and Ь once again. It should make more sense in the end.
@fluteloopsyd3 жыл бұрын
@@RussianComprehensive Wow, thank you so much! I'll watch it.😄😊
@EstudianteTeco3 жыл бұрын
Отличное видео, прекрасное объяснение! Спасибо, я это долго искал
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
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@HowdyJ11 ай бұрын
Gotta' say, this is the first video I've come across that really hit it hoe for me. It's CRAZY subtle, but you made it as clear as I think it could be. Thank you!
@RussianComprehensive11 ай бұрын
I’m happy to hear that 🤗
@user-bg4ob1db4j Жыл бұрын
I just found this awesome awesome Russian language professor. She’s really good at teaching this beautiful language.
@romalleyza9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for explaining this! I a have been wondering why ь is found directly after ш in so many verb conjugations when it doesn’t change anything - now I know it’s for historical reasons only. Вы очень хорошая учителя, большое спасибо, Ольга!
@RussianComprehensive9 ай бұрын
Спасибо большое, Райан!
@user-lz6mz9hf3v3 жыл бұрын
Привет из Турции,я люблю русский язык🤗
@andrewccf3 жыл бұрын
You are the best and most beautiful Russian teacher.this vid helped me ^__^
@theplinkerslodge63612 жыл бұрын
Learning Russian is easy, they said...
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
3:35 the key explanation that makes sense, without a lot of words that don't make sense.
@Atlantiquasa2 жыл бұрын
Man....i just have to say from personal testimonial, thank you. Thank you so much for the lessons. When I started and pursued Russian as a single black guy in Miami, my peers and family called me crazy, deeming it as impossible for someone like me. With so much doubt, it fueled the fire needed to keep going, despite the progressive difficulties. Youve lost faith in us as your distant Russian language students, and as a result, i too never lost faith in your teaching skills and my learning skills. In the month of November, im happy to say I will be expressing my absolute gratitude and happiness with having learned Russian through you at a beginners level, and will keep it going. So, from the bottom of my heart, спасибо! Someday i see myself leaving comments purely in Russian thanks to you!
@perloofficial3 жыл бұрын
Супер! Очень интересно, спасибо большое
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
Спасибо, Джанкарло!
@BigbackNeru Жыл бұрын
Omg tysm it helped me a lot ! Also good explaining ! 😍😍 I learned so much from you :D I love Russian,but i always wondered what ь and ъ sounded like, how they're used,when they're used,and now i know ! Tysm
@MichaelB-wm5cg2 жыл бұрын
Best video on helping me with pronunciation I have come across. Сбасибо.
@paulocoutinho91336 ай бұрын
Здравствуйте из Бразилии. Очень симпатичная и вежливая. Мне тонкие разницы. Как Ш и Щ. 😊
@practiceday-to-dayhindi6083 Жыл бұрын
Indeed, you are the best teacher so far I’ve found on you tube. Kudos !👏👍🏻👏
@user-ub4ud9gy4d2 жыл бұрын
I have lived in Moscow 22 years, and the soft sign is still the bane of my existence.
@rainycream5302 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. It’s very helpful and easy to be understood
@VerticalBlank2 жыл бұрын
This is so much more helpful than all the other channels.
@mr_afraz2 жыл бұрын
Very Knowledgeable Content, Viewer From India 🇮🇳
@jsjb3468 Жыл бұрын
Спасибо
@JohnAGoldsmith Жыл бұрын
Like the other comments here say: this is really an excellent presentation, in every way.
@DeadnWoon2 жыл бұрын
By the way, as the man who reads liturgical texts in Church Slavonic language at the church services, I must add that in much-older-Russian, hard sign was possible before non-iotated vowels, as well.
@AnisHamadeh2 жыл бұрын
Aha, now I'm beginning to get it ... Dankeschön, Спасибо!
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
7:45 i LOVE that construction. so perfect~! Hard.
@iskandar1494 ай бұрын
what an amazing video, waiting too long for such one
@ghilliem.g.58242 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, i'm a native portuguese speaker so i'v always had trouble understanding this letter, that is because everywhere i searched, all i found was people comparing it to the apostrophe, but that always confused me because in portuguese the apostrophe doesn't affect sound at all. For example: d'água (of water) is pronounced like "dágua", without a pause. So i never got it when people made the apostrophe-soft sign comparisson, but you explain it perfectly in this video, so i finally understood what it is supposed to do. It compares better to the H in portuguese, wich doesen't have a sound but is used to change the sounds of other letters. For example, in PT "nha" is pronounced like "ньа" or "нья", and "lha" is "льа" or "лья", only situation wich this comparisson wouldn't apply would be "cha" where its pronounced like "ша" or "ща" (but one could argue does are kinda like softer "c" sounds), and "hospital" where it doesent affect the word at all and its just pronounced like "оспитау".
@nurnu349 Жыл бұрын
Yes, your videos are incredibly helpful.
@AyaChible3 жыл бұрын
The best explanation ever 😭💜
@johnpatrick41857 ай бұрын
Very clear! Visuals very helpful!
@angelawong0172 Жыл бұрын
I am studying Russian. I am subscribing you. 😍🙏🏻
@Xairic2 жыл бұрын
Very helpful video, спасибо!
@kartkoe2 жыл бұрын
this is super helpful!! thank you so much
@ZhivagoDoctor2 жыл бұрын
Best explanations of hard and soft signs!!
@rickortega8011 ай бұрын
I'm learning Russian now!! Spaseba!😁
@juanmab582 жыл бұрын
This video is pure gold!! Btw does anybody feel like the 'soft' sounds sound more 'hard' and viceversa? For example in мель/мел or уоль/угал. That last "L" in угал sounds like english L and for me is way more 'soft' than the previous word (that sounds kinda similar to an spanish L)
@RussianComprehensive2 жыл бұрын
I'd recommend you watch a quick explanation for Hard/Soft consonants in Russian :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6Oyd6xqqpyWr68 And the next one, to practice the difference between Hard/Soft syllables: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apS2mIOmprZlkJo
@elielsilva85862 жыл бұрын
I swear to you this was the closest I got to giving up on the language
@RussianComprehensive2 жыл бұрын
I hope you changed your mind though! :)
@sunsnows Жыл бұрын
Ohh I finally understand what the signs do now! But I cant tell the difference between the hard and soft sign :')
@Soundbrigade2 жыл бұрын
I am little by little guiding a group of retired people through the Russian language (on a very basic level) and I got the question about the soft and hard 'snacks' today and could just a little explain, but I will bring this great explanation with me next time. Really, I have to watch your lessons as there's one BIG problem teaching/learning Russian. There are always the possibility to ONLY transcribe the Russian words, but in that case a lot is missed, so I use the Russian words written in Cyrillic letters AND I (try to) transcribe the words and I explain why 'O' is pronounced 'A' in many cases etc. My idea is to make us recognise the Russian letters and successively learn how to pronounce them. I mean if we end up in Russia we will never see the sign 'MALAKO' or even worse 'PIVA'. PS. I started learning Russian in 1992 and was pretty good at it when I got to work in SPb for a few years, but am slowly forgetting some of my skills. But our class is in it for the fun of it and I have promised to arrange a tour to Russia if I ever win on Lotto ....
@RussianComprehensive2 жыл бұрын
I hear you. Today, traveling is quite complicated, but it’ll go back to what it used to be, eventually. Actually, it wasn’t even nearly that expensive or difficult as one might imagine. Before pandemic, a regular Aeroflot airfare to fly between Moscow and NY or Miami in the winter, was around $300 (for a return flight). I can assure you, it won’t require you winning a lottery when you decide to go to Russia :)
@Soundbrigade2 жыл бұрын
@@RussianComprehensive We are living in Sweden, and there are several travel agencies arranging a number of various travels to and in Russia. Two of the "students" had found a flood cruise from Moscow to Astrakhan and I had found a bus tour to SPb, Novgorod, Moscow and Velikie Luki (a place I have visited many times). But all and everything was cancelled due to the pandemic. Had it been possible to arrange a tour which also included visits to Russian homes, that had been fantastic. What I really want to communicate is, not just a few simple phrases but as much of the Russian soul I can give. I will take a good friend from Dagestan to her doctor on Friday and I will invite her to our group to tell us about life in Kavkaz. That kind of input is very important as I guess learning the language is a bit hard for some, but this is much about getting together socially and pick up a спасибо here and a здравствуйте there. The soft and hard signs are not on our level, but when someone asks, I have to answer, and your lesson helps a lot.
@deinemutter74727 ай бұрын
0:36 Well that is a nice sound!
@yashwanthramaswamy72773 жыл бұрын
Man this is by far the best video ive come across explaining the soft sign and hard sign , but there is two things im still not clear with , 1) hard sign, what difference it exactly brings from that of a soft sign?? either making the consonant harder or stressing the following й + vowel sound? , 2) when using soft sign after a consonant and between two consonants i cant help but notice that the only difference it creates is the tongue placement i.e. back of your teeth vs roof of the mouth. Am i correct?....... Very thankful for anyone who could answer!! :)
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
1. Ъ doesn't affect a consonant (it stays hard), while Ь makes it soft (though the pronunciation in syllables like МЪЯ - МЬЯ is very similar) 2. correct You might want to go through the first 3 videos over here, to get a better idea of what hard/soft consonants are: kzbin.info/aero/PLpgpVaWoAiTF7qeZnkArrYt2Fd6CJf2au
@yashwanthramaswamy72773 жыл бұрын
@@RussianComprehensive that was really helpful thank you :)
@ricknoelle45072 жыл бұрын
This was extremely helpful. Thank you for the very clear explanation. I'm glad I have found your channel.
@paulbangaladesh97563 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!
@n1lknarf2 жыл бұрын
very good. saw a tutorial someone saying tatiana with a strong N instead of making a stop at TATb and then pronouncing RNA. It's not the same Tatnaha than Tatbrna
@Kolsev Жыл бұрын
Super useful! Thank you so much.
@kigunawanedisantoso25673 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation. So good
@pravoslavn3 жыл бұрын
Would you consider doing a video on the vowel reduction which occurred in Mowcow Russian about 200 years ago, whereby the middle vowel O, when occuring in an unstressed syllable, is reduced to a back vowel? I am aware that Lower Volga Russian does not follow that phonological reduction. My guess is that the trendy elite began speaking that way in Moscow, and that practice spread, and then the Soviet Union came along and wished to standardize Russian all over the country, and so taught that vowel reduction as "standard Russian." A lecture by you on this whole process would be really helpful. (And, by the way, I utterly refuse to make that vowel reduction when I attempt to speak RU... ☺ )
@theludvigmaxis12 жыл бұрын
What an excellent teacher.
@sundarvaradhachari29382 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation even to beginner.
@danm75962 жыл бұрын
Awesome explanation!
@Troll_9969 ай бұрын
6:52 The Hard sign and soft signs past sound
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
10:35 why is it that in Russian writing, "SHy" get a special letters instead of being "SH+soft sign"? Why make this special case letter, but other letters have to use soft sign instead?
@aliceaccorsi27823 жыл бұрын
(5 dislikes)/(393 likes) = 0,0127 = 1,27% !!! This means that nearly 99 persons out of 100 find this video really amazing and perfect. I am not gonna make you compliments, because the mathematics already does them for me. 🤣👍👍 Well done! Best Regards, from Italy.
@fuckbored47242 жыл бұрын
This is the best explanation I've seen on this subject. Thank you
@story_street2 жыл бұрын
thanks i love russia and i learn russian
@user-ii5cp6ri2s2 жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation.
@gilbertoborges847810 ай бұрын
Excelente explicação
@sunving2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. I don’t know how ь follow infinitive to pronounce.
@RussianComprehensive2 жыл бұрын
-ть is pronounced this way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apS2mIOmprZlkJo
@EmilioAt778 ай бұрын
I've been studying Russian for a year now, and I think after this video I finally can get a hold of ь and ъ 😁 Благодарю 🙏🏻😊
@filipe5226 Жыл бұрын
And she said “Й у makes you”, I felt that 😔
@DeadnWoon2 жыл бұрын
In practice, the post-1917 Russian language sometimes used apostrophe instead of hard sign up until the 1960s or so. It may be seen in some books and printed materials made in those times. Ukrainian language simply uses apostrophe instead of hard sign.
@RussianComprehensive2 жыл бұрын
True, the same does Belarusian.
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
There isn't a difference between soft sign being between two consonants vs soft sign being after a consonant. In both cases the function is the same - it palatalizes the consonant preceding the soft sign. So it's better not to create unnecessary categories.
@user-ku4cn4hg8b3 жыл бұрын
That was complete and amazing lesson. but I still have some difficulty to diagnose which sound is soft and which one is hard... what I gathered was that when pronounce a letter with help of palate the sound is hard and other wise is soft. Am I correct? Thanks again for amazing video.
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
Check out the first three lessons from this Pronunciation playlist. I think, it’ll answer your question: kzbin.info/aero/PLpgpVaWoAiTF7qeZnkArrYt2Fd6CJf2au
@thelife8477 Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot ma:m!!!💝💝🙏🙏
@dantestv3878 Жыл бұрын
У смотрю обучение русскому, чтобы прокачать английский)
@hohu_doshik Жыл бұрын
Боже, жиза
@FCAFlyer2 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@gleand719 ай бұрын
ДОЧЬ, ЛОЖЬ, МОЩЬ - feminine, but ЛУЧ, КОРЖ, БОРЩ - masculine. When you read a word with a soft sign which doesn't seem to have any purpose, you can use it as a lifehack to distinguish feminine and masculine nouns.
@Anthony-dy5cq Жыл бұрын
It sounds like soft signs pull the syllable down where it appears while the hard one pitches it up where it appears?
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
With the Hard sign, the consonant stays hard, and the Soft sign makes the consonant soft. Here’s on the difference between hard and soft consonants: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6Oyd6xqqpyWr68
@gwho2 жыл бұрын
11:33 that's weird to me. why not soft Zh or hard Ch? it's totally doable, and Russian has hard and soft versions of all consonants.
@karlkueng8595 Жыл бұрын
Danke!
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
Oh wow! Thank you Karl, glad you found it helpful!
@p0lead0r Жыл бұрын
thanks!
@Eshyy_2 жыл бұрын
Я русская.... Но зачем я смотрю уроки русского языка? Я же английский учила...
@miyo_g2 жыл бұрын
Я то русская, сижу и смотрю на бедных американцев учащих русский... Вам предстоит долгий путь, друзья 😘
@lvvry1855 Жыл бұрын
Around 10:30 completely confusing. The Shcha sound is considered soft? It sounds very hard to me! Same with "ch". Obviously I don't understand soft and hard with these last consonants.
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
There you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6Oyd6xqqpyWr68
@adolfo7220 Жыл бұрын
I have a question. From this video I understand that both ь and ъ do not make by themselves syllables, and it makes perfect sense for words like семья where мь sticks with the preceding phonemes се-, thus yielding a two-syllable word [семь-я]. Yet, what about words like бьёт where there are no preceding phonemes for бь to stick to? What would the result be, either a two-syllable word [бь-ёт] (бь being a consonantal syllable, just like [n] in German heißen, IPA [häjsn̩]), or a one-syllable word [bjɵt] (in IPA) with a higher two-mora weight, [b] and [jɵt], in contrast with one-mora syllable ‘бёт’, in IPA [bʲøt]? I am really interested in this and I would really appreciate it if a native speaker could shine some light on how this works.
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
Бьёт has only one syllable. In Russian, it’s pretty straightforward, each vowel makes a separate syllable, so one vowel = one syllable. у-вИ-дим-ся (see you) от-лИч-но (great) семь-я (family) There are 10 vowel letters in Russian, right? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWWrlGmbhrSnZ9E
@MadiBarness3 жыл бұрын
Ngl but the Russian alphabet scares me. Every time I'm on a roll I find a new letter that makes absolutely no sense to me.
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
You could take the same approach as when learning music or code, for instance. You take symbols to read a melody or a command, not as a word, right? So, the Russian alphabet is also a set of symbols. If you focus on that and won't try to compare it to the English alphabet, it'll most probably take around a week or two to learn it: kzbin.info/aero/PLpgpVaWoAiTFTHeLvvnlFYNRsmC4FWd4j Once you're familiar w/ most of the letters, practice reading syllables: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apS2mIOmprZlkJo and then switch to simple words.
@HaliPuppeh Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what made me think of this, but would having either ь or ъ affect the devoicing of a final consonant or in a cluster since the consonant is no longer the last letter? For example, a word like тетрадь? Would the last consonant still devoice to a T?
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
Привет! There are voiced and voiceless consonants, and both can be hard or soft. A -д at the end of a word devoices to -т, and -дь will devoice to -ть. Тетрадь is pronounced as [титрАть]. I actually explain this over here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n57MiXqehJJ-mZI
@Thegentlebro1789Ай бұрын
the soft sign between two consonant makes hard the sound of the consonant that follows?
@RussianComprehensiveАй бұрын
no, Ъ and Ь only affect a consonant they follow
@flyingplatypus66882 жыл бұрын
I would argue that there is still a "y" sound to all of these, just that it's barely touched.
@hotsmissed99658 ай бұрын
when we have one of these vowels "Я Ё Ю Е И" in the end of the world and before them there is a one of those letter "АОУЭЫ" then the "Й" sound should be pronounced, but that's not the case with word like "субъективная" as you can see there is a vowel "А" before "Я" but when I run the voice translation it's pronounced last vowel "Я" without "Й" sounds ???
@RussianComprehensive8 ай бұрын
A word with a stressed Я would be a better example, like моЯ for instance, as unstressed vowels shorten. And yes, you will hear Й in Я when it follows a vowel, there's just no other way to distinguish it as Я, and not А.
@hotsmissed99658 ай бұрын
@@RussianComprehensive But it's the Rule of the language ! if "Я, Ё, Ю, Е, И" followed by "А, О, У, Э, Ы" you should hear the "Й" sound so why we don't hear "Й" when we pronounce "субъективная" ? although Я is followed by a vowel A?
@RussianComprehensive8 ай бұрын
We do, check my previous comment. Only you confused which letter follows which
@spencerdavis6937 Жыл бұрын
So basically if the soft sign is absent it sounds like one sound (мя = mya) and if there is one it sounds closer to two sounds (мья = mi-ya)?
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
Soft sin does not have a sound. It is just an indicator to pronounce the previous consonant soft
@spencerdavis6937 Жыл бұрын
@@RussianComprehensive oh no, I know the sign itself has no sound, I'm talking about the rest of the syllable all together. Like if I see мя, it should sound like "myah" (one sound) versus мья which would be almost like "mi-yah" with a more pronounced й
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
It doesn’t add any sound, as it has none. It’s a sign to show how to pronounce the previous consonant. Here, you can find what the difference between hard and soft consonants is (Lesson 5): kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6Oyd6xqqpyWr68
@spencerdavis6937 Жыл бұрын
@@RussianComprehensive okay, I think it's just a thing I need to practice. But it's something like this? На = "nah" Ня = "n'ah" Нья = "n'yah"
@RussianComprehensive Жыл бұрын
@@spencerdavis6937 kind of, if you were to try equate Russian letters to English 😅 English doesn’t have hard vs soft consonants, so in what you’ve written, n’ would mean a soft н
@lebed-lev Жыл бұрын
как говорится... "Ъуъ"
@hohu_doshik Жыл бұрын
[*звуки удушения*] у [*звуки удушения*] Смерть
@ishaanshorts2597 Жыл бұрын
Ъ is spelled like (tvriyeyrdeznak) and ь is spelled like (Myahkijhznak)
@_oli_42 жыл бұрын
I have watched several videos explaining the hard sign and the soft sign, including yours, but it is still difficult to understand the difference. I have no more hair to pull out
@redguard1282 жыл бұрын
Well, it's a thing that happens in Romanian as well. We add a short 'i' sound at the end of some words. Like "mici". You won't read it as "meechee" but as "meech' (if I'm to abuse the English pronunciation). That's the plural form of the usual adjective "small". The singular form is "mic" read as "meek", but the plural form is "meech" that adds this short "ee" sound. There isn't a hard sign equivalent in Romanian, but looking at this clip I immediately notice that the soft sign makes the consonant have this short sound we always use, because this is kind of a fundamental characteristic in written/spoken Romanian. Mici, pitici, căci, deci, furnici, pereți, căni, căști and so on (mostly used to form the nouns plural). I remember when I was in the first grade and the teacher explained this. I was completely disinterested. "Yeah, sure, whatever, what's so complicated about adding a short -i- sound?". Now after 30 years I found out it's something not so obvious in other languages.
@_oli_42 жыл бұрын
@@redguard128 I'm sorry. Your Romanian examples do not help me at all
@RussianComprehensive2 жыл бұрын
To understand how Ъ and Ь work in Russian, you want to first understand how basic syllables work. Check out the pronunciation playlist from the start, or at least this explanation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apS2mIOmprZlkJo
@rakhymzhanibraimov51392 жыл бұрын
Wich letter (ъ or ь.?
@doraemon84562 жыл бұрын
Б
@ahmedmousa58373 жыл бұрын
What's the difference between У & Ю ? Thanks in advance
@RussianComprehensive3 жыл бұрын
Here's a lesson on Russian vowels: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWWrlGmbhrSnZ9E