The best part is that one in which you say "If you say **** instead of **** I will still understand you"
@antoniawattssantos4 жыл бұрын
Lol awesome
@rafaelb.3334 жыл бұрын
@@antoniawattssantos are u russian?
@antoniawattssantos4 жыл бұрын
Haha acho que igual a vc, Brazilian :)
@rafaelb.3334 жыл бұрын
@@antoniawattssantos huehuehj é bom saber que tem mais gente daqui tentando aprender também
@antoniawattssantos4 жыл бұрын
Da!! Motiva!! Kaniechna ;)
@jvm-tv6 жыл бұрын
I still can't pin point the difference between soft and hard. I can hear some slight difference but I wish there was more explanation on how to pronounce them.
@BeFluentinRussian6 жыл бұрын
If you're talking about hard and soft letters, then It deals with the position of your tongue in your mouth. When it comes to the differences between soft and hard signs, then they don't have any sounds.
@richardvalvona11594 жыл бұрын
In English, we also have hard and soft consonants too but we just learn it from our parents naturally even though we never learn about this distinction. Just say "tick tock" and notice the difference between the 't' in each work. The 't' in 'tick' is a soft 't' while the 't' in 'tock' is a hard 't'. The vowel following a consonant determines whether it's hard and soft.
@TheLunablackheart4 жыл бұрын
@@richardvalvona1159 that just blew my mind
@joeschmoe78663 жыл бұрын
@@richardvalvona1159 i cant tell difference
@thealaskanforever3 жыл бұрын
@@richardvalvona1159 Tick tock? My T’s are pronounced the same still
@yuluvii4 жыл бұрын
Tip: To pronounce “softly” you just add a “Y”sound to the beginning.
@justjamie18554 жыл бұрын
really? thanks!
@yuluvii4 жыл бұрын
Just Jamie Np
@yuluvii3 жыл бұрын
@Тошшый Чел They're palatalized.
@yuluvii3 жыл бұрын
@Тошшый Чел Yes, palatalized.
@yuluvii2 жыл бұрын
@hello there I try to simplify it for beginners
@susansandler4 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your videos explaining Russian phonology and use of language. You really make it accessible. I have a PhD in Linguistics and find your videos to be the best I've seen in terms of really explaining the nuances of Russian. Thank you!
@TheLunablackheart4 жыл бұрын
learning the function of the soft and hard sign makes me realise how much i need to work on my pronunciation ahhhhhh
@kkoonn_6 жыл бұрын
Спасибо большое. I learned the soft sound but I couldn't understand why семья sounds [simiya]. Now I understand :)
@bane89124 жыл бұрын
I am fascinated by the russian language and started learning to speak better with family and a love interest. I started with duolingo and Rosetta and while they are helpful they are really "to the book" and just throws random phrases at you and sometimes its difficult to retain information without creating your own learning regimen along with it. Ive found your videos to be EXTREMELY helpful. Everytime im stuck in a concept I search it on your channel and find the answers. You are a great teacher thank you!
@Brillemeister5 жыл бұрын
The difference between those two letters has been mystifying me for years! Thanks for posting and God bless!
@sirenxo6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful explanation. You're an excellent teacher.
@jose76pe4 жыл бұрын
can you please make an example using soft sign, hard sign and no sign in the same word? I would like to hear how a word would sound in each case, thank you for all you do.
@christopherellis26636 жыл бұрын
But yeah! (Hard ) Beautiful! (Soft) Gaelic, broad and lean. Sem-ja, se-mja
@EricMachadoRaupp7 жыл бұрын
Спасибо! I've been studying Russian for the past months and could not get the language without the lessons you've been posting! Very useful and didactic!
@SongBillong5 жыл бұрын
I think people panic too much about this. This video explained it really well :-)
@joeyjojojunior17943 ай бұрын
What benefitted me most is when you say the two different pronunciations. Спасибо
@wardrm55986 жыл бұрын
Спасибо Федор! Я понимаю.
@ethanclark41163 жыл бұрын
Приве́т
@rasho654 жыл бұрын
I feel you are a good teacher. Thank you.
@ДмитрийХлеб-ф9е5 жыл бұрын
This is one of your first videos I watched, when I was first learning Russian. Thanks for the help!
@fake-r-4 жыл бұрын
Why ur name mean bread... Что за бред...
@Lemonadee771 Жыл бұрын
My god I'm confused, but thank you. This is the best guide I've seen so far.
@leederootv4 жыл бұрын
Teaching me better than duolingo did like a year ago smh. Thank you.
@VirikelАй бұрын
I spent time teaching myself the Cyrillic alphabet casually, while listening to Russian music and visiting Russian stores. Just experimenting with this particular language. For the most part, pronunciation makes sense. I can figure out how to pronounce most words, even though I'm not conversational. (Again, just experimenting for a hobby. I love languages.) But this was the hardest part for me. This was the one thing (two?) I had to finally look up. Thanks for helping! It adds a puzzle piece, but I think there's more here for me to eventually understand.
@irinasiberia548 жыл бұрын
я тоже начинаю с алфавита, произношения, прописей. Это очень важно.
@kaanyirmibir40873 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the music-free video.
@basicinfo68165 жыл бұрын
Please make another Video and explain soft and hard sign again in detail. Thanks
@sanhoo85253 жыл бұрын
Ого! А вот это интересно)
@YaShoom4 жыл бұрын
It sometimes seems to me that the letter “ь” is a more short version of the letter “й”, and the letter “Ъ” is a more short version of the letter “ы” (very short that it cannot be pronounced without a consonant)
@ScisaacFisaac4 жыл бұрын
If I understand right, that's how "softening" works: adding that subtle й to the end of the consonant, while "hard" consonants don't have that.
@YaShoom4 жыл бұрын
@@ScisaacFisaac Sorry, I didn’t understand what you wrote)) The fact is that I am Russian and I decided to write this "advice" for English speakers (and wrote it through Google translate) =) I’m saying words with a hard and soft sign and I understand that in fact I say the letters “И” and “Ы”, only very very short))) I don’t know how much I’m right, but I watched the phonetic transcription and it seems to me that I’m right in the long run (of course there are more intermediate sounds that we don’t even realize when pronouncing, but still, in general, I think it is)
@equisdos37416 жыл бұрын
the way you pronounce salt in Russian, is exactly how in Spanish, we say sun, and salt would be, sal, with an A sound in the middle. This double sound with signs is still a bit complicated for me to get, but this video was short and easy to understand; it helped out a lot. It kinda reminds me of English contractions where cannot and can't sound different but both words are used in sentences and have the same meaning.
@bonbonpony6 жыл бұрын
You can sorta think of the softened "ль" as the Spanish "ll", or the pronunciation of "L" when there's a high vowel (like "i" or "e") after it instead of nothing or the low vowel like "o" or "u".
@gabrielh5105 Жыл бұрын
Sí, está jodido jaja
@johnmaholick49915 жыл бұрын
Explained very well...easy to understand ь и ъ
@irinasiberia547 жыл бұрын
your channel - a godsend for foreigners! thank you very much!happy New Year!
@beatriznasser63828 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thank you sooo much!
@RapidCycling073 жыл бұрын
Amazing video brother! I have a lot to practice! Thanks!
@marshallreg Жыл бұрын
Love these videos. Short videos packed with useful information. Thank you for taking the time to make these!
@pravoslavn4 жыл бұрын
ФИДОРЪ - Thanks for this. I watch every video I can find on the subject of the Jers. I would like to see you do a tutorial on the concept of Palitalization in the RU language... which to me is the most fascinating thing distinguishing Russian from other Slavic languages (e.g. Bulgarian, Polish.) Миръ Всѣмъ -- КИРИЛЛЪ
@dabeeramir140711 ай бұрын
thank you so much ive been trying to figure out what these characters did for so long
@yes-or1md4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, u explained this really well
@GamePlayer01057 жыл бұрын
Have you made a video that tells the difference between Ш and Щ?
@GamePlayer01057 жыл бұрын
Never mind, I saw it.
@anybodynoname87676 жыл бұрын
Pedro J. Reyes the first one is more ecological, it uses less ink to write so...
@christopherellis26636 жыл бұрын
Š, šč or šš
@if-i-was-rude-i-am-sorry6 жыл бұрын
Защищающихся - zashchishchajushchikhs'a
@awawpogi30366 жыл бұрын
Ш-(sh)ip Щ-(sch)wifty
@dustincarl2007 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!!
@user_null3696 Жыл бұрын
Love the moment when he explained what "softening prior sound" means by saying "it makes the prior sound softer"
@doinkindonut5 жыл бұрын
Thanks soo much! I randomly took to learning the russian alphabet and this is the one thing i couldnt find a clear explanation for, you did so very clearly. only could you maybe come with more examples for the hard sign?
@annabanana3104Ай бұрын
Thank you ❤️
@celia36015 жыл бұрын
I’m still not quite sure as to whether you should put a ъ or a ь. For example, семья: I understand it makes the last letter “ya” and and not “a” but if there were a hard sign there, it would still make “ya” and not “a”. I’m just trying to understand completely to improve my Russian :) спасибо!!😊
@ВасилийВеликанов-ф1к2 жыл бұрын
если бы там стоял "ъ", то семья бы превратилость в семя) family and seed - there is a difference)
@aaronmorris1513 Жыл бұрын
I think what they are asking is that both signs separate a consonant from a y-vowel. So which one do you use in which situation? I believe it has to do with the consonant (some are hard and some are soft). But I’m not 100% sure.
@ethanspears71654 жыл бұрын
When I started learning the Russian alphabet, I found out from other KZbinrs that the the Russian names for the soft sign ь and hard sign ъ are мягкий знак and твёрдый знак respectively.
@pixie_tongue Жыл бұрын
thank you this was really helpful !!
@daughteroftiaran Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this video, I've been trying to figure out what the soft and hard sign do for weeks. I will say to my stupid English-speaking ears, the signs don't seem to affect the consonant sound but the vowel before the consonant! But at least now I know what I'm listening for :) Thanks again.
@qvasty_2 ай бұрын
не, как раз таки на согласный влияет. он его смягчает
@Andrew-yl7lm4 жыл бұрын
I honestly think the biggest problem I had was that EVERYBODY sold me the consonant sound changes, I finally figured out that it doesn't. Ъ just implies to fully pronounce the consonant and ь essentially adds a vowel sound, usually like 'yeah'
@kjullthedemon Жыл бұрын
It's kind of wild how much his English has improved
@JMDinOKC Жыл бұрын
In the old pre-1918 spelling, words with final consonants that were not followed by a soft sign were followed by a hard sign, e.g., садъ, онъ, even въ. In the 19th century the (excellent) point was made that the hard sign was superfluous: an always-hard consonant would always be hard anyway and an always-soft consonant would be soft anyway. For consonants that can be either hard or soft, it was sufficient to have only a soft sign, and a hard final consonant would have a zero-ending. This change was resisted by conservatives, but was instituted by the Bolshevik government after the Revolution. Overnight, the ъ went from being one of the most used letters in Russian to being one of the least used. Today it is used only as a separation sign, e. g., объехать. It doesn't affect pronunciation; it's retained to keep Russian spelling rules consistent.
@bryansixx30753 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, that is very helpfull to me!
@valkonrad7 жыл бұрын
Для носителях русского языка мягкий знак огромно важно, а для иностранах это совсем невозмжно;-) Очень жаль , но правда;-(
@ethanclark41163 жыл бұрын
Ты русский потрясающий!
@ethiop_frum4 жыл бұрын
In IX-XII cc. that two symbols are had pronouncing. "Ь" was short nosal [e], "Ъ" was short nosal [o]. Now, write and read some Russian words with old pronouncing: печь, пью, лъбъ, боль, тылъ... Live with it.
@ethiop_frum4 жыл бұрын
@RFT гы-гы, английский не родной
@DevilSpider_4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't it Ѧ or Ѫ?
@ethiop_frum4 жыл бұрын
@@DevilSpider_ that was another sound, but may be nasal too.
@СветланаФотиния-у7г4 жыл бұрын
Классно объясняет!!!
@mama_tarakon3 жыл бұрын
Lived 2 years in Moscow, did not know the difference until now!
@PsychicPi3 жыл бұрын
The frustrating thing is that I can understand the pronunciation difference between the R's, but I can't manage to pronounce either of them correctly. I think I'll come back to this video every now and then until I get it.
@stevedowning38927 жыл бұрын
So useful! Thanks. I started learning Russian last week on Memrise and that b symbol was confusing me. Also the T in the Russian word for 'happy', which I would be able to write, but my Russian keyboard conversion stickers haven't arrived in the post yet! Anyway, I will click the subscribe button after writing this
@xaxaxaksaksaksa14933 жыл бұрын
How are you doing?
@jackoblllllllll5 жыл бұрын
great video, thank you :)
@baseraazizi63316 жыл бұрын
So useful thank you s I started to learn more russia lung....
@mishah.3728 жыл бұрын
Oh god, that was so helpful - I'm self teaching and neither of my (extraordinarily helpful but unused to teaching their language) native speakers could find a way to explain these two diacritic notations to me in a way that I understood. So, for the softened л, it sounds a bit like you're rounding and aspirating the л, is that a fair description?
@bonbonpony6 жыл бұрын
Notice that even in English there are two different sounds for the letter "L" depending on its context, but this difference is usually being ignored (the two soundings are treated as the same, they're what linguists call _allophones_ ): When you say "lot" or "load", the "L" sound sounds dull and "deep in your mouth". But when there's a high vowel after it, such as "i", then you pronounce it "softer", more "in front of your mouth", like in the words "litter" or "leeway" (linguists call them _palatalized_ because the tongue is moving closer to the palate). The same phenomenon happens in Russian: when there's a high vowel after the consonant, it automatically makes it sound softer. Sometimes this is not what we want, and we need something to indicate that to the reader, and this something is the hard sign "ъ". It separates the following high vowel (like я,е,ю,ё) from the preceding consonant so that it can still sound hard instead of blending with the vowel and sounding soft. The other time we want the consonant to sound soft (it's usually the case with "л"), but we don't have to attach any unnecessary high vowels to make it naturally soft. And there the soft sign "ь" comes in. It tells you that you have to pronounce the letter as the soft sound instead of the default hard one, but without messing with the word by introducing any extra vowels that normally shouldn't be there.
@antoniawattssantos4 жыл бұрын
Omg! Huge thanks!
@mishah.3724 жыл бұрын
@@bonbonpony Oh wow! Thank you so much!
@aritano4914 жыл бұрын
Bro the way u said Дверь without the ь I could not for the life of me get it. The curled r is sooo hard to do in that word
@mengueleable7 жыл бұрын
really good video!
@sam-js1uh4 жыл бұрын
yOU LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFEEEEEEE
@popai4304 жыл бұрын
Ok everything's good and white, but how do i ACTUALLY rush b ??
@floxxyify6 жыл бұрын
still so hard to make a pronunciation about "ь" , could you please post some more videos, regarding the issue? and please do talk slower when giving the examples of said topic, much appreciated,
@Calmwords.4 жыл бұрын
I like how u teach брат
@Bigbywashere4 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@soijjo26702 жыл бұрын
Спасиб, братух
@ФамТхайШон4 жыл бұрын
i think solf sign is like an /i/ in english. when you see it at the end of word, you can pronounce it like an /i/ but don't create the sound /i/. for example I have salt in russian is соль, we pronounce it /sol'/ not /soli/.
@irinasiberia548 жыл бұрын
хороший урок, молодец!
@owtena7 жыл бұрын
Судя по имени и коментарию на русском она как и я сюда попала из любопытства :))) П.С. мне нравится, что ты говоришь, что даже если человек не может что-то выговорить, то мы (русские) его поймём. Это внушает оптимизм в изучающих. Спасибо! П.С.С. я иногда смотрю подобные видео из любопытства. Интерессно узнать как иностранцам объясняют грамматику русского языка :)))))
@irinasiberia547 жыл бұрын
, итальянский и французский
@irinasiberia547 жыл бұрын
***** я русская ,но учу английский , немецкий
@irinasiberia547 жыл бұрын
owtena да, но я еще помогаю изучать русский иностранным студентам
@irinasiberia547 жыл бұрын
Разве Федор не русский? (русско-говорящий)?
@PanglossDr6 жыл бұрын
Fyodor - Soft sounds cause lots of problems for English speakers. Here is a simplified version of how I see them: The soft sound basically is a y: ye, yo, ya, yu. When consonants are involved it becomes harder but, I think Russian pronunciation is actually consistent. So some thoughts: D soft or followed by soft vowel = dj T soft or followed by soft vowel = tch L soft or followed by soft vowel = ly but the y is very weak Does that make sense?
@Natadangsa5 жыл бұрын
All i know is basically the Ь is the same as ('), Ъ is the same as (") or stronger Ь, and Ы is (-y).
@СопряжениеПространства5 жыл бұрын
All right, but: T soft isn't - tch Try to say the word - "Beaty". "ty" should be very short, but you should hear it. D soft isn't - dj Try to say the word - "Daddy". "dy" should be very short, but you should hear it.
@dederredy8 жыл бұрын
Oh my god I needed such videoI
@iulianhodorog9979 Жыл бұрын
So, basically, the soft sign is a short i at the end of the consonant.
@alikbezzubik4 жыл бұрын
I'm Russian, so I was seen. Ъ - It's a solid sign. Ь - is a soft sign I'm just translating into English :) How to you like it? Lyke: yes Ignorance: No
@jaikhan14 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@druganema82192 жыл бұрын
The thing is when you have russian friends that you can learn russian vocabs from you might not even need this signs you just naturally memorize how exactly it was pronounced
@malakalammarie59973 жыл бұрын
the best part abt russian is 'ill still understand you'
@mariannaark58995 жыл бұрын
To me it sounds like they change the sound of the vowels before or after them, more than anything.
@_Epsilon_6 жыл бұрын
These signs basically add a pause inbetween instead of blending letters/sounds.
@BeFluentinRussian6 жыл бұрын
Sorta. Ъ- yes! Ь- you also have to soften the sound a bit.
@israelsantacruz243 жыл бұрын
Hey my friend, I like your language, I know very little Russian words 1 Объём = Volume 1 [Ob"yom]
@MrLastermers6 жыл бұрын
Is there another video that deals with how to pronounce the alphabet with the hard and soft sign? I know it has to do with the tongue's position but hoping that there is a video that clarifies it? Havent been able to find a good video on that so far and ur videos are awesome!~
@BeFluentinRussian6 жыл бұрын
No, 2 years later and I am still yet to make a video on it lol
@MrLastermers6 жыл бұрын
Be Fluent in Russian xD thank you for your videos tho! Really helps!
@av40553 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on pronounciation of 'o' as a
@danielgiovanniello7217 Жыл бұрын
I'm learning how to use the Cyrillic alphabet for the purpose of World Building for my D&D setting. I have a lot of countries based on various Slavic languages (Polish and Czech, primarily), and something I wanted to do is to translate the names of my countries into the writing scripts they take inspiration from. While Polish and Czech use the Latin alphabet rather than the Cyrillic, I still wanted to try to translate them phonetically from Latin into Cyrillic. I've done the same with my Eastern-Asian inspired countries as well as my Greek-Inspired ones. I even plan on learning a bit of Ogham so I can have my world's Dwarves use it as their writing system because of how well it thematically fits them. Here are the names for the Gods in these country's pantheon (their own names for the primary 12 gods of my world) that I've translated thusfar into Cyrillic: Эжка from Eżcha Чарнобо́г from Czarnobóg Конашка from Konaszka Anything I'm missing? I believe these are all phonetically correct.
@PatPatych10 ай бұрын
Those do not sound russian. They look polish written in cyrillic.
@danielgiovanniello721710 ай бұрын
@@PatPatych yeah, that's the point. That's what they're meant to look like. Because that's where I drew inspiration from for those ones.
@Po6om_Bepmep4 жыл бұрын
Блин, а почему "ФидОр" через "и" и с ударением на последний слог? Ведь вполне легко произносится "Fyodor" с ударением на первый слог. Разве нет?
@Spectronium06053 ай бұрын
Ok, so.... b and hard b separate vowels from consonants if they are after a consonant. 3:22 nevermind..
@RSDonovan11 ай бұрын
I’m surprised that you write the symbol Я from right to left, when the words are written left to right!
@meatmoneymilkmonogamyequal55838 жыл бұрын
Question!............. Im not sure how to pronunce this sound combination " ий", прохожий, is just " и" or is there some differance? спасибо!!
@Кенкенпа7 жыл бұрын
спасибо!! сама лучше !!
@Pikabycolorz6 жыл бұрын
It's like "eey".
@genshiyami5 жыл бұрын
Isn't like ee in feel
@astralkrazhtyin89434 жыл бұрын
i think i hear the difference there, The Soft One puts the tongue in the top of the mouth, while the hard one separetes the phrase. is that right?
@isistf90383 жыл бұрын
What's weird to me is that, as in соль, it seems to me that the л is harder than in сол, where the o is harder
@steniowoneyramosdasilva9238 Жыл бұрын
And how to distinguish мия from мья in the words семья and армия?
@curtpiazza168823 күн бұрын
😊
@hikodzu3 жыл бұрын
Ok
@anEyePhil4 жыл бұрын
I read that ь is used at the end of feminine nouns, and ъ was used to end masculine nouns before the script was simplified in 1918. Is that correct? Excellent video by the way. I wish my Russian was as good as your English.. большое спасибо
@pullman75402 жыл бұрын
ь at the end is usually feminine noun but sometimes it’s masculine like конь or дождь
@jaymay33307 жыл бұрын
Молодец!! Продалжай в том же духе! Скоро и русский выучишь!!-Well done!! Prodalzhay in the same spirit! Soon you learn Russian !!
@jaymay33307 жыл бұрын
Понятно
@ruthelenguillaume34952 жыл бұрын
I’m a native English speaker and дверь is so hard to pronounce 😩 how do I get that sound?
@tatianavorojichtcheva94583 жыл бұрын
Ну не всё так примитивно: мягкий внак делает согласную мягче, а твёрдый твёрже. Ъ имеет разделительную функцию, вот и всё.
@Levdep0619 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your enlightenment
@unknown_212183 ай бұрын
soft sign is easier than the hard sign
@parasharpatel37089 ай бұрын
2:37
@ocnajob4 жыл бұрын
I cannot play this video :(
@donwhitt98993 жыл бұрын
Семья or Семя - both sound about the same to me. Does the word have to be pronounced that exact? Most Americans don't say English words exactly alike, yet everybody can understand each other.
@ВасилийВеликанов-ф1к2 жыл бұрын
семья и семя - совершенно разные слова в русском языке)
@israelsantacruz243 жыл бұрын
🥰🥰I love Moscow, Russia.🥰🥰
@Hellbound-g3y4 жыл бұрын
That triangle like letter is no more in Russian 2:00
@LilieGremlinАй бұрын
I think it's just his hand writing for д
@Hellbound-g3y19 күн бұрын
@@LilieGremlin I almost forgot about this video , My bad I was confused with some other Russian alphabets that were removed by Tsar Peter the great in his attempt to modernize and westernise Russia Ѡ (O with two hooks) Ѧ (Yat) Ѫ (Little Yus) Ѭ (Big Yus)
@louboyish3 жыл бұрын
It is very difficult to hear the difference in salt. It is almost like just a difference in accent. My American ear is the trouble.
@andrewemery84954 жыл бұрын
You did not name them. 'Tvortisnak' and 'Mertisnak'?