When О Sounds like А in Russian Language

[@infoscholar5221]

I've subscribed to several "Learn Russian" channels, but I have to say, Fydor breaks it down in an understandable and useful manner!

[@user-uj1rw8ym5s]

Wonder what am I gonna become when I stop being stressed

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

Youll sound like в

[@boghund]

You'll be tori a

[@vikab8929]

Никогда

[@herefobeer]

You'd be tori a

[@wdjh3434]

Happy i think

[@luckyluckydog123]

You did, as usual, a great, interesting and useful video Fedor, but I think you may generate some confusion by calling pairs such as б/п 'strong' and 'soft', because the adjective 'soft' is already used for contrasts of the б/бь type; the correct names are, as I'm sure you know already 'voiced' and 'unvoiced' (звонкий/глухой).

[@hectorquinones5579]

Came here for this

[@sweetpjeb23]

Oh my god this is so confusing! You explain it in a way that makes my head not hurt, though so major props to you! I took a bunch of Spanish in high school and college and it was sooo much easier than Russian!!! I really wish I had the option to take Russian then because now I'm having such a difficult time teaching myself. I'm so glad I found your videos, though! They help soooo much more than you know! Thank you so much for all of your hard work, Fedor! I really appreciate it a lot! I don't know how you're able to keep up with the channel and school and sports and everything but you're doing a really freaking awesome job!

[@wotan1028]

yo hablo español ia neta está bien fácil bro xd lo comple es el inglés y el musillo ay ay ay mi pape como la ves

[@pezos5]

7:56 well that's why the letter Й is called short I in Russian. Similar happens in English when you say Yes and boY those two Y don't make the same sound.

[@ЛюмьельМонталь]

The letter Й earlier was called (И с краткой) = (I with a kratka). The kratka is a sign (bent dash) on the top of the Й. But now it is an (И краткое). Not because of the short И sound, but because it is with the sign on the top of it.

[@dizzyDElKnobberChokker]

Thank you sir for all your hard work into your videos. One day maybe I can afford to attend your camp. I have improved my pronunciation of the little words that I know, thanks to your guidance. 🎉

[@Kori114]

Extremely helpful! Seriously. I really appreciate you analyzing things from a learner's perspective.

[@HeadintheBox]

This was a REALLY helpful video concerning the pronunciation nuance of красивый. Спасибо. I only wish that I had seen this 36 years ago when I was studying Russian. Fedor, do you have a short list of Russian film or TV show suggestions from KZbin? Playing films at 75% (or lower if necessary) or so speed seems to be the next best thing to being in a Russian-speaking environment. Also, would you suggest watching them with the Russian subtitles or without? (Sometimes they are incorrect and lag a little). Спасибо опять за помощь, Федор. Brian.

[@sweetpjeb23]

Head in the Box I'm replying because I want to know the answer. I watched Night Watch on Netflix with English subtitles and it was a realllllyyyyy weird movie. Like... really weird. But it was really good!

[@HeadintheBox]

Thanks.

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Не "опять", а "ещё раз".

[@HeadintheBox]

@@НектоНеизвестный-в1р Спасибо.

[@wotan1028]

you sayin 36 years ago and im not even 17 years old xd

[@ForsakenPixel]

This was really insightful information regarding the changes in pronunciations for consonants. It helped me understand why Бог is pronounced bok instead of bog and even more on how to say нового. Today has been a great day :)

[@TMD3453]

Great thanks. Helpful to hear these rules explained as well as having read about them.

I was waiting for the pair Я - И, it seems to me that unstressed Я usually becomes И, or something like that. :)

[@freeagentangler5159]

Excellent video explains a lot of my questions with the different sounding letters

[@genegreen9613]

Thanks for a very good explanation of something that had been puzzling me. Great job!

[@redalert7504]

Do you have a video on the pronunciation of ы, I usually pronounce it like uyi, like the u in under, and try to make a y sound as I’m saying the u, I don’t know if it’s correct though.

[@peterholmes3664]

these "minute details" videos are awesome because I was pronouncing it wrong in my head reading it at home

[@orisphera]

There are some cases that you didn't mention: in some 3-consonant combinations, the middle one isn't pronounced; ТС is pronounced Ц; sometimes, Е doesn't soften the previous consonant. There's also a rule that I find a bit weird: Ь followed by a vowel has /j/ even if it's О (компаньон, шампиньон) There are also some shifts that only happen in specific words: in берет (as the alternative spelling of берёт, which (spelling) I hate) and черед, the second Е sounds like (and can be written as) Ё, and, according to Wikipedia, it's the other way around when unstressed, though such cases are rare (probably an example is четырёхлетний); in мадемуазель, the first Е isn't pronounced; солнце is the only word I remember rn where Л isn't; there are also other cases.

[@s3rs312]

Which video of yours should I start with? I know letters and how to pronounce but I don't know the words and grammar.

[@AlexFG24]

Here it must be said that in different regions of Russia the pronunciation is different (Russia is a huge country :) For example, in the northern regions, especially in rural areas, the word собака (dog) is pronounced as it is written, that is, sObaka. This form is considered obsolete, but they say so.

[@AlexFG24]

@Scp 173 A dozen dialects. There are several dozen accents. There are about 180 peoples in Russia with their own language. Everyone speaks Russian, but with their own accent. However, these dialects are not so different as to cause misunderstandings.

[@AlexFG24]

@Scp 173 By the way, the most striking dialect is southern. This dialect has many borrowings from the Ukrainian language.

[@ХРИСТОСВАСКРЕСЕ]

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[@zin8324]

Do you mean «ударения» by “stressed” ??

[@eriksyring]

1:34: Voiced/unvoiced.

[@anamorel2634]

1:17 when i try to read my own notes because my handwriting is awful.

[@keltar2007]

Молодец! Хорошая работа!

[@erkansivrikaya3932]

My Russian teacher who is from Russia said that if Г is between two consonants, it is always read as B

[@SecondShiftPleb]

Apologies to all of the English language learners for our spelling. I really appreciate the Russian "true phonetic" spelling, even though there are some minor exceptions (-ово, -его). Is it possible that "-его" used to be pronounced as "-yeGo" in old Russian? English uses "old traditional" spelling rather than phonetic. It used to be a much more germanic sounding language before the French influence in the 11th century. We still keep a lot of the spellings from the old germanic way of speaking English. The "gh" in "enough" likely comes from a Northern/Scottish dialect where they use a harder "h" sound. So, ""-gh", would have been like '-x' in Russian. Today, that sound only appears in Northern England, in "Gaelic English". Also, take the word for 2, "two", for example. It used be pronounced as-spelled, as is the case in Swedish. But now we pronounce it more like the French "deux" ("ду/ту"). We haven't actually pronounce 2 like "two" in 1000 years, but we keep the old spelling. ...tradition, for better or for worse.

[@АлександрГумбольдт-р6ю]

interesting comments!

[@vulture4117]

I'm a native English speaker, and I sometimes purposefully speak broken English. When a non-native English speaker is around me when I do that, I always feel bad for them

[@Nagutama]

Why would you do that? What's the purpose?

[@boghund]

But why though

[@mahmah5897]

English is my 4th language and thank God I wasn't around people like you when I was learning:)

[@wotan1028]

@@mahmah5897 así se habla homie ese puñetas es un puñetas

[@sonjastaron3801]

I also noted that whenever a word (not names, like mine, "Соня") ends with "ся", the "Я" does not have the typical sound of "YA" but only is pronounced as "A" - by you (and some others) - could you speak about that please? Thank you. I like your lessons very, very much! Clear and to the point. Super! Also, when you make a new video, could you please leave the written sentence on the screen longer - it flashes away so fast, that even when I stop the video, the writing is already gone. Thank you again. (I always write down everything you say, especially, every word and all sentences in Russian. We need both spoken and written language to learn faster, and to review the next day).

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Возвратное окончание глаголов "ся", читалось как "са" в старо-московском произношение. Сейчас оба варианта верны (мы наблюдаем в реальном времени, как происходит борьба звуков, за право жить, в эволюции языка). Причём есть ещё более краткий вариант "сь" (менее формально и в быстрой речи). Я предпочитаю "са", потому что его произносить легче, хотя могу следить за речью и говорить "ся". Похоже что "ся" вымрет через сто лет.

[@Fire34900]

You should do a playlist of the shifting sound in alphabet that’ll be awesome

[@sithknight7740]

The O-> A sound happens in English too... people seem to neglect that bc it happens all the time. It's just unstressed. The most common example is "Stop"

[@auliaa1360]

great channel!! the videos are v useful!!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@caroleugeniagraham8634]

Fascinating!

[@LloydHamann]

Awesome video-- some of the first things I learned about Russian phonology.

[@sinkalos123]

So to get this right... ничего is pronounced nichevo?

[@briangiles-phillips3345]

Your videos are really helpful. I only recently found that the word for "little" in Russian is немного, but I still cannot understand why the ending oгo is not pronounced as OBO, but kept as oгo with no sound change- it would be very helpful if you could explain the reason behind it. I am quite advanced in Russian, it's just some word like this that catches me out with the pronunciation as I just assumed that every the г-B sound change occurs for all word with the eгo/oгo ending.

[@TheAuthenticOne]

+Fedor Shirin Вот-тут вроде вполне научно про -ова/-ева: marjulia.livejournal.com/110938.html

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Это разные части речи: Какого? (какОва), Русского (рУскава). Как? Немного (нимнОга).

[@airsoftghost]

Какого is another good example of the a/o change that had made me wonder about this so thanks Fedor. Now I understand that because the last syllable is stressed that changes the o but also the г, right? Or is it stressed on the 2nd syllable?

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Какого (какОва) и каково (какавО) - разные слова. Какого числа приходить в школу? Каково тебе носить тяжёлый рюкзак? (довольно сложно)

[@twoturntables9153]

"Listen to a native speaker since they speak perfectly." That wouldn't apply here in the USA! Boston, NYC, Kentucky, Texas all have their own "sound."😆 For whatever reason, YT recommended this video (maybe my phone heard the English version of "Russia Today" in the background🤔) But I have to say that I like your explanation of the sounds and I'm going to watch more of your videos. Maybe I'll learn something.👍

[@isikpamir]

this one was really helpful..thks..

[@shahamin457]

Спасибо за урок😄

[@dylan_1884]

Russian pronunciation and “sounding out” words is ridiculously easier than English once you understand the rules. Thanks for the bid!

[@laughercake3156]

that's strange, cause i always heard voiced sounds as the softer ones, and unvoiced as the harsh ones. weird

[@キャンマーカス]

are you talking about the soft and hard consonants in Russian? hard consonants become soft when it's the ending of a word or when it's before a soft consonant unless it's always hard like ц,ж,ш, and the soft consonants that are always soft are ч and щ. This does happen when a soft is before a hard unless it's С in Своей (note: this isn't the only word that does this but there are many exceptions in Russian)

[@homaghezel3272]

Thanks.

[@zin8324]

1:19 when i see the exam paper🤣🤣

[@anamorel2634]

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA

[@bobapbob5812]

I was told that unstressed "O" is still "O" in Siberian dialects.

[@Nitrxgen]

i'm attempting to learn russian and these videos help a lot, but i want to know, if you do pronounce russian words like собака and спасисо, so i should change the pronunciation of the O to A - but if i don't do that, is that unacceptable pronunciation? or just advisory? on more complex words if i ever forget to change those letters in my head, would people still understand exactly what i mean?

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Вас все поймут, но у вас будет смешной акцент (попробуйте в вашем языке поменять безударные А на О).

[@danielbarker5209]

Привет Федор, спасибо большое! You make great videos which are really helpful. Would you please help me with something, though? I do not understand the difference between даёт и дарит, which do I use and when. For example: "Учитель даёт словарь ученику." and "Он дарит цветы своей жене." What is the difference in the usage of these words, and why wouldn't both examples (or more like them) use either just даёт или дарит? I love Russian (I'm just a beginner) and I love the culture. I would really appreciate any input. Пока Пока!

[@13attr]

///I do not understand the difference between даёт и дарит, which do I use and when./// давать (даёт is the present tense form) - to give, дарить (дарит is the present tense form) - to gift

[@danielbarker5209]

+13attr, Спасибо большое! I did not know they were two different verbs, I (wrongly) thought they were different forms of the same verb. So, to make sure I understand it, даёт is kind of like just handing someone something, but дарит is to give someone an actual gift or present? You really helped me understand that better.

[@13attr]

///So, to make sure I understand it, даёт is kind of like just handing someone something, but дарит is to give someone an actual gift or present? You really helped me understand that better./// You got it right

[@danielbarker5209]

+13attr, спасибо! I'm glad you told me.

[@13attr]

Пожалуйста :) You are welcome!

[@shoshoe3632]

I'm from Brazil and this help me a lot

[@hectorquinones5579]

I think calling the consonants voiced/unvoiced is better than hard/soft.

[@VeryNotExtraordinary]

5:11 I've been saying it wrong this entire time -

[@masumeafzali7983]

Pls Pls Pls answer me I think you pronounce the letter "t" at the end of the sentences as a "ch" sound. Am I right?

[@LloydHamann]

At 2ː51, when you said "hard," the h sounded like the x (the voiceless velar fricative en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative), because I don't think Russian has an English h sound .(But, my language helper is from eastern Ukraine and says x words like хлеб as "hlʲep" instead of "xlʲep". I think this is a Ukrainian dialect thing because of the influence of the "h" in Ukrainain, perhaps)... One blogger explains, "There was never a h-sound in the proper Russian, but the influence of the Ukrainian church tradition in the 17th century brought the fashion to pronounce the letter "г" in the church texts as the Ukrainian "h", so that in the following couple of centuries the letter "г" could stand for both sounds and, in particular, used for foreign "h" as well as "g". With time, this double pronunciation disappeared, now preserved only in the pronunciation of the word "бог" as "бох", and this change of every "г" back to "g" affected the borrowings. Since the pattern was already established, new words kept being borrowed with "g", e. g. Гитлер, Гиммлер, even Гюго, where "h" is purely orthographical. However, since some moment in the 20th century, a tendency to use "х" in newer borrowings started to emerge, so that now we have "х" as a default, while keeping "г" in almost all the words borrowed in the past." forum.wordreference.com/threads/h-russian-%D1%85-or-%D0%B3.2785128/ All this is so interestingǃ

[@Kukkanisti]

I started learning Russian today, after learning the alphabets, and this O A thing was so confusing

[@unnamedchannel2202]

You had me at English is much worse! Welcome to Germäny, where Ärbersafde turns into Breschdlingsgsellz just by crossing a River. 🤣

[@metalspoon69]

This really confused me, спасибо за помощь.

[@bonbonpony]

00:45 No, it's not this way. It's rather that the English language came first, and only then people tried to figure out how to write it down, first with runes, then with the Latin alphabet. And since they couldn't reproduce their sounds accurately with the Latin alphabet, they had to improvise with all sorts of different ways to write it down with existing letters that sounded similarly to them in Latin. Not to count that there occurred some sound changes as the language evolved as well, while the notation stayed the same and didn't follow to reflect them. 01:33 More like voiced and unvoiced :q It's the same setup in the mouth, and the only difference is whether the vocal cords are vibrating or not, which you can verify by putting your fingers on your trachea and checking if you can feel the vibrations or not. 05:30 This still doesn't explain WHY does this change of sound occurs. It's just a mindless search-and-replace rule :/ And I'm pretty sure it's not something that is dictated by how the mouth prefers to pronounce it, because in Polish it's still pronounced as "jego", not "jewo". So it seems that this rule might really be just arbitrary. 06:47 And what if different native speakers pronounce the same words differently? :q Which pronunciation should I adapt to then? :P E.g. some people pronounce "д" as "d", while others as "dz".

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Потому что в польском говорят "jEgo", а в русском "jivO". Слишком неудобное сочетание звуков для русского языка (jigO - мне сложно произносить, но польское jEgo произносить легко, так что для русского удобнее jivO). Вы, ведь, справляетесь в своём языке, когда слышите акценты, так и здесь поймёте (в русском языке нет сочетания "дз", разве что в слове "дзынь").

[@roggeralves94]

Hey, what about the pronunciation of the ending -ая? It doesn't really sound like "aya" to me, it sounds more like an extended "a" or even a very short "e". Could you clarify that? Спасибо!

[@АнтуанСодицкий]

its due to the speech speed ! like in english we say "gottcha" to say "i got you"! do u see? so ая becomes а. and also я becomes а when it's not stressed ! and good luck 🙏🏻✌🏻😁 а... не за что, бро 😁

[@nas3]

Меня , it sounds like миня , is that right？

[@Shablagoo7861]

I would think so because я is stressed. If I’m wrong someone will check me but if мен was stressed it would be pronounced (myen-ya) and that’s hard to say all day, I would say.

[@TheYousefAlawi]

But what about немнога ???

[@christianayerh5262]

Thank you Fedor for this explanation. Мне больше помочь

[@antime9981]

You said we just have to listen to native speakers in order to imitate their sounds but the problem is that I don't trust my ears 🤣

[@sandrak3675]

What if I can speak, but can't write properly? I'm half Russian and trying to learn how to write the language, but these pronunciation things make it a lot harder

[@vladko2008]

Yes, but if you will read a lot of russian books you can remember how a lot of words to write properly.

[@hikodzu]

True English is weird, Pacific: C can be pronounces as S & K

[@isiah180]

I've also come to find that sometimes У sounds like А. Is that correct?

[@malena5578]

its not correct. but if u are still not sure about it, tell me words where u think the sounds can change by this way:) ill try to explain.

[@isiah180]

I don't remember specifically what word it was but У was at the end of a word and the voice that had said the word made it sound like it was А instead of У.

[@isiah180]

Will do as them come to me. So for the most part, У does not go under declension?

[@АнтуанСодицкий]

no ! there is no у pronounced like а ! it had never exist ! maybe u have some hearing trubles 😅

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Аккумулятор? (акамулЯтър). На ум не приходят слова у которых У в конце и не является падежом, вспомнил только "иглу" (жилище эскимосов), но оно произносится как "Иглу".

[@stiiinkyray]

Russian thankfully doesn't have things like enough, cough, and thorough.

[@rastislavkirovich]

Ого!

[@muhchung]

I agree English is way worse. Once I learned some other European languages with more regular pronunciation rules, I could never go back to standard Midwest American English--always confused. English pronunciation is so difficult.

[@greatestytcommentator]

Г is another confuser. Thanks for trying... hehee

[@rodgeryoung3508]

Его , пишется , но произноситься ево . У моего телефона , быстро садиться аккумулятор .

[@mattrivera8587]

😂😂😂 Fedor: English is way worse! Americans/Brits/Aussies: Yea, he has us there.... 🤷‍♂️ Height vs Eight vs Ate Ph= F sound Gh= F sound Read (present tense) Read (past tense) Red Lead (take charge) Lead (element) Poor Pour Flower Flour 🤦‍♂️

[@russkimalayu4125]

У Вас важный урок. Спасибо большое.

[@Серджей-ч5ц]

Со́бака ударение на ооооо

[@anmir]

These are voiced and unvoiced consonant

[@samhudge5979]

Why Russians don't write as they speak. I mean, you pronounce сАбака so why don't you write сАбака? In Vietnamese, we write what we speak. Of course, there are some differences in pronouncing in different areas.

[@BeFluentinRussian]

It's just easier for pronunciation, it's still very close to what we write...compared to English...

[@camradrip3730]

be patient. In couple hundred years appears a lot of cases like this.

[@НектоНеизвестный-в1р]

Because in Russian, the stress is constantly changing and the spelling of words will be greatly distorted. In addition, it will not be clear what sound to pronounce when the stress has shifted. You yourself say that there are other accents in your country and for them your writing is wrong

[@LoserBroProductions]

Can I marry you 👀 👅