In Moscow speech (which is the base for the standard pronunciation used on TV broadcasts and such), the initial unstressed я would …

Почему зовут символ @ "собака"? Why is the @-symbol called "dog"? I saw this translation on the Babbel website. Most of the …

I'm studying Russian through the Foreign Service Instutute course available here. I'm confused about the pronunciation of the letter …

As far as I know, these expressions are correct: В двадцатом веке В век второй мировой войны Why does the first expression use …

"Э оборотное" is just other name for "э". The reason why it's called "оборотное" (sort of reversed) is that modern Russian "е" …

Jul 27, 2015 · Also, if the я is both unstressed and the word-final phoneme, it further reduces to [ə]. With the vowels е, и, and я the …

Nov 20, 2018 · The rule is "е" sounds like "ye" after a vowel, does the е[ye] have to be right in front of the vowel to sound like [ye] or …

Feb 1, 2018 · Where did the curious tradition of transliterating English u (sound ʌ) as Russian е come from? I remember at least …

Dec 16, 2020 · Should 'э' be pronounced as 'a' in "cat", or 'e' in "net"? Is its pronunciation context dependent? If so what are the rules …

Aug 30, 2016 · The [j] element in чья, чьё, чьи also makes sense from a structural standpoint - it's the same [j] that's at the end of …