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    pronuounce

    ok,

    my own language is russain but as i have been in egland for most of my life i cant speek russian no more. i have had a look around the site and it says how to tell the time etc. but it doesnt say to pronounce the words/letters.

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    Do you want to learn how to read Cryllic? Is that what your question is? If you learn that, you will be able to pronounce the words and letters.
    Vrei să pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei
    Nu ma, nu ma iei, nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei
    Chipul tau si dragostea din tei
    Mi-amintesc de ochii tai

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    How do you forget your own language, I've lived in the U.S for 12 years and I have yet come across a situation where I forgot how to say somthin in Russian? Just boggels my mind.
    Мой любимый чвет красный ну ни чвет крови, если понимаеш мина тагда мы в доле

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    I forgot my own language, because I wasn't exposed to it anymore. Nothing but English is what I heard, and occasional visits to people my adoptive mom knew from Russia but I forgot it anyway. It happens. (Thats because I was adopted from Ukraine though)
    Vrei să pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei
    Nu ma, nu ma iei, nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei
    Chipul tau si dragostea din tei
    Mi-amintesc de ochii tai

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    emphasis!

    Quote Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
    Do you want to learn how to read Cryllic? Is that what your question is? If you learn that, you will be able to pronounce the words and letters.
    Hello!

    We need more than just the cyrillic alphabet to be able to pronounce Russian text properly, no? For example, "спасибо" is, of course "thank you" in Russian. But where does it say how to pronounce it? We could pronounce it:

    "spa-SEE-bo",
    "SPA-see-bo", or
    "spa-see-BO".

    I know it's pronounced "spa-SEE-ba", because I know the word. Shouldn't it be spelled "спасибa", then? How can we tell, though, if we can only read cyrillic characters? Is there a trick to it, or do we have to learn it on a word-per-word basis like in English?

    Thanks!

    Milo

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    Unaccented O is always pronounced as a.
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