Quote Originally Posted by radomir View Post
It is just phonetic? . Let's see: хорошó , хaрошó, хaрaшó or хорaшó ? And with some other vowels one could find also some cases of ambiguity. There is place for some rules, with unstressed vowels but... of course it is of no use for Russian speaking people.
Thank you.
The unstressed vowels like in the example are pronounced neutral, close to "e" in English "sister". In some dialects you can hear precisely "хОрОшО" (Volga region) or some people from Caucasian republics can say "хАрАшо", but in common variant of language it is neutral.
The main rule in prononciation should be the following: there are some common pronociations of letter's combinations (сч=щ, тся = ца, стн=сн, е unstressed =и etc) but you can pronounce them just like they are written and it won't be a mistake, it will be just a slight accent.