Thread: AaaaH! How do you pronounce Дела?

еко in далеко Is like the english "Eco", and sounds nothing like "Ic(k)o".

Its like saying that Ш and Щ are the same sound, they clearly are not.

Originally Posted by net surfer

It definetely doesn't. And it was a bad example because 'e' sounds like 'э' - [кампйутэр].

Hmm... It definitely does sound like that when I speak Ukrainian, but in Russian I've always pronounced (and I think heard) a different sound, which is the same for an unstressed 'e' and unstressed 'и'. Like, in 'компьюТEрные ТEхнологии и опТИмальное управление' I hear the same sound in all the capitalized syllables.

Well, you can say E in "компьютерные" but it will sound kinda weird at least to me because T will sound soft. And anyway unstressed E doesn't sound like "the English I sound as in It" as TATY said.

I made a recording, so we can hear that we're arguing about - http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/e-u.mp3

компьютерные технологии
далеко - unstressed E
берег - stressed and unstressed E

Yay, good jorb alexei. Unstressed E is like the e in Egg. Surely you wouldnt say its acceptable to replace E with I and say its still the same sound!