Quote Originally Posted by Steven_Seagal View Post
- the letters 'Г' and 'Х'. Is Г pronounced g? If so, why is Hamlet in Russian "Гamlet"? Does X pronounce as "kh" always? I have heard it was just "h" before.
The problem here is that Russian does not have the phoneme we represent with "H" in "Hamlet" and elsewhere. It is frequently represented as г and even pronounced like that, I've heard Russians pronounce the name of the city Hamburg like Gamburg for example. Incidentally this is so far off that it will not be recognizable immediately to a German, he will think they are talking about some obscure place in the country, not one of the largest cities in Germany.

In some other words the H sound is rendered as х, for example хобби. The less rasping the pronunciation of х (which we Germans usually render much too harsh), the closer you get to the actual sound of H in either German or English.