Thread: Having difficulty with a couple letters.

This diphthong has been giving me many a good problem. If you could tell me how to pronounce ей that would be just lovely!

Remember it's: ей

It's just like Yay! in AmE. Rhymes with say, hey, day.

Those two letters represent a sequence of three phonemes, written /jej/. That makes it not a diphthong.

Sweet. Thanks for the help!

Ей requires firm pronounciation. If you know how to pronounce е and й separately, then it will be easy fpr you to learn how to pronounce ей. You just pronounce е and then - й at the end.

Yey

Ye as in yell

Originally Posted by JS

I don't agree with chaika. ей is not pronounced like in word hey, for example. This will be эй.
Ей requires firmer pronounciation. If you know how to pronounce е and й separately, then it will be easy fpr you to learn how to pronounce ей. You just pronounce е and then - й at the end.

He said it RHYMES with hey, not that the ey in hey = eй.

Originally Posted by TATY

He said it RHYMES with hey, not that the ey in hey = eй.

I agree with you. I have corrected.

just remember,

е = ye/je
й = y/j

so therefore:

ей = yey(yay)/jej

the wonderful thing about the russian alphabet is that a letter pretty much ALWAYS makes the same consistent sound. not like how in english one letter can be like a billion different sounds.

so basically, in Russian, the word is propably pronounced exactly how it is spelled.