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    I imagine you are actually pronouncing an L but you just aren't tracking the movement of your tongue properly.

    Sorry, I trust the hundreds of years of Phonetic science than some random off the internet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    I imagine you are actually pronouncing an L but you just aren't tracking the movement of your tongue properly.

    Sorry, I trust the hundreds of years of Phonetic science than some random off the internet.
    well -- I realized the similarity between L and W when I was trying to learn how to pronounce "salad" in English properly (used to be a mighty hard word for me), and I was told that the version with the Russian hard L sounds quite like W.

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    Laxxy, maybe you try to vocalize your [l] and thinks it's kind of [w] sound? There is a tendency in the English phonetics, I must admit.
    «И всё, что сейчас происходит внутре — тоже является частью вселенной».

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rtyom
    Laxxy, maybe you try to vocalize your [l] and thinks it's kind of [w] sound? There is a tendency in the English phonetics, I must admit.
    I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "vocalize" here.

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    Vocalization is the phonetic process which core is substitution of a consonant with a vowel sound having similar articulation basis.

    I'm sure you also vocalize [l] in the word 'milk', so it sounds more like 'miwk'.
    «И всё, что сейчас происходит внутре — тоже является частью вселенной».

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rtyom
    Vocalization is the phonetic process which core is substitution of a consonant with a vowel sound having similar articulation basis.

    I'm sure you also vocalize [l] in the word 'milk', so it sounds more like 'miwk'.
    that could be it, I guess.

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    That's called a dark L, and is what I do in my dialect, and basically L becomes a W.

    However we were talking about Russian Л.
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    Во всяком случае, я произношу это имя так:

    koh vuh lev

    лол, это из-за того, что я не русский.

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    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    Во всяком случае, я произношу это имя так:

    koh vuh lev

    лол, это из-за того, что я не русский.
    А я ваще не произношу эту фамилию, так как у меня нет и не было знакомых с такой фамилией!!!

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    Я когда-то увидел игрателя хоккея, которого звали по этому имени.

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    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    Я когда-то (better видел)увидел хоккеиста, которого звали по этому имени.

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    It's Ковалёв anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    It's Ковалёв anyway.
    Yes, Its the only way to make it sound natural!!!

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    Вы не читали "Нос" Гоголя?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TATY
    Вы не читали "Нос" Гоголя?
    Мне русскую классику влом читать.

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    Quote Originally Posted by basurero
    Я когда-то увидел игрателя хоккея, которого звали по этому имени.
    "которого звали по этому имени" - так никто не скажет.
    Лучше: "которого так звали" или "у которого была такая фамилия".
    In Russian, all nationalities and their corresponding languages start with a lower-case letter.

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    спасибо за исправления.

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