Quote Originally Posted by mvalenstein
On the Pimsleur lesson, one of the speakers seems to be almost adding a 'y' sound: пон(the y sound seems to be here)маю. I was wondering what the correct pronounciation of this word is: like ponimaio (my best attempt) or more like ponyimaio?
Correct:
ponimayu
To pronounce it as "понъимайю" (unnecessary "y" sound after the hard consonant) is a typical mistake of non-Slavic learners of Russian.