Originally Posted by laxxy
The Pimsleur uses native speakers in their Russian program. Their speech is a lot slower and more articulate than what you can hear in a typical conversation, but I do not think they make any pronunciation mistakes. If you exactly specify the lesson and time, I can check a particular phrase if you like. But most likely, you are either incorrectly imagining how Russian is supposed to sound (for one, russian 't' is different from English 't', pretty much all sounds, both consonants and vowels, are different from their analogues in English. Plus the pronunciation varies from word to word, like in any other language), or you have really bad headphones.
I do have an issue with Pimsleur phrases though: some are quite unnatural and some are plain wrong. "Я хочу пить кое-что, тоже". Ugh!