pronunciation of сообщение?

сообщение - not sure how to treat the double 'оо'.

Thanks

you treat each vowel as an individual syllable,
and these two "o"s are unstressed,
so it should sound like:

cah-ahb-SHEN-ee-yah (hard "sh" sound)

actually the end sound will be "yeh"

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Originally Posted by joanna

actually the end sound will be "yeh"

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Thanks. That makes sense.

поправочка--

са - ап - ш'ш'е - ни - я

The letter Щ is pronounced as a long "soft" Ш (or "soft" Ш + "soft" Ч) and does not sound the same as Ш+Ш. No speaker of literary Russian will confuse the two sounds. In fact, the vowel spelled И has two different sounds depending on whether the preceding consonant is Ш or Щ (pronounced Ы after Ш and И after Щ; compare наши and щи).

unstressed O is pronounced /a/, the first one might even be a schwa (e.g. the A in SOFA), and unstressed E is pronounced /a/ although here because it is part of a grammatical ending, there is a tendency to keep the /e/ sound.

thanks for the corrections, chaika -

i get confused with the 'hard' and 'soft' sounds i can't tell why one sound is hard and the other is soft - and saying them is even more difficult for me

But it just takes practice.
:)