Afternoon everyone,
I most words with х that I hear, it is being pronounced as the textbooks suggest (i.e. somewhere between the easy “h” in “hotel” and the harder-to-master “ch” in loch).
But кухня seems to be pronounced (to my inexperienced ears anyway) like “ku-han-ya”. So the х would be making a sound like “ha” not just “h”? Or should I be trying to say it more like “ku-hn-ya” without making another vowel sound in there?
Thanks again,
Simon