Unstressed "а" after ч, щ, ж, and ш
I'm a little confused here.:? I have the New Penguin Course and Russian for Beginners by Duff and Makaroff. Duff says that unstressed 'а' after ч and щ is pronounced like и (часы, щадить) and like ы after ж and ш (жакет, шарлатан).
Brown doesn't even mention this. He just talks about 'а' being reduced whenever unstressed. Is this just a difference of dialect? How do Russians from Moscow pronounce it and how do most Russians pronounce it?
Re: Unstressed "а" after ч, щ, ж, and ш
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Originally Posted by Гюнтер
I'm a little confused here.:? I have the New Penguin Course and Russian for Beginners by Duff and Makaroff. Duff says that unstressed 'а' after ч and щ is pronounced like и (часы, щадить) and like ы after ж and ш (жакет, шарлатан).
Brown doesn't even mention this. He just talks about 'а' being reduced whenever unstressed. Is this just a difference of dialect? How do Russians from Moscow pronounce it and how do most Russians pronounce it?
Native speaker is here. :D
I do not know who is Brown, but he is right.
I believe "а" in my часы sounds a little like "и", and respectively
in щадить like "a",
in жакет like "и" ,
in шарлатан like "а".
Re: Unstressed "а" after ч, щ, ж, and ш
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Originally Posted by Lampada
Native speaker is here. :D
I do not know who is Brown, but he is right.
Nicholas Brown, the author of the New Penguin Russian Course.