Thread: Biggest mistakes made by those beginning to learn a language? (specifically Russian)

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

I really thought that Russians wouldn't understand me if I put the accent on the wrong syllable!

This might be the case. I remember how we, three moscovites, were in another city and could not understand the word, which was pronounced with the different stress.
The position of stress determins all the vowels in a word.
Although i agree with your general thought.