Quote Originally Posted by Pravit
Technicaly I don't really believe that memorizing extreme technicalities of palatization and soft and hard consonant rules ever made anyone's pronunciation better.

yea, obviously you don't need to learn them, cuz even in my case, i learned to say it just by listening to the language. Those kinds of miniscule details just come with time.

Are there a lot of Russian people in your grade?

In my grade ? i don't know, but in my school there are three or 4 hundred russians / ukrainians.

In my second period it is just all russians and then me, and then some guy who just moved here from like kenya.

I dont think that people in russia realize how many russians are living in america. Usually they wont believe me when i say it. They have their own apartments, towns, churches, shopping centers, banks. It's kinda cool.

Do you speak without an accent?
I wish .
On shorter words /phrases, i don't have an accent (and i don't have trouble saying ы or anything either.)

I guess i don't really have an "American" accent, but i still have one, of course because i have only been speaking russian for 1 1/2 years, but i think my pronunciation is rather well. But having an accent is one thing that
does bother me. I hope to someday get rid of it completely =). Even though i fool russians almost everyday. I can pass for a russian if i try hard enough. Infact... there is a whole thread dedicated to this http://masterrussian.net/mforum/view...t=2151&start=0

Infact, i fooled two girls today ! teehee!

And there are acually a few sound bites of me flaoting around on this forum... But i think some of them may be even a year old ! If you

really want to hear, i can just record something new =).