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    Adjetives: Soft Endings

    Hello, I'm curious to know how you pronounce these soft stems: ий, яя, ее, and юю. Ex: горячий, прежняя, прежнюю, будущее
    To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

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    Test sentence with those endings:
    Теперешний правитель сверг прежнюю королеву, исполняя свое высшее предназначение

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    What happened to the record? It seems as if Rostova is not from Russia
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    What record? It's a little soft but plays back just fine.
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    The one that Rostova recorded. The quality is fine but what's happened to the sounds in her sentence? Don't they sound akwrad to you?
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    Yes, they do but I believe that's just her way of speaking. Everyone is different. She got no accent.
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    Here's my try I tried to record it about 4 times 'cause all of the records I made seemed akward to me. I never thought it would so hard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReDSanchous
    The quality is fine but what's happened to the sounds in her sentence? Don't they sound akwrad to you?
    This is just a cool siberian accent!

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    I have never heard it before! That's why it seemed a little odd to me. I just listened to my record once more and understood that I could have perfomed a bit better.
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    Where is Rostova's record?
    I want to hear the Siberean accent. It must be cute.

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    She seems to have deleted her record. What a pity!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ReDSanchous
    She seems to have deleted her record. What a pity!
    It's probably because people were not nice to her, even if they were kidding.
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    Siberian accent is nonsense! I just don't want to confuse somebody with my.. unusual pronunciation

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    You didn't confuse me! I was totally not confused! Keep up the good recordings!
    Hei, rett norsken min og du er død.
    I am a notourriouse misspeller. Be easy on me.
    Пожалуйста! Исправляйте мои глупые ошибки (но оставьте умные)!
    Yo hablo español mejor que tú.
    Trusnse kal'rt eturule sikay!!! ))

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    I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just said that Rostova's accent sounded odd to me. I did not say it was wrong or something.

    I wasn't kidding. My manner of speaking may sound odd to you as well. But that will be ok with me.


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