Thread: Are native Russian speakers 'language snobs' or tolerant?

Originally Posted by Marcus

They do not. For example, Russians devoice final consonants, while Serbs do not. There is vowel reduction in Russian but there isn't in Serbian. Serbs do not palatalize consonants before [i].

Do you mean they are pronounced like diphtongs? Or what? Could you give some examples?

For my ear this fake Russian sounds like a Bulgarian or in some phrases even like French. How this does this abracadabra sound for non-native Russian talkers?