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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSzbTQp5feo&feature=endscreen&NR=1
At the end Lukashenko is speaking, you can comapare him to the dictors.

Yes, it sounds rather funny. Any language has its own distinctions which are hard to hear or imitate for a non-native speaker. I think Swedish vowels will be a nightmare for a Russian.
Those...

Now I've listened to a part of the Belorussian video. They really pronounce hard R instead of soft: тры, итерэсно...
One has to find natural speech, not videos made for fun or where accent is...

It is said there are no dialects in Russian. It's not true but the difference between cities is minute, and the difference between the countryside is also decreasing. There are differences in...

All the sothern Russia (most people there) pronounce voiced х [γ ] instead of г. (x at the end of words and before a voiceless consonant).
It can be considered uneducated because of the dominance of...

Hanna's words contradict the zedeeyen's.

A good example of a greek pseudoscientist (слоноведа):

It doesn't matter: we used the IPA ([mæn] - man, [men] - men), I don't know why Americans don't use it.

Did they really hear like that?

Your requirements for fluency are too strict.

Ш does not exist in many languages, so Englishmen do not pronounce it.

We can't judje one's abilities by a video, only pronunciation can be checked like that. Throbert was wrong when he tried to define fluency.

Really?

Workers from Uzbekistan often learnt Russian at school.

Now I can but not always, sometimes man sounds like ман then the difference is obvious, but not always.
I'm not sure I pronounce them differently.
At the beginning it was very difficult. A lot of...

сел is [s'el] съел [sjel], so no any break but an entire consonant [j] (like "y" in yes), ' signifies palatalization. Ш is close to voiceless English R, Щ is pronounced with the middle of the toungue...

That's not actually spelling. That's graphics and pronunciation. It is useless and very hard to remember all the spelling rules.
Could you tell those words with ъ? сел - съел?
I don't know why is...

What does it mean? What rules? Or just he spells nearly all the words correctly?