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To make it softer, articulate from the initial position and lift the front part of your tongue to the hard palate. You have to keep your tongue in the position for a while with ж sounding and then...

As for me, I can't stand the pronunciation of [дощ(щ)].

Norms aren't stable. They always shift.

Isn't that normal pronounciation? I don't see anything strange about this one.[/quote]
I think the normal one is [лёхкий].[/quote]

Yes, it is.
And that variant has [к] instead of [х].

Like what?[/quote]

Oh, I can't say exactly the names of the cartoons without a mistake, where the accent is certain. Take any Moscow-made.

Just remember all those Soviet cartoons, for example.

What you refer to the soft pronunciation of 'дождь' is interweaved with two norms, the one being of Petersburg (accepted by most of us) and the other being of Moscow (soft 'ж').

I don't remember...