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There is no 'z' sound in 'gde'. To me, it looks like you are having trouble understanding palatilization and distinguishing soft (palatilized) consonants from hard ones.
There are a few nice guides...

There is no 'z' sound in 'gde'. To me, it looks like you are having trouble understanding palatilization and distinguishing soft (palatilized) consonants from hard ones.
There are a few nice guides...

I guess you are right about that. These are very subtle differences.
It is also rare these days to actually meet a person who has not communicated in Russian for decades, as visiting home/talking on...

Usually you are able to distinguish a regional variation from a foreign accent.
If you are talking about my first example, the features there were quite consistent across several people with...

I believe that you are wrong making this generalization. I did notice, though, that most teenagers from Russian families speak Russian with an annoying accent.[/quote]

OK, I may be jumping to...

Just a note: I am definitely not putting down the people who speak their native language with a variation, an accent or a local dialect.
Unlike an accent in a foreign language, which means that one...

:o It would not hurt to add "IMO" at least somewhere up there, I think.[/quote]

I mixed in a "probably" :) OK, IMO. But you could hear this (or similar, I was a child then and can not be 100%...

I've heard people saying that, but it doesn't mean jack. It's their nostalgia or whatever insecurity/personal problems talking. Noone loses their native accent after let's say 15. Noone acquires...

Thinking about it... I do not pronounce 'g' here.
Well, coming from Ukraine, I do not pronounce 'g' almost anywhere and rather say voiced 'h', but in regular speech I normally drop the 'h' in this...