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that could be it, I guess.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "vocalize" here.

well -- I realized the similarity between L and W when I was trying to learn how to pronounce "salad" in English properly (used to be a mighty hard word for me), and I was told that the version with...

I have just conducted an experiment -- I've put a thin strip of paper between my teeth, and when I am saying a word with a soft L lika "lyazhka" I feel the tip of my tongue touching it (since it...

I have just conducted an experiment -- I've put a thin strip of paper between my teeth, and when I am saying a word with a soft L lika "lyazhka" I feel the tip of my tongue touching it (since it...

The tongue position of Hard L and English W are completely different. The tongue isn't really used in W, it lies flat at the bottom of the mouth. With Hard L the tip of the tongue is up behind the...

The tongue position of Hard L and English W are completely different. The tongue isn't really used in W, it lies flat at the bottom of the mouth. With Hard L the tip of the tongue is up behind the...

I personally find Russian hard L closer to English W, the tongue position feels almost identical and quite different from Russian soft L or English L.

It depends.
After a hard consonant you'll often have an "ov", but after a soft one (as in Коваль), you'll have "ёв" (->ev), since "ьо" is replaced with "ё", which is in its' turn usually written as...

I presume you are talking about the absence of y. Well I find ly gives the wrong impression of a soft L. And English L is not a hard L in Russian. Just look at how English words with L are written in...