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However, we have to admit that the English pronunciation is not always perfectly taught to Russians.
I do not mean university courses and specialized schools. I mean the ordinary school education...

Here we can see that language learning traditions in Western countries and in Russia are really different.
I learned several foreign languages. And the first thing I checked when selecting a book in...

Just to make it clearer. There are 4 possibilities:

са [sa] - hard s + ah
ся [sja] - soft s + ah
съя [sja] - hard s + y + ah
сья [sjja] - soft s + y + ah

The IPA symbol of [j] stands for the...

It is because that is how the untrained ear of non-natives hears soft consonants :)

In fact, медленно does not have any "y" sound! But "м" and "л" are palatalized: ['mje-dljɪ-nnə], where both [mj]...