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Exactly. Actually, "accented vowel", "accented syllable", "stressed vowel" and "stressed syllable" all mean the same in regard to Russian.

As you probably know, every Russian word has a stress. If...

As I understand, it was not a play on words. Marcus corrected iCake.
iCake gave an example "Иисус воскресе" to illustrate the pronunciation of "Иисус". But we do not say like that. It is a fixed...

Твёрдый знак (Ъ) is the rarest letter in the modern Russian alphabet. But sometimes we do need it. As you probably know, it does not have its own sound, but it is rather a "separation sign".

It is...

Oh, thanks. I thought she attached something different.

Then my assumption about the ЯТЬ letter seems to be wrong.



Verse 5 reads:
И свет во тьме светит,
И тьма не объяла его.

Sorry, Lampada, is it the same as was posted in the original attachment? I did not realize it since the attachment does not work, it shows an error message.
Or is it just another illustration?

Many people pronounce it "Исус" indeed. But there are educated people who pronounce it "Иисус" with two "и" sounds. I would say both pronunciations can exist, "Иисус" being the preferred one, and...

Double "и" is pronounced just as two "и" vowels: ee-ee.
Whenever you see a combination of vowel letters in Russian, just pronounce each sound as it is. Russian is not like English. In English a...