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To cut it short, from a Russian grammar book, unstressed o, like unsterssed a, is either an "uh" sound in pre-pre-tonic or post-tonic. or "a" sort of a sound in pre-tonic or initial position. This is...

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Okay I am sorry for all the confusion, I was finding this really hard to understand. It's like for a year I've imagined я and а as something different so reading all this didnt sink in until I found...

PS where is the L V S symbols with flicks at the bottom on this IPA chart? seems like it is lacking but again I am unknowledged on the subject

Finally after a few google pages I found something, Dunno about its authenticity but this demonstrates the difference. Anyone let me know if this sounds correct using the [ɛ] and [e] sounds abuot...

I understand all that is being said, I truly do, and I only used "zh" as a placeholder, ofcourse i know that the Latin alphabet approximations are not exactly the same as the Russian counterparts....

This is where the problem lies for me, I have adequately learnt the basic rules but it comes up with such IPA sounds in this book such as you mentioned with жжёшь being soft ж but I have no way to...

Thanks for this, it really helped. So in short their is a difference but mostly in the very subtle ways in which IPA depicts rather than something I can actively do. I have however learnt most of the...

I have managed to learn how to properly say Хорошо by reading about the pre-tonic, post-tonic, pre-pre-tonic positions of vowels, so the book is top notch haha.

Хорошо

Right? Huh-Ra-Sho of...

I find all the sources for IPA to be quite unreliable (well as I am currently using Wiktionary and it seems to just be peoples opinions on IPA rather than the actual pronunciation following the...