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I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm hoping to be in Russia long-term, which is why I wanted to know precisely how to pronounce things. But some people just want to take a short trip to...

What a perfect summary! Just what I needed!

Wow, I guess Russian isn't as hard as english after all :D

That makes sense. So, with palatalization, "ся" is pronounced "ca", and те is pronounced "te", right? Not "cya" and "tye"?

I learned that the Russian vowels е, ё, ю and я have a distinct y-sound at the beginning of a word and after another vowel.

At first I thought this meant that there's no "y" sound after a...