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[Also, unstressed Я, as far as I can tell, becomes йи (word initial, like "ягу`ар") [/quote]
What?
夥辣鱶?驫蓍 鞐艨鉋 焜黴 ?鞐褞辮蔡鱶褌 艪鼕鈞 鉈諤蜊 驪鈞瑁 痳髀諤鴉

I just read the rules and you are right. It becomes [и] in non-stressed positions in most cases.

Look here 刹鈞瑁 闔謐釿 ?辣鱶?驫釿 鞐艨鉋 痳髀諤鴉

And here Onlinedisk - 矗? ?琿蓚蔔 ?蜍鈞.

Phonetic analysis is...

Well according Russian phonetic analysis they should be pronounced as [э]. Note that in the case of unstressed о it says is should be pronounced [а], but it does not say anything about unstressed е....

Even more: adding [й] after a consonant does not make it soft. For example:

подъезд [подйэзд] (first д is hard)
разъём [разйом] (з is hard)
вражья[вражйа] (ж is hard)

Yes. At least in theory. And they denoted similarly in Russian phonetic transcription. Russian phonetic transcription does not use я, e, ё symbols at all (I know that IPA guys can find difference...

No, [с'эм'й'а]


No, [с'эб'а]

Forget your IPA after all. There is no [и] in these words.

As I already said, if you use different sounds in лес and весь, it is incorrect independent of what sounds you use. In the IPA samples you linked it seems that in [e] they do not pronounce a pure...

Which browser should I use to hear those sounds on the web page? Neither Firefox nor Opera can do and Chromium just crashes.

I do not think they have different sounds.

In IPA they usually add a small "j" in upper index, which though does not mean that there is a "j" sound. It is just that IPA has no other means to convey that the sound is soft. In Russian phonetic...

There are no soft vowels. There are "softening" vowels, this means some vowels make the preceding consonant soft and others do not.

Most consonants in Russian have soft and hard versions. д and т...

LOL. "е" in both "лес" and "весь" pronounced the same way. Also there is no "y" sound in both words. IPA is completely not suitable for Russian language. I suggest you to use the phonetic...