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It's a good thing your name isn't Семён -- who knows what they might call you!! :-D

One thing I can never decide when introducing myself to Russians in speech -- should I say Меня зовут Robert (i.e., with the normal English pronunciation of my name) or Меня зовут Роберт (with the...

I was taught to pronounce the Russian "hard L" as a little bit more dentalized than the English "L" (which is theoretically "alveolar"), but it's quite possible that I dentalize the hard L too much...

What's the question here? Are you wondering mainly about syllable stress?

As a general rule, I think, surnames ending in -овский or -евский are stressed on the -ов-/-ев syllable, while those...