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Вы не читали "Нос" Гоголя?

It's Ковалёв anyway.

That's called a dark L, and is what I do in my dialect, and basically L becomes a W.

However we were talking about Russian Л.

I imagine you are actually pronouncing an L but you just aren't tracking the movement of your tongue properly.

Sorry, I trust the hundreds of years of Phonetic science than some random off the...

I have just conducted an experiment -- I've put a thin strip of paper between my teeth, and when I am saying a word with a soft L lika "lyazhka" I feel the tip of my tongue touching it (since it...

'Is is' - rarely do I see this one being repeated![/quote]

It would be better to say:

maybe your interpretation of your tongue's position is wrong, to avoid "is is".

Well then maybe your interpretation of where your tongue is is wrong.

The tongue position of Hard L and English W are completely different. The tongue isn't really used in W, it lies flat at the bottom of the mouth. With Hard L the tip of the tongue is up behind the...

The tongue position of Hard L and English W are completely different. The tongue isn't really used in W, it lies flat at the bottom of the mouth. With Hard L the tip of the tongue is up behind the...

Смирнов - Smirnov
Попов - Popov
Медведев - Myedvyedyev
Ковалёв - Kovalyov

Ё - yo
Е - ye
О - o

Those three are PRONUNCIATIONS.

Thank you for the sound file!!!

Well for "Kavaloff", to me, the first "a" doesn't sounds like the second "a". It seems to be something between an "o" and an "a".
In french, "K

Yes, and everybody here are saying Gorbachef and Khrushchef. :? :?

My first language is french and everytime I hear a french name incorrectly pronounced, especially when I'm watching hockey...

They don;;t write Ковалёв because it's Russian.

Е - ye
Ё - yo

But Russians don't usually write the dots on the E. Anyway, generally, Ё is just transliterated as E in English.

Hence...

I presume you are talking about the absence of y. Well I find ly gives the wrong impression of a soft L. And English L is not a hard L in Russian. Just look at how English words with L are written in...

Ka-va-lyoff
or
Ka-va-loff

Stress on the last sylable.

Ковалёв

I presume these are American commentators, in which case they don't have a clue about pronouncing it. Although written as E...