Да, an English speaker will pronounce Alyosha as Альйоша. But at least it still only has three sylables, like in the original Russian.
Aliosha would be pronounced with 4 sylables: А-Ли-О-Ша
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Да, an English speaker will pronounce Alyosha as Альйоша. But at least it still only has three sylables, like in the original Russian.
Aliosha would be pronounced with 4 sylables: А-Ли-О-Ша
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Better Aliosha/Liosha[/quote]
Definitely not.
An English person will pronounce that as Алиоша, with a whole extra syllable.
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