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Throbert, that's wrong, you don't slide the front of your tongue back, you move the middle of your tongue upwards.

Lol, I've just been trying to do that and I can't stop laughing at the results :p

рь seems very difficult to pronounce.

дверь/царь
Is this any good?

Your л and ль sounds in the first 2 files seem OK to me although could be more pronounced (middle of tongue right down for л, right up to the roof of your mouth for ль).

Your т and ть in...

So is this better?

лъ, ль

I blame that on exaggerating the pronunciation and my microphone being crappy :p

(But of course my Russian pronunciation is far from perfect anyway...)

Л is one of the easiest sounds to pronounce hard/soft in Russian!

All you need to do to soften it is raise the middle of the tongue up to the roof of the mouth. Similarly, when saying it hard,...