Soft (ь) and Hard Sign (ъ) EXPLAINED IN 5 MINUTES! | Russian Pronunciation | Learn Russian

3:47 "сЬел" is supposed to be "сЪел"
In this video, you'll learn the soft and hard signs in Russian. Whether you're a beginner or looking to brush up on your skills, this fun and informative lesson will open a door for you to read and write in Russian. Don't miss out on the opportunity to expand your horizons and impress your friends with your new language skills - click play now and let's dive into the world of the Russian alphabet!

[jasazul]

Wow.. I’m even not an English native, but i fully understood all! this description was the best! I did subscribed)))

[sammyshreds]

TBH I pretty much ignore the hard/soft signs and none of my Russian friends seem to care

[everettwhite]

Thank you. I have always known ( having been a Russian Lang. and Lit. major ) that the soft sign calls for "palatalization", i.e. where the tongue moves to touch the soft pallate. However, I haven't really understood how to do this in practice.
From your desciption, it seems that native English speakers (such as myself) will be best served in pronunciation by beginning to pronounce a "long eeee" after the consonant, without actually articulating the "ee."

On a side note; I also had trouble properly pronouncing an unstresesed Russian "e" -- that is where it doesn't correspond to English "ye." I always pronounced it as long"e", i.e., "eee", and was confused when my instructor (naitve Ukrainian speaker, fluent in Russian) would correct me with, "Okay, but C'mon..." It took me many years to realize that the pronunciation should be very close to the short English "i", as in "hit."
That is, like most (at least European) languages (Romance, Turkish at least), short "i" is just a variant of long "e."

So, for example, in English "beet" and "bit" have completely different meanings, as do "seen" and "sin." Not so in most other languages that I have studied. English is the "weird" one.

Thus, Cemen is roughly Sim(ee)yon.

Still learning.

[Darkdally]

As a native English speaker, this is very difficult for a few reasons:
First, learning Russian takes a lot of practice in not only speaking, but also listening. Having spoken English my entire life, my ears are only trained to hear the sounds of my native language. It is tricky to pick up on the subtleties of Russian, and still, I have a hard time hearing that difference here, although your video did help me notice, the way you mentioned the й sound along with the vowel - that was very helpful and I've not heard it explained that way before.

Second, and this is one of my biggest pet peeves - romanization. I hate it when Russian words are spelled out in the Latin alphabet. As someone who is learning Russian it makes it very confusing to try to read, and in this case, misleading. This, I believe adds to a lot of confusion with English speakers not understanding ь and ъ. I'll explain: When Russian is romanized, the soft sign becomes an apostrophe ( ' ). In English, an apostrophe means something is cut short, basically, but it's not even pronounced. So, as an English speaker, when I see читать spelled out in the Latin alphabet, (which I try not to look at) it says chitat' . Whereas, as far as I can tell, the т is pronounced actually more in this word? I am still figuring it out, of course.

Basically, any beginner in Russian is going to have a hard time hearing the difference especially with something like мат and мать and even hearing the difference, so this video is very helpful - especially as those two words are very, very different. All Russian sounds are their own, and listening lots and lots is the best practice: в doesn't sound exactly like v, same with л and l, etc. And hard/soft sign is one I'm always working on.. but listening helps, and one other thing that I do, as well:

Many things in Russian are hard at first. The first of these that comes to mind is of course, cases. With these things, I've found the best thing to do is worry about it later. I've kinda filed hard/soft sign as something to fix later, if I'm corrected, for instance, saying семя instead of семья by a Russian speaker I'll be more likely to remember. Usually when I read Russian I don't even see the hard/soft signs - I just kinda skip over them, and sometimes don't see them. Anyway, thank you very much for this video, I'll check out your others!

[nano]

if the last consonant is silent you add soft sign?

[Luva-_-]

I just found you! Of course I subscribed. Thank you!!! You have a calming speech. )) It is a nice break from the longer lessons where I need to memorize phrases.

[DurDomik]

Учим английский по урокам русского языка для иностранцев 💪👍

[lilyrose]

This is the best description ! Thank you so much 🤗 Liked and Subscribed! ✅

[Koyoshinkai]

What i don't understand is from the sound sss in the word Read читать is coming from, i do understand this one form of word Read, прочесть, as this makes more sense to me.

[gamer-cilg]

Нихрена себе, а почему мне начала эта хуйня вылазить? Странно но окей, да я русский поэтому даже не думайте мне писать что я не русский а просто юзаю переводчик

[tahiranawaz]

O God, this is divine city, breathtaking views. Some of the statues are not decent enough to look at. The present Government should adopt better measure in this regard. They may be replaced by some other aesthetic art. Anyhow, the great city, great glimpse indeed!