Basic Russian 1. Russian Sound System: Voiced and Voiceless Consonants

This video is for students who just started learning Russian. It introduces the essential aspects of the Russian sound system: voiced and voiceless consonants. It provides a detailed explanation of the pronunciation rules affecting consonants: final devoicing and consonant assimilation. It includes a few phonetic exercises. Recommended for the beginning level.

[katyagrover]

Wonderful! The explanations, the technical side of the video. Everything is very clear, no mysteries about terms or meaning of the Russian words. Just a treat! I'm using it with my learners of Russian.

[simontolson]

Wow I've been learning Russian for a year and a half, seen other videos about voiced and voiceless consonants but this has made it so much easier to understand. You need to rename your your channel as Truly Amazing Russian - Thank you so much, must get a Russian keyboard on my tablet too ☺

[manuelasfari]

Merci Olga. This is indeed a very important lesson to understand how to pronounce correctly russian words and speak this language properly.

[AutoScholarwithMrB]

This helped me so much, thanks for making this so easy!

[leecherlarry]

loving it! will have to rewatch and rewatch this series, thank you!

[Tom-vmwh]

Don't know how much I've picked up in the last two videos but I'm learning a lot of vocabulary with proper pronunciation.

[jeanguyrichard]

At last I understand voiced and voiceless. Your video is excellent. Thank you for your work.

[ehmo]

I finally understood why my ears would hear different sounds and why it didn’t sound correct when I tried reading. now I can start improving my pronunciation. Your channel is gold!!! Thanks so much :)

[khadraouisabrina]

Ohhh my God your explanation is just amazing 😍😍😍😍📚💙 Bravo

[tongevelyn]

This was so helpful. I couldn't understand why some letters ended up being pronounced so differently and now it makes so much more sense. Thank you!

[christopherobrien]

Thanks Olga, you're a real professional

[Epokouabou]

Hello! A good lesson! Very clear explanations. I've noticed that consonant assimilation is always regressive in russian. Thanks a lot!👏👏👏👏👏

[ariacurran]

Thank you!! After watching this video, I finally understand! Your channel is really great!

[robertjenkins]

Your pronunciation videos are very good.

Russian spelling is more complicated (less purely, simply phonetic) than I initially realized (but still much simpler than English, I concede).

[georgeangrus]

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[sunving]

Thank you, so good first time I ever know this.

[mcnairlaini]

Hi ! Thank you so much for the video my russian level has been improving a lot since I've started watching your video. Just a little note, at 7:00 the translation for *ска́зка* is "fairytale" instead of "fairy tail". Thank you so much, may God bless you ! <3

[maraj]

Great video!! Спасибо Большое!!
The final devoicing of consonants would be something similar to the reduction phenomena that occurs with the letter "o" when it's not stressed in a word and so it's pronounced as "a", right??

[osgubben]

7:20 футбол = football (soccer), not basketball :-) I know you know, and brilliant video, as usual🌷

[josegilsonalvesferreira]

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