Russian pronunciation practice - Л (L) - Exercises

Russian pronunciation practice is very important for beginners. In this video I'll show you the exercises to master Russian "L" (Л) sound.

[PappyBiceps]

I appreciate your dedication to your channel

[cluckygirl]

I am really enjoying learning with your Daria. Being over 50 years of age I find my capacity to remember is extremely poor but your videos make learning interesting and the explanations and demonstrations on articulation of letters is excellent. THANK YOU.

[olgakuznetsova_bass]

I'm Russian but during all my life (I'm 19 now) I couldn't pronounce hard russian 'L' properly, I would just say 'v' instead of 'l'. I tired many exercises to fix this defect, but they just wouldn't help me. But I knew English quite well so about half a year ago I desided to use the english L sound like in word 'look' and slowly incorporate it into my russia speech. It sounded a bit weird at first but I managed to adapt the sound a little bit so now sounds quite nice!!
I don't know how to say the Russian rolling R sound (I say it like French people) as well, logopedic exercises don't help me, I guess I'm gonna try to learn this sound from another language again =)

[sarrahkaliski]

Thank you! This was extremely helpful. I've been trying to understand how to not use the American English "L" sound when pronouncing "Л" in words.

[Dani_]

I hope you're doing this with all of the letters and even do exercises practicing words, I really want to learn

[Transliminal]

Are you planning on doing a video on ль ? ... as a native English speaker I find that waaay harder

[zachzanal]

You are the Best Russian Teacher in Youtube

[himmelblau]

Excellent video. Thank you so much. Большое спасибо.

[cescomcloran]

For native english speakers who already speak french
This letter is your "L" just press on it

[rationalraven]

I was wondering why this letter sounds so different in Russian than in English, and it seems like with the English L we put our tongue more on the top of the mouth, whereas now I know with Russian you put your tongue between your teeth, so that's what results in what sounds to me almost like a swallowing sound in certain combination of Л followed by a vowel

[SC-jrfd]

I have a question. I looked at myself in the mirror while pronouncing the Italian, English, and Russian L. I’m Italian and I noticed our L sound is made differently, the tongue is not between the teeth, in fact it’s basically up and touches the roof of the mouth. When I speak English (I don’t have a strong accent) I noticed my tongue goes forward, almost in between the teeth. So I’m wondering..are the English and Russian L sounds made with the same movement of the tongue? And if so, why do they sound so different when pronounced?

[cluckygirl]

Hi Daria, I’m rattling around with pronunciation of “sh” and “sh-ch” and I’ve come up with the following English sentence that may ? demonstrate the subtle difference between the 2. Here we go;

“How do I sheer a sheep?”

I’m thinking that the tongue position in (the English word) sheer is like “sh-ch” letter and the tongue position for the (English word) sheep is similar to the Russian letter “sh”. There’s a subtle change in palatisatiin with the tongue being fractionally further forward for “sh-ch”.

What do you think? Please can you tell me if this is a good representation. Thank you

[tanieshasimmons]

I have trouble with л and ю. It's so unnatural to me

[CraFtoRek]

I still can't hear the difference between regular L and the Russian L.