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My fave consonant is the glottal stop ʔ

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New Article: What Makes Russian Sound Like Russian?

Remember that poll where most of you said hard/soft consonants were killing your Russian pronunciation? You were RIGHT. This is where the real battle happens.

Just posted Part 2 of my pronunciation series, and it's all about consonants, the backbone of Russian phonetics.

What you'll learn:

Why Russian sounds "aggressive" (it's about prevoicing, not attitude)

Why your Russian friends can't pronounce final consonants in English

The truth about Ш vs Щ (spoiler: it's just hard vs soft)

What ACTUALLY happens with your tongue when you palatalize (because "raise your tongue toward your palate" helps exactly nobody)

Includes minimal pairs audio + the actual science behind tongue root movement that Russian textbooks conveniently ignore.

Master your consonants, and 80% of Russian pronunciation is done. The other 20%? That's vowels, and they're coming in the next article.

Read the new article here.

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Hot take: /ʔ/ is a consonant, and the fact English can't have it in the middle of a word doesn't change that.

#linguistics #consonants #hebrew #english #glottal stop #Sure. It's impossible to pronounce without a vowel.#Doesn't make it not a consonant.#א is not a silent letter!#It's true that it is used in transliterated diphthongs often enough #But it doesn't really represent this sound imo.#Though maybe it does sound similar when unstressed...#But still. It's a consonant. Don't treat it like it's just empty air.

Vowels and Consonants (and their names)

Here is a quick list of vowels and consonants and their names. A Korean spelling B might not be on your bingo card, but this is quite useful to know if you ever have to spell a word aloud in Korean or ask for spelling.

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