What sound is a Э?

The Russian letter "э" is pronounced [e] like in the word "edit". But be careful, remember that the Russian letter "e" is pronounced [ye] like in "yellow". You have already learnt that "и" has a sound [i], similar to "three" or "free".


What sound is ю?

It is a so-called iotated vowel, pronounced in isolation as /ju/, like the pronunciation of ⟨u⟩ in "human". After a consonant, no distinct [j] sound is pronounced, but the consonant is softened. The exact pronunciation of the vowel sound of ⟨ю⟩ in Russian depends also on the succeeding sound because of allophony.

What sound is б?

Be (Б б italics: Б б) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced bilabial plosive /b/, like the English pronunciation of ⟨b⟩ in "ball". It should not be confused with the Cyrillic letter Ve (В в), which is shaped like Latin capital letter B but represents the voiced labiodental fricative /v/.


How to pronounce ж?

The letter Ж is only pronounced /ʒ/ in Russian loanwords. It is usually pronounced /d͡ʒ/.

What is я called?

Letter. The thirty-third and final letter of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Its name is Я (ja) and it has the sound of English ya in yard. It is preceded by the letter Ю.


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How do you say ь?

The letter "ь" does not have any sound itself. It softens the letter before it. For example the words "есть" (to eat) and "ест" (he/she eats) sound different thanks to "ь".

What is ы called?

ы (upper case Ы) A letter of the Cyrillic script, called y or yeru.

What sound is ы?

Pay attention to the pronunciation of the vowels ы and и. Note that ы sounds like [ i ] in ill, whereas И и sounds like [ee] in meet. The letter ы never occurs as the first letter in the word, therefore it is never capitalized.


What is the ʤ sound?

The ʤ sound is a sound from the 'Consonants Pairs' group and it is called the 'Voiced palato-alveolar affricate'. This means that you create friction by first stopping the airflow with your tongue and the ridge behind your teeth, then release it through a narrow gap.

What is the tʃ sound?

The sound /tʃ/ is a voiceless, alveo-palatal, affricate consonant. Press the middle of your tongue between your alveolar ridge and your soft palate. Quickly move your tongue downward while forcefully pushing air out. The air in your mouth should stop before it is released. (It is like combining a /t/ with a /ʃ/.)

How do you pronounce ц?

[ц] sound is the result of sounds [т] and [с] pronounced together.


How do you say й?

The Russian letter "й" is called "и краткое" (it is pronounced [i kratkaye]). We represent its sound as [j], that is, a shorter sound than "и" similar to the sound of "y" in "oyster" or "boy".

How do you pronounce Ё?

So how to pronounce the letter Ё [yo]? At first it is pronounced like the letter Й [y] and then like О [o]. If we smile during the pronunciation of the letter E [ye], here we just stretch our lips for pronouncing Й [y], then make them protruded for O [o].

What is ь and ъ?

Today, both the Hard sign (Ъ) and the Soft sign (Ь) are used to separate a consonant and a vowel (mostly Я, Ё, Е, Ю), only the Hard sign (Ъ) separates a Hard consonant and a vowel, and the Soft sign (Ь) separates a Soft consonant and a vowel. In some other languages, a similar function is given to an apostrophe.


What is dʒ called?

The consonant /dʒ/ is a voiced, alveo-palatal, affricate consonant. Press the middle of your tongue between your alveolar ridge and your soft palate. Quickly move your tongue downward while forcefully pushing air out. The air in your mouth should stop before it is released.

How do you pronounce dʒ?

To make the /dʒ/ sound:

Place the tip of your tongue just behind the hard ridge at the front of the top of your mouth. Vibrate your vocal cords, and push air forward out of your mouth. Stop the air completely at first, and then release it.

Is ʤ a diphthong?

Introduction to /ʧ/ & /ʤ/

/ʧ/ is made of /t/ and /ʃ/. Like a diphthong, these 2 sounds together make /ʧ/. Ths sound is written as 'ch' (church) or 'tu' (nature).


What letter is Ж?

Zhe (Ж ж; italics: Ж ж) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiced retroflex sibilant /ʐ/ (listen). It is also often used with D (Д) to approximate the sound in English of the Latin letter J with a ДЖ combo. Zhe is romanized as ⟨zh⟩ or ⟨ž⟩.

Is ь a vowel?

Letters Ь and Ъ

They are neither consonants nor vowels. Instead, they are signs that show whether the preceding letter has a harder or softer sound, and they do not have sounds of their own. While the sign is clearly present in the words, it is absent in transcriptions.

Is ы hard or soft?

The general rule is, if you drop a letter from the hard series vowels (а, э, о, у, ы), you add a letter from the hard series vowels, and if you drop a letter from the soft series vowels (я, е, ё, ю, и, ь), you add a letter from the soft series vowels.