An excellent channel on pronunciation. For some unknown reason, the creator has only 21K subscribers. The latest half-hour video on the sound /ɹ/ – used in “Rory rarely reads romantic poetry” — I struggled with it in Russian, sounding like Lenin 🙂 Thanks to lessons with @[100000066699061:2048:Elliot Teplitsky-Bauer], it’s now as it should be in my English (neither rolling nor trill). In Russian, I never bothered to correct it. Thus, the pronunciation of the vast majority of those who studied English at school is quite far from being correct, as the Phonetics Fanatic videos vividly demonstrate.
Some Americans really think that our Russian ‘R’ is quite close to ‘Ж’. To one such American on Quora, all the Russian speakers commented that he should clean his ears, as ‘Ж’ is nowhere near ‘Р’. This goes to show how differently people who grew up in different linguistic environments can perceive sounds. Google “Why is ‘R’ corresponding to Russian letter Р instead of Ж? I feel that the pronunciation of ‘ж’ is closer to ‘r’ in English.”
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