Phonetics lesson

Brief description of individual phonetics lessons via Skype:

Part 1. Vowel sounds

This part is devoted to 5 vowel sounds which are usually not very difficult to pronounce for English speaking people.

Part 2. Hard consonants

Hard consonant sounds of the Russian language are very similar to the consonant sounds of English.

Part 3. Soft consonants

The main purpose of this part is to demonstrate the phonetic difference between hard and soft consonant sounds in the Russian language.

Part 4. The most difficult sounds

This lesson covers consonant and vowel sounds which have nothing in common with English sounds and present the biggest difficulty for those who learn Russian.

At the beginning of lesson you will find exercises to train the pronunciation of isolated sounds and syllables. After that, there are exercises containing Russian words with these sounds.

If you're interested in learning Russian with а native speaker teacher online, please write letter annamor @ list.ru.