Read in Russian: Learn 3 Basic Rules through a Small Dialogue

4 years ago

There're not that many rules for reading in Russian, as well as there's no real way to predict the stress position in a word. But there're 3 basic points that one has to keep in mind. For instance,

Why does "o" sometimes sound as "a" in Russian?

Here's the bottom line:

1. You read О as О when it's stressed;
    you read О as А when it's not stressed.
2. Ё  is always stressed.
3. When Е or Я aren't stressed, you'd often read them as И.

Here in this video, you can practice these basic rules through reading a simple dialogue in Russian:


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