Добрый вечер, дорогие друзья! Good evening, dear friends! Welcome to Episode N2 of Spoonfed Russian!

Before we start:

• download Episode 2 - Exercises.pdf;
• follow the topic;
• and please note, that I use underlines to show which syllable is stressed in the word, at the beginning it will be just easier for you to pronounce words with right intonation. There is no underlined letters in the Russian alphabet. After some practice you will feel where to put stress and we will write Russian words without any underlines.

 

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Today we will practice reading Russian words and by the way learn them.

Please open the file with exercises and let’s practice reading. You will be surprised how many Russian words you can recognize even now (it’s so called cognates or words-friends which sound similar in English).

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Was it hard? If you want to check yourself you can download the answers Episode 2 - Answers.pdf.

Congratulations! Now you know even more than 100 Russian words! До новой встречи! See you again! And Good Luck! Удачи!

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Letter “г” sometimes can be pronounced like “в”. Usually, it happens with the last syllable in the word but it’s not a rule. For example, the word “ничего“ (which means “nothing”) pronounced not like [ni-che-go] but [ni-che-vo]. But in word “фламинго” (which means flamingo) the last syllable “го” is pronounced as it’s written [fla-min-go]. More discussions you can find at the forum.