I'm seeing/realizing that more and more... I want to learn the "King's Russian" with perfectly correct grammar/spelling/pronunciation. But Russian seems to be MUCH more informal. Now it's just vocabulary repetition for me.... this is not easy! lolЁ is always there even if it hides its dots.
Yes. Russian has ZH, which is similar to G in "genre", but no sound or letter for G as in "gentle".
My husband's name is John: Dzhon (Джон). So that seems to cover the G as in gentle sound, I think?
In Russian this combination stands for two separate sounds and is represented by two letters (three in transliteration) because it's not a native Russian sound. For foreign words with a J sound you end up with J->ДЖ->DZH. So any name that has a DZH in it like Dikidzhi is actually Dikiji since whatever language that name is from has a "soft g" sound unlike Russian.
Yes, my dream is that one day Ё is written everywhere it is pronounced. The problem is that the letter Ё is a late addition to the Russian alphabet (18th century) because the sound change that requires it occurred very late in the language history. So it ended up with a marginal status. Most of the time you are just supposed to know where E is actually pronounced Ё. A rule has recently been introduced to write Ё everywhere where it could potentially be ambiguous, including in names, at least in texts. But when it comes to documents, the problem is that many people have Ё written as E in their birth certificated, passports etc., and you can't just change that arbitrarily or you'll have to prove to the authorities Usachёva and Usacheva are in fact the same surname.Ё is always there even if it hides its dots.
Tzar’s Russian?
Well, the skater who has the most hidden yo’s is probably Artem Kovalev (2)
It’s so weird to me when watching gymnastics hearing Angelina Melnikova with a hard G instead of a soft G. Ah well.
two examples with Ё and E:
