Some new questions:
I have decided to ask some phonetic questions now, since this will help me with my pronunciation and my understanding of the written form of the language when reading it.
I have decided to ask some phonetic questions now, since this will help me with my pronunciation and my understanding of the written form of the language when reading it.
- This question involves й. As I understand, this letter is considered a vocal, and its sound kind of depends on the letter that follows it? Not sure. I also have heard that this letter can also alter the sounds (soft vs strong) or something like that. Can anyone explain this special letter a bit more?
- I see many words contain the letter combinations ль. Since I am trying to understand sounds, I am curious what is the role of ь here. I know this softens the preceding consonant (something I don't really understand yet, but will get to this later).
Let's compare ль and л. How do these two differ in sound? This what I would like to understand.
I feel that if I can understand this, I will be able to understand how ь works with other consonants as well....