Any #Russians here on #nostr I have a question that’s probably super simple for you but I can’t for the life of me under what sound ы is supposed to make. I’ve been seeing the word вы around and I’m not sure how that would be pronounced with ы on the end of it.
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Could it be like this (press speaker)?
Cyrillic is wild alll together.
What I do know is: Ы
is pronunced /ɨ/ ("roses", or polish "y")
is used if and only if it follows a hard consonant
and wiki sound bit of ɨ :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_unrounded_vowel
best of luck...
Found a lady who’ll explain it better then me, but basically it’s an “E” that is pronounced in a more rough and brutal way 😂 https://youtu.be/w9hogVBFECQ
Ы is nothing by the way — we’ve got two letters that don’t have a sound at all 🤣:
Ь is used when you want to make the consonant softer while Ъ is for making it sound rougher. 🤯
Also #[2] is studying Russian now, so he might have some hints for you in terms of best studying materials.
Hmm … imagine the word bit … ы is similar to the i. You speak it almost without the i … „a lil bt“
That’s really hard to explain because there’s no such sound in English/German/French, not even close.
The only crazy thing I can think of is: Try to say „y“ like in „veryyyyyy“ but then imagine that all your front teeth are missing 😂🤣
This is a fun conversation. I took 6 months of casual russian back in like 2008/9 but I still remember how to pronounce that.
When making the sound, I kinds feel like I'm half swallowing the sound 🤣 I'm glad to see you found some good explanations for it.