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American Accent for Speakers of Russian
0. Welcome!
0a. Welcome to the course! (1:03)
0b. Course overview (topics & how to use) (2:43)
0c. Practice makes progress (2:20)
1. Overarching Themes
1a. Pronunciation vs accent (phonemes vs allophones) (3:15)
1b. Challenge 1: English consonants that Russian lacks (0:46)
1c. Challenge 2: The many English vowels (1:25)
1d. Challenge 3: English has no hard & soft (1:34)
1e. Challenge 4: Multiple English stresses (1:40)
1f. Challenge 5: English & Russian phonological differences (2:18)
2. Basic Comprehensibility
2a. About the unit: basic comprehensibility (1:07)
2b. /ŋ/: The "ng" in "-ing" (6:13)
2c. /θ, ð/: The "th" in "this" & "thing" (6:24)
2d. /v, w/: The difference between "wine" & "vine" (10:27)
2e. /i, ɪ/: The sounds in "bit" vs "beat" (10:37)
2f. /æ/ The vowel in "cat" (basics) (6:37)
2g. /ʌ/: The vowel in "up" (3:52)
2h. /u, ʊ/: The vowels in "wood" vs "wooed" (5:02)
2i. Final /b, d, g/: Don't devoice them! (6:05)
3. Obvious Russian Sounds
3a. About the unit: Obvious Russian sounds (0:42)
3b. /p, t, k/ Aspiration (14:18)
3c. /ɹ/: English R (7:02)
3d. No /ʲɛ/: Avoid palatalization pt.1 (2:39)
3e. [l, ɫ]: English Ls (4:54)
3f. English word stress (3:05)
3g. Secondary stress patterns (11:16)
3h. /h/ not [x] (2:58)
4. Subtle Russian Sounds
4a. About the unit: Subtle Russian sounds (0:37)
4b. /ɑ/ The "a" in "father" (5:57)
4c. No /ʲi, ʲɪ/: Avoid palatalization pt.2 (4:30)
4d. /s/ & /z/: The "s" & "z" sounds (7:01)
4e. Flapped /t/: The Ts in "bottle of water" (2:18)
4f. /ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/: The shibilant sounds (10:00)
4g. Connected speech & sentence stress (3:46)
4h. Slavic voicing & clipping (11:13)
5. American Accent Nuances
5a. About the unit: American accent nuances (0:56)
5b. Tense vowels & diphthongs (moving vowels) (11:21)
5c. Advanced /æ~ɛə/ sounds in words like "hand" and "very" (4:54)
5d. Rounding of and raising to [ʌ] (4:58)
5e. Glottal T in words like "can't" & "button" (11:35)
6. English vs Russian Intonation
6a. About the unit: English vs Russian Intonation (1:05)
6b. Emphasis (contrastive stress) (1:55)
6c. Level-rise-fall intonation (5:47)
6d. Level-to-rising intonation (3:35)
6e. The up-and-down rhythm of English & stress-switching (4:31)
7. Finishing Up
7a. Course recap (2:07)
7b. Going forward (continued practice) (2:04)
7c. Final word (Thanks!) (0:21)
2h. /u, ʊ/: The vowels in "wood" vs "wooed"
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