0. Welcome!
1. Overarching Themes
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1a. Pronunciation vs accent (phonemes vs allophones) (3:15)
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1b. Challenge 1: English consonants that Russian lacks (0:46)
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1c. Challenge 2: The many English vowels (1:25)
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1d. Challenge 3: English has no hard & soft (1:34)
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1e. Challenge 4: Multiple English stresses (1:40)
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1f. Challenge 5: English & Russian phonological differences (2:18)
2. Basic Comprehensibility
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2a. About the unit: basic comprehensibility (1:07)
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2b. /ŋ/: The "ng" in "-ing" (6:13)
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2c. /θ, ð/: The "th" in "this" & "thing" (6:24)
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2d. /v, w/: The difference between "wine" & "vine" (10:27)
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2e. /i, ɪ/: The sounds in "bit" vs "beat" (10:37)
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2f. /æ/ The vowel in "cat" (basics) (6:37)
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2g. /ʌ/: The vowel in "up" (3:52)
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2h. /u, ʊ/: The vowels in "wood" vs "wooed" (5:02)
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2i. Final /b, d, g/: Don't devoice them! (6:05)
3. Obvious Russian Sounds
4. Subtle Russian Sounds
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4a. About the unit: Subtle Russian sounds (0:37)
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4b. /ɑ/ The "a" in "father" (5:57)
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4c. No /ʲi, ʲɪ/: Avoid palatalization pt.2 (4:30)
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4d. /s/ & /z/: The "s" & "z" sounds (7:01)
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4e. Flapped /t/: The Ts in "bottle of water" (2:18)
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4f. /ʃ, ʒ, tʃ, dʒ/: The shibilant sounds (10:00)
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4g. Connected speech & sentence stress (3:46)
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4h. Slavic voicing & clipping (11:13)
5. American Accent Nuances
6. English vs Russian Intonation
7. Finishing Up
