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"Ё" – буква русского и белорусского алфавита, которая используется также и в некоторых неславянских алфавитах, например, казахском, киргизском, монгольском, таджикском, чувашском и удмуртском. "Ё" is a letter of the Russian and Belarusian alphabet, which is also used in some non-Slavic alphabets, for example, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tajik, Chuvash and Udmurt.

When you need to get information about someone, his or her name, you ask: Кто это? Who is that?  Listen | Слушайте Как вас зовут ? What is your name?  Listen | Слушайте Кто is the interrogative pronoun, we use it only when ask about animate nouns (people, animals). Use IC #2 when ask about someone: кто это? Как вас / тебя зовут? (use тебя when you talk to a person of your age or animal and вас when you address someone older than you are) . So, back to 2 things you should know about this intonation construction (prosody): 1. IC #2 is the intonation of special question . Such words as кто, как, когда, где indicate that kind of questions. When you need to get information about the time, use the interrogative когда, for place - где. 2. Stressed part in IC #2 is pronounced with a little increasing of tone in the part which specifies the thing you ask about , then the tone goes down . Как вас зовут? Кто это? Кто там? Кто здесь? Let's watch and listen :) Задан...

If you stumble upon multisyllables, you should keep in mind that Russian vowels   А   and  О   in unstressed position sound reduced . That doesn't mean that stressed vowel sounds longer. Stressed vowels, as we noted before, sound bright and clear. And unstressed vowels  А  and  О  sound as short [а]. If you are into philology, then let us note  two kinds of reduction . The first one is quantitative reduction , which means that unstressed vowels А and О sound shorter than stressed vowels. Ко́мната [ко́мната] 3:1:1    Слушайте | Listen The second kind of reduction is qualitative . It's when unstressed  О sounds as short [а]. Молоко́ [малако́] 1:1:3     Слушайте | Listen Хорошо́ [харашо́] 1:1:3 Она́ [ана́] 1:3

Русский язык богат интонационными конструкциями. Сегодня мы поговорим об интонации переспроса или уточнения. Чтобы уточнить информацию о человеке или объекте, мы используем ИК-3. Russian language is rich in intonation constructions. Today we will talk about the tone of questioning on the purpose of clarification . To clarify information about a person or object, we use IC #3. Особенность ИК-3 состоит в том, что резкое повышение тона происходит на слове, заключающем вопрос, затем следует глубокое понижение тона. The peculiarity of IС-3: a sharp increase in tone occurs on the word concluding the question (actually on the stressed syllable), then it is followed by a deep decrease in tone. Пример . Это А нна? --- '__?  Слушайте | Listen (middle tone -> tone sharply increases on the stressed syllable -> a deep decrease in tone).                Она д о ма?    Слушайте | Listen Что ещё нужно знать про ИК-3: 1. ...

Russian words consist of syllables.  A syllable is a sound or group of sounds which are pronounced in one blow: и, он, па-па, лам-па >   Слушайте | Listen Any syllable includes vowel.  You can count the number of syllables in the word by counting vowels: лес (1), дом (1), снег (1) мама (2), книга (2) >  Слушайте | Listen Syllables can be stressed and unstressed. In the words containing one syllable the only vowel is accented. Т а м , зд е сь , бл о г >  Слушайте | Listen Longer words containing 2, 3 and more syllables have one stressed syllable and other syllables are unstressed: ма́-ма, ка́р-та, лу-на́ >  Слушайте | Listen Russian stress is not fixed. Stress defines meanings of words. When you say any word, all sounds in it go one by one, and a stressed syllable sounds more clear. Learning tip #1: every new word you’d better learn with stress. Put new words down in your own dictionary with str...