A Spoonful Of Russian - Learn Russian Online From Russian Tutor

Ученье свет, а неученье тьма(Knowledge is light, ignorance is darkness)Век живи - век учись(Live and learn)And the last one is quoted around our house quite often:)Повторенье - мать ученья(Repetition is the Mother of learning)I thought I would start talking about the Russian sound system. Since I want to be true to the podcast's format and keep it short'n'sweet and to the point ... It will take us several lessons. Some of the items used for pronunciation practice will be isolated syllables or words whose meaning is of no immediate relevance, while others will be complete sentences that you will be able to add to your Russian phrase book and practice it as often as you'd like. You should not concern yourself with the grammatical forms of the sentences used at this point. You should simply learn them in the form given to you, striving to imitate your teacher as closely as possible. You must always keep in mind the importance of the spoken models presented.  While descriptions, transcriptions, and diag