Pronounciation

You Sue Poff with the stress on Sue

Thanks, I knew I was saying it wrong.

this is my first post, and before i go further i would just like to say how wonderful a place this is...i'm an addict as i suppose most here are.  thanks to everyone for all the hard work and hundreds of hours that go into making something like this a success.

my comment is awkward, but here goes -- since this thread is about correctness, wouldn't it be a good idea to spell it correctly?  the word is not pronounciation but pronunciation.

sorry, it's been bugging me for months....

cpaciba

cpaciba

You might want to correct this one, then.   

How do you say Mikhail, someone told me it was like this mee-ha-EEL, is that correct.

the "ha" iis usually transliterated as "kha", an aspirant somewhere between a "h" and a "k" in English pronunciation/

the "ha" iis usually transliterated as "kha", an aspirant somewhere between a "h" and a "k" in English pronunciation/

Thank you, I didn't think that it was 'ha'.

when i first read about the Romanov's back when i was 10, i misread Olga as ogla and that's how i called her until i read it properly and i used to pronounce Tatiana as tat-tina !

Is Tsarkoe Selo pronounced "Zar-ko Seelo"?

This has been discussed many times before.  The proper Russian pronunciation is "Sars-kaya Syelo"  But here is a very soft "t" sound with the first S, and the "kaya" "a" sounds are not hard like "ah" but soft, almost a cross between "a" and "o", and the "ye" in Syelo is very soft when properly pronounced, and the final "o" is also very soft, like the O in Oscar..  Its kind of hard for English speakers to get right unless they have heard a Russian pronounce it for them.

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In nominative, it is Tsarskoe Selo, which speaks as Tsar-ko-yeh ; Se-loh. 

As I was reading this, I find Russian more difficult for me! I'm a filipino and I have an inversatile tongue. But it's only I who's inversatile.

I took Spanish and French and not for anything can I say Russian names. I can't even sound the things out.

How do you pronounce Chelyabinsk?

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Chelyabinsk is city. Ch-eliya-binsk. I think all letters you can read in way they pronouncate. Sorry, I didn't help. 

Well, I can speak Russian (though I'm not perfect), so I don't find it hard to pronounce any of the names... though I'm not sure if I can write pronunciations like you write them in English...