Sometimes 'o' sounds like 'a': meet vowel reduction!

Tim Flach, Stephen Swintek, Helen Norman, Jevgēnijs Šlihto/500px, Mordolff/Getty Images
Tim Flach, Stephen Swintek, Helen Norman, Jevgēnijs Šlihto/500px, Mordolff/Getty Images
Continuing with the theme of words that sound different to how they're written!

Today we’re talking about vowel reduction. For examle, ‘o’ without an emphasis sounds like ‘a’.

"How do we know where the emphasis is?", you ask?
Well, you can start by learning these new words. We don’t have any common rules, unfortunately. But good luck!

You can check out more lessons in our Telegram channel using the tag #russianclasses!

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