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Hi everyone! I've been self-studying Russian over summer break, and I just want to see how I'm doing in terms of pronunciation and reading. I know I still have a long way to go and am probably making a fool out of myself, but I need to see if I'm making progress or not.

I don't have any natives I can practice with or who can gauge my progress, so help from you all would be wonderful. I've only been using podcasts to listen to people speak Russian, so that's as far as my exposure gets, sadly enough.

I've attached a link where you can hear me reading out a passage from one of my self-teaching textbooks. It's a dialogue, and I don't know how to post the transcript up because I can't type in Cyrillic. But if it's really really that incomprehensible, I'll see what I can do!

After reading that passage about four times I still can't even get it smooth enough! This is bound to be so humiliating

PS: I know I said that I've been learning it for 3 months in the recording, but I started at the end of June, so apparently the one who can't count is me But whatever, it's still about a month and a half worth of stuff to look that.

Have fun listening and don't try to laugh too much

http://www.mediafire.com/?8bodaxqzhhtd7du

[hardkorowykoksu]

In my opinion it sounds really good. The udarenie (na primer 'pochemu') is a bit off but the accent is good.

I assume you had an audio recording and listened to it and learned it from that?

Could you please tell me the name of the book?
Thanks

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(Original post by hardkorowykoksu)
In my opinion it sounds really good. The udarenie (na primer 'pochemu') is a bit off but the accent is good.

I assume you had an audio recording and listened to it and learned it from that?

Could you please tell me the name of the book?
Thanks

Thank you so much! How would pochemu be pronounced then? I'm eager to get my pronunciation to the point where natives can understand me.

I didn't have an audio recording of this unfortunately The only Russian I've properly listened to is Tatiana Klimova's podcasts series, but I took the dialogue from a book called Russian Course: A Complete Course for Beginners by Nicholas J. Brown and tried to pronounce it myself.

I had to read that three times over before it got some form of smoothness, but even that needs work.

Edit: Oh, right. It's pochemu. I think I might have said pochemu out of habit. Which other words do I need to work on?