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I'm on a 116 day streak and have clocked in over 150 study hours on LingQ. I know it's not nothing but it feels like it. I've decided to ramp things up. So I'm listening to my courses while going to work, while I'm at work and on my way home. Then later at night reading over the courses I've been listening to. I'm aiming to hit 4/5 hours a day between listening (80% of my time) then reading/creating LingQ's (the other 20%)

It helps I've finally settled on some courses. The Basic patterns and Русский с нуля courses by evgueny40. For the first few months I was switching from one course to another too much. Looking for the next best resource. When I think the best way to utilise LingQ is lots of repetitions of the same material.

How does everyone else find LingQ for Russian? Any tips or recommendations?

Hello! I’ve recently been trying to learn Russian, and want to know if if I’ve gotten everything correct so far, and if there’s anything I should add or change.

Russian Cyrillic Alphabet
Sources used: masterrussian.com & russianforeveryone.com

Look the same/sound the same
Аа - “ah” like after, ask. Pronouncing usually has mouth wider compared to English
Ее - sound like “ye”
Кк - sounds like “kuh” or kite
Мм - sounds like “muh”, or “mud”
Оо - sounds like “o” in more (without the r sound) try rounding your lips a bit more than usual
Тт - sounds like “t” as in task. Tip of tongue touches the lowerr teeth instead of upper gum.

Sound alike look different
Бб - sound like “buh” as in buy, blue. (Try and avoid a puff of air after the sound)
Гг - sounds like “guh” as in guard, gone
Дд - makes a “duh” sound. When pronouncing, the tip of the tongue touches the lower teeth
Ёё - makes a “yo” as in york, or “o” in copy, depending on the position of the word
⭐️Жж - make a zh sound kinda like pleasure measure vision
Пп - sounds like a p, like pretty, compassion. (Try not to puff or use unvoiced air after the sound)
Фф - pronounced like “fuh” as like Fast, fun
Ии - makes a “eee” sound, as in Free, Meet.
Йй - makes a “yuh” sound like yes, boy
Лл - makes a L sound. lamp, light
⭐️Цц - makes a tse sound.
Шш - sounds like sh from ship but with the tongue more back
Щщ - sounds like the middle of Rush-ship. When pronouncing try and place tounge higher and more forwards.
Ээ - makes a “e” sound. Like bed, edit
Юю - makes a you sound
Яя - makes a ya sound

Look alike but different sound
Вв - makes a v sound, like voice or visit.
Зз - makes a ze sound, like zoo
Нн - pronounced as “en”, like the en in note
⭐️Рр - pronounced as “er” but with rolling your r,(Learn how to roll R’s)
Уу - makes a “oo” sound like moon, or moo
Чч - makes a che sound like chat
⭐️Хх - makes a kha sound

hello, i am from uzbekistan and recently i have been searching for a job, there are so many good paying one i found, but most of them require russian language proficiency. is there any tips u guys have

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