Embassy of the Russian Federation  in Bangladesh

Lesson - 1

Lesson - 1, Lesson - 2, Lesson-3, Lesson-4, Lesson-5, Lesson-6, Lesson-7, Lesson-8, Lesson-9,  Lesson-10, Lesson-11, Lesson-12

Lesson 1

Урок 1

Some information about Russian alphabet

There are 33 letters, 10 vowels, 21 consonants and 2 signs.

The vowels [a], [э], [о], [у].   The consonants [м], [н], [т], [д], [р].

А а – like a in “far”                                         Э э – like e in “red”

Оо – like o in “sport”                                      У у – like oo in “moon”

                        Ex.1 Read aloud.

                        А... э... а... э...а...э...

                        О...у...о...у...о...у...

Мм –like m in “man”                                      Дд – like d in “dollar”

Нн – like n in “nose”                                      Рр – like “r” in “rose”

Тт – like t in “Tom”

Ex.2 Read aloud.

Ма-мэ... мо-му...ма-мэ-мо-му...                    ам-эм...ом-ум...ам-эм-ом-ум...

Ра-рэ...ро-ру...ра-рэ-ро-ру...                          ар-эр-ор-ур...ар-эр-ор-ур...

На-нэ...но-ну...на-нэ-но-ну...                       ан-эн...он-ун...ан-эн-он-ун...

Та-тэ...то-ту...та-тэ-то-ту...                          

Every Russian word has a stress which means that one of its syllables is pronounced longer, more distinctly than the rest. This syllable, like the vowel it contains, is called stressed. Stress is very important in Russian because it helps to distinguish different words and different forms of the same word.

    ¢                              ¢                  

Дома (at home) -  дома (houses)

The stress in Russian is free, it may fall on any syllable in a word, so there is a variety of rhythmic, or stress, patterns.

Read.

                                    ¢                                     ¢

-­                                   - -                                 - -

да                                мама                            она

он                                дата                             дома

тут                               это                               туда

там                              рано                           

дом                              надо

Intonation. The introductory phonetic course includes 4 main types of Russian intonation. These constructions, or tunes, may impart a different meaning to a sentence, e.g.

1                                                                                  3

-       \                                                       -        ¤

Это дом. (This is a house.)  Это дом? (Is this a house?)

Ex.3 Read aloud.

         1                             1                            1                          1

Это дом. Это мама. Мама дома. Она рада.