I have discovered through working with Bohdan, my language partner, that I have become somewhat stuck in my Russian pronunciation habits. My main focus this week was really trying to nail down the differences between Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation, which has been somewhat challenging. The Russian and Ukrainian alphabets are almost identical, however, some of the letters are stressed in a slightly different way, so my habits from Russian hard ones to break.
For practice this week, I just read some simple children’s stories aloud in Ukrainian to try to drill the Russian pronunciation out of me. It was hard to silence those habits at first, but it is starting to become easier. I also have been watching some Ukrainian children’s cartoons so that I can get used to hearing the language being spoken.
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