What common pronunciation errors do learners make in Russian

Common pronunciation errors made by learners of Russian typically include difficulties with:

• Pronunciation of difficult sounds and consonant combinations, especially the differentiation between hard and soft (palatalized) consonants, which are distinctive in Russian but may not exist in learners’ native languages.
• Correct articulation of vowels, including stressed versus unstressed vowels, since Russian vowel reduction in unstressed syllables can be challenging.
• Proper placement of word stress, which in Russian is very important for meaning and can be unpredictable.
• Pronunciation of tail consonants and consonant clusters that may be unfamiliar.
• Intonation and sentence stress, which influence the naturalness of the speech.
• Interference from learners’ native phonetic systems leading to common mistakes in articulation and stress patterns.

These errors are common across learners from different language backgrounds and have been the subject of pedagogical research and materials to address them effectively. ^{2, 11, 18}

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