Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)

(Just talking to myself)

--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrote:
>
> Please note that in grammars, you normally can read
> at
> least two examples in two different foreign
> languages
> about the pronunciation of Russian "x". That's why I
> mentioned "like j in navaja or like ch in Bach" (one
> might probably add Arabic examples too).
I checked in my Assimil method and I found yet another
description: "it is a k that is not completely closed,
it lets air pass through, like an English "h" in
"him".

Oh ? I never thought of that. I just told my wife,
hey, come here a minute, and say "uspex". To my utter
surprise, she said "uspex" exactly the way I expected
it (and added some disobliging remarks about me
stupidly spending my time on the Internet), and to me,
this with was not the way I always heard anglophones
pronounce "him" (but I may have asked the wrong
anglophones, of course). Nevertheless, both sounds are
not very far from each other, so it can help to try
with "him" if you don't know, neither navaja, neither
Bach.

True, this is losing one's time. If you want to learn
Russian, you just buy a f...ing cassette, or a f...ing
CD, and you listen to it, and you repeat what you
hear. Or you marry a russophone. That's what I did.
Let's be pragmatic.



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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