Hi everyone and welcome to this special episode of the American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy and today's language-specific podcast is for Russian and Ukrainian speakers as well as teachers of those students.

I have a special guest with me today.

Oksana is a former student of mine, and she's a native Russian speaker.

Throughout this podcast, Oksana is going to demonstrate what very clear English pronunciation

sounds like when coming from a Russian speaker.

Thanks for being here today, Oksana.

Thank you for hearing me, Wendy.

I'm really honored to take part in your podcast.

Before we begin, I want to be clear that while there are variations

between how Russian and Ukrainian speakers pronounce English,

they do sound quite similar to one another.

I also want to say that since the area covered by Russian and Ukrainian English, they do sound quite similar to one another.

I also want to say that since the area covered by Russian and Ukrainian speakers is so geographically huge, speakers from different areas will have variations of English pronunciation.

This episode is only about the seven broadest, most common issues.

Today we're going to focus on the following.

The TH sounds, the H sound, the L sound, the R-controlled

the R-controlled vowels, the short A, comparing the short I and long E sounds, and comparing the short O and

A.W sound. I almost feel like it is a cliche to say that any language has issues with the English

TH sounds. Every language has issues with our TH sounds.

There's nothing to be done but to practice,

practice, practice,

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