Comments by "Юра Н" (@user-bi4eo3ys1f) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. Russian: июнь, июль /iyun', iyul'/
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  2.  @PhilBagels  English letters O and l look like numerals too. And Russian letters О, З, Ч, Б, sometimes small д in the shape g. And the letters S and Z look some like 5 and 2.
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  3.  @kimvibk9242  Listening to the word "påsk", I hear [posk]. Listening to the word "må", I hear ['mua].
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  4.  @HenryLoenwind  With such definition Russian has umlauts too. "звезда" - "звёзды" /zvezda - zvyozdy/ (star - stars), "пчела" - "пчёлы" /pchela - pcholy/ (bee - bees), "дитя" - "дети" /ditya - deti/ (child - children), "чёрт" - "черти" /chort - cherti/ (heck - hecks).
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  5. in in Latin is in.
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  6.  @larsedik  ...and "sell" instead "cell"... Words with soft "C" usually come from Latin. In Latin it is "TS" sound.
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  7.  @susanwestern6434  The Cyrillic letter with the KH sound is Х. Its shape is equal to Latin X. Its sound is voiceless velar fricative. It is not K because K is not fricative. It is close to H, and often heard as H and vice versa. When a Russian said about Химфак /Khimfak/ (Chemistry faculty), an English speaker said than it is wrong, the right way to say is "fuck him". The letter that looks like a star is Ж. Its sound is ZH like S in "visual", "measure", "pleasure", "decision". The Russian word "вижу" /vizhu/ means "I see".
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  8.  @diogorodrigues747  ...despite the Orthodox Church wasn't Latin.
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  9.  @thecryptofishist9565  Czech: okno, Polish: okno, Russian: окно, Ukrainian: вікно, Belorussian: акно, Slovak: okno, Slovenian: okno, Serbian: прозор, Croatian: prozor, Bosnian: prozor, Bolgarian: прозорец, Maсedonian: прозорец, Albanian: dritare, Romanian: fereastră.
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  10. N is nasal itself!
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  11. When reading the word "Easter" in this video, I imagined rooster instead, or a cock. When reading the word "Pascha", I have read it as "pasha". In my native Russian it is named "Пасха" [pasxa] , but my grandmother called it "Паска" [paska], what means "grazing".
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  12. Spanish has 5 vowels. And sounds like repeating "Rodrigues Rodrigues Rodrigues..."
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  13. Of course, wild blue flowers exists (with various hues). But I don't know their english names, and sometimes even russian ones. For example, живучка ползучая, черноголовка, незабудка (forget-me-not), колокольчик (bell), цикорий.
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  14.  @mrharvest  If book = buk, then but = what?
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  15. I heard that it is solved by selecting words whose tones are suitable for the song. And I often wonder how you can sing a song in a language which has long and short vowels (eg, English). If the vowel become longer, wouldn't the melody of a song change the meaning?
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  16.  @NigelGentry  I didn't count negations in the first your sentence. Usually at lessons of English the pair "ship - sheep" is mentioned. Really English has no full short-long vowel pair system, unlike German. Russian has no long-short vowel distinction, however some similar pairs exist. For example, "шит" /shit/ (past passive participle of "шить" /shit'/ (to sew)) - "шиит" /shiit/ (a kind of muslim).
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  17.  @levankhurtsidze5202  masculine кофе is not a rule, it is an exception. This word looks as other nouns ending "-е" (горе, море, поле) and might inflect in the same manner like regular neutral gender.
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  18. q is t' in Albanian.
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  19. There are some Russian words that start with "кн" (кнут =whip, кнопка =button, книга =book, князь ~=prince) и "гн" (гнида =nit, гнедой =bay (about horse), гнездо =nest, гнев =anger, гнать =to drive, гнёт =oppression, гнить =to rot, гнуть =to bend, гном =gnome or dwarf, гномон =gnomon).
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  20.  @exampleemail848  It is almost impossible for pronounce with right German sounds, because it is necessary to know how every such sound to pronounce. Does 'ch'+'h' sound like 'ch' or like 'h' (voiceless and voiced pair)? How exactly does 'ö' sound? Which kind of 'r' we must use? But if we don't care about the right pronounciation, the word is read easy. It doesn't content consonant clusters more than 4 sounds long, and the first one has 3 with a half sounds because i is a vowel, and ei is a diphthong. I can say "айнхёрнхен", it is not much more difficult than "wine her hen".
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  21. These words have K before I or E and C before A, O or U. Because were C before I or E, it would be pronounced like S.
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  22. 5:12 I have looked at a vocabulary. There the word "brother" is shown as ['brʌðǝ]. No shwa in the first syllabe. However, other languages may sound as shwa too. For instance, the tatar phrase "сораулар бармы?" /soraular barmı ?/ (Do questions exist?) is pronounced by someone as "сэрэлэр бэрмэ?" /sǝrǝlǝr bǝrmǝ?/. And there is a town named "Тэргэвэй" /Tergevey/, which is the changed Russian word "торговый" /torgovıy/ (trade). And as a Russian, , I noticed that the word "my" sounds exactly as the Russian word "май" (May month), despite Russian has no dyphtongs (really it depends on how to count).
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  23. An advantage of English is that it uses Latin alphabet only, without diacritics (except some loanwords from French).
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  24. Russian has many loanwords from Latin, Greek, French, German and English. And of course, a close linguistic relationship exists too, because it is Indo-European. You can test it by reading Pushkin. Most of loanwords came to Russian since 1850. Pushkin usually used native Russian words, except names.
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  25. Academy is impossible because it is a Latin word.
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  26. 3:39 I see the word "conquest", which is Latin for sure. And if you think that the word "much" is anglish, then listen to the song "Besa me mucho".
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  27.  @user-gj1np9rp4d  French j is a clear fricative consonant, english j is an affricate.
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  28. Lithuanian yellow - geltonai. Lithuanian day - dienis, latvian day - diena. Russian yellow жёлтый (zholtyj), lay - ложить/класть (lozhit'/klast'), lie (be horizontal) - лежать (lezhat'), lie (say false) лгать (lgat'), may - мочь (moch), I may - я могу (ya mogu) or мне можно (mne mozhno), day - день (d'en').
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  29.  @geroutathat  Once I said to my mother about a shirt "дательного цвета" ("of dative color"). And she understood me right. She asked: "Зелёного, что ли?" ("green, isn't it?"). I mentioned a hue of green, which is light and near to blue, and synestetically linked with lettersound (or more correctly soundletter?) "д" or "d".
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  30.  @Muzer0  Spar is a British corner shop chain I don't understand the clause. Despite all words except spar are understandable. Either corner shops were join to a chain, or a shop has a chain at its corner.
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  31. Antradienis is Tuesday in Lithuanian, where all days of week are called by their numbers.
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  32.  @TerencePetersenAjbro  Except Saturday, which is Shabbat (יום שבת).
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  33.  @TerencePetersenAjbro  Now I know that I don't know the word "account".
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  34. All or almost all turkic languages have the sound "ng", though the certain letter may be different. In Tatar it is "Ӊ ӊ", and the ending "ныӊ" / "неӊ" (nyng/neng) is used as ending of the possessive case, like 's in English. Also, this sound is at the end of words "иӊ" /ing/ (early) and "соӊ" /song/ (late). And how do you read the word "Nganasan" (a nation living in tundra)?
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  35.  @m4rloncha  ट ැ I tried to find in Unicode a symbol similar to handwritten r (or turned 2).
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  36.  @OldLordSpeedy  The name of nitrogen "azot" consists of the first letter of alphabet and of the last letters of Latin, Greek and Hebrew alphabets respectively.
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  37. "Like you coffee?" - "I like matcha not" As a Russian, I say that in Russian the word "не" (not) can't appear in the end of sentence. "Любишь ли ты кофе?" /Lyubish li ty kofe?/ - "Я не люблю мачу" /Ya ne lyublyu machu/ (I don't know what is "matcha" and does it inflect in Russian, but it sounds near to the Russian word "моча" /mochá/ (urine), which inflects, in Accusative á changes to ú).
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  38. Were we in Russia try to call November "Listopad", it would sound some weird. When all trees are already without leaves, and snow almost allows to ski (sometimes it is possible even in October, sometimes is impossible even in the beginning of December).
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  39. I think there are pairs Epsilon - Heta and Ypsilon - Iota. However, shifts of sound were different.
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  40.  @MrAnshie  Russian соль /sol'/ - salt, солнце /solntse/ - sun
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  41. You believe that all English speacher pronounce their language identically? And don't mix pin, pen and pan, and also pain and pine? And how they must write words: seeks, six, sex, sacks, sucks, socks, success?
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  42. Latin: dubium Esperanto: dubi Russian: сомневаться /somnevatsa/ French: doute Greek: αμφιβολία
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  43. In Russian : "night" is "ночь" /noch/, n+och, whereas "eight" is "восемь" /vosem'/. But there is the word "очи" /ochi/, which means "eyes". Then "ночь" (night) may be interpreted as "no eyes".
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  44. It makes Japanese words longer because of inserting additional vowels. For example, Russian word "kotleta" loaned by Japanese has become "kotsuretsu".
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  45. This letter is seen at not all computers.
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  46. 7:27 Google Translate pronounces the word "Ytterby" as "yt-ter-by", close to "it-ter-bi" and without any "u". Both "y" are stressed.
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  47.  @chri-k  In the video these y were pronounced somewhere between Russian Ы and Ю, with a mix of И (=ee) and weak r.
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  48.  @chri-k  The difference is very small. We in Russian call this town "Иттербю" /Itterbyu/, because this sound is absent in Russian, and the letter "ю" after consonant is quite close to the right sound, and in the beginning of word "ю" is read like "yu" with extra sound [j], and therefore changed to "И" (="I").
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  49.  @ghenulo  unusual
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  50. 5:40 You pronounce "Dve" as "dvey". May be Sanskrit really says ending "e" so, but this word looks identical with the Russian numeral "две" [dvʲe] (feminine "two"), without yot.
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