The most remarkable accents of the Russian language

Hello, everyone. My name is Alex. I'm a Russian native speaker and teacher and in this video I will answer the question about the accents of the Russian language. Let's get started Well, I must say it's a pretty interesting question and right off the bat. There is no such thing as a dialect of Russian so there are no like special variations of Russian with their own grammar or spelling systems, but they are accents of Russian so with their own pronunciation features, and they're pretty common in some parts of Russia and in this video I will tell you about the most remarkable accents of Russian And the first accent of Russian that I'm going to talk about today is so-called Ukrainian accent of Russian Well as you can guess from its name It's common for those people who were born in the Ukraine But also speak Russian and also for those Russians that live on the Russian-Ukrainian border The most distinctive differences of this accent from the standard Russian pronunciation are so firstly they have this fricative Pronunciation of the Russian sound G. They pronounce it as R. So for example, they would say Hora instead of Gora Secondly, they sometimes pronounce the Russian sound E as E like in the word Privet They would say Privet and also they sometimes say Sho instead of Shto and so for example We can take a sentence Privet, a shto takoy ukrainsky govor? Hey, what's the Ukrainian accent? And if you were to say this Sentence with the Ukrainian accent you would say Privet, a shto takoy ukrainsky govor? And so most Russians would consider such a pronunciation kind of funny and maybe even cute The second accent of the Russian language or rather a group of accents are the Caucasian accents of Russia So for example, the Armenian, the Georgian and the Chechen accents. Well, each of them has Its own peculiarities and features. For example, the Georgian accent of Russian would sound like tender or gentle and They also put some more stresses in words like they would say the word Khorosho as Khorosho And they would say Oshibaysya instead of Oshibaysya Let's look at the example Speaking about the Armenian accent of the Russian language, I can mention two things Firstly, they have an excessively strong R sound and also they have like a very peculiar intonation when they're speaking Let's listen to it now And the Chechen accent. So firstly, they sometimes change the Russian sound Like they would say Privet And also they sometimes put the words from the Chechen language into their Russian speech such as Don Speaking about the Don accent And the last accent of the Russian language for today is the northern Russian accent Well, I myself come from the north and therefore i'm quite familiar with those slight differences Uh, well many times the northern Russian accent sounds just like the standard Russian It doesn't sound anyhow different, but actually there are some like little differences. Well, first off the People from the north generally speak, uh more quickly And the Russians from the south on the other hand, they they're not speaking they're singing Well, not quite like this, but I really noticed that they speak more slowly and many times they stretch the sounds especially vowels One more feature of the northern Russian accent is that northern people generally What does that mean? Well, generally Russians can either Means to pronounce o s a when the latter is not stressed and means to pronounce o s o so Uh, generally most Russians Which means that they would pronounce the word, uh these words as Even though there are all letters in both cases and some northern people on the other hand They keep this o as o and say And I myself pronounce those words the same way even though i've been living in the south for quite a long time now This is pretty much what an accent means That's pretty much it about the accents of the Russian language that I found the most remarkable and interesting But I must say that even though we have some differences in pronunciation. We almost never have troubles when communicating with each other Russian people living in such a huge country. They manage to actually keep the language unique, which i'm very happy about Thank you for watching guys If you like the video, please subscribe give me a thumbs up and write your ideas in the comments below. Bye. Bye