pron. of "Medvedev" cont.

[Deborah Hoffman]

Yes please don't make the second e sound like Nyet!

  Here is a Youtube demonstration; although the speaker enunciates it clearly as med VEH yeff, you are correct that in regular speech the first e will reduce to something resembling the i in "ick."
   
  Mid-VEH-dyeff.
   
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=dLfBtPlkyng
   
  I love this column, and look forward to the Medvedev mention.
   
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Deborah Hoffman, Esq.
Russian > English Legal and Literary Translations

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. -- R. G. Collingwood

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