The latest news: v Krymu, ...

[Dan Goncharoff]

There is a part of me that wants to ask what is so hard about pronouncing
"v Krymu", but I guess, if you could answer the question, there wouldn't be
a question...

DanG


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Which is why in my graduates school days I gave up trying to learn
> Russian -- I couldn't pronounce it.  (This actually was one locution
> the instructor assigned the class during its first week.  Was he
> using it as an intentional weeding out "shibboleth"?)
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> Joel
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