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[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/6/2014 12:18 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>Many Russians feel the same way about Czech, especially Czech
>names--where do the vowels go?

Victor has put his finger precisely on my problem.  I didn't see enough vowels.

Joel


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>On 3/5/2014 1:13 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>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"?)
>>
>>Joel
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