Pronunciation...

[apollotiger.livejournal.com]

Hi, everyone. Yet again, it's me, with a pronunciation question.

From reading Omniglot's table on Cyrillic, as well as listening to some of the material I bought, I came to a realization... well, a conclusion. If it's correct, it's a realization.

I had thought that е, ё, ю, and я were pronounced as йе, йо, йу, and йа after a consonant... but it looks like they're pronounced as those at the beginning of a word or after another vowel or a ъ. From what I understand, they're pronounced as e, o, and у after a -soft- consonant (я not occurring in these places), or, after a normal consonant, as ьe, ьo, ьу, and ьa... is this right?

For example... one of the first words I tried to pronounce, бояться, would be pronounced бо-йать-сьа?

Большое cпасибо.