beer = пиво

[david-us.livejournal.com]

I know this video is extremely corny, nonetheless, she is a native speaker (Marina Orlova).

http://hotforwords.rt.com/lessons/beer/

I was very surprised with her pronunciation.

She seems to be saying - pee-voh. I have always pronounced it pee-vah. I always thought the unstressed "o" was pronounced like "a".

While we're on the topic of beer. I'm wondering if the following are correct and commonly used:

светлое пиво = pale ale (How is this different from лёгкое пиво?)
тёмное пиво = dark beer
разливное пиво = draft beer

How would you say, "light beer", as in low calorie? Or, do they not have that in Russia?

Also, beer comes in either a bottle (бутылка) or can (банка) - right?

If баночное пиво is "canned beer", then how would you say "bottled beer"? Is there an adjective for that?

Thanks!

David Emerling
Memphis, TN
 

Comments

[vlad-why.livejournal.com]

Оканье (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B5).
But I'm sure that the way this girl is saying it in the video has nothing to do with the dialect, now rear among young speakers due to the urbanisation and cultivation of the standard Russian through schools and media, though spoken by about half of Russians just a few decades ago.
To my ear, with regard not only to the actual vowels (pee-vaw) but also to the girl's intonation, she treats it as if it were a loanword from Russian into English said by an English speaker. And obviously, in English unstressed o's are never reduced to ah's (though they are often reduced to a different type of vowel, but that's another story).

And yes, how cheesy indeed that video is !