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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Ok, so make believe you're in a Russian dating situation... what kind of things would you say to break it off? For example... what if you want to say "This isn't going to work out...?"

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The infinitive «мочь»

[udarnitsa.livejournal.com]

I’ve been told the infinitive form of мочь only occurs in dictionaries; Russians never use it in everyday speech. Is this true? How do you get around it?

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[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

So after a good amount of time of hearing the sounds, I am now able to hear the difference between и and ы. (they used to sound the same to me)

I still can't, however, tell the difference between ш and щ. This is most likely because I don't hear the shch sound used very often at all. I was wondering if anyone can give me a good way of hearing the difference.

Although this may be wrong, I treat it as a double consonant a la Japanese. In Japanese, where you see a word that has a double consonant, like tte for example, you pause slightly before the double consonant (much like headdress or bookcase in English). Is this accurate? I also thought that maybe I should just try holding the sh sound longer and that would give me shch. I don't hear a transition from the sh sound to a ch sound, and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to or not.

Tell me if any of my theories are correct, and if not, let me know what I should be thinking lol. Thank you!