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learn_russianA question to all *learners* of Russian: how are you taught to pronounce щ?
99.9% of Russians pronounce it, simply, as a long soft [sh], without the slightest trace of a [ch] at the end. The [shch] pronounciation isn't even "very formal" - it's practically obsolete. But as far as I know a lot of students are taught the old pronounciation. I guess it's a kind of pedantism per se with all professors who teach a language that's foreign to them.
Did You Know: the only Russian word of non-Slavic origin in which щ occurs is крещендо, from the Italian.
99.9% of Russians pronounce it, simply, as a long soft [sh], without the slightest trace of a [ch] at the end. The [shch] pronounciation isn't even "very formal" - it's practically obsolete. But as far as I know a lot of students are taught the old pronounciation. I guess it's a kind of pedantism per se with all professors who teach a language that's foreign to them.
Did You Know: the only Russian word of non-Slavic origin in which щ occurs is крещендо, from the Italian.
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