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From: "Alexander V. Brook" <sova@tx.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Re: easiest lang for beginner
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Colin Fine wrote:
> 
> In article <3190e828.6174400@nntpserver.swip.net>, Niklas Bonnemark
> >> The stressed syllable of a word has the full vowel sound.
...

As a native speaker I must tell you that those things are too delicate
to be discussed, as they depend HEAVILY on where the speaker is from.
Someone from a village by middle Volga will say "khorosho" with three
almost undistinguishable `o's. My (of a Moscovite) pronounsation of
"khorosho" will, for all practical purpouses, have TWO vowels, for the
second and the third `o's, but it's a part of a local Moscow accent.

	Alexander.

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