The Picard ManeuverThe US has so much space
uisYou can drive for 138 hours from Ruasia and end up in Russia:
Google maps don’t let me zoom out to show entire route.
EDIT: you can drive in Russia without leaving it for 161 hours:
Wait, it’s not even the longest. Magadan, anyone?
From Zapolarniy to Magadan, 1 hour more:
Jojo, Lady of the WestOkay, help me out here. What is the little letter after н and before и? I learned to read curious from Serbian and they didn’t use it.
Заполярный? Ы. If you pronounce it as e/i you can get “cute”(мило) instead of “soap”(мыло).
How is it normally pronounced?
So it’s sort of an ü? That’s what my brain hears in the video.
Checking against the ipa missions on Wikipedia, I get that ы is the close central unrounded vowel while ü is the close front unrounded vowel. Listening to the audio samples on those pages, I literally cannot hear the difference.
There is small difference, but close enough. Yes.
Yeah, I can feel the difference when I say it, but… Well, suffice to say it’s not a sound in any of the languages I speak well.
Thanks for indulging a curious language nerd.
so is it like the sound in “way” or more like “tree”?
Neither. But ‘й’ sounds like ‘y’ in "way“.