Noodler's Tsvetayeva (Цветаева)

[Signum1]

Here's a Russian ink that I bought in the calendar year 2019.  Native English speakers normally have difficulty pronouncing Russian words because they haven't studied the language.  This poet's surname is svee-ta-YEAR-va.  The stress is on the third syllable.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for posting the photos.  I think I can pass on this one (not a big fan of brick reds/brown leaning reds/reddish browns.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

Thanks for this one, too, @Signum1!  I lived in Moscow, Russia for 3 years, and your version is definitely not how I would pronounce her name.  Perhaps there's a native speaker on the board who can break the tie...   (Or are you a native speaker and I'm confused?)

 

ETA: Found this web page of the name pronounced in Russian - this is what I would expect.  (Another page, slower / more enunciated, full name.)

[Signum1]

It's a language I haven't fully committed to learning.  I look forward to those willing to make the time to chime in. 🙂

 

[LizEF]

53 minutes ago, Signum1 said:

It's a language I haven't fully committed to learning.  I look forward to those willing to make the time to chime in. 🙂

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  Me, too.  It's a hard language.  A trick we used when I was a TA in college was to have the students pronounce the last letter, then the last two letters, then the last three, etc. until they got to the start of the word - at which point, they were almost always pronouncing it correctly!  Best wishes in your studies (if you decide to continue them)!

[Signum1]

On 3/2/2024 at 10:02 PM, LizEF said:

  Me, too.  It's a hard language.  A trick we used when I was a TA in college was to have the students pronounce the last letter, then the last two letters, then the last three, etc. until they got to the start of the word - at which point, they were almost always pronouncing it correctly!  Best wishes in your studies (if you decide to continue them)!

Well... that's certainly a cool technique for phonetics.  However, my challenge is the multi-syllable words (four or more syllables) and the case system.  After a moment to reflect, the Russian language system is about changing the object noun (think syntax) to suit the meaning being expressed.  Not to mention the gender (male, female, neuter) of the subject noun and plural nouns affects the verb.  The verb is conjugated to match the subject noun.  Word order is not important in the Russian language because native speakers can identify the object noun by the suffixes.  The new information or important information is the last word in the sentence.  That's why native speakers would say, "I you love." я тебя люблю.  There's so much to learn in life. 🙂