>>3 That's Russian with Ukrainian accent and dyslalia to boot.
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Anonymous2016-09-29 17:57
Since the stupid Westerners are too degenerate to express themselves verbally, I'll answer as a Russian speaker. Russian sounds nice overall, it's mostly easy to pronounce and understand, quite clear and varied; the trilled 'r' is good, and it's pretty neat that Russian uses a whole slew of sounds that are easy to pronounce but for some reason absent from most languages (such as the Ы sound and the palatalized consonants). However, there is one significant problem with Russian: fucking consonant clusters. Having to pronounce and even listen to things like 'rprm' or 'rtrsk', especially with the real 'r', is, in a word, terrible. I argue that there are only two approaches to making a language phonology good-sounding, understandable and generally good:
1) you keep the consonant clusters, but swallow or slur half the sounds like you've got a hot potato in your mouth (e.g. English, Danish and especially French) 2) you pronounce things distinctly and clearly, and even have a real (trilled) 'r', but you do away with all the break-your-tongue consonant clusters (e.g. Italian, Finnish)
Russian, sadly, hasn't gone any of those two ways, and is thus phonologically flawed.