Common pronunciation mistakes when you speak Russian I talked to foreigners recently and found out two very common mistakes in pronunciation. The first is about vowel "Ы" which does not exist in english and most of latin languages so most of the people pronounce it like "i" in "pit" and "meat". And the second is combination of any consonat with lotated vowels (i'm not sure about this word, but google give me this word). Here is a small explanation if you know nothing about russian vovewls. This vowels are made from simple vowels like: А (bun, fun),У (pool, stool), Э (dead, test), О (ball, cold). Then we put "Й" sound like english "Y" at the end of the word (buy, may) before vowel and have new vowels: Й+А = Я (ya in yard), Й+У=Ю (you or u), Й + Э = Е (ye in year), Й+О=Ё (your). So, when we have a syllables like МЯ, ЛЮ, БЕ, РЯ etc. The spelling in english commonly be like "mya", "lyu", "bye", "rya". But it gave you wrong reading. It should be a softening of consonant by Y, then you make a vowel sound. The both mistakes making in habbits of holding you tongue at the top of mouth and touching upper palate. So, to improve your spelling you need to put your tongue to the bottom of your mouth and then make Ы sound. Same rule for Y-vovels in Russian. Just let your tongue lie down and you will get different sound. I hope that would be usefull.

One year ago/before ปีก่อน or ปีทีแล้ว ? What is the difference between ปีก่อน and ปีทีแล้ว?

My boring life =) Today I'm gonna tell you about small town life. I live in small town hundred km from Moscow. From October to April life here is calm and quiet. Well, if don't mention crying mother and school students who don't like to do homework. Ha. I'm kidding. Back to seasons, from april population of town grown atleast twice because a lots of moscow citizen arrived at the holidays and some of them moved to the countryside for summer. In fact it is normal to send children to the countryside for long summer holidays. This holidays last three monthes from June to August. All this people like to have fun as they imagine to themself. Some of them getting drunk, some makes a shashlik. I don't know is there an english world for this. This meal is a pieces of meat prepared in special sause and sticked together on the metal stick and then grilled above charcoal. Meanwhile children like to group a small company and play some rangers or something like that or just go to the neighbor garden and steal some berries or vegetations even if they are rape. And of course the main part of the people here are gardening! Plants some vegetables, spices, flowers or bushes, pick out weeds and watering if there is no rain. I have tha flat at the first floor, so I can walk to my small garden through the window! Ha! That's right, I walk through my window. That makes my neighbors smile all the time! I am lucky enough to have a good view to the south. There is a small field and young birches on it. Behind the field a strip of forest, so I always can see the sky and rain few km far from my house and nice rainbow after rain. It appears always at the same place. And last two years there is also big GSM tower with red light XD. Last year I plant a small oak seed and small maple, I hope they will servive. Enjoy a nature and fresh air with me. See you again.

สวัสดีคะ สวัสดีคะ ดิฉันชื่อละนะ ดีฉันเรียนพุทภาษาไทยยุทีโรนเรียน เขียนเรียนเอง พบกันไมครั้งหน้า I checked spelling in google-translate. I know how to speak and recognise words, but can't guess how to write them yet.

My customers. Hello people. Girls, do you like a nice dress? Hey, boys! Do you like big girls? I mean really big like size 54-60, height about 180 cm. They don't really look fat. They are just tall and have a normal amount of fat and their muscles are great. Those women are strong. Most of my permanent customers are big ladies. That is a big problem (It is a big problem - diff?) to find nice and beautiful dress for big ladies. They all have uncommon forms, so most of the factory clothing do not fit at the top or bottom or the length. Today I am going to make a dress (some dress wtdiff?) for my friend and old customer. I love to make dresses for her. She has a good sense of humor, nice color, and fashion taste. She also has three children that means she always has a good snacks for tea and a nice pleasant atmosphere at home. Big girls have warm hearts. They have a lot of energy and also that (???) is really hot in summer for them. So, my friend need's (review 's) a nice thin dress from a batiste or a thin viscose which pass through the air. It would be light beige background color with medium sized red flowers and fresh grass (or weeds). Most big ladies don't like to show their biceps so I should make short sleeves. I hope I will stop mixing tenses like I do in Rrussian and fix my problems with articles. Thank you for your attention.

What is the difference betwen "was told" and "has been told"? "I was told" and "I has been told" have the same meaning in Russian: "мне сказали". Please help!

My Thai language education. When I visited Thailand I studied at a local language school. That was a special school for me because the main point was to not use other languages, only Thai! The first things we were taught were vovels and consonants. Every one in the group had to repeat each one and make compounds of them. The second thing was taught were the tones. There are five tones in Thai language. After we reproduced all this musical tone pracrice with the teacher (music of sounding like a teacher) the most interesting part of the class began (smth ... begin/began). There was a lot of items at the tables so teacher just pointed to each one and said the word. That is pretty easy for simple words and looks like baby learning (gerund?) native languages just point and repeat. Next we began to practice (subject - we, begin to do smth...) more difficult things like relationship between items and people. (to much eggs in one bag...) Then we started describing (past cont.)items: color, size, belonging and so on. Here is a few examples: "This pen is mine", "This is his book", "That Jane's table" and etc. "Air outside(or there is) is hot", "inside is cool (or here is cool)". The most amazing part was a people relashinship and daily phrases. I still remember most of them. The most usefull was: "How to say this in Thai?", "What is this?", "Speak slowly please!" and "Repeat please!". Those magic phrases can easily improve your language if you are not in you country attempting to learn local language. In fact most of thai people were always excited when i was speaking thai with them. I think there are really proud to be THAI! p.s. Our teacher had a trick to let students overcome shyness and speak even if they affraid of mistakes. She said: "Speak mistakes - don't worry, all mistakes are thecher's, not your's". We can always correct our mistakes! Have a nice time learning new languages! I hope you will succeed!

Let's talk about materials. I am a dressmaker. First time i tried to explain people what am i doing was embarrassing and confusing. I knew the word "sew". Sew is a verb so I tried to add "er" and make "sewer". That was funny and people didn't unterstand me. There is another meaning and that is not about dress... I used it in Thailand. Second time I tried to translate and use words "textile" and "fabric". The only one word really helps me and that was "matrtial". The question is how to talk about tixtile materials? Linen, cotton, wool and others? Examples. I want to ask: - Where is a textile shop? - Where can i buy a nice piece of silk? - What this material is made of?

Hobby: felting. Hi everyone who interested in felt. There is some specific vocabulary I want to know about my hobby, so I would probably use some wrong words. First of all I have instruments and matirials. Instrumens are: a mashine which man normally use to make wood clean and smoothy; bottle of water with tiny holes (or special thing I don't really have);liquid and solid soap and bubble membrane. I'm sure you know this thing it makes a lot of fun claping it. And last but important is a pattern of what we suppose to make. Wool and viscose are matirial. There are a lot of fibers we can also use but I don't want to enlarge this text with details. Anyway, let's start process. First of all we need to put a bubbles at the table. Table shoud be big enough for your pattern. Then we put a pattern. Make sure you have a bottle with liquid soap filled with water prepared. Next we put a strands of viscose to the pattern to make it more strong and beautyfull. Let's pour it with water to prevent it from flying away. Then we put a strands of wool up to the viscose. One by one, Step by step untill we fill whole the pattern. After we finish with wool we should pour it one more time and cover with bubbles. Next we take a vibro-grinding mashine (but don't forget to remove sandpaper) and step by step walk throw all your pattern. Then we remove upper bubble membrane and rub your thing with our hands using soap to make it faster. Last step is washing. Make sure to washed away all the soap and smash it with your hand to remove water. We should aviod twist felt product because it can deform it. Finally we have nice piece of felt! It clould be scarf or bactus, weist coat or jacket, hat or gloves. I hope you enjoy reading.