Hi all. Please help me with commas in this text.

My friend which is non Russian-speaking asked me how to pronounce the vowel ‘Ы’ in Russian ( Read more... )

So please do correct me if the following is wrong:

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Okay, I'm beginning to learn (i.e. teach myself) Russian. Some of these questions have resolved themselves, but now there's one thing I can't seem to get my head around:

I know that when a stem that ends in a vowel (like жда-) gets an ending that begins with a vowel, the vowel on the stem is removed. I can see this happening in a lot of verbs, but ( Read more... )

I started learning Arabic yesterday, beginning with the alphabet. Looking now at dictionaries and Wikipedia, it seems that my Egyptian friend wrote only the consonants for me (plus aleph, ayn, wow and ye). Is that the extent of the vowels? What about the long ones listed on Wiki?

Thanks in advance for your clarifications.

I know that r is more of a vowel than consonant sound. Is there any language that has an r sound considered to actually be one of their vowels?