Russian Щ - Exercises From Speech Therapist

Tutorial Transcript

Hello everyone! today i'm going to show you how to pronounce Russian Щ sound. Because sometimes it's pretty confusing, and people don't understand the difference between Ш and Щ. so let's get started! Way number one is for those who know how to pronounce Russian Ч sound. CH CH CH and if you cannot, please have a look at my another video where i teach how to pronounce Russian Ч. If you can do that, try to make a long ЧЧЧЧ. Like this. Hear that? This Ч turns to Щ. Try again. Long ЧЧЧЧ. While doing that try to break the air flow like this. and while doing that try to analyze what's going on inside your mouth. where exactly your tongue is. So next time you'll be able to put it right there from the very beginning to pronounce Щ. not starting with Ч, but exactly with Щ. so the key here is to understand the right position of your tongue and the "Ч exercise" will help you to do that. Way number two is for those who know how to pronounce Russian Ш sound. And here i want you to make a long ШШШ. While doing that long ШШШ sound, you slowly move your tongue a little bit forward. Very slowly. until you start hearing the clear Щ sound. Mark that position and remember that this is exactly the position you need to pronounce Щ. Try slowly, moving your tongue very slowly until you hear that Щ sound. After you learn how to pronounce the isolated sound I mean just Щ Щ Щ, try to add some vowels. I mean ЩА ЩО ЩУ ЩЕ. Maybe your Щ will be too long at the beginning, but it's ok. You need time to practice it. After a while you'll make it short. But it's absolutely not a problem if it's too long now. Then vowel comes first. So, practice like that for several days and you will learn how to pronounce Russian Щ perfectly. And that was it for today. Thank you very much for watching! Don't forget to subscribe to my channel for more russian language lessons. Bye-bye:)