Russian Minimal Pairs (pairs sink or swim together)

Audio clips from YouTube contributors are shared under the Fair Use doctrine Those from RhinoSpike contributors are included under the CC BY 3.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Don't forget to upvote if you found it helpful. That helps with visibility. Being able to distinguish between similar phonemes aids in listening comprehension and pronunciation. Each card randomly plays the left or right option. I wanted it that way, so they could sink or swim together. Because with minimal pairs, if you don’t know one, can you really say you know the other? Apparently, deck options don’t carry over. I recommend changing new card insertion order to random. https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#insertion-order These cards do not contain IPA or translations. Anki version 2.1+ might be needed because it uses audio tags —————————————————————————— Special highlight: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rJyDzDj3cY I strongly recommend watching this one. No word minimal pairs, but following her instructions on how to make the sounds ш and щ made hearing it when other people do it so much easier. The audio was taken from the following learners’ videos. Please view them for more background info. - "Pronunciation practice / Confusing pairs (Ш and Щ)" by Live Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDn0TKUis2M - "Beginning Russian. Phonetic exercises: Л vs. Л'" by Amazing Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CObp2q5Ok - "Beginning Russian: Phonetic Exercises: Ы vs. И" by Amazing Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPx-eJgztW8 - “Russian Soft Consonants / Soft С, З / Russian Pronunciation” by Russian Language in Detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-4M8zItHHw - “Russian Letter Ь (Soft Sign) / Russian Pronunciation” by Russian Language in Detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnTN1ya3vE8 - “Pronunciation of Russian Ш (sh) and Щ (shsh). What's the difference?” by Learn Russian with Denis Fedorov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Em1fx0mWg - “Hard sign ( Ъ) vs Soft sign ( Ь). WHY do we need them? - Russian pronunciation for beginners!” by Help my Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4qFL1TY9rk - “Russian Ш and Щ” by Help my Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rJyDzDj3cY …and the following audio files. - “Minimal pairs” by Tati and elena0207096 https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/tsyrak/18335/ - “Russian Minimal Pairs” by karina_Riga and elena0207096 https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/edmundac/42632/ - “Minimal Pairs” by gihar (removed background noise) and elena0207096 https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/jeh4ek/23317/ - “Russian Minimal Pairs for Pronunciation - Минимальные пары для произношение” by gihar (removed background noise), mikkilinn (removed background noise), and elena0207096 https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/taomustbeturtle/24808/ - “Russian Hard and Soft Consonants Minimal Pairs” by mikkilinn and elena0207096 https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/blegant/26425/ - “Hard and Soft T Minimal Pairs” by Tati https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/blegant/27393/ - “More Minimal Pairs” by chadfleanthony, PianoDentist, and Tati https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/blegant/27316/ - “Минимальные пары (Minimal pairs)” by Elenaskriptunova, galinaglushchevskaya, marianna0488, and OksanaYA https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/transnomadic/53161/ - “word pairs” by karina_Riga https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/vincentverwoerd128/42372/ - “Russian Minimal Pairs” by original001 https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/Gyaradosnow/59101/ I also found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z57XkijlXp4 for the difference between ч and ш but did not include it because I didn't need it. Also this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXzAOmBwYo&list=PL4FoGAk797pPfy9yJiCmCCMW01gDJRt1k&index=7. While some are included, he didn’t do many word pairs I would have trouble with For words I’ve come across that I had trouble differentiating, these videos (Disclaimer: Not endorsing their views. I found their videos with the help of YouGlish https://youglish.com/russian): Цвет, свет - “Разведопрос: Алексей Балаганский про основы информационной безопасности” by Dmitry Puchkov https://youtu.be/Yb7CjQBQ9XE Further Credits The Anki card style was influenced by Fluent Forever's Russian pronunciation trainer (2017 version, if different) https://fluent-forever.com/product/fluent-forever-pronunciation-trainer I added 35 notes from the trainer out of about 89 to my personal deck (using my card type, of course). And credit to SimonLammer for the Anki persistence script https://github.com/SimonLammer/anki-persistence Don't forget to upvote if you found it helpful. That helps with visibility.