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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I'm listening to the interview now, and she says Valentin the way I expected - with the stress on the first syllable. But the audiobook narrator is both 1) stressing the second syllable instead and 2) sometimes she's ending it with "ian" instead of "in". Think of how you'd say Se-BAS-tee-un. She's more than half the time saying Val-IN-tee-un. Arrgh.
Like you, I studied Russian long ago (I was in college, not high school, but that was almost 40 years ago!!) So I understand about the "a" being more like "ah". To my mind, it would be AHN-uh-STAH-seeya, not Ahn-uh-stuh-SEE-ya.
But I also admit that it's been a long time since I was exposed to anything but the most peripheral Russian (two of my co-workers speak it, so we all say the Hi, and How Are you....but then I'm out of conversation.  ) |
Yeah, I think we're on the same page about Anastasia. Stressing the second syllable in Valentin does sound strange.
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
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I've gotten so far behind on Anna Hackett since she went Amazon only. I have a list of books I was waiting to come out in ePub, but she writes so fast I think even that is out of date. I still need to finish her Phoenix Adventures series.