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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Hmmm...it's been years (and years) since my college Russian classes. I would have said this would be more like:
chee-TOT-l.
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I have the lingvo dictionary, which was kind enough to have a sound sample for the word. It sounds chitAtel to me, and the a sounds more english with a tendency to ae rather than ah. Or maybe I'm hearing it wrong (?). The emphasis is clearly on the second syllable, of this I'm sure.
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
The character at the end isn't the "v" in Russian, but a character that denotes whether to make the consonant "hard" or "soft". If I remember correctly, this is the "soft" character. So you de-emphasize the "L" sound.
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Thanks for the info, I didn't know of course. That's why no v is heard
