r/belarus • u/NitroXM • 12d ago

Беларуская мова / Belarusian language Does Belarusian youth have Belarusian accent when speaking Russian?

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u/0utkast_band 12d ago

I am always meh when I hear the moscovite accent

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u/nekto_tigra Belarus 11d ago

I know, right?

The more time passes from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the weirder "Russian" Russian sounds to me. Back in the day, when everyone watched Moscow TV channels and movies, their accent sounded natural and kind of canon, now it's just "wow, why can't these guys talk like normal people?"

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u/According_Air_969 10d ago

This has always been the case, especially in and around Moscow. There is a similar attitude towards northern, southern, and Ural accents.

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u/nekto_tigra Belarus 10d ago

That’s normal in Russia because Russians speak their language naturally. For my generation, Russian was a language that we had to learn in schools, including the “proper” accent, just like we learned proper accent in English classes. Now, as we get less exposure to this “proper” accent, it starts to sound weird, that was my point.