How would you pronounce it??
I saw a sentence somewhere written in Russian. The part I was curious about was the preposition "в" followed by a noun that began with a "в". For example: в Вашингтоне. With the two "в"s together do you pause in between or just prolong the в sound? Or maybe the first changes to "ф" to differenciate?

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How would you pronounce it??
I saw a sentence somewhere written in Russian.  The part I was curious about was the preposition "в" followed by a noun that began with a "в".  For example: в Вашингтоне.  With the two "в"s together do you pause in between or just prolong the в sound?  Or maybe the first changes to "ф" to differenciate?

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I recorded a sample for you:

Вашингтон -- в Вашингтоне -- Я живу в Вашингтоне

Америка -- в Америке -- Я живу в Америке

Великобритания -- в Великобритании -- Я живу в Великобритании

http://www.box.net/shared/4uz4j1u71h

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Russian usually pronounce combinations like this as a one sound or some may prolong sounds in this case. So you may hear people saying just "вашингтоне" or "ввашингтоне", but without pauses.

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You can prolong this "в" to one and a half, or you may as well say "Вашингтоне" not even prolonging it. Both will do.

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as usual we don't make pauses. foreingers even can think that we say like "вашингтоне". well, it was russian.

in ukrainian we have to synonymic prepositions:  в and у. it's just to avoid such situations. for example if the word begins from consonant then we use y. so in ukrainian we would say "у Вашингтоні". and when the word begins from sonorous, we use в  :  в Уругваї (in Uruguay)

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