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Vowels are the musical building blocks of every Russian word. If you flub a consonant or two, you’ll probably still be understood. (To avoid such flubs, though, check out “Enunciating consonants correctly” later in this chapter.) But if you don’t pronounce your vowels correctly, there’s a good chance that you won’t be understood at all. So it’s a good idea to get down the basic principles of saying Russian vowels, which we cover in the following sections.