Как дела? I've been learning Russian for several years now, but I'm still not very good at it due to extreme laziness. I have a few questions regarding the 'Moscow accent'. Forgive me if these questions have been asked before, Google provided me with a lot of vague answers, so that didn't really help.
- How would one pronounce говорю and карандаш? I'm referring to the first syllables of both words. Are these letters (гОворю and кАрандаш) schwas (/ə/)? Or are they pronounced the same way as говОрю? (i.e. /ɐ/)
- How about космос? Sometimes it sounds like people say ['kɐsməs].
- Is х always pronounced /x/? I'm just asking, because I've heard singers like Слава (I'm sure there are others) pronounce хочу [hɐ'tɕu] (forgive my IPA). I know Ukrainians and people from the south tend to pronounce г as /h/, but Слава appears to be from Moscow, and I strongly doubt this also applies to х.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.