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The purpose of this study is to provide a description of the nature of palatalized and nonpalatalized consonants in the Russian and Japanese languages on the basis of comparative-typological studies as well as to characterize the manifestations of Russian-Japanese interference at the speech perception level. The basic research methods are the comparative-typological method, empirical method, generalization of analysis results to identify the phonetic interference, method of phonological oppositions, and rules for ...

Senior education, which has its specific features, is becoming one of the priorities in the present era of ageing of population, especially in Europe. Different kinds of courses are offered to seniors by so called Universities of the Third Age which have been established in the Czech Republic. Courses in foreign languages belong to the most popular and most demanded ones. Teaching at courses in foreign languages offered to seniors has to be adapted to the specific features of adult learners but it also cannot igno...

Many foreign and Russian research papers have been devoted to the successful mastering of foreign languages by bilingual students. Although this problem is sufficiently studied in many languages, the problem of teaching bilinguals is still relevant nowadays and requires a further in-depth study. It is interesting to consider this issue in the context of comparing the phonological systems of two unrelated languages: German and Yakut. The article deals with the problems of teaching the German language to bilingual s...