@celrydoor
So I use English "hot" as a mnemonic for готувати /hotuvatɪ/ "to cook".

But for a word like елегантний /elehantni/ "elegant", it's more helpful to my memory to remember that "Гг" is /g/ in Russian. It also matches the uppercase for Greek "Γγ", which has been used for /g/, /ɣ/, /ŋ/, and probably others across times and environments.

I am definitely a learner of Ukrainian, not a linguistic expert in it.
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@celrydoor Oh, it's almost certainly my error. My transcriptions are tentative and based entirely on what I can infer from the Duolingo speech samples. They definitely have hints of velar place and of voicing, so I suspect /ɣ/.

That's as a linguist.

As a language learner, I'm anchoring to phonemes I know from English and French where possible. In my head, г is "/h/ with a Ukrainian accent".

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