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Ran into the two words "вce" and "вcё". The teacher I have pronounces the words exactly the same even though the last letter is different.
I also ran the word through the Google Translate and some other fifth class software and got what appears to me as the same pronunciation for both of them or garbage.
Are the words pronounced the same? Do you guys have an opinion and expertise about this?
These words actually have both different meanings and different pronunciation. Transcriptions are the following:
Все - [ф с' э]
Всё - [ф с' о]
Listen to audios, or read IPA transcriptions, at the wiktionary article for все. The first one is the pronuncation of все, the secons one is pronuncation of всё.
Note that in Russian ё is often written as е, so the word written as все may actually mean всё. Such ё->е replacement is most common in printed books, newspapers and journals (almost 100% cases), common in Internet (50% cases), and less common, but still ocasionally happens, in handwritten texts.
