СТОИТ RUSSIAN DIFFICULTY 1 VOCAL STRESS

СТОИТ
This lecture explains this 3rd person singular present tense verb, that is a homograph to two different meanings. (Homographs are the words with the same spelling).
The discussed verb has two syllables. Where to put the vocal stress on? On the first or the second syllable? It depends on the context since the two meanings are very different.
After listening to this lecture you will expand your Russian vocabulary and have more clarification on how Russian vocal stress works. It works in mysterious ways - we may say, since we do not have the rules like, for example, the French and Spanish languages have (for the vocal stress).
When there are no specific easy rules for a certain thing in the language, I always recommend to students to learn little by little that area, or that topic. Thus, after this lecture you will be recognizing one of a very frequently used verbs, actually two of them, and with them, a few other words. Those of you, with the higher level of Russian, will definitely extend their active vocabulary. I know from experience, that if you are not confident about the stress you will probably hesitate to use that word being afraid to make a mistake. In Russian language the pronunciation mistake may put you in a funny position. We love humor. Once when I worked for one college and my dean of ESL department said that "Lisa and Vanya went to have a snack with alcoholic drinks" instead of "they went to have their lunch snack). It was absolutely funny: he confused the prefix to the Russian verb "drink". I could hardly hold from laughing imagining the husband and wife