How do you say sochi

Khutor means hamlet or farmstead. And what about President Vladimir Putin? In other Slavic languages, the name "Vladimir" can be stressed on the first or last syllable but in Russian, the stress falls on the penultimate syllable. When freelance photographer Shannon Jenson arrived in South Sudan in May , she found a refugee crisis.

Many people had fled the fighting along the border with Sudan and were living in makeshift camps in terrible conditions. But news agencies didn't believe the crisis was serious enough to cover, using Jenson's pictures. So Jenson found a novel way to show what these people had been through — by photographing their shoes. Many of the refugees had walked for days to find safety, and their shoes were a testament to the hardships they had endured.

Now, those photographs are on display at the Open Society in New York. PRI's The World has the story and the photos. Many of the recent conflicts in the Middle East have been fueled by expatriate fighters, and many of the fighters have come from Saudi Arabia. Now, the country's ruling family is trying to rein in its citizens. A new law, according to Al Jazeera , provides for prison sentences of three to 20 years for any Saudi who fights in a conflict in a foreign country.

The measure, which also covers people who promote "extremist" and "terrorist" groups, seems aimed primarily at stopping the flow of young Saudi men to Syria. The English version has to pull the 'o' one way So-chee or the other Saw-chee or Sah-chee.

For Russian words in English, we sometimes go one way Olga and sometimes the other Vodka. So what to do for Sochi? It seems that the more we talk about it, the more So-chee gains momentum in the U.

However Saw-chee may be picking up support in the UK. Learn how to pronounce Sochi Sochi. Rate the pronunciation difficulty of Sochi. Very easy.

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