(I can finally make that strange back-of-the throat ‘ee’ sound – as if you’re ab

(I can finally make that strange back-of-the throat ‘ee’ sound – as if you’re about to grunt ‘uh’ as if hit with a medicine ball, but then you narrow your throat from making the ‘uh’ grunt, until you make an ‘ee’ sound’, then you start the grunt with a sharp ‘tuh’. That’s how you pronounce the word ‘You’, which is written “Tbi”, which to us is ‘t-ee’ but the ee sound is deep in your throat – actually down in your esophagus. And for some reason I had a terrible time with it. Anyway, it’s pretty hard to speak Russian if you can’t say ‘you’. )