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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6440 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes  Studies: German | Message 17 of 26 11 February 2017 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
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I am surprised this board is still alive.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6118 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 18 of 26 23 June 2018 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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It's alive! And the impossible to prounounce language, far as I'm concerned, is Chinese. I asked Chinese people how to pronunce their names, and then I try. They say no, I try, they say no again.
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5128 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 19 of 26 26 June 2018 at 1:34am | IP Logged |
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Have you guys tried Arabic?
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6118 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 20 of 26 14 October 2018 at 3:09am | IP Logged |
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No, I haven't tried Arabic, but yeah, maybe it rivals Chinese for pronunciation. I did look into reading just the alphabet so I could say people's names, and some sounds were quite difficult.
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| lingasms Triglot Newbie Italy lingasms.tumblr.com Joined 3493 days ago 1 posts - 0 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, Russian Studies: Danish | Message 21 of 26 18 December 2018 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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Interestingly for me, I really find it difficult to pronounce German, even though I have no
problem with other tricky sounds in Germanic languages like English, Dutch, and Danish (except for the soft d, ofc). | |
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5128 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 22 of 26 19 December 2018 at 5:53pm | IP Logged |
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As someone who started to learn Arabic in grade 4, I still find it difficult to pronounce.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6118 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 23 of 26 03 March 2019 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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Arabic is fascinating to me,as I'm pretty well-connected to people in Gaza on Facebook due to following the conflict there. Wish I had time for it, but I'm just too busy with my own languages.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5219 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 24 of 26 12 May 2019 at 8:44pm | IP Logged |
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Since this board is still alive (I should know! ;)...
I don't think that simply stating a language is more or less difficult to pronounce for me cuts it -- not to mention that I may be delusional about the whole issue. I will also skip stating the obvious by saying that practice should make it easier (d'oh!) What I will say is that the language features being (un)known to you must certainly go a long way, and I will give you two examples: -Norwegian. One of the last times I met our very own Cristina I tried to mimic how she pronounces her name. Judging from her reaction, I apparently failed big time. Of course, I know zilch about Norwegian so I didn't know what I should have been paying attention to, so playing it by ear didn't exactly sound like music, probably. -Bulgarian. Even though my Russian is still stuck nowhere useful, I have an extensive background in studying its phonetics, which (so I have been told) are similar enough to Bulgarian. So, I was discussing with a Bulgarian friend how important it is to teach some operational principles of phonology and phonetics to language students when she demanded a practical demonstration. She uttered some simple stuff in Bulgarian, and to her astonishment I repeated it with flawless pronunciation (her words, not mine). She made sure to throw a few non-Spanish sounds to try and trip me up, but it didn't work. Why? I was ready for the features in her speech, whereas she certainly wasn't ready for a better-than-mediocre rendition from me. Would it work differently repeating that a few times around? Who knows... ;) Best regards, everyone! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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