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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5458 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 9 of 30 18 October 2010 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some Norwegian dialects too (Nothern Norway, on the coast).
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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6442 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 10 of 30 18 October 2010 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | ||
Standard American English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| NotKeepingTrack Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5172 days ago 19 posts - 23 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, German | Message 11 of 30 19 October 2010 at 1:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe I should have read this post before starting language studies.
I can't seem to do anything BUT the American English "r". I have trouble with the R in Spanish, French, and German. -sigh- 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| masmavi Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 5713 days ago 9 posts - 17 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Yiddish, Turkish, Italian | Message 12 of 30 19 October 2010 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||
I've read that before, but I have never ever heard anyone talk like that. Does anyone know what dialect that would be and if it still exists? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5698 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 13 of 30 19 October 2010 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I was a bit let-down to discover that Mandarin has that particular "r" sound, seeing as the "r" is the only sound I can't pronounce at all in American English (my native tongue). I can do a sort of British-RP "r," a German and French "r," a Spanish and Italian "r" – but not my very own native pirate-talk "r." And here I was hoping that if I spent my life speaking other languages, this wouldn't be a problem! *sigh*
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| ilcommunication Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6697 days ago 115 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 14 of 30 19 October 2010 at 6:43am | IP Logged | ||
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The Mandarin "r" is pretty subtle and hard to get right for Americans, at least in my experience. I found it to be a lot closer to the teeth than the American English "r". But now that I think about it, it's not *that* far off, which is interesting. I can't think of anything that comes closer, but I wouldn't be surprised by some Dutch dialects and languages related to it.
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5701 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 15 of 30 19 October 2010 at 7:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Don't forget Faroese.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5386 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 16 of 30 19 October 2010 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Mandarin's syllable-initial r is not the English r. Previous poster was likely refering to the typical Beijing syllable-final "er".
I suspect the American English r is rather rare in a syllable-initial position. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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