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| Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6861 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes  Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German | Message 41 of 42 06 July 2006 at 11:05am | IP Logged |
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I like the Portuguese nasal diphthongs ão, õe that are usually used to replace the English "-tion" ending like in the words:
"communication" = "comunicação" "actions" = "acções" In French, Portuguese and Israeli Hebrew I like the voiced uvular fricative /r/. In Mayan languages and in Hebrew (letter aleph), I like to pronunce the glottal stop. In German I like the combination "schw", which sounds very distinctive and peculiar. In Spanish I like the /ñ/ sound (voiced palatal nasal) that is very herd to pronunce for non-native speakers. In French Canadian I like the way the letters "d" and "t" are often pronunced almost like the /z/ sound. They usualy pronunce "Canadien" (Canadian) as if they were almost saying: "Canazien". Edited by Alfonso on 06 July 2006 at 11:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BookishAcolyte Newbie United States Joined 6768 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish | Message 42 of 42 06 July 2006 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
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I like this vowel sound in French:
rien, fin On the other hand, I kind of dislike the r in French. Nobody ever told me it wasn't like the one in English, and so, since I didn't listen to many recordings of native speakers for a long time, it took me much too long to figure that out. I also like the way Italian and Japanese sound, but I don't really have any favorite sounds. I do kind of like the Japanese r though. Regarding "huit", I always hear it almost as a r sound. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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