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| aarontp Groupie United States Joined 5265 days ago 94 posts - 139 votes  | Message 17 of 21 10 July 2010 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
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Out of curiosity, is the English "r" very unique, or is there a similar "r" sound in
another language? I got a rude awakening when I started studying foreign language and was confronted with a radically different "r." I had a hard enough time with the "r" of my native language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5920 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 18 of 21 10 July 2010 at 1:36am | IP Logged |
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Yes, there is. It's not too common, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_approximant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroflex_approximant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored_vowel 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| junjo Newbie United States Joined 5296 days ago 12 posts - 17 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 19 of 21 10 July 2010 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
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Although I am a native English speaker I work in a store with a fair amount of customers from other countries. One word I've noticed severely mispronounced a few times, even by those with a good command of enlish, is mirror.Probably due to the multiple Rs. I remember someone asking me something along the lines of "where are the my-roars?" Needless to say it took a few repeats to decipher that one.
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| dissident Newbie United States Joined 5310 days ago 37 posts - 43 votes | Message 20 of 21 17 July 2010 at 6:30am | IP Logged |
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good question !
for me coming from Russian the biggest challenge is being understood on the telephone. that is to say my accent, especially with respect to "th" and "r" sounds. also i have a big problem with knowing where to put commas. sometimes it was unsure whether to use "i" or "y" or unsure whether to use "s" or "z" the problems i used to have but got over were confusing "its" with "it's" and "lose" with "loose" some of my russian ( as well as native English speakers ) friends have/had problems with confusing "brake vs break" and "pedal vs paddle" and "there vs their" also i see many people making these spelling mistakes: ( correct ) / ( wrong ) infinite / infinate definite / definate experience / experiance genius / genious 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 21 17 July 2010 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
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1) the spelling
2) the correct choice of prepositions 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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