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| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6442 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1 of 30 18 October 2010 at 7:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Every language I've ever seen (heard?) uses either a guttural R, a flap R, a trilled or rolled R, or a fakey "ah" sounding R, or some variant of those.
Except American English. Are there any other languages that use an American English R? It seems to be quite a difficult sound to make for most non-English speakers. Just curious :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6587 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 30 18 October 2010 at 7:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Mandarin. Heck, the Beijing variety hardly uses anything else. Some of us learners refer to it as "pirate speech" because of all the "Arrrr".
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6147 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 3 of 30 18 October 2010 at 7:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not positive about this, but from what I've heard of the languages, I think Albanian and Irish use the same 'r' sound as in English. Maybe that's why I don't like the sound of those languages...
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| Dragonsheep Groupie United States Joined 5275 days ago 46 posts - 63 votes Studies: Tagalog, English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 4 of 30 18 October 2010 at 7:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Be sure to specify American English. British English r's is a lot more common across languages.
I've heard someone compare the British r to the Tagalog r. I can somewhat see the resemblence. Edited by Dragonsheep on 18 October 2010 at 7:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6016 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 30 18 October 2010 at 10:29am | IP Logged | ||
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American English, but which accent...?
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5814 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 6 of 30 18 October 2010 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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It’s used in some dialects of Dutch, Swedish and German, as well as in Mandarin,Vietnamese, Tamil, Malayalam and
Eastern Armenian. Edited by MäcØSŸ on 18 October 2010 at 2:46pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 7 of 30 18 October 2010 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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A quick visit at Wikipedia tells us that a few languages do, such as Chukchi and Vietnamese.
Alveolar approximant Edited by Arekkusu on 18 October 2010 at 4:12pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6587 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 8 of 30 18 October 2010 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Really? Do you happen to know which dialects of Swedish that is? It doesn't sound familiar to me at all. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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