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| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6013 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 9 of 106 10 January 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I'm glad to make you happy with this information! I know that people do it in California; I don't know about other states though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6392 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 10 of 106 10 January 2012 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Some Cantonese words I learned while living in Foshan I say with a Mainland accent, while I usually use a Hong Kong
accent. The Mainland accent has a seventh tone that has disappeared from the Hong Kong accent, so adding it in in a few words sounds a bit weird, but if I don't concentrate, it's what comes out My girlfriend finds it funny sometimes. In English I'm never satisfied with the way I say "printer". With a British accent it's easy, but using that would contrast with my otherwise very American accent. The 'nt' combination feels weird in my American accent, though some people have said it sounds perfectly alright. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5734 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 11 of 106 10 January 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I have a difficult time with the English sound "tr" as in "truck", sometimes I pronounce the "t" as a hard "ch" making the word sound something like "cheruck".
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| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4559 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 12 of 106 11 January 2012 at 12:31am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I don't like when foreign learners of English neglect voiced consonants in English:
so they pronounce OF with [f], instead [v] MUSIC with [s], instead of [z] NOISE with [s], instead of [z] NOSE with [s], instead of [z] and so on... Please learn these sounds [s] ssss the sound snakes make [z] zzz the sound bees make LOOSE [s] LOSE [z] ''Children lose [z] loose [s] teeth.'' ;) Edited by Camundonguinho on 11 January 2012 at 12:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5821 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 13 of 106 11 January 2012 at 1:45am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Argh! I didn't realise I was pronouncing that wrong. Oh well, something else to practise then.... One thing that bugs me in Gaelic is when I pronounce a BH or MH as a strong English-V-like sound. It's a habit that all classes seem to teach, despite most dialects having a softer sound somewhere between U, V and W (there's a reason that they got bundled together when they made up the Latin-script alphabet!!!) I also find my French nasals too "heavy" -- it feels to me like I'm trying to eject a brick through each nostril.... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5377 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 14 of 106 11 January 2012 at 3:25am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Some people do it here in New York too. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6247 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 15 of 106 11 January 2012 at 6:59am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I have a similar issue in Japanese when an R follows an N. Oddly enough, I can pronounce "kanrinin" (manager) decently because I've heard it so much in the anime "Maison Ikkou" (where they all call Kyoko "kanrinin-san"), but pretty much any other words I cannot say it right. Actually, a rolled/flapped R following an N in any language is tough for me to say. I cannot say that Spanish word you posted. I cannot pronounce (or hear) the subtle differences between multiple versions of the same consonants in Korean (g/k/k', s/ss, d/t/t', j/ch/ch', b/p/p'). Also, half the time Korean M's sound like B's and vice versa, and D's sound like N's, and also vice versa. For example, for a while I thought the Korean word for weather was "dal-si". That's how I heard it, and that's how I pronounced it. When I finally saw it written, it was actually "nal-ssi." So I had incorrectly heard the "N" as a "D," and I had incorrectly heard the "ss" as an "s." I also heard a Korean kid practicing English once, and he was saying "my dame is..." instead of "my name is...", or at least that's how it sounded to me. Back to Spanish: I have a pretty terrible accent on anything I saw in Spanish. Edited by IronFist on 11 January 2012 at 7:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6247 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 16 of 106 11 January 2012 at 7:02am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
If you speak quickly enough with an American accent, you can say "prinner" and no one will know the difference. If I had a microphone I would upload an example. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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