Help Me to Trill the Spanish ‘R’
TweetThe Spanish rolling ‘R’ (or trilled ‘R’) sound is always a fascinating sound to me. It is the most difficult sound I have ever encountered. I can make the sound alone, but I always find it difficult making it within a word, especially when it is at the middle of the word. I looked up [...]
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TweetToday, language-learning podcasts are all over the Internet. Some are made to be academically sounded and contain scripted dialogs. Others pick up sound clips from the real world such as radio and TV programs. The former are just too fake to our ears, and the latter are usually above a typical learner’s level. Two days [...]
Hong Kong English Accent
TweetA few days ago I was watching some Youtube video clips from the website 英文由F字學起 (Learn English starting from the ‘F’ word). The series is for getting rid of the Hong Kong English accent. Unlike other typical accent reduction courses, the tutor specifically pinpoints the Hong Kong accent and talks about a lot of its [...]
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TweetA while ago, I conducted a brief experiment on collaborative transcribing of Youtube videos. I received a few positive feedbacks, but that seemed to be the end of the story. I found the whole process time-consuming, and I just could not imagine anyone would want to indulge in this kind of activities. Well, at least [...]
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