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 [...]
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 [...]
Hypercorrection
TweetRecently, to my surprise, I have found out that I have been mispronouncing a word for over 30 years, in my own native language! The word is ‘愛’ (oi3) in Cantonese, meaning ‘love’. It is a commonly used word, and many people like myself, mispronounce it as ‘ngoi3’. It is usually not noticeable, but in [...]
Getting the Cantonese ‘z’ Sound Right
TweetThere has been a discussion in a Cantonese learner’s forum about the pronunciation of the Cantonese Jyutping ‘z’ sound. There is indeed an obvious difference between this sound and the English ‘j’ sound. To complicate things a bit more, there is yet another sound which kind of sits between the 2 sounds. This is the [...]
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