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This is a very interesting thread. I used the tongue position method to successfully describe the difference in making the 'l' and 'r' sounds with the Korean man that I'm tutoring. However, I discovered while we were doing dictation that he can't hear the differences when I speak. Other than practic...

Hi, I'm tutoring a Korean man in conversational and business English, and we've run up against a pronounciation difficulty that I can't seem to figure out. When he says words such as language, cage, engage, etc, he adds a hard 'e' sound to the end of the word so that the words end up sounding like l...