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by Nacozari
Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:03 am
Forum: Pronunciation
Topic: Pronunciation for a Chinese Speaker
Replies: 31
Views: 34083

back to T and R

getting back to your pronunciation discussion: i've noticed that americans often don't really pronounce these final Ts...as in "bat" or "rat" or "cat"... the actual closure of the teeth and tongue never truly occur for the T sound at the end, which is just sort of "implied" most of the time... ameri...
by Nacozari
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:49 am
Forum: Pronunciation
Topic: ''he'' and ''she'' confusion: Port. and Spanish speakers
Replies: 13
Views: 25827

You're so right...

Hi, I'm in Spain and have noticed the same problem all the time. I think it is more of a grammatical problem than a pronunciation problem, since Spanish-speakers also confuse her/his/its/their, him/her/it... In other words, they mess up the whole third-person range of pronouns (logically, since they...