Re: Chinese Dialect Question
From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
Date: | Friday, October 3, 2003, 16:23 |
At 22:36 2.10.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Well, there is one reason for worry; I've been hearing uvular "R" on and off
>all my life from people from southern Sweden (incl my father when he's in
>dialect mode) without picking it up. Still, that's no reason for giving up
>trying; it's not like I've been doing any major attempts to master it before.
There are actually perfectly native German speakers who use [r], so don't
you worry. My mom drove her GFrench teacher mad by being unable to
pronounce [R], and she ìs German!
/BP 8^)
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