Re: Chinese Dialect Question

Quoting Herman Miller <hmiller@...>:

> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:36:12 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> >Tangentially, I'm under this impression that the further back in the mouth
> a
> >sound is produced, the harder it is to get for a non-native learner (with
> some
> >exceptions - getting [T] and [D] was really hard for me). Anyone else made
> the
> >same experience?
>
> I think it's just the trills. I don't have a problem with the Klingon
> uvular sounds, but voiced uvular trills are really difficult for me (harder
> than clicks, ejectives, pharyngeal fricatives, or doubly articulated
> stops!) The only sound I have a harder time with than the uvular trill is
> the bilabial trill (not counting the trills that aren't shaded out on the
> IPA chart but don't have any symbols, which would be even harder if they're
> even possible to pronounce).
Act'ly, I cannot do any uvular sounds reliably, not even [q]. And despite
accidentally picking up the pharyngeal frics, I still cannot do [?] reliably.

                                                           Andreas