E-Ching Ng wrote:
> Yoon Ha, you can do a uvular flap?!? I can do a uvular trill (having
> learnt French briefly and stopped, I practiced the fricative in odd moments
> and then one day in Phonetics class realised that I'd overshot) but I
> certainly can't flap or tap back there!
Just use the same configuration as for the trill and less breath energy.
Stop fast. :-)
> Brian: there are some tones that are harder for me than others. I almost
> never hit the true Mandarin tone 3 - which is
> mid-falling-rising-to-high.
It's really only that way when a syllable is pronounced in total
isolation. Otherwise the falling part of it is really not rendered.
Fundamentally it's a low rising tone.
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