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Re: Personal langs and converse of aux

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 6, 2001, 5:40
> > Heh. I admit that I cannot understand why some people find this sound > difficult. I have never had any difficulty at all with the trill, and > used it as a child when I was playing around, long before I knew that it > was actually used in language. But I know several people that still are > completely incapable of it, which mystifies me. > > There are other oddities, too, in people's phonetic ability. I can > pronounce the rounded front vowels without too much difficulty, but I > can't distinguish [o] from [C]. My friend can do those two, but cannot > hear or pronounce rounded front vowels! And we're all native English > speakers! (Actually, YHL speaks Korean, but evidently Korean doesn't > include a trill). >
Hehe...I learned to trill properly through some rather helpful tips obtained from the members of this list. Just as well, because I'm learning Italian at the moment...:P Imperative