Re: Personal langs and converse of aux

On Tuesday, February 6, 2001, at 03:50 PM, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> >
> >On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 01:28:56AM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> > > My bugaboos:  uvular trill, and tones.
> >
> >Mine: any kind of trill, except bilabial; and long consonant clusters (I
> >don't think I'll ever go near Georgian :-P). Tones are no problem for me,
> >but I have "unfair" advantage 'cos I know two tonal languages. Non-Sinitic
> >tones may be difficult for me, though; but I haven't attempted to learn
> >any of those langs yet (eg., Vietnamese).
>
> I'm totally lost on tones. I also have problem with nasal vowels (sorry you
> French folks but words like "Enghien" are unpronounceable!).
>
> I'm pretty good at long clusters I think, but that's because nice Swedish
> forms like _spotskt_ and _Ernsts_ ([E:n`s`t`s`] where the "`"s mark
> retroflex consonants).
Trills and tones are difficult.

I'm not really familiar with any lang. with long consonent clusters <shrug />

Nasal vowels are no problem for me.  There are two of them in my address (one
in the street and one in the city).  But most of the rest of America seems to
have trouble with nasal vowels.
Andy

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