Re: Language Difficulty

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:
>
> >
> > Ah, but you see, the dialect I've been most exposed to says, [IS li:b
> > dIS], and I think [S] is a nice sound. =)
> >
>
>I agree. This way, it's sounds less aggressive. But still less nice than
>[j@'tEm] or [Ik'hawvan'jaw] :) . Well, you can guess the nationality of the
>person I'm involved with :) (not Belgian :) ).
I keep hearing accented French vowels as long (eg [j@tE:m]) - is there an
actual tendency to prolong them, or is it just my brain being defect?

                                                    Andreas


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