Re: Two questions about Esperanto

Trebor Jung wrote:
>
> No, no, no, no. The best way to describe a phoneme is by using descriptions
> like voiceless velar fricative (for your example, Russian <x>). And sound
> files don't necessarily help. I listened to the sound files at Wikipedia of
> epiglottal consonants and still have no idea how to pronounce them (they'd
> be a nice addition to a conlang tho [I like to be able to pronounce my
> languages] - if someone could enlighten me... :P).
I've been reading a book titled _A Practical Introduction to Phonetics_
by J. C. Catford, which besides explaining phonetics contains drills for
learning how to pronounce various sounds. I haven't gotten to epiglottal
consonants yet, but thanks to that book I now know how to pronounce
glottalic egressives and velar egressives and all that cool stuff. The
only downside is it's kind of old so it uses out-of-date IPA symbols
(like turned small t for alveolar click).