Re: Futurese

>(just like the common
>Castillian doesn't realise that he pronounces two different sounds for the
>two /d/ in /dedo/: finger - pronounced [deDo] -), and thus would have it
>difficult to learn to recognise it and even pronounce it willingly (just
like
>they would find it difficult to learn to pronounce [d] correctly between
>vowels).
Well, I'm a native Castilian speaker and I must point out
that, even though my native tongue considers [d] and [D],
as well as [b] and [B], and [g] and [G], as allophones, it
doesn't mean that our ears simply can't recognize the
difference, but just that that difference doesn't seem
relevant enough to our language. I've always perceived
some "b/v" to sound different than others and that had
prompted me, when I was a child learning to spell words
correctly, to think that using different letters (b and
v) had some kind of real phonetic base.

OTOH, it would be silly to think you can learn a language
without having something to learn to pronounce it. Keeping
the d's and b's always as stops is one of those things
Spanish speakers will have to learn, as well as learning
phoneme /r/ is one of those things Chinese speakers will
have to learn for their part.

Cheers,
Javier