Re: CHAT: IPA Question

Hello,
[Peter:]
>         Do you know of any sound files for this sound? I'm
> just curious, since my
> Hebrew instructor basically said, "Pretend that it isn't
> there, you can't
> pronounce it." Translation: he had no clue how it was
> pronounced and didn't
> want to make a fool of himself. :)
Not really, it is seldom pronounced in Mod. Hebrew, unless the speaker
is an elderly Jew from Iraq who repatriated in, say, 1950.

But actually, I was instructed to "say _a_ as low as you can and _then_
lower". When I asked :-)

Pavel
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'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
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