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hyperflare  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do some words bother you?

I'm not a native and it was in english class and my fuckhead class mates thought it was funny. Kind of a trauma, I guess. Germans to tend to have a hard time learning the th, basically just pronouncing it as t. It's actually a good way to detemrine how well someone speaks English.





caeli  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Stupid kids. You probably use an alveolar t... I'll have to listen to L2 speakers more now!

hyperflare  ·  3217 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The problem for me back then was the soft th contrasting with the sharp s (synthesizer). So for some reason I decided to say "synsesizer".

I feel like you would enjoy our 'intro to (computer)linguistics' lecture. Taught in English by a German professor.