The Dark Side (wahahahaaa!) of wanting to Sound Like a Native Speaker

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Re: The Dark Side (wahahahaaa!) of wanting to Sound Like a Native Speaker

Postby Cainntear » Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:13 pm

leosmith wrote:[No, I was inconsistent; I used the "short-cut" of not even requiring myself to memorize what number tone was needed.

Thanks -- that clarified what I was trying to work out been the lines.

Sorry if I missed it, but have you ever consistently mispronounced a vowel or consonant in the beginning, then come back to fix it later?.... Curious about your experiences in this regard though.

So I didn't say it before and this conversation has got me sorting up memories (amnesia is weird that way). I was just saying in my response to Iversen about the S vs Z thing is gone through after Michel Thomas Spanish. There was also a matter early on in Gaelic where the old acute accent was dropped. É had been different from È and Ò from Ó, because there was a difference between the open and closed vowels, but this was dropped by some random school teachers who had been given the task of modernising the spelling (not a single university specialist in linguistics was on the board).

I had initially struggled to remember which words had the open vowel and which had the closed vowel. Words that I learned later on (after I'd got the distinction clear on my head) were fine, but it took me years to stop saying words wrong that I had mislearned early on.
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