x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1117arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agomessage-square137fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoThis I can fully believe. Here’s Lindybeige, a native speaker, talking about the extra R-sounds (between a word which ends in a vowel and another which begins with one) and why Brits don’t hear them And here’s Dr Geoff Lindsey’s channel, excellent videos about the English language. (And in regards to being deaf to features of one’s own language, it took a native speaking English professor for me to realise just how much vocal fry there is in my native language, Finnish.)
This I can fully believe.
Here’s Lindybeige, a native speaker, talking about the extra R-sounds (between a word which ends in a vowel and another which begins with one) and why Brits don’t hear them
And here’s Dr Geoff Lindsey’s channel, excellent videos about the English language. (And in regards to being deaf to features of one’s own language, it took a native speaking English professor for me to realise just how much vocal fry there is in my native language, Finnish.)