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Languages and Linguistics

Lionel Mandrake

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3. That's good to know.

Reply to Igel (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 10, 2018, 08:02 PM

Feb 2018

I can't do either kind of trill, nor can I hear the difference. I'll never speak proper Spanish. The initial German R sounds the same to me as that of the dialect of French spoken in Paris, which is taken to be standard. If I understand what you are saying, and if the noise in question is not a trill, then there's hope for me (or there would be if I were younger). I can pronounce German words like "Bach", so maybe I can add voicing to make an acceptable approximation to the initial noise of words like "Reich".

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Wiktionary IPA symbol R is messed up. [View all] Lionel Mandrake Feb 2017 OP

Long, long time since taking Phonetics . . . Aimee in OKC Feb 2017 #1

I think Wiktionary's right. Igel Feb 2018 #2

That's good to know. Lionel Mandrake Feb 2018 #3