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She said her Bengali relatives tell her she says it with an accent. Becoming fluent wouldn't necessarily fix that. Teaching diction is a specialized area, and m
by nunuvit 3y ago
She said her Bengali relatives tell her she says it with an accent. Becoming fluent wouldn't necessarily fix that. Teaching diction is a specialized area, and most language instruction doesn't go too deep into it.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y agoSo get an expert to help her say that exact sound. Or better yet, use my method - record a pro saying it, then record yourself saying it, repeat until you got it. It's not rocket science.
- nunuvit 3y agoAnd when she wants to say a different Bengali word? She acknowledged that she can learn, but the point of the article is that her upbringing was disconnected from the language and culture.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y agoRinse and repeat. Why is this a mystery?
- nunuvit 3y agoIt's not a mystery. If you narrow the scope of the problem to pronunciation, then it's a solution. Good job.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoI thought some languages had sounds that didn't exist in others, which leads to a kind of audio colour blindness where you literally can't tell the difference between two sounds? Japanese R Vs L is maybe the canonical example. Maybe you can train around this, but maybe you can't. Wikipedia cites conflicting evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/_and_/l/_by_Japanese_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_of_English_/r/_and_...