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What I've found interesting about learning pronunciation is how deliberate you can be about fixing it. A lot of people from Slavic countries tend to pronounce t
by kebsup 3y ago
What I've found interesting about learning pronunciation is how deliberate you can be about fixing it. A lot of people from Slavic countries tend to pronounce the "th" sound as "d" or "s", including me, but I've stopped doing that mistake literally right after an American pointed out that I do it.
- williamdclt 3y agoAnd then hypercorrection happens, and you start saying “th” when it _was_ an “s”!
- deadbeeves 3y agoSuch as in?
- williamdclt 3y ago> Such as in? Any word really, for example "smooth" can get hypercorrected to "thmooth". French people with a decent english tend to fall prey to hypercorrection, see for example Macron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ03xCX6Tdg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ03xCX6Tdg
- deadbeeves 3y agoAh, my bad. I thought you were saying there were words where the "th" digraph stands for an "s" sound.
- secondcoming 3y agoIt's quite common in Ireland for 'th' to sound like 'd'. It's normally people from the countryside.