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Saying/hearing is not the same. Parent struggles to hear the differences and says they can pronounce them. Polish has a retroflex and palatalized “sh” pair of
by cpfohl 1y ago
Saying/hearing is not the same. Parent struggles to hear the differences and says they can pronounce them.
Polish has a retroflex and palatalized “sh” pair of sounds (Sz vs ś) that I can pronounce perfectly but not clearly distinguish as a listener.
I learned Polish when I was 5, moved back to the states when I was 11, barely used it for 7 years, and relearned it when I was 18. I don’t know if (at 5) I ever distinguished between the two. But I certainly struggle now.
- sjamaan 1y agoSame for me with Dzongkha: cha (ཅ) / chha (ཆ) and tsa (ཙ) / thsa (ཚ). I can aspirate the second of these fine, so that's not the problem. Hearing the difference is. This also makes it harder to remember the spelling as I mix them up all the time. To be fair, I've only been learning for a short while (8 months or so) and haven't had much opportunity to listen to a lot of different speakers so perhaps this may get better.
- selimthegrim 1y agoIf it’s anything like the aspirated consonants in Hindi, usually the aspirated one of the pair ends up being sounded out slightly longer because of the expelling of breath. That’s how I learned to recognize it. Aspirating was actually much harder for me at first than hearing it.