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Same 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

Same 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 ago
If 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.