Certain sounds seem elusive.\u00a0 All languages contain them and many are notoriously difficult to emulate.\u00a0 For example many Koreans and Japanese struggle with “R” and “L” sounds.\u00a0 In one dramatic example, a radio commercial has a Korean man attempt to correct an American’s pronunciation of the car \u201cHyundai”.\u00a0 After several attempts the Korean admits he can’t say “Chevrolet.”<\/p>\n
Spanish speakers may have fits of the English “T”, “D”, and “Th” sounds but perhaps most noticeable, is their insistence on putting an “Eh” sound in front of words starting with the letter “S”.\u00a0 After all it is the letter “ESS” and they do speak Espa\u00f1ol.\u00a0 But there really aren’t too many English words beginning with “Es…”(Especially, Essence, Essential, Escape, etc…)That problem is exacerbated when a word ending in the letter “S” is followed immediately by one starting with the letter “S”.\u00a0 To avoid making the “Eh” sound, I encourage students to combine those two words to make their sound like one word.\u00a0 For example, the sentence “This house is sold.”\u00a0 May sound like “This house is Esold.”\u00a0 Combining the two words “is” and “sold” into “issold” without any hesitation between the two words produces a more natural sound and prohibits the invasion of that “Eh sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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