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Pronunciation Question: pn, ps

貼文者: lingvokapablo, 2012年3月13日

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語言: English

lingvokapablo (顯示個人資料) 2012年3月13日下午3:26:44

How do you pronounce the following two words in Esperanto?

pneŭo
pseŭdonimo

I've noticed that I have a tendency of pronouncing these types of words (pn, ps) as I would in English, that is to drop the 'p', and pronounce it starting with the second letter, but that's probably wrong. So, how should they be pronounced?

erinja (顯示個人資料) 2012年3月13日下午3:35:52

Esperanto has no silent letters. You have to pronounce the p in those combinations.

lingvokapablo (顯示個人資料) 2012年3月14日下午1:26:15

erinja:Esperanto has no silent letters. You have to pronounce the p in those combinations.
But how?? Would it be acceptable to put a small 'a' sound in between the letters?

EldanarLambetur (顯示個人資料) 2012年3月14日下午2:36:26

Maybe imagine them elsewhere to show yourself it's possible?

For instance, in the word "hips" you say the "ps" sound with no trouble at all! Then try concatenating the words:

"hi-ps-eŭdonimo"

Get used to pronouncing that, and drop the "hi".

I'm having more trouble with "pn".

Maybe think of "hypno", but really try to pronounce it "hy-pno" then start substituting the "o" for "eŭo"

This is the approach I've taken to difficult initial consonant clusters... hopefully it's right... ridego.gif

marcuscf (顯示個人資料) 2012年3月14日下午3:04:10

I think it's a little bit funny when an English speaker says that a consonant cluster is hard, since from a Brazilian point of view, English has a lot of hard-to-pronounce consonant clusters (but we do pronounce the "p" in pseudônimo). A word like "straight" would be pronounced as "istrejti" or "istrejĉ(i)" by a beginner learning English in Brazil.

EldanarLambetur's suggestion is very good, try it!

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