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Pronunciation Question: pn, ps

ya lingvokapablo, 13 Machi 2012

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lingvokapablo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Machi 2012 3:26:44 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 13 Machi 2012 3:35:52 alasiri

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

lingvokapablo (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Machi 2012 1:26:15 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Machi 2012 2:36:26 alasiri

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 (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 14 Machi 2012 3:04:10 alasiri

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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