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Français (프로필 보기) 2009년 2월 4일 오후 11:09:13
erinja:It also helps that words like scii are usually in the context of other words.Wow, this is very true! And I never thought of that. Like if I try and say "n-g" by itself, it is impossible! But "i-n-g-" is easy! Or, something along those lines!
"Scias" may seem hard to pronounce in isolation. But we seldom pronounce it in isolation; it is almost always preceded by a pronoun or the word ne.
If my sentence were "Mi parolas Esperanton", I don't add pauses; it isn't "Mi...parolas...Esperanton", but "Mi-pa-ro-la-se-spe-ran-ton"
So "Mi scias" is not usually pronounced disjointed like "mi ..... scias". It is more like "mis-cias" Mi ne scias - "Mi-nes-ci-as"
Similarly, lis-cias, sxis-cias, vis-cias, etc.
Certainly helps!
And, for some reason, I think my pronunciation of "sc" is getting better, even by itself. Sometimes I find myself really emphasizing like a "t" sound with the "c." Like "sTsee-en-tso"
erinja (프로필 보기) 2009년 2월 8일 오후 4:07:31
It's easy to come up with hard-to-pronounce words in Esperanto, but everyone please remember that most Esperanto compound words include or leave out the central -o, whichever makes pronunciation easier, so those beginners out there, please don't feel that we have an endless list of hard to pronounce words.
Those of you interested in hard pronunciation may enjoy the story Knaĥoĥŝveŭpsceg, by David K. Jordan.
You can read it here:
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/es/knah-u.html
Those of you interested in hard pronunciation may enjoy the story Knaĥoĥŝveŭpsceg, by David K. Jordan.
You can read it here:
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/es/knah-u.html
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2009년 2월 9일 오전 5:27:45
jchthys:-- Try saying postscias with a lithp.Try saying postscias after you've bitten off your tongue trying to do that
Interestingly, I've found that "Knaĥoĥŝveŭpsceg" isn't as hard as it looks (still difficult), because majority of the sounds are either back in the mouth (e.g. K, hx), labial, or fricatives. I think what gets hard is having multiple alveolar taps/stops and plosives put together, at least for inexperienced English speakers who tend not to think about 'exists' or "exists translatively"