Re: Language Difficulty
| From: | Amber Adams <amber@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 23, 2001, 3:17 |
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:24:04AM +1100, D Tse wrote:
> I have tried to teach an off-list conlanger in real life a few phrases of my
> native language, Cantonese, but it's the tones that mess people up. It's
> always the tones that mess people up :P
Not me. :P I know a bit of Mandarin, and what messes me up isn't really
the tones, but all of the odd affricates. Cantonese seems to not be quite
as bad in this respect, but I don't really know too much about Cantonese
phonology.
I do like the final stops, though. Don't ask me why, I just do. :P
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