Why We Speak With Foreign Accents - Meetup

Every language consists of small sound elements (called phonemes) that, when strung together, make up each word’s unique pronunciation. Examples for language-specific sounds that foreign speakers find hard to duplicate are the ‘th’ in English (a dental fricative sound), the nasal ‘un’ in French and the German Umlaute ‘ä, ö, ü’. ................
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