i am looking to study a foreign language that has NO DENTAL TRILL.
i can only think of french so before going gungho in studying it is there anything wicked difficult i should know? i remember people saying that in school.
or if you know any other language without dental trills (gutteral trills are OK)
also i am a chinese/japanese major and i’m not interested in any other asian languages.
I speak French pretty well, and I’m not aware of any trills.in it. The r is very soft. The only French sounds that we don’t have in English are (1) the u, which is pronounced by rounding the mouth as if to say "oo" but then saying "ee" instead and (2) the nasal n, which is half-pronounced, up in the nose. Imagine saying "long" without quite pronouncing the g.
If English is your native languge and you’re aleady majoring in Chinese and Japanese, which aren’t really even related and certainly aren’t related to English, French should be easy for you!
#1 by nusias9 on August 25th, 2009
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I think the hardest parts are the more advanced verb tenses and moods. Not that it’s extremely difficult, but it can kind of blur while you’re learning. It still throws me for a loop sometimes, because you can easily mistake it for another tense. That’s because your ear (if not tuned into the small sound differences) can cause you translate incorrectly.
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#2 by aida on August 25th, 2009
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I speak French pretty well, and I’m not aware of any trills.in it. The r is very soft. The only French sounds that we don’t have in English are (1) the u, which is pronounced by rounding the mouth as if to say "oo" but then saying "ee" instead and (2) the nasal n, which is half-pronounced, up in the nose. Imagine saying "long" without quite pronouncing the g.
If English is your native languge and you’re aleady majoring in Chinese and Japanese, which aren’t really even related and certainly aren’t related to English, French should be easy for you!
References :