Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by khuey on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:23PM
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"th" (ð/θ) is definitely the hardest phoneme(s) in English, even for native-speaking children.
Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
by nitrogen on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:05PM
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Much to the disappointment of her mother who thought "fumb" was cute, I once taught a 3-year-old how to pronounce "th" by telling her to stick her tongue between her teeth and breathe out. Maybe a similarly position-focused (rather than sound-focused) approach would help non-native speakers as well?
first is to notice the difference of the pronunciation for foreign languages, I believe same as music singer, for word "Porshe", french will read "e" as "ei", English just mute, German says in the middle, but that's hard for me to memorize it in the middle, Chinese has same sound as "ei". Brain is not getting use to the iconic differences of the sound.
second is to correct pronounce the sound, pronunciation of "th" took me one week to practice, because Chinese does not have "th", only "s", that's why lots of Chinese says "sank you" instead of "thank you", that muscle to pronounce that is simply not trained since was born.