Re:Interactive IPA Chart
by rahimnathwani on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:15AM
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I forgot that English speakers often have difficulty with these pairs of consonant sounds in Mandarin:
j / zh
q / ch (the former is further forward in the mouth than 'ch' in English, and the latter further back, with a fully clenched mouth)
I wish. My teachers have no problem telling apart my j and q, but I rarely hear the difference despite all the cosonants in my native language coming in palatalized/non-palatalized pairs.