Timeline for Understanding properly what's being said
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| Mar 18, 2018 at 7:12 | comment | added | Joffysloffy | @mycroft34 interesting! I probably have had the same confusion in Esperanto, but not in my native language (Dutch) either. | |
| Mar 17, 2018 at 13:28 | comment | added | mycroft34 | @Joffysloffy I have not such a problem in my native language (french). From what I have read, I understand that I am not alone with that problem. Thanks to all. | |
| Mar 16, 2018 at 11:10 | comment | added | Joffysloffy | @NeilRoberts Oh yea, that is quite a good comparison. | |
| Mar 16, 2018 at 10:49 | answer | added | Tomaso Alexander | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 16, 2018 at 9:58 | comment | added | Neil Roberts | Perhaps a similar annoying problem in English is the similarity between “fifteen” and “fifty”. People often have to resort to saying “fifty, five-oh” to make the distinction. | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 21:44 | comment | added | Joffysloffy | @NeilRoberts That is very true, but I couldn't find another minimal pair in English for /mi/ and /ni/, so it resulted in quite a poor comparison. | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 19:36 | comment | added | Neil Roberts | It’s hard to imagine a situation where swapping meal for kneel would make a sentence that still makes sense. With mi and ni on the other hand this is very common. | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 19:34 | answer | added | Neil Roberts | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 18:37 | comment | added | Joffysloffy | Do you have difficulty hearing the difference between /m/ and /n/ in other languages? Or even the specific /mi/ and /ni/ combinations; for instance in English, do you tend to not hear the difference between meal and kneel, or mine and nine? Does your native language differentiate between /m/ and /n/? | |
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| Mar 15, 2018 at 17:37 | history | asked | mycroft34 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |