Thread: Вопросы по грамматике и значению слов (by Simon000001

Do you have any audio with consonant + vowel combinations? Just in the simple pairs. In English the soft consonants are disappearing, and so some soft consonants sound something like a speech pathology, not lisping, but not in the typical (hard) sound distributions we hear. After listening to enough audio, and then hearing in movies etc, it gets to be normal. For me, the definitions were more meaningful after the fact, after getting good audio.

Originally Posted by Seraph

Do you have any audio with consonant + vowel combinations? Just in the simple pairs. In English the soft consonants are disappearing, and so some soft consonants sound something like a speech pathology, not lisping, but not in the typical (hard) sound distributions we hear. After listening to enough audio, and then hearing in movies etc, it gets to be normal. For me, the definitions were more meaningful after the fact, after getting good audio.

What do you mean? Soft consonants in English can be due to non-phonemic changes and that's all. Well, some consonants are inherently soft, like sh.
Here the combination is the opposite: a vowel + a consonant. You should put the tip of your tongue to the roots of the lower teeth and raise the middle part of the tongue.