Sounds in your language that foreigners can't pronounce...

>>53117613
btw the qt on pic is a Kazakh girl?
She really looks like a mix of Asian and White.

>>53118124
>>53118124
No, she is my pregnant russian wife
She is only 18 y.o btw

>th

ŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘŘ

>lh
>ão

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R, I'll never understand why so many people cannot into guttural R
I also noticed people struggle with an/en but less than with the R

"TH"
R (even brits have trouble with this)

>>53117613
I find it interesting that finns and mongols have so much in common

>>53118231
>TH
voiced or unvoiced?

>>53118255
We are talking about sounds here, so voiced, obviously.

>>53118267
>We are talking about sounds here, so voiced, obviously.
kek, american phonetics everyone

>>53118253
Do finns have Ņ sound ?
Its nasal N

>>53118267
Ok I laughed

>>53118255
Both

>>53118231
TH is a pain in the ass, it's just such an unusual sound for me that I struggle a lot with it

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>>53117613
Æ (eh, like a canadian)
Å (oh)
pic related doesnt show up when typed on 4chan (The closest i could get to explaining it is Eww.)

>>53117613
Since you asked...

There is no such sound. Really. Every single Polish vowel and consonant can be found in some other language, and even if it's not exactly the same sound, it's close enough to be pronounced and understood correctly. So Polish phonetics is meh-tier.

But we really don't like vowels.

>czcze czczenie trzcin

>>53118542
More like every single letter in Polish is hard to pronounce, since whoever made your language had only seen the roman alphabet and had never heard it.

>>53118305
Yes we have velar nasal. Its marked as ng and is used in some conjugations involving nk cluster for example kenkä -> kengät

>>53118589
Yes
Our ñ sounds like you described it
Animal= añ sounds like "ang"

>>52235209
G
R
Au
Ou
Eu
Ui
Oe
Auw
Ouw
IJ/ei

>>53118231
TH like in 'thank' or TH like in 'this'?

>>53118267
pls be joking

>>53118580
Well, I never learned Latin, so I might be wrong, but I always thought it's the other way around - that Latin phonetics resembles more Slavic one than Anglo-Saxon, at least when the ąęćńśź mess is put aside.

Anyway, we have no ghoti problem with our script.

>>53118509
All you have to do is bite your tongue and blow air through your teeth for the unvoiced.

>ñ

>>53118761
Well I can pronounce it, but for example if there are many in a sentence then it gets difficult. Also after speaking too much english sometimes the tip of my tongue is painful because of the overusing of TH

>>53117613
Қaлыңыз қaлaй?

>>53118816
жaқcы, өзiң қaлaй? мaл жaн aмaнбa ? aтa әжeң?

>>53118531
Those are terrible explenations.
With an American accent:

Æ is the A sound in rat

Å is the O sound in orange

O is the U sound in cum

>>53118816
"Ә i Ң Ғ Ү Ұ Қ Ө" әpiптepiн Vocaroo apқылы aйтып көpшi

>>53119003
fucking moot

>>53119003
those are still wrong, close, but still not exactly the same sounds

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>>53118124
Kazakh people is Eurasian I believe

>>53119023
I only started studying Kazakh a few days ago so I'd rather not hurt your ears with my bad pronunciation. Maybe after a few weeks of practice))

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Soft D or whatever you can call that sound. Can't find out what what it's called in the IPA.

>>53119003
those are all wrong and far from you fucking degenerate

If anything Æ is at least closer to the A sound in "Hate" but still not quite close enough.

>>53119044
looks full ayylmao 2bh

everything
Preǎhréachéanachǎkr Kâmpûchéa

People seem to struggle a lot with the "th" sound and also they really suck at the short a and the short i.

>>53119153
You have no idea how hate is pronounced, clearly. Get back to gargling potatoes, Rasmus.

Consonants and consonant clusters (blends)
1. v confused with b
2. sh confused with ch or s
3. j confused with y
4. f confused with h
5. r confused with l, h or w
6. p confused with b or f
7. th, as in think, confused with th, as in this, confused with z, s or d

Vowels and Diphthongs
1. a as in cat confused with o in cot
2. i as in sick confused with long e sound as in seek
3. e as in pet confused with long a sound as in rake
4. u as in cup confused with boot, book, boat vowel sounds
5. sounds found in lawn, bought, and caught confused with house,
now, long o, as in hope, or short u, as in cup

Morpheme –s
1. s voiced: as in kids, loves, legs
2. s voiceless: as in bets, laughs, socks
3. other s sounds: raises, watches, Hess’s

Morpheme –ed
1. -ed sounds like d with a z in front of it after certain sounds such as
raised, loved bagged
2. –ed sounds like t with voiced, backed, laughed
3. –ed sounds like Ed after d and t, as in needed and heated

>>53119153
>>53119217
no need to fight guys

just watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f488uJAQgmw

>>53117613

Look at this shit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUteMtNhe3g

>>53119217
Æ is literally the sound [ˈɛː], but I bet you speak Nynorsk like a disgusting hipster so it's not surprising.

>>53118509
>tfw is the only english sound we can pronounce

Anyway, our r/rr. Either they cannot at all, or they can only one of them. Also the strong j, I guess dutch can but never heard any of them speaking spanish.

>Æ (Ä?)
>Ö
We didn't invent those. They were loaned from German via Swedish.

Ъ, Ь
not even we can pronounce the,m

I've been speaking swedish for years and I still can't do the vowels

>>53119800
try BBC in your mouth, that usually helps

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>>53117613
>>53117613
Hungarians spell almost everything how they pronounce it, yet nobody can pronounce our language for shit.

É - not ei, but ae
R - its rolled, like how cats purrr
Á - like an a but with mouth opened wider
Ü - greek y, simple as that
But i guess the hardest ones are ty and gy for foreigners
Ty - t + y
Gy - d+y, here y is more like the english y in yoghurt and g becomes more like a d. Contradict me, hunfags.

I can produce every sound known to humanity due to my superior knowledge of IPA and masterfully trained larynx

>>53119489
Kek

>>53119967
Try to roll Finnish 'r'.

>>53120154
dentalised R, was that supposed to be a challenge?

ɧ and ÿː
I've never heard a foreigner pronounce the former correctly, and only like japanese people the latter.

Ы, Щ, P

>>53120198
Yeah, but they refined it.

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>>53120224
they are people and use vocal cords like anyone else

>>53117613

"Ng"

its like Nang but the A should be pronounced like the A in bat.

>>53117613

F, V, Z and voiced and unvoiced TH are very hard for me.

Maths and Paths

are nearly impossible for me to pronounce.

>>53119967
Vocaroo yourself saying "kyllä".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:Fi-kyll%C3%A4.ogg
Here's how it's pronounced.

>>53117613
LLLL.

Yes.

LLLL.

Haha.

>>53119153
I usually pronounce the soft d in danish like 'ld', e.g. aftensmad > aftensmald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8U6FixTtOw

>>53120468
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Bmns6sIvTm

H sounds.

Fucking Frogs.

>>53120547
one of the most difficult words to pronounce for foreigners I noticed was 'hue'
not brazilian 'huehuehue' but 'hue' as in color

>>53120525
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWi-MA39YE
this explains it in a better way

>>53120527
4/10

>>53120611
That word sounds very kazakish
Sorry if i pronounced it incorrectly even kazaks cant understand me
Had problems with speaking
Started speaking only after when I hitted 5

>>53120205
>ɧÿː

Something like this? http://vocaroo.com/i/s07AQy4bK1CO

>>53117613

U - Sounds like you

WOT - another way to say 'what'

M8 - pronounced 'mate'

>>53120921
>>WOT - another way to say 'what'
pronounced like watt

>>53118793
This

>>53120788
You sound just like an american trying to pronounce the number 7 like a shitfaced norrlänning, close but no cigar bro

>>53117613


tl - half way between an l and an Englsih th sound
ll - like the previous l sound with out the dental fronting
hu - life a normal w sound with the beginning of an f sound. Kind of like how the Dutch say w
ö - like the begining of a german ö, but it drops as if it were ended with an r
r - like a Japanese r but starting to roll
tz - half way between ts and dz, but aspirated
x - like english sh with an extra s before
final n - like the ng in sing but harsher

>>53118798
When I took french in high school, my throat started to hurt after having to alternate gargling carrots and bile deep in my throat

I've never had any struggles imitating the sounds when learning a language
But is the English th(both) really that hard for some people?

>>53121194
Yes, vocaroo yourself
"Three Thyself"

>>53121241
I'm on my phone
But it's really weird and annoying when some Brits pronounce th like f

>>53121358
Google vocaroo android it will open upload page then you can upload recorded sound from your phone's dictaphone

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>tfw can't roll R like in Spanish

How is it possible? I've never ever been able to do it.

>>53118166
moar plz anon

>>53121505
>tfw I can do a Japanese r but still not a rolled r

Double consonants, usually.

kk mm nn pp rr ss tt

ch

>>53121717
Vittu :DD

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>>53117613

For Maya

j (guttural fricative)
q (guttural k)
q' (voiced guttural ejective sometimes it becomes a rhotic j)
tz (aspirated africative )
tz' (slack voiced africate)
t' (ejective t, but sometimes a d with a slight th sound)
k' (called angry k, aspirated and ejective but sometimes becomes a g)
ny (halfway between a Spanish squiggle n and the ng sound)
ky (ky as in kyojin, but sometimes closer to ksh)
ky' (like ky but ejective)
b (halfway between a b and a spanish v)
w (f crossed with a w, but sometimes v or just an f)
x (halfway between english r and sh. similar to Mandarin Chinese r)
r (Japanese r but rolled)
tx (like in the english pronunciation of tree)
tx' (like the dr in drink but with a click)
ch' (like ch but clicking)
aa (like english au in sauce)
oo = (german umlaut o but more open)
uu = (japanese u but rounder)
ee = (like australian ay in way)
u = (cross between oo in book and japanese u)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_consonant#What_clicks_sound_like

Try these.

>>53122093
>ʘ
>ǀ
>ǃ
>ǂ
>ǁ
Wtf is going on? They sucking cucks?

Oin
On

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>>53118267
>We are talking about sounds here, so voiced, obviously.

>>53118542
>Every single Polish vowel and consonant can be found in some other language, and even if it's not exactly the same sound, it's close enough to be pronounced and understood correctly.
That isn't exactly true.
t. phonetician

All the sh sounds in swedish are very difficult for foreigners.

Kött, Tjena, Sjöman and Skyr are all sh sound words.

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>>53123909
Foreigners can't say kj at all, they always say sh instead and it's spreading to people that actually can say kj

english r's are pretty hard to get right

>>53124531
Kjoltyg is GOAT word for grills.

>>53118580
That's a retarded thing to say.

Slavic phonetics resembles Latin phonetics WAY more than German languages.

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>>53118253

Because 10-15% of our DNA comes from Uralic Turan which was conquered by T*rkics much later.

>>53120572
Wait

What is huehuehue meant to sound like if not like hue

can anyone pronounce finnish y?

>>53127978
?
>>53120527

nothing

>>53128022
Hmm, sound bit like it. It would be easier to distinguish if you would say yy. (long pronounciation).

Kyllä you pronounced had kh instead of k, but double L was good. also ä was okay.

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>>53117613
PPPP, ЖЖЖЖ, Й
http://vocaroo.com/i/s13XGHi2MdI4

>>53118793
i can

>>53128095
Yes, its because we have three types of y
"Y" itself "y with mark" and " o ö if u cant see it its zero with mark on the center"

ь

Ğ

It's funny when central americans try to imitate our "Y"'s, they always exagerate the "sh" sound

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ח - gutteral KH sound
צ - sounds ssomewhat like Tz or Ts
ר - gutteral R

>>53117613
yu in mandarin is not pronounced as you. qing is not pronounced as ching. xing is not pronounced as shing

Ö, Æ, Þ, Đ, any double constanant, Á, Ú, hn, our R.
Probably more that I don't remember at the moment.

>>53128644
>tfw we have all the letters/sounds (except Þ and Đ), and everyone can pronounce þorn and eð

Orsaka Island, me er ikkje noko snjokorn i heimen.

The most ass in pain sounds I studied were Arabic three different "h"-s. Emphatic consonants were unusual but pretty easy though.

>>53128644
BUT. People sure are struggling with hl-, ll-, fn- and rn-...

Our phonetics more or less match Latin. It's the consonant clusters more than the individual sounds that confuse foreigners. I don't think I've ever heard a foreigner get Ljubljana right. It's always Ljubijana or even Lubijana to them.

"ə"

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I found Kazakh very difficult due to its short vowels and how gutteral it was. I could only get the pronunciation right when I stuck a potato down my throat.


How do you pronounce the ғ in кaғaнaт?
Mycom pa fransuski was my go to meal lol.


Care to translate this sign, op? I used to see it all the time in Almaty

>>53128311
>>53130591

Is it a Ğ like this or a Russian г??

>>53119912
>Hungarians spell almost everything how they pronounce it, yet nobody can pronounce our language for shit.
iktf brah

>>53126533
It's not meant to "sound" like anything, as originally it was just a way to say "i'm laughing a lot". Kinda like how some people just smash the keyboard to demonstrate how hard they're laughing, like "asdokfdg[sf dsmf;lzxjiocbaibp"

>>53130591
Is that ethipiopian flag?
Are you ethiopian?
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1F9raviZecC

>>53130591
Don't abuse alcohol
Stay human

>>53132045
Sure am. I worked at Interpress last year. Goes to show the poor state of the Tenge that they recruited an Ethiopian :/ Really liked your country Aga.

>>53132196
Do you know this man?
He lives and works in almaty interpress since 2008
https://youtu.be/EeK1cDj90K8

>>53132122
Could have inferred that from the pic I guess. I definitely abused the vodka while there.. 500 Tenge bottles and my mambiet friends were always down...

>>53121761
sattana :D

>>53132268
RARE

>>53132267
Don't want to waste my data... Is that Chris? The Kazakh speaking dombra playing guy who still can't get laid?

It depends on the speaker. But these two seem difficult:

guttural r
voiced th sound like in english

Getting good keks when Romance speakers can't pronounce our vowels

sheet = shit, for some reason.

>>53132330
Yes, found him on youtube
How was last winter in Almaty? Cold?
I was in korea so i dont know
Was it your first winter?

btw

anglos cant pronounce (rr) and ñ

>>53132471
Yes we can. ñ is like the Italian gn.

Foreigners don't really learn Amharic except for a few phrases and they butcher the shit out of it.

>>53132415
First proper winter that's for sure. I figured -25°C would be colder, but I guess Almaty is pretty dry. I spent most of it slaving away in my school or inside my flat with BASED Soviet heating.

>>53132634
Is that true that you can get killed in Ethiopia for farting publicly?

>>53132634
yes, soviet heating is normal.
how much times ye ve been cheated by taxi?
you had to go outside of the city to feel the real winter and kazakstan winds

>>53132592
most probably pronounce it as n followed by a ye sound instead

>>53132764
I learned a fair bit of Kazakh and it earned me a lot of brownie points with the locals. I never got in a taxi until I learned the numbers in Kazakh and Russian, so I didn't experience many issues..

Hell, hitchhiking is great in Kazakhstan. Very easy to get a free lift when you're a black dude with a fro.

>>53132747
You'll get hung by the balls for doing that.

aabeeceedeeeeäfgeehooiijiikooälämänoopeequuärästeeuuveetuplaveeäxyyzetaääöö

Northern Saami here. I'll do my best explaining in writing, but it's hard since english is retarded not pronouncing the letters as the letters they are. (A becomes ei, I becomes ai, E becomes ii, etc.)

Á, á - Depends on dialect, but for the most part it's a mix between A (as in ask in oxford english) and Ä in finnsh and swedish or æ in danish and norwegian
Č, č - as in the first sound in chick
Đ, đ - th in english
Ŋ, ŋ - ng sound in english
Š, š - sh in english (shit, shower)
Ŧ, ŧ - kinda like Đ, but kinda more muted
Ž,ž - Kinda like Č, but I don't really know how to distinguish them, as my dialect doesn't.

>>53133007
...but what if you just can't hold it?

>>53133167
Wait, shit I totally missed the premise of this thread.

>>53133007
kkkkk
oki, i see

Ç- S sound
J- ZH russian sound

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>>53133007
why don't you use this flag senpai?

>>53133406
based flag, commies change it

is girl on op pic your gf, saqalbay?

>>53133459
fuggin commies man

>>53133470
Taмapa гyглить eтceй Cибиpчaн

>>53133406
Lion is a symbol if Ethiopian royal house, and they've got rid of the monarchy.

>>53133532
Eshtenke joq

Ch- sh english sound
Lh- sound like LL in spanish, this sound only exist in latin languages

H- has no sound when is used on the begin of a word, is used becouse is fron archaic portuguese, in Angola they are thinking is abolish it

Foreigners have a hard time with the letter 'r'. I guess it's because the French 'r' is quite unique.

Also some people have a hard time with the 'u' (which we pronounce like ü), they instead pronounce like how 'u' is pronounced in most languages.

Also some other vowels, for example "eu", "on" and especially "in" (it's too nasal for most foreigners' comfort zone).

>>53118531
Use {} instead

>>53120527
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1D7qPwDG9iF

>>53117613
the difference between mh and bh

as in mheadhain and sleibh

>>53133578
>soft l only exist in latin languages
pls

>>53119153

I know conversational Danish and Norwegian

Danes and Norwegians pronounce æ and ö differently.

>Ă
>Â
>Î

ğ.
not only foreigners, but city-cucks can't pronounce it too, they consider it silent

Foreigners have notorious trouble with the þ, r, d, zh, dzh and word end tsz/z sounds

Even Englishman have trouble with the rs

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>mfw I hear foreigners try to pronounce "thither"

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>>53137881
>foreigners try to pronounce "championship"
>foreigners try to pronounce "congratulations"

>>53118216
à is pretty easy with a little training.