After almost a decade of people having trouble pronouncing my name, I recorded an example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr2Ah_bQaM4 …
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel
i was close! I thought it was like this without the L. (Corellian corvette)pic.twitter.com/z4dc7jnSOe
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Replying to @ithayla
Not bad! The "rr" sound isn't present in many popular languages so it is an extra hurdle. Sometimes I can find some other word in their language which matches the sound, but that's rare.
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Replying to @ithayla
Oh yes! There is a way to roll them even more, which is fairly common in Portugal, but it's not as intuitive to me.
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Lingthusiasm just had a episode on "Rhoticity" in different languages! It's fascinating.https://m.soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/55-r-and-r-like-sounds-rhoticity#t=0:01 …
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This was fun and it mentions things that I constantly run into while trying to communicate here in Ireland.
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Replying to @gamesbymanuel @ithayla
It answered some things I thought would be impolite to ask, like whether Australians hear a difference between "Career," "Korea," and "Correia."
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