meadow (from real life) // mid20s // I'm bnuuy 🐰 and also deer 🦌 and also a few more // wow!~!! //
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I think it's going well! I was getting really frustrated with not having enough words to be able to say much of anything, and also my listening comprehension was only about like ~50-60% understanding but I think it's improving
hardest thing at the moment for me as an english speaker is aspirated "s"s I'm learning to watch out for them
What do you mean watch out for them? Why do you need to distinguish them, Spanish only has one /s/ phoneme right?
latino, and even more with carribean spanish speakers drop/aspirate "s" sounds in various circumstances, castillian spanish speakers with do a "th" sound in other s positions
I used to do the "th" because I had a spanish teacher from spain in high school. anyway, in english "s" is a really important sound so it's weird for me to listen out for that aspiration/dropped "s"
for example a latino speaker may shorten "estoy cansado" to "'toy can'ao" (I AM A BEGINNER THIS MAY NOT BE EXACTLY CORRECT)
Oh I see, that makes more sense. I was confused because the process that phoneticians call aspiration is completely different, and if anything usually makes the sound easier to hear (the p sound in “pin” is aspirated while in “spin” it's unaspirated which makes it extremely hard to distinguish from the hypothetical word “*sbin”).
I've never heard lenition or debuccalisation being called aspiration, but now that I look it does mention it on the Wikipedia page.
