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02-04-2010, 03:20 PM
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| Pronouncing "Th" and "S"
I don't have a problem with it. But I find that mostly Mandarin speaking people struggle with the difference. I always hear these ppl say "S"ousand instead of "TH"ousand. I was talking with my mom's friend who's from China and I wanted to help her correct the pronounciation. But it seems that they'r having trouble. Can any Mandarin speaking members confirm?
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02-04-2010, 03:27 PM
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TH sounds like TS, I wouldn't bother if you get what they're saying. I have French speaking friends from Quebec and I don't bother correcting them on the silent H because I know what they're saying.
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02-04-2010, 03:27 PM
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#3 | | The Lone Wanderator
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There are a couple problems with TH; there are two different TH sounds.
Unvoiced TH as in "think" - for this th you put your tongue between your teeth and push air.
Voiced TH as in "their" - for this th you put your tongue BEHIND your teeth (not touching the gums) and push air and use your voice.
Any kind of basic english speaker/tutor should be able to teach a kind of lesson once you have this kind of 'structural' English knowledge.
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02-04-2010, 03:34 PM
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I find that taiwanese people tend to pronounce "N" like "UN"
energy becomes "un"ergy
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What do you expect? they're fram Chiner. Have you heard a Caucasian guy speak Japanese? it's as much a train wreck as Chinese people trying to pronounce "Thanks"
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02-04-2010, 03:45 PM
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I noticed that mandarin speakers butcher the word "usually". It usually comes out sounding like "urually".
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02-04-2010, 03:59 PM
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TH is often mispronounced as S or T.. mostly because few languages actually have a 'th' sound and it's easy to get away with substituting an S or T, or sometimes even a Z or D.
Thousand = Tousand, Sousand, Dousand, or Zousand.. you can pretty much substitute them in any word and it'll still be understandable.
There is no W in hungarian, only V. so it's amusing to listen to my parents try to pronounce any word with a w in it. they sound like dracula...
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02-04-2010, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by !LittleDragon  TH sounds like TS, I wouldn't bother if you get what they're saying. I have French speaking friends from Quebec and I don't bother correcting them on the silent H because I know what they're saying. | True story. I butcher my French way more severely than my Francophone friends butcher their English.
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02-04-2010, 08:05 PM
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02-04-2010, 10:04 PM
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fing is, I fink sey fink th sounds like an f.
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my friend can't say th and he is cantonese.
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02-05-2010, 10:34 AM
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#16 | | The Lone Wanderator
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Mandarin: th->s/z
Canto: th->f
Japanese: th-s/z
Korean: th->d
In my experience.
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