• DieguiTux8623@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Unless you speak Romanian, there the “ă” sound can be stressed and failing to do so makes a difference e.g. “cântăm” (we sing) vs “cântam” (I/we sang). As a foreigner I made this mistake and even though people will understand and even appreciate that you are trying to speak their language, it’s “disturbing” to hear the wrong verbal tense.

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      1 year ago

      The joke is that many, if not most, English dialects merge /ʌ/ with schwa but insist that the sounds are different because schwa is never stressed