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This tag is for questions which a dictionary cannot answer about the sound, intonation, and stress of how words are uttered or produced.
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How do native speakers 'guess' the pronunciation of the letters in a word they see for the f...
I would say that there are two things that we do. Both of them have been touched on already, but I want to stress the importance of both.
(1) We develop an intuition based on patterns. Once you've se …
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How can I train myself to hear the difference between C (/'si:/) and Z (/'zi:/)?
Practise, practise, practise, and don't just listen, try to do it yourself.
Think about the difference between /f/ (as in fünf) and /v/ (as in weiß). What do you do differently when you pronounce /v/ …