mogu
Junior Member
- Joined
- May 2, 2013
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Japanese
- Home Country
- Japan
- Current Location
- Japan
In a dictation practice to the sound of an English narration, I often make a mistake in telling articles "a" or "the". Can most native English speaker tell the difference of those two words only by their sounds? They are usually uttered weakly and faintly in natural conversations. Contexts might be good help in many cases in real life situations. However, using CDs, I often find it difficult to tell them because a sentence in a textbook is generally too short to guess its context. Does somebody give me good advice?