gowelln
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- Jan 30, 2016
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- Portuguese
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- Brazil
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- Brazil
Hello all,
I'm back to studying pronunciation formally at the moment. And I'm learning the vowel sounds.
I've been watching videos on the short 'e' as in 'bed', 'set', 'wet', 'death', 'dead'. And I have no problem hearing 'eh' and I say it just fine.
However, when this vowel is followed by n, m or ng, I don't hear 'eh' anymore and the people making the video lessons don't address this. Words such as 'men', 'many', 'friend', 'any' are what I'm refering to. As far as I can tell we don't say 'ehny', 'frehnd', there's a clear distinction when you compare with 'set' and 'wet'.
I can pronounce 'any', and 'friend' if I do it naturally without saying 'eh', I just need an explanation on how this sound change is happening, if it happens with other vowels too(sorry, it's been over five years since I'd looked at an IPA chart).
If anyone can shed some light on this it'd be much appreciated.
I'm back to studying pronunciation formally at the moment. And I'm learning the vowel sounds.
I've been watching videos on the short 'e' as in 'bed', 'set', 'wet', 'death', 'dead'. And I have no problem hearing 'eh' and I say it just fine.
However, when this vowel is followed by n, m or ng, I don't hear 'eh' anymore and the people making the video lessons don't address this. Words such as 'men', 'many', 'friend', 'any' are what I'm refering to. As far as I can tell we don't say 'ehny', 'frehnd', there's a clear distinction when you compare with 'set' and 'wet'.
I can pronounce 'any', and 'friend' if I do it naturally without saying 'eh', I just need an explanation on how this sound change is happening, if it happens with other vowels too(sorry, it's been over five years since I'd looked at an IPA chart).
If anyone can shed some light on this it'd be much appreciated.