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씨발 allophones (lemm.ee)

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살 and 쌀 are the same word

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup - we train ourselves to ignore distinctions as "not meaningful" because of our native languages, and then when we learn another language, one that uses those distinctions, it bites us back. You can get it later on, mind you, but it's always a bit of a pain.

My personal example of that is from Italian (L2): it took me a few years to be able to reliably distinguish pairs like "pena" (pity) and "penna" (feather), simply because Portuguese (L1) doesn't care about consonant+vowel length.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yup - we train ourselves to ignore distinctions as “not meaningful” because of our native languages, and then when we learn another language, one that uses those distinctions, it bites us back. You can get it later on, mind you, but it’s always a bit of a pain.

Yep, this is exactly what I've been doing through. I need to find an instance in English where a word uses the 싸 sound (ssa) but I still haven't found any yet!