Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages

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The following is a list of common non-native pronunciations that English speakers make when trying to speak foreign languages. Many of these are due to transfer of phonological rules from English to the new language as well as differences in grammar and syntax that they encounter.

Contents

This article uses International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation. See Help:IPA pronunciation key and IPA chart for English for an introduction.

Esperanto

German

Mandarin Chinese

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

See also

References

  1. Blanke (2001), pp. 41, 330–331.
  2. Blanke (2001), p. 37.
  3. Blanke (2001), p. 38.
  4. Blanke (2001), p. 39.
  5. Blanke (2001), p. 40.
  6. Blanke (2001), p. 41.
  7. Hall (2003), p. 81.
  8. Hall (2003), p. 91.
  9. Hall (2003), pp. 92–97.
  10. Hall (2003), pp. 85–87.
  11. Hall (2003), p. 46.
  12. "German Consonants 'ch' - Paul Joyce".
  13. "The German Consonant 'l' - Paul Joyce".
  14. Gottfried & Suiter (1997).
  15. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 185.
  16. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 168.
  17. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 33.
  18. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 41.
  19. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 64.
  20. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 30.
  21. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 56.
  22. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 75.
  23. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 47.
  24. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 55.
  25. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 212.
  26. Jones & Ward (1969), p. 214.
  27. Kordić (1997), p. 8.
  28. Alexander (2006), p. 4.
  29. 1 2 Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 10.
  30. 1 2 Alexander (2006), p. 3.
  31. Hodge & Janković (1965), pp. 12, 20.
  32. Kordić (1997), p. 4.
  33. Hodge & Janković (1965), pp. 30−31.
  34. Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 30.
  35. Morén (2005), pp. 5–6.
  36. Hodge & Janković (1965), pp. 30−31, 33.
  37. Hodge & Janković (1965), pp. 31, 34.
  38. Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 31.
  39. Kordić (1997), p. 5.
  40. Alexander (2006), pp. 3−4.
  41. 1 2 Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 32.
  42. Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 33.
  43. Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 34.
  44. Hodge & Janković (1965), pp. 32–33.
  45. Hodge & Janković (1965), p. 29.
  46. "Most Common Pitfalls of English Speakers Learning Spanish". My Daily Spanish. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  47. "Pronunciación de la lengua española para anglohablantes | Middle Tennessee State University". www.mtsu.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-02.

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