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Re: Reader Poll
Posted By: Howard, on host 65.6.63.217
Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006, at 13:08:10
In Reply To: Re: Reader Poll posted by wintermute on Monday, April 17, 2006, at 17:13:58:

> > Funnily enough, I don't even know what the hard "kh" sound in German and Russian is like, so I just answered no. But considering how I can't roll my "rr"s in Spanish and have a horrible accent for certain words in Chinese (a language I grew up speaking), I'm guessing not.
> >
> > Any hints as to what the "kh" sound is like?
> >
> > ~Crystal"by the way, thanks for all the advice about high school drama, it really really really helped"109
>
> Like the Scottish "ch", as in "loch".
>
> winter"hope that helps"mute

Funnily? If that is a new word, I like it.

I have problems with the "tsu" sound on words like tsunami. I know English speaking people treat it as if the "t" was silent, but I hear that in Southeast Asia and Japan, it is pronounced. I can't imagine how.
Howard

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