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Memoirs of China: Me Talk So Foot
[JOURNAL ENTRY, OCTOBER 2004:]
Our Chinese neighbor (English name “Cecelia”) has been teaching my wife and me some Mandarin words. You cannot imagine the strange ways that you have to curl your tongue in your mouth and against your teeth to approximate the correct sounds. Also, the sounds often come from lower in the larynx. Some of the sounds are a weird blend of consonants, vowels, and little expulsions of breath. It’s taken me about two months just to learn the correct pronunciation of “goodbye.” But I’ll say this about the Chinese: They’re a hell of a lot more patient with us learning their language than we often are with them trying to learn ours....
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Our Chinese neighbor (English name “Cecelia”) has been teaching my wife and me some Mandarin words. You cannot imagine the strange ways that you have to curl your tongue in your mouth and against your teeth to approximate the correct sounds. Also, the sounds often come from lower in the larynx. Some of the sounds are a weird blend of consonants, vowels, and little expulsions of breath. It’s taken me about two months just to learn the correct pronunciation of “goodbye.” But I’ll say this about the Chinese: They’re a hell of a lot more patient with us learning their language than we often are with them trying to learn ours....
Read more at Donald Gallinger's Official Author Website
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