Rolling R's in Finnish?

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Re: Rolling R's in Finnish?

Post by Upphew » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:06 am

TheAngelofMeth wrote:Sorry if this sounds stupid, but what about words like "sänky"? If Finnish is pronounced as it is spelled, I would be saying "sänk-ee" instead of "sänk-uu". So maybe there are more words like that with awkward pronunciations the books could teach me.
Sänky is sänky. Try sänky, sänke, sänku and sänkyy, sänkee, sänkuu with http://www.mikropuhe.com/live/ it does sound like speech synthesizer, but you do hear the difference. Btw, only sänky of those is proper word, sänkee and sänkyy you might bump in colloquial context.


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Re: Rolling R's in Finnish?

Post by Kutittaa » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:46 am

Aww why don't you just upload a video of yourself saying 'Sänky' to show him the difference :lol: :lol:

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Re: Rolling R's in Finnish?

Post by Upphew » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:23 pm

Kutittaa wrote:Aww why don't you just upload a video of yourself saying 'Sänky' to show him the difference :lol: :lol:
Requires more effort than google and copypasta. Also then he would need to ask for more pronunciation help, now he can try different words by himself. You know: set man on fire and he is warm for rest of his life and stuff.
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