Pronounciation of Hearth (who has been saying it wrong?)

[Tonkyhonk]

Since we seem to be in a pissing match on who has the most speshul language

omg loftar! dont ingore this! ↓

would someone upload a sound file for vapntreyiu and einherjeraspekt? pretty please?!
ive never learned how to pronounce either of them.

[loftar]

I don't see you speaking Swahili. Damn gutturals are impossible for anyone not native from what I understand.

I know, but I figured there wouldn't be a whole lot of speakers of Sub-Saharan languages around. :)

sound file for vapntreyiu and einherjeraspekt

Ask an Icelander. ;)

[Tonkyhonk]

I can just as well challenge you to pronounce the consonant that only Swedish has

Other descriptive labels include voiceless palatal-velar fricative, voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, voiceless postalveolar and velar fricative, or voiceless coarticulated velar and palatoalveolar fricative. The closest English phoneme is /ʃ/
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Its place of articulation is disputed

how are we supposed to try it when the place of articulation is controversial among the natives
(ive already given up on the vowels.)

sound file for vapntreyiu and einherjeraspekt

Ask an Icelander.

where is one?! ;___; cmon, you guys named them!

@magicman,
are you sure that joke is chinese? it sounds more like picking on japanese who change L to R rather than chinese who change R to L.

[Flame]

i can't really get wher's the prolem with your letters, loftar. Is for the double letters in the end that sounds harder?

[loftar]

Is for the double letters in the end that sounds harder?

Basically, yes. I think most Germanic languages share the same basic distinction, though, even if they might be less regular, especially with regards to the orthography. Compare "coma" and "comma" in English, for instance. (Both, funnily enough, from Latin, which also had similar long and short vowels; has that been lost in Italian?)

[Potjeh]

Yeah, well, your different vowel length is nothing, we have tone on a consonant

[Tonkyhonk]

we have tone on a consonant

please ellaborate. havent heard of consonants having tones.

[Flame]

has that been lost in Italian?

No, no, it's pretty common and basic to have two letters in a word to strenghten the sound. This never happen in the "end" of a word, but this is easy to fix.
That's why i was confused. I think that most of latin languages can handle it.
TH Is way more harder, due his half soft and hard and sibilant and whatever sound. It's all and nothing in the same sound, so is quite messy. XD
Or also a particoular Z from Romany that is a mix between a Z and a S. Those are all "half" sounds, for me, and i often mess up the tongue with those. XD

[Potjeh]

Well, it's kinda cheating, because while R is technically a consonant, it's also an honorary vowel. It's why we can have words like krv, prst, skršten or štrkljav. HF with pronouncing those, BTW

[Flame]

how should i say the lj?

Oh, wait, i did a try. nd i'm sure that it's TOTALLY WRONG. XD
https://www.mediafire.com/?ugjadi8d886n8py