Re: [lojban] Challenging pronunciation

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Wednesday 13 October 2010 04:21:18 Krzysztof Sobolewski wrote:
> Dnia środa, 13 października 2010 o 05:21:04 MorphemeAddict napisał(a):
> > How do Poles learn to say English or German 'h'? Do it the same way.
>
> Is there any other 'h' in those languages? German has "ch" as in "ich", but
> that's very different and is taught explicitly, and Polish "h" does fine as
> either English or German "h", so there's no special attention given it. Or
> at least I don't remember anything like that (I tried to learn German for
> three years ;) ). It might be better luck with French, as everyone knows
> its "h" is bizarre and ridiculous ;)

German has the ich-Laut and the ach-Laut, which are allophones, and "h", which 
is different. A quick check turned up no minimal pairs (some pairs looked 
like them, such as "chatten/hatten", but the "ch" is pronounced otherwise). 
Maybe some German on the list can think of some.

Pierre

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