From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jun 07 10:46:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 7 Jun 2001 17:46:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 22613 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 17:46:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2001 17:46:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 17:46:07 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1583rC-0004Dr-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:46:06 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:46:06 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Sound recordings for the lessons Message-ID: <20010607104606.T2481@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:41:08PM -0400, Craig wrote: > Yeah, I know how it's supposed to be different, but when I'm > practicing quickly it always comes out as an H, except that I get it > right in the cmavo xa and other places with an A after it. My native > language is English, and the only times I've heard the /x/ sound in my > life are in hebrew and german - and I don't hear either one very > often. Oh yeah, and people clearing their throats. Ahhh... I misunderstood. I thought you meant you couldn't distinguish them in other people's speech, even when those other people were pronouncing 'x' properly. My bad. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/