Pronunciation and Process
It always seems to be the short words which cause the greatest difficulty. The problem is not that they require more practice than longer or more complicated words, or (as sometimes happens) that their only vowel is reduced to a /ə/ in casual conversation, but because they look so easy […]
“She” is one of the most mispronounced English words in Taiwan. There are two issues. First, the tongue is usually in the wrong place when the /ʃ/ sound is pronounced. Most people use ˹ㄕ˼ instead, which (in Taiwan) is usually pronounced with the tip of the tongue down behind the […]