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Producing the Initial ‘Ng’ /ŋ/ in Asian Languages

September 13, 2010

Next to getting the tones right, the initial ‘Ng’ sound that is found in so many Asian languages proves to be one of the major pronunciation issues for non-Asian learners of ‘initial ng’ languages.The languages that have an initial NG sound include: Thai Lao Cantonese and other Chinese Languages / Dialects (especially southern dialects) Bahasa [...]

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Those iPhone Developers Might be the Funkiest, Schwaginist Geeks in Cupertino, but they Sure Ain’t No Linguists!

January 11, 2009

Dear gods of the cyberverse, please direct this blog-entry through the right routers,feed aggregators, RSS readers … anything it takes so that those great apple developers in the sky can start to get a taste of the multilingual HUMAN world outside of that apparently monoglot paradise of Cupertino. I’ve had my iPhone for almost a [...]

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