My latest article for TheWeek.com has been posted today:
8 bizarre sounds you’ve probably made without knowing it
And their prevalence in several foreign languages
theweek.com/article/index/241811/8-bizarre-sounds-youve-probably-made-without-knowing-it
(Please note that I don’t make up the captions for the photos. Where it says an uvular trill I would recommend reading a uvular trill.)
Watch a video of me reading it and making the sounds:
Posted in The Week
Tagged 8 odd sounds from other languages you could never make except you probably already have, alveolar click, bilabial trill, implosive velar stop, lateral click, palatal click, pharyngeal fricative, phonemics, phonetics, pulmonic ingressive voiceless lateral fricative, sounds, speech sounds, The Week, uvular trill
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