http://storiesfrombeijing.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/consonant-confusion/ Stories from Beijing Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:40:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://storiesfrombeijing.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/consonant-confusion/#comment-497 RubeRad Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:08:30 +0000 http://storiesfrombeijing.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-497 I remember taking german and learning that the umlauted o" and u" can easily be made by putting your mouth into a specific shape and trying to say "E". Before then I had absolutely no awareness of the way the parts of my mouth moved for different letters! Since then, I have been able to teach my boys how to say "Three" instead of a babyish "Free", by having the tip of the tongue between the teeth and saying "S". I remember taking german and learning that the umlauted o” and u” can easily be made by putting your mouth into a specific shape and trying to say “E”. Before then I had absolutely no awareness of the way the parts of my mouth moved for different letters! Since then, I have been able to teach my boys how to say “Three” instead of a babyish “Free”, by having the tip of the tongue between the teeth and saying “S”.

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