For all you native chinese speakers out there...

[beqstar]

For those of you who are native Chinese speakers, what English pronunciations do you find most difficult?

Also, what do you find most helpful in learning English, (for example, English idioms, quotes, reciting words, etc.)?

Just curious...Thanks much!!

[daydreamer]

For me, th is quite difficult. sometimes I pronouce th as "s" if when not pay much attention.

I think reading anything you like in English is kind of helpful, I read some fairy tales which are not too long and not too difficult, and recently I try to read more peoms.

[shibo77]

The [hw] sound in whale, what. If I don't give it attention, it turns into "vrrrort?" or "vat?", also I have trouble with "-ium", millenium, I say "mee-len-nee-num", aluminium "ah-loo-mee-num-num-num".

-Shibo

[TSkillet]

Judging by my mom (who grew up in China/Hong Kong/Switzerland - up until the age of 18, and has spend the last 42 years or so as a US resident)

Plurals - she often adds 's' where there doesn't need to be one (dirts) and omits one where there needs to be one

[CookieFactory]

there is no need to use a "hw" sound in "what." just say it as if it were "wut."

[shibo77]

I think the British makes a difference between the [w] in wet with the [hw] in what. Maybe there isn't a difference in the Americas.

-Shìbó

[Quest]

Maybe there isn't a difference in the Americas.

There is.

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[Harpoon]

There is.

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yeah i see people say "hhwaat" and stuff on TV... sounds kind of wierd to me. Usually the "hw" is barely noticable or not noticable at all.

[Glenn]

There is.

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I think it's being lost, though. It seems to me that the only people who distinguish the two are older speakers.

[nipponman]

Yeah, though you may here retired news anchorman Dan Rather saying it, and you may see it in the dictionary pronunciation key, it is definitely lost among middle age and younger speakers, Especially in ebonics.

[f'yor-fei]

When I was a kid, these 3 things always stood out:

the V in very. I had a hard time not pronouncing it like f as in fairy.

the transition from "so" to "cial" Social studies ie so, then sho.

album always came out alblum.