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Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
Try pronouncing the following words:
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colleagues
• friends
• parents
• sometimes
• states
• themselves
• tourists
• words What do these words have in common?
Uzbeks often insert a little [ɪ] before the final -s. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• colleagues – wrong: коллийгиз, correct: коллийгз
• friends – wrong: фрэндиз, correct: фрэндз
• parents – wrong: перентис, correct: перентс
• sometimes – wrong: самтаймиз, correct: самтаймз
• states – wrong: стейтис, correct: стейтс
• themselves – wrong: земселвиз, correct: земселвз
• tourists – wrong: туристис, correct: туристс
• words – wrong: вѳрдиз, correct: вѳрдз
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