{"id":439,"date":"2012-06-08T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:24:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:24:55","slug":"the-words-which-can%e2%80%99t-be-learned-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/the-words-which-can%e2%80%99t-be-learned-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Words Which Can\u2019t Be Learned (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bolivia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have lived here for more than 3 years but I still avoid saying the name of the place. The big problem here, I think, is the presence of \u201cb\u201d, \u201cv\u201d and \u201ci\u201d close together.  \u201cI\u201d sounds more like the English letter \u201ce\u201d but when two of them are close together it can be more difficult to get them out right. In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish classes<\/a> I learned that \u201cb\u201d and \u201cv\u201d really sound pretty much the same in this language but I still can\u2019t help saying them the way I would in English. They both should sound like the English \u201cb\u201d and I think that I confuse people by giving the \u201cv\u201d its English equivalent sound at times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guerrero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lot of gringos can\u2019t roll their r\u2019s at all and the English and French seem to have this particularly tough from what I have heard. However, if we go back to my Scots accent, I actually have the opposite problem. A good Scot will turn any English \u201cr\u201d in English into \u201crrrr\u201d. In Spanish there are so many opportunities for rolling r\u2019s and once I get started I can\u2019t seem to apply the brakes to my tongue. This is only really a problem when the word has an \u201crr\u201d followed by a single \u201cr\u201d. The first part will be rapped out reasonably well but then the second part of the word will contain an \u201crr\u201d instead of an \u201cr\u201d.   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theclinic.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Bolivia.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivia I have lived here for more than 3 years but I still avoid saying the name of the place. 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