Comments on: Sunday morning schwa http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/06/sunday-morning-schwa/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Home of the Beijing Sounds Studios: productions mostly of language through foreign ears Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:08:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Luxury Apartments http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/06/sunday-morning-schwa/comment-page-1/#comment-24628 Luxury Apartments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:31:46 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=727#comment-24628 Very difficult to master this beautiful, nuanced language. Having the pronunciation sounded out helps greatly, thank you. Very difficult to master this beautiful, nuanced language.

Having the pronunciation sounded out helps greatly, thank you.

]]> By: chriswaugh_bj http://www.sinoglot.com/bjs/2009/06/sunday-morning-schwa/comment-page-1/#comment-24580 chriswaugh_bj Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:43:43 +0000 http://www.bjshengr.com/bjs/?p=727#comment-24580 No, I was reading Randy as commenting on the way kids are taught to "spell" out syllables. They don't do it letter-by-letter, but initial+final. What I heard in the phantom schwa was "h-, -ei, hei" like in a primary school writing class. No, I was reading Randy as commenting on the way kids are taught to “spell” out syllables. They don’t do it letter-by-letter, but initial+final. What I heard in the phantom schwa was “h-, -ei, hei” like in a primary school writing class.

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