Saaropean wrote:I listened to some other podcasts of yours. Your Greek pronunciation is completely wrong. I advise you not to continue before reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_orthography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Greek_phonology
I looked at those pages and I think this sums up what the pages are saying: (am i correct?)
• /i/ can be written as η, ι, υ, ει, οι, υι
• /e/ can be written as both ε and αι;
• /o/ can be written as both ο and ω.
γγ, γκ -> ‘y’ sound
μπ -> ‘b’ sound
ντ -> ‘d’ sound
ου -> ‘u’ sound
ωυ -> ‘oi’ sound
αυ -> [av] before vowel or voiced consonant; [af] otherwise
ευ -> [e̞v] before vowel or voiced consonant; [e̞f] otherwise
ηυ -> [iv] before vowel or voiced consonant; [if] otherwise
So, what’s the rule for when voiceless consonants become voiced? This is what I found on omniglot’s greek page:
“voiceless consonants are voiced when they are preceded by a word that ends in ‘ν’ ”
Is this the rule that I follow or am I still lost?
Saaropean wrote:Many of your French vowels are wrong, too. But I guess the French forum tells you how to correct that.
I have been reading about French vowel pronunciation and it's pretty difficult:
http://www.languageguide.org/francais/g ... unciation/
I think that I will have to get French vowels down by continually listening to them.