How to practise uvular(怎样练习发小舌音)?
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Leave alone my last post,I found a better one:
"As for the tongue, I have found two secrets of muscle action:
(1) pull forward the upper pharyngeal portion of the tongue (the portion opposite the uvula). The tension for this gesture will be felt not along the tongue surface, but well inside the tongue, from the upper pharyngeal surface forward into the middle of the mass of the tongue.
(2) relax whatever muscles elevate the back of the tongue -- that is, keep the back part of the oral (mouth) surface of the tongue DOWN. These muslces are at maximum activity for making the sounds 'k', 'g' and at minimum activity for 'a'. The uvular trill resembles the vowel 'a' of English 'father' (less so the vowel 'a' of German 'vater' or Polish 'mate, masz').
The trill articulation occurs in stages. As well as I can remember from the book cited above, they are
Stage 1. Relax the tongue to that the tongue's upper pharyngeal portion (or maybe rather the part of the tongue where the upper pharyngeal portion meets the oral portion) comes closer to the uvula and throat.
Stage 2. Pull the relevant portion of the tongue forward AND KEEP IT LOW, as described above, and at the same time pull the soft palate up and forward.
Stage 3. As the tension in the soft palate increases and as you exhale a little more strongly, the uvula will vibrate against the tongue.
The French and German uvular trills differ in the following way: in French, the edge of the tongue touches the front lower teeth; in German, the edge of the tongue is actively pulled back from the front lower teeth. That is, in the German case you are simultaneously pulling BOTH the tonge tip and the tongue back toward the center of the mouth."
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=82563
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I found some tips here:
http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/howto/htpronounce.htm
Tips:
1.You should exaggerate certain lip and mouth configurations in order to pronounce German words correctly.
2.Muscles of the mouth, lips, tongue, throat and neck must be much tenser for producing German sounds than English sounds.
3.At the beginner's level exaggerate the articulation until it becomes a habit.
But easier said than done,always...
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hehe ...I am confussing now ...
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