latter and ladder are both pronounced "lædə" in American, however, the /d/ in latter sounds more slippery because it is a liquid /d/, which is a sound between /d/ and /l/. This is very common in some Chinese dialects, we call this "流音化". When we say this kind of /d/ , madarin speakers would think we just said /l/.

中文：The official / Chinese Language (Including Standard Madarin as the spoken language, a few dielacts as supplement and any style of the written language based on the Mandarin grammar, for example, literature, law, news, and even some classical old Chinese. 普通话: Standard Mandarin (usually refferred as its spoken form, compared with non-standard Mandarin and the other dialects) Compare >>> 官话: Mandarin (the No.1 dialect in China) 汉语: The biggest assemblage. The language which any one Chinese can speak or write no matter whether it can be understood by any other Chinese. And sometimes it can be referred as the vocabulary originated from Chinese in some other languages like Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese

中文：The official / Chinese Language (Including Standard Madarin as the spoken language, a few dielacts as supplement and any style of the written language based on the Mandarin grammar, for example, literature, law, news, and even some classical old Chinese. 普通话: Standard Mandarin (usually refferred as its spoken form, compared with non-standard Mandarin and the other dialects) Compare >>> 官话: Mandarin (the No.1 dialect in China) 汉语: The biggest assemblage. The language which any one Chinese can speak or write no matter whether it can be understood by any other Chinese. And sometimes it can be referred as the vocabulary originated from Chinese in some other languages like Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese

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