Can Asians not produce "l" or "r" (which one?)?

[abc]

Originally posted by: Eug

Originally posted by: AndyHui
Depends.


By the way, the Mandarin speakers say that Cantonese speakers always sound like they're arguing. In some ways I can see this though. Cantonese is a much more guttural language, and it can seem argumentative to some if you sprinkle a bit more animated conversation onto it.

hey do you think mandarin speakers view canto as more ghetto.

i couldnt see why, HK people are canto, and land value is worth more there than most places in China.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: abc

Originally posted by: Eug
By the way, the Mandarin speakers say that Cantonese speakers always sound like they're arguing. In some ways I can see this though. Cantonese is a much more guttural language, and it can seem argumentative to some if you sprinkle a bit more animated conversation onto it.

hey do you think mandarin speakers view canto as more ghetto.

i couldnt see why, HK people are canto, and land value is worth more there than most places in China.

Yeah, I think some do.

Take England for instance... You can be a rich successful Londoner that got everything thru honest hard work, but if you have a cockney accent it still is somewhat considered as a negative to some people, even though the accent doesn't at all reflect on the person's character.

 

[rh71]

It's simple really... if they've never pronounced words with the hard R like we do, then they'll have trouble with it. Just like we'll have trouble making some sounds with our tongue if we try and speak something like mandarin. What's there to argue ?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Eug

Take England for instance... You can be a rich successful Londoner that got everything thru honest hard work, but if you have a cockney accent it still is somewhat considered as a negative to some people, even though the accent doesn't at all reflect on the person's character.

Dunno wot you're talkin' about, guv'nor...

 

[Daishiki]

maybe. i always had a harder time with the "r" sounds. sounds funny when i say pedro

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
I don't understand the stereotype. It seems to alternate to the opposite of which letter the word uses.

Btw, I've never met an Asian who was incable of pronouncing either "l" or "r".

have you ever taken a college course with TAs?
im gona assume not if you have never heard horrible mispronounciations of words

Geography major . All my TAs are American or Indian (and speak good English).