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The following is a list of common non-native pronunciations that English speakers make when trying to speak foreign languages. Many of these are due to transfer of phonological rules from English to the new language as well as differences in grammar and syntax that they encounter. This article uses International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciation. See Help:IPA pronunciation key and IPA chart for English for an introduction. ==Esperanto== *While English speakers tend to assimilate to before or , as well to before or , neither of which occurs in "strictly regular" Esperanto. However, since Zamenhof himself recognized this type of assimilation, there is debate over whether this is actually an error. *Speakers tend to pronounce Esperanto as , the vowel of ''pay''. *Speakers tend to reduce unstressed vowels. *Speakers tend to pronounce as or otherwise have a hard time pronouncing it. This sort of difficulty is behind the gradual shift from to (see Esperanto phonology#Loss of phonemic ĥ). *Speakers tend to pronounce the rhotic consonant as , rather than an alveolar trill. Speakers of non-rhotic accents tend to mute the r when at end of a word or before consonant. *Other pronunciation difficulties are related to spelling pronunciations of digraphs. The digraph represents , though speakers may substitute or . The digraph represents , though speakers may mute the . The in the digraph is always pronounced. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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