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09-04-2009, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Heru View Post
Her boyfriend said that k's should sound somewhere between a k and a g.
What do you mean by "between a k and a g"? In English. In Russian?

You can always look at the Voice Onset Time chart and get some basic grasp.

Voice onset time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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