Fascinating. *Promote

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I find this stuff very interesting, will be visiting that site. Something I noticed about native Spanish speakers is that when they speak English they put a slight "eh" sound at the beginning of English words that start with "st" or "sp", as no Spanish words start with those consonants. So they pronounce the word "Spanish" as "ehSpanish". Which leads to Ricky Ricardo over-correcting and trying to perfect his accent by removing the "e" sound where it actually belongs, like "(ex)splaining" and "(e)xactly".

I had never thought about a "glottal stop" before, but now that she mentioned it, I just had to look it up. And guess what, the German terms for (and descriptions of) it are just comically ridiculous: Stimmritzenverschlusslaut, Kehlkopfverschlusslaut or simply "stimmloser glottaler Plosiv".

"Stimmloser glottaler Plosiv"... sounds like something you'd see an excorcist for.

I'm a dreadful linguist and languages never interested me at school, but I actually find these videos often more interesting than the ones on the sciences.