{"id":444,"date":"2004-08-13T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/08\/13\/the-sound-of-english\/"},"modified":"2004-08-13T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-13T17:47:09","slug":"the-sound-of-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/08\/13\/the-sound-of-english\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a406'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n As a native speaker of English it&#8217;s hard to have an impression on<br \/>\n the sound of English.  It&#8217;s so natural to my ears that I just consider<br \/>\n it normal, unlike let&#8217;s say&#8230;. swahili.   I would definitely be<br \/>\n able to characterize swahili&#8217;s sounds as a foreigner.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n So what do other people say about English?  Some people on LiveJournal<br \/>\n asked around and here are some impressions.  (add your own if you&#8217;re not a<br \/>\n native speaker!)\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/linguaphiles\/905273.html\">English sounds like&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/learn_languages\/430782.html\">Your impression of English&#8230;<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a native speaker of English it&#8217;s hard to have an impression on the sound of English. It&#8217;s so natural to my ears that I just consider it normal, unlike let&#8217;s say&#8230;. swahili. I would definitely be able to characterize swahili&#8217;s sounds as a foreigner. So what do other people say about English? Some people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}