I had my fourth meeting via Zoom with my conversation partner Suyeol on Tuesday, July 28 at 3 pm. During our meeting, I showed Suyeol the Korean minimal pairs that we had gone over in class the previous week, and we decided to practice pronouncing the words together again. While some of the sounds were just as difficult for me to recognize and pronounce as before, Suyeol was very patient and offered a lot of helpful suggestions for English words that have similar sounds. After this, we discussed some minimal pairs in English that Korean native speakers often have difficulties with (such as the “r” and “l” sounds) and practiced them together. The main thing I learned from this meeting is that although minimal pair sounds can seem extremely obvious and basic for native speakers, it can be exceedingly difficult for language learners not only to pronounce these sounds but also merely to recognize them.
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