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FabHK 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian

I find those Cantonese words ending in -p, -t, -k harsher than mellifluous Mandarin.

nephihaha 9 months ago [–]

I'm not a great fan of the sibilant sounds in Mandarin. Which to be fair is pretty rich coming from an English speaker.

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