However I'm having a weird time with pronunciation of ll in Andean words. I have an instinct for it and I think I get it right when I'm not thinking. But if I consider for more than one second, I'm lost in indecision: is it an l-ish sound or a y-ish sound his time? Is there a rule I don't know?
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Every time I go to a German conference I end up spending the train ride home fantasizing about spending my days just studying ancient Maya things. Germany sturs my Maya nostalgia for no clear reason.
Apparently we were "better than [she] expected". That is all I can hope for really 👍
Weird situation of hearing my yesterday conference contribution discussed at the breakfast table next to mine. Clearly they don't recognise me! I don't look that different today.
One media reference to, say, letter from a Burr-Ming-Ham jail and what one thought one knew was gone (and vice versa)
To be fair, Birmingham, Alabama gets a lot of medua airplay and it probably undermines how she thinks Birmingham, England should sound like. If no one has ever said "say those differently" it could be a muddle.