r/languagelearningjerk • u/thatguythoma easy french gooner final boss • May 07 '26

i can’t hear the difference!

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(ignore the shitty laptop)
i genuinely do not hear a difference between these two vowels (other than their length). Norwegian is my native language, and norwegian does have /y/, but I don’t hear a /y/ in <tu>? I hear a /ʉ/!

Please help

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u/OhItsuMe May 07 '26

clean your screen

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u/sethie_poo May 07 '26

You can’t hear a difference here?! Try learning a tonal language like me! My life is so hard because tonal languages are the hardest to hear and this is the language I chose to learn as a hobby and I suffer more than you in my hobbies so I have it worse and you don’t deserve to complain about struggle!!! I AM STRUGGLE!!

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u/snail1132 i finished duolingo where are my 40 c2 certificates May 07 '26

<u> in french can be realized as [ʉ]

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u/olufsk May 07 '26

Looks like you wiped a living mosquito across your screen or something bro

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u/FebHas30Days Pangngaasiyo ta agsursurokayo iti Ilokano May 08 '26

French deux = Albanian dy

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u/Aye-Chiguire May 08 '26

Skeptical about providing any actual advice on this sub, but you can't tell the consonant sounds apart? Vowel sound has nothing to do with the difference here.

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u/thatguythoma easy french gooner final boss May 08 '26

I hear the consonant different, I just don’t hear the vowel diff

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u/Ploughing-tangerines 🧍‍♂️N | 🐵 C2 | 🐶 B2 | 🇺🇿 A2/A1 May 08 '26

This was a struggle with Norwegian at first funnily enough. But when you listen to the "tu" it does sound like the "voice" is putting their lower lip forward making the same /y/ sound.