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   Anonymous on February 17, 2009 at 10:06 pm

   but how to explain that in some words this ‘d’ (made up of ‘t’) sounds like ‘d’ linked with ‘r’ sound?
   for example: city and better, this ‘d’ sound is not exactly the same in both settings

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   Lisa Mojsin on February 17, 2009 at 10:15 pm

   Good question above. The R and “fast D” sound the same actually. They both require a fast flap of the tongue. This “d” sound for the T spelling is similar to the “r” sound of some languages. It’s not at all similar to the American R sound; it sounds like the R that exists in many other languages such as Spanish, Russian, Italian, etc. To Spanish speakers it would sound similar to an R. I didn’t have enough time to go into all the details in the video. In the example words that you give “city” and “better” the “R” or “fast D” may sound different to you because one word is followed by a vowel sound and the other word has a final R.

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   Anonymous on October 11, 2009 at 7:12 am

   fast T sounds me like /R/ for me. Is it because of my mother tongue is similar to Russian?
   For example. what a nice day – it sounds for me like wara nice day

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