My response the prompt "¿Qué aspectos de tu pronunciación en tu discurso crees que puedes mejorar?"("What elements of your pronunciation in your presentation do you think you can improve?"), which began as a few sentences about my American accent and the different sounds in English and Spanish, has turned into a full page of random phonetic analysis, an anatomical explanation of speech production, a discussion of Spanish's five cardinal vowels compared to English's horrifying diphthong system, and a few thoughts on general phonological theory, written in a terrible pidgin that I garbled together by combining my elementary Spanish vocabulary with linguistics jargon, with a smattering of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols thrown in for good measure. I refrained from actually drawing a diagram of the vocal tract, but only because I can't really do it in my word processor.
This is the problem with my chosen area of study.
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