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What is the most comprehensive, detailed Mandarin grammar book I can buy?
Logan Kelly
It's a lot of books!
Daniel Morris
Is it just me or do Graded Readers seem to be fairly niche? It feels like there's more textbooks available for a language than Graded Readers still in print Have you looked at Chinese A Comprehensive Grammar in the mega folders?
Yes, there is a quantifiable difference between a plain and a velarized alveolar stop. In some languages it is used to distinguish between words, that is to say there is a phonemic contrast between the two sounds. In English there is no such contrast, but excessive velarization sounds markedly strange and unnatural and contributes to your foreign accent.
I'm retarded, BRUH. The soft alveolar stops in Russian are in fact produced with some frication, but you can just ignore that and pretend the graph shows a bilabial sound instead.