Billionaire polyglot’s succession of favorite speech sounds

As a real polyglot and sadly a fake billionaire, here is a description of my favourite/favorite speech sounds from the world’s languages. Presented in homage to HBO’s fabulous series Succession, I explore my favorite/favourite noises from languages as diverse as French, German, Italian, Navajo, Welsh and ancient Hebrew! 0:00. Titles 0:45 French /ʁ/ and nasal vowels 1:04 Difference between /ɑ̃/ and /ɔ̃/ 1:25 German consonant clusters 1:35 Italian consonant clusters 1:56 Russian consonant clusters 2:18 Phone call 2:38 Chinese /ɤ/ 3:56 Welsh 4:20 Lateral fricative /ɬ/ 4:36 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobyllllantysiliogogogogh 4:59 [ɬ] in North American and southern African languages 5:20 Ancient pronunciation of Hebrew letter Shin 5:27 Shibboleth 5:49 Voiceless apical roll /r̥/ 6:36 Press Conference
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