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Are there minimal pairs for "l" vs "ll" in Albanian?

I'd like to ask some Albanian speakers to say pairs of words which come as close as possible to differing only by one of each pair having "l" and the other having "ll". I'm trying to hear and reproduc …
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Seeking Lao minimal pairs for /ɯ/ vs /ɤ/ vs /ɯː/ vs /ɤː/

In learning Lao one of the tricky things For a native English speaker is the two vowels that we don't have in English and sound very similar to us. This is compounded by the fact that both exist in sh …
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How to distinguish Korean "ㅔ" /e/ and "ㅐ" /ɛ/?

I've always had trouble with the distinction between the "e"-like vowels in European languages: /e/ vs /ɛ/. But pronouncing them the same has never caused me any problems. In fact I don't even know w …
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