“Velar” R is not helpful
The animation for retroflex r is great - even though it’s in a word, it’s the initial sound in the word so it’s still easy to see. However the only word available to see the motion for the “velar r” (bunched r) is “crow”. The brief moment of the R gets lost between the two other sounds.
Great, but inaccurate, app
This is a great teaching resource but there are some issues with the accuracy. When playing through many of the consonant formation animations, the soft palate drops open when it moves from the consonant to the open vowel. This would, of course, result in nasal vowels. It would be great if this could be corrected to make the animation a more accurate reflection of proper speech habits. Also on the D and T consonant formation (forgive my not using IPA notation but the iPad keyboard is lacking) there is full contact of the tip, blade, and front of the tongue with the back of the font teeth, gum ridge, and even front of hard palate. This is a closer approximation of the DTh as heard in Spanish and other languages. A pure D and T utilize the tip of the tongue at the gum ridge. I love this resource for teaching speech and diction to
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