What do cheese, grapes, coffee, and water all share in the Georgian language?
The dreaded and very frustrating (for non-native speakers) letter "ყ". This letter is transliterated as "qkh", but this does not even begin to describe the guttural sound that you have to make. This is the throatiest of throaty sounds. It needs to be deeper than clearing your throat, but shallow enough not to dislodge a loogie.
This is my Everest and I will continue asking for cheese, grapes, coffee, and water in my quest to establish my dominance over this phoneme. Hopefully, I will not insult anyone along the way with a mispronunciation.
Nakhvamdis!
Katy
The dreaded and very frustrating (for non-native speakers) letter "ყ". This letter is transliterated as "qkh", but this does not even begin to describe the guttural sound that you have to make. This is the throatiest of throaty sounds. It needs to be deeper than clearing your throat, but shallow enough not to dislodge a loogie.
This is my Everest and I will continue asking for cheese, grapes, coffee, and water in my quest to establish my dominance over this phoneme. Hopefully, I will not insult anyone along the way with a mispronunciation.
Nakhvamdis!
Katy
Hope you can at least get a little bread for your efforts
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