「work」と「walk」の発音の違い

I sometimes find people confused about the difference in pronunciation between "walk" and "work".

"Work" sounds like "perk", "lurk", and "jerk". Your mouth is open about as much as when you say "え", but the sound is not "eh", but "er", like in "bird". You need a strong "r" sound, which means curling your tongue. There's more about "r" sounds in this blog post.

• http://upgradeenglish.blogspot.jp/2009/10/lr.html

"Walk" sounds like "talk". The "a" is like "ah" (あ).

I have been working on this lucky bamboo plant for a while. We took some cuttings from the plant, and now they are growing quite well, as you can see in the photo above.

I've also been working on some spider plants.

• spider plant オリヅルラン (definition from Eijiro on the Web)

You can see a very healthy one when you walk out of the elevator in our building. Come by and pay us a visit sometime!