Ok...Thank you very much. After thousands of years trying to pronounce /kt/ in asked, talked and such...now I got to know that you don’t pronounce k but only the « t ». Aw! 😂
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@DunningKruger Maybe bc your native tongue is English. I’m studying English but you know...from a foreign country. So, I never had a native English teacher or lived in any English speaking country. For Spanish people is not easy to pronounce two consonants one after the other, in the same syllable. So, I recently knew when English people have to pronounce the simple form of ask (asked) park(parked), they don’t need to pronounce the « k » before the « t » to be understood. For example; I asked him. I used to struggle a lot bc I wanted to pronounce each consonant.
@twistermind I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but I don't believe that it's correct. I'm unfamiliar with any case in English in which the K in a word is silent. It is always pronounced "ask'd" and "talk'd" as far as I know. Perhaps there are other words where the K is not pronounced, but it definitely is in those words.
@twistermind Ah, yes. I was thinking of K within the word rather than at the beginning. Yes, I am a native English speaker, and I have a degree in English.
@DunningKruger lol! So. I’d better close my mouth bc noone I could say will be more right than your knowledge. :-) You know...it’s all that I’m now listening all kind of stuff in English to catch the better the pronunciation, intonation and all those things. And I now discovered that the k isn’t perceived in the examples I gave. I mean, when it’s followed by a « t » sound in past.
@DunningKruger I’m being serious. Noone better than a native speaker. I didn’t take it bad. I see what you mean. It’s different to learn a language as a second one. Things you learn naturally, we have to learn them through explanations and all. You know. Thank you for your intervention. :-)