Where learners slip · शङ्का
The hundred things everyone gets wrong
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ear test
Not a list of rules — a list of the ten places the ear actually slips, with both sides of each pair playable. Some pairs are two real words a single letter apart; the rest put the right word beside the way it usually comes out.
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Ear test
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▶ hear both, one after the other
Where a pair is two real words, both meanings are given — those are the ones worth saying out loud twice. The mouth positions behind all of this are in the Sound Mandala, and the seams are in Sandhi Mastery.