Totally true! When I first started speaking in Portuguese, my throat hurt very quickly. This is for many reasons, but mostly because we don’t have the same “r” sound similar to the French “r” that is used liberally in Portuguese. Now I can speak for much longer without killing my throat, partly because I’ve learned to make the sound without hacking up a lung, but also because I’ve built the muscles needed. There are tons of muscles used in speaking and every language has a different usage of them.
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