Zoo or Sue? A Z/S Ear Test

zoo

/zuː/

vs

sue

/suː/

Korean's sound inventory has no standalone /z/ — only /s/ — and Spanish's z-like sound only ever appears automatically next to certain consonants, never as its own category, so both push "zoo" toward sounding like "Sue" by default.

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