r/LearnHokkien / Pronunciation

Does tone sandhi ever become 'automatic' for non-native speakers?

Posted by u/Pronunciationfocus_742 / May 30, 2026

I’m a pronunciation-focused learner who records myself daily, but I find myself pausing mid-sentence to calculate the sandhi changes for every syllable. It’s killing my flow. For those of you who've reached fluency, does this eventually become muscle memory, or will I always have to mentally map the changes in real-time when speaking Hokkien?

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