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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Brazilian Portuguese speakers change ‘t’ and ‘d’ to ‘ch’ and ‘j’ respectively before ‘i’ and ‘e’ sounds. For example, the word ‘de’ meaning ‘of/from’ is pronounced more like ‘juh’.

This happened in Japanese too, where the original “ti, tya, tyo” became “chi, cha, cho”! These are all types of [palatalisation](…wikipedia.org/…/Palatalization_(sound_change\)), which is one of the most common types of sound change across languages.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Dr Geoff Lindsey has a fantastic video on the related phenomenon of why the <t> in statue is pronounced like a “ch” and why English people pronounce tube as *“choob”