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Why do Chinese people say "idear"?

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In my experience of speaking with immigrants from China to the United States, it seems many of them pronounce the word idea with a final ɹ (even before a consonant). Why?

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Moshi‭ wrote about 1 year ago · edited about 1 year ago

According to here, it is actually a fairly common phenomenon in non-rhotic accents. It could be that the Chinese accent is either due to British influence or just another example of this.

Edit: I'm guessing you're already aware of this, since you mention "even before a consonant", and the above applies to insertion between vowels.