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On November 16 2004 05:24 Piece_Of_Pie wrote: as a small child i used to pronouce hospital as horse-piddle
im embarresed that wrote that in a public forum now....
Your lying, thats from the old joke that used to do the rounds every 2 years at school!~
Hold your tongue and say "i was born in a hospital" (horse piddle) / "i was born in a pirate ship" (pile of shit)
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Ppl i know from Spain have a difficulties when saying a word that starts with s-consonant. Like the name Spain itself. The always include an "ae" before. "ae-spain" instead of spain, "ae-stick", "ae-stupid", and so on.
And some koreans still have trouble with "f" and tend to "simplify" the vowels. Even tho, nowdays most of them can pronounce the "f"(i remember with nostalgia when i got asked if i would prefer a coke or an orange "hwanta"
But then again i found english speaking ppl funny when trying to speak korean, spanish or french.
But let me say something: french girl trying to speak english is extremely sexy
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I've always found it funny when koreans try to pronounce a word that starts with the letter F.
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I find February a tough word to pronounce, I tend to skip the r and make it sound a little like 'febuary'.
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On November 16 2004 06:19 Malmis wrote: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (a village in wales)
This is kinda offtopic... since we're discussing English words here, not Welsh
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i dont have any difficult reading, but when i'm going to speak i get full of doubts if what im saying is correct
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In its spanish it is wrong to speak pronouncing the s very hard.
If you want to say 'us' (nosotros) they tend to say when they are kids NosotroSS and pronounce the s very hard. you should not pronounce like a snake but in spanish when you are little thats what most do. Maybe its that. They are not used to pronouncing Spain cause for us they S would sound very hard.
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Maybe not english but here is one of my favorite words (german): Landwirtschaftsproduktionsgenossenschaft Umm.. maybe "farmars' collaboration" in english (a nice feature of the former socialism ) Only 3 letters in hungarian
And hungarian also has a "hard r" and no "th"... That is why the hungarian accent is said to be funny And english words with "r" and "th" are hard to pronounce at first. "soft r" becomes "hard r", "th" becomes "d" or "s"... You get it.
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On November 16 2004 06:40 Fedaykin wrote: I find February a tough word to pronounce, I tend to skip the r and make it sound a little like 'febuary'.
that's actually correct. in the dictionary it says pronouncing it either way is acceptable, and almost everyone I know in the US including myself says it like febuary.
Can anyone explain what they mean by hard r? I only speak english and I have never heard that term before. I don't see how an r can be more hard than it is in english. do you mean that thing where you roll your tongue like in spanish?
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I don't know if you have to roll in spanish, but if I get it right, rolling your tongue is the hard r I was speaking of. And it is used in many slavic languages too.
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On November 16 2004 01:26 Manit0u wrote:I also heared that people from France have problems learning english since they can't pronounce "h" (I hope I remember what I heared ) Ew, not really... How do you pronounce 'h' anyway? I mean, we do have 'h', and it's like the same in English as it is in French...
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Oh yeah, right about the Chinese. They pronounce "T" or "Th" as "Ts" instead. Something about their language I think. For example I know that (I think) 3 is pronounced like "Tsam" whereas it would be written in English as "Tam"
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English people usually pronounce japanese names like Sasuke as "Sah-soo-key", whereas the actual pronunciation is "Sah-soo-kay".
Stupid romanji...
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Koreans have trouble saying fork.
It comes out "pork"! ^__^;;
Edit: Well, more like "Poke!"
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