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@RockySalad@discuss.tchncs.de on discuss.tchncs.de Open parent
If English wasn’t your first language, maybe if you learned English later in life, were there any words that you had a really hard time learning how to pronounce? Do you think that had to do with the sounds made in your first language?
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@davel__dup_7797@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent
Ask a German to pronounce “squirrel.”
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@CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent
Or a French person.
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@Witchfire@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent
This one’s actually funny to me. I’m speedrunning French right now and had no trouble with écureuil
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@Cheesus@lemmy.ca · Dec 13
My francophone wife practiced saying squirrel for like 7 years before she was able to get it kinda right, so that’s very impressive if true. It doesn’t help that in my accent, it’s pronounced as one syllable. Even good approximations of the pronunciation that I’ve heard by French speakers are usually done in two syllables.
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