femuse

after so many years, my husband is still trying to master what he calls the "French RRRRRRRR" sound. :D

He always complain that my French accent is not what he hears on educational TV (of course, they are Canadians speaking with a Parisian accent), or interviews of French politicians on TV (of course, they are from Paris ),....

People always ask " .... your accent ?" , so we collect their guesses .. ... hillarious (Hungarian, Russian, Australian (?), Lebanese !!! ) ...... about the whole world :D .... BUT "no, that's not true, you're not French" !!!! [they sometimes believe "south Philadelphia" before French. :D ]

RESULT: 99% of people think I am German (je suis du Sud-Ouest .... a bit far from a German accent - in my opinion)

So, to come back on track:

Mike sympathizes with creolophones, the French "R" sound is a tough one for people from South Jersey too. :D

Joe Gold

For the word "perejil", the closest I could explain for someone from Poland, is to pronounce as if it were "perechil" (or "perehil"). Just remember that the stress is on the i.

juchu!

il y a également un mot dur à prononcer en espagnol (pour les non hispanisants) : c'est
"Guadalajara y Guadalquivir"... c'est horrible à prononcer!!!

Gigano

In my country it is quite difficult to say this verse:
De postkoetskoetsier poetst zijn postkoets met postkoetspoets.
The mailcarriegecourier waxes his carriege with mailcarriegewaxe.

And so is "hottentottententententoonstelling" or "vliegtuiglandingsbaanlampjesverkoopkraampje".

For foreign people, especially Germans can't say a city's name correctly:
's-Hertogenbosch sertochenbos (in the second world war, the Dutch asked to pronounce this word to check if that certain person was a German).

Also a very old sentence to exercise Dutch pronunciation:

De kat krabt de krullen van de trap.
The cat scratches the curls of the stairs.

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alice

Really? Are these only two words?!?! I can hear that in Polish there are long words. But it's a record for me. Imposible to remember, imposible even to read

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Gigano

There are a lot more, but these are the only ones I could think of at the moment. Do you want a longer one? Here it is:

medischwetenschapcentrabijeenkomstenregelings-communicatiesysteembeheerder.

(beat that!)

The longest word in English according to statistics:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
(a lung disease)
The longest name of a place (in Wales):
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch

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alice

yyy, thanks it is good

Oh, If anyone could read it.. I haven't any idea even how to start..

Not the worst I think.

Hum.. my new goal I think.. I go there as soon as possible : ppp

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