I'd ring that
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You call French inconsistent, I call you ignorant of its rules. They are many, they are complex, they don't make sense (but, surprisingly, languages don't ever make sense, they just are), but are for the most part consistent. Especially compared to English.
In French, "eau" is pronounced like "o". It's dumb. But it's always true. Meanwhile, the "i" in "alive" and "live" are pronounced differently for no good reason.
Most French comment ever made that doesn't include cheese and wine, in that it admits it's basically the exact same as English but must pretend it is superior nonetheless.
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I had the misfortune of pronouncing rapping as raping in front of the class when I was 13
"My favorite rapper is Puff Daddy"
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Well...im my country there actually is
You can call them, they are very nice and for bonus points you can also ask them about any questions you have regarding grammar rules and how you would correctly use them in you specific contextWhich country is this ?
"RindfleischetikettierungsĂźberwachungsaufgabenĂźbertragungsgesetz"-land ?
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The pronunciation guide of a dictionary is pretty fuckin esoteric at this point.
I was educated in the 80s and they still didn't teach us how to pronounce words using the dictionary.
Same with the 80s. My Gramma who was a school teacher in 1933 taught me out of a 100 yr old dictionary. In all the times I've moved, I've managed to hold onto that huge, leather-bound book.
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Cool, my book doesn't have that though!
Better call the hotline then!
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The news department in our national public television has such a service. They have a list of people they can call whenever needed. If e.g. a disaster happens in EiuĂ˝rzbĂźicuzboĂĂŠbeor city, they call a native speaker of that country to learn the correct pronunciation of the place or name for the news.
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Dictionary.com can do that, at least for English words. It's a little robotic but pretty good overall.
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Candelabra
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You call French inconsistent, I call you ignorant of its rules. They are many, they are complex, they don't make sense (but, surprisingly, languages don't ever make sense, they just are), but are for the most part consistent. Especially compared to English.
In French, "eau" is pronounced like "o". It's dumb. But it's always true. Meanwhile, the "i" in "alive" and "live" are pronounced differently for no good reason.
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Just use the Free Dictionary
Press the little buttons on top:
Ahh, simplified and correct.
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Let me drop this on fleek resource: www.forvo.com The Pronunciation Dictionary. Longtime user. Ya just search the word, and get results from people all over the world saying it in their native tongue with country specified. It's great. Hearing Americans say Gouda (a Dutch town famous for the cheese) is like taking a cheese grater to my balls. No, it is not "Goo-dah" of you. Repent!
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Candelabra
Candle ahh brah
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Calliope
Hegemony
Vitiligo
These are a few of my recent ones.
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I'm alexic. I can't even read words right the first time.
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Let me drop this on fleek resource: www.forvo.com The Pronunciation Dictionary. Longtime user. Ya just search the word, and get results from people all over the world saying it in their native tongue with country specified. It's great. Hearing Americans say Gouda (a Dutch town famous for the cheese) is like taking a cheese grater to my balls. No, it is not "Goo-dah" of you. Repent!
Well ... what is it then? If you don't tell me I'm gonna keep pronouncing it with my Minnesotan accent!
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What about words that everybody pronounces wrong, such as ânougatâ? No, itâs not ânew-gitâ, itâs ânew-gahâ. I even heard ânuggetâ from somebody not long ago.
I pronounce "pecan" pea-kahn unless it's a pea-can pie.
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Candelabra
The CandelaBra^tm^ constantly emits a soft glow, so you can find it without turning on the lights.
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Seriously. It's new git. Why the hell have a t if it's silent? And I was taught by candy commercials, the only time we really even hear the word is in reference to candy.
taught
Why the hell have a gh if itâs silent? English is screwy
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I speak spanish and one of the first cultural shocks I had was when I as a kid saw an episode of some sitcom (can't remember) and there where talks of a "spelling bee" a contest to see who could spell correctly, that was so alien to at the time because in spanish there are just a few words that are tricky, because they have some silent H or a P at the beginning but then I started to learn english and it all made sense.
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Let me drop this on fleek resource: www.forvo.com The Pronunciation Dictionary. Longtime user. Ya just search the word, and get results from people all over the world saying it in their native tongue with country specified. It's great. Hearing Americans say Gouda (a Dutch town famous for the cheese) is like taking a cheese grater to my balls. No, it is not "Goo-dah" of you. Repent!
I am American and I said "Gowda".
That right?
