This is an incredible tool. I would love this for French.
Well you're in luck, because it supports French too, and dozens of other languages. You can click on the "English" with the little triangle to change the language
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#12This is an incredible tool. I would love this for French.
It does French too. Just click on English and a drop down menu appears.
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#14This is really interesting! Instead of "here's how you are SUPPOSED to pronounce" any given word or phrase, you show how a bunch of native English speakers actually pronounce it. Maybe everyone is wrong, but if your goal is to be understood then you'd be better mimicking what they do than just being technically correct. :) For example, there's a street in the city I live in spelled "Guadalupe". Natives pretty much un…
Yeah I jut looked up some examples from this list https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49813249> starting with 'Frome'.
The first video hit had someone pronouncing it rhyming with 'home' when it's meant to be "Froom".
Ok, so it got 'Ballachulish' from a video specifically about Scottish Gaelic. (As an aside - how is 'Omagh' difficult?)
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#15really good idea. I already use youtube for name pronunciation and this just hones that search better than hoping youtube's search comes through.
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#17Pro tip: Use YouTube to learn the pronunciation of non-English words, too! Hors d'oeuvres: https://youtu.be/o1-ndsRPxbM Châteauneuf-du-Pape: https://youtu.be/3DSgsON3u8E Laphroaig: https://youtu.be/UdE20EFNDUs
This is hurting my ears.
There is something similar for German:
E.g. Zucchini: https://youtu.be/RqPqOTFh-Sc
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#18My shitty polish accent makes me unique though.
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#19This is really interesting! Instead of "here's how you are SUPPOSED to pronounce" any given word or phrase, you show how a bunch of native English speakers actually pronounce it. Maybe everyone is wrong, but if your goal is to be understood then you'd be better mimicking what they do than just being technically correct. :) For example, there's a street in the city I live in spelled "Guadalupe". Natives pretty much un…
That's not an English name. It's the name of a spanish river. Wad is river in Arabic. They pronounce it correctly. It's common that foreign words are adopted and adapted to the host language, but sometimes, specially if they're names, the original pronounciation lingers.
I think that's their point. I think the proper (Spanish) pronunciation is gwah-dah-loo-peh.
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#20Wow, what a fantastic website. Thank you! It's great that it has other languages, as I'm fairly decent in English, but given that it's real examplse, and it highlights the text... brilliant design choice