miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2011

50 difficult words to pronounce

English Club has asked their Facebook fans, tweeters and chatters to share the English words they find most difficult to pronounce.

They have compiled two lists. By clicking on this link you will be directed to the first batch of words (words 1-25). Here you will be able to listen to Tara Benwell's Canadian accent. She will give you a definition of each word and tell you how the words are pronounced. Follow Tara's advice: Listen, repeat the word, repeat the example sentence.

1. thistle
2. crisps
3. should
4. would
5. clothes
6. order
7. murder
8. air
9. literature
10. language
11. onomatopoeia
12. deterioration
13. little
14. assailant
15. catastrophic
16. alter
17. exclamation
18. crocodile
19. unfortunate
20. six
21. development
22. decision
23. ambulance
24. law
25. low

Click on this link to go to words 26-50 and follow the same procedure as above.

26. gorgeous
27. thoroughly
28. daughter
29. challenge
30. enhance
31. variety
32. influence
33. effect
34. whistle
35. throughout
36. adjective
37. island
38. appliance
39. shrimp
40. refrigerator
41. scissors
42. cough
43. though
44. through
45. praise
46. free
47. trade
48. vocabulary
49. psychologist
50.genuine

You can also check the entry 100 most mispronounced words for Spanish speakers. No pronunciation is available here though, so you will have to rely on the great online pronunciation dictionary howjsay to get the pronunciation of these words right. Another excellent online pronunciation dictionary is forvo.



H/T to Speak English.