This leads to many possible spellings for vowel sounds, and many possible pronunciations for letters and letter combinations. If you speak aphonetically consistent languagelike Arabic, German, Korean, or Spanish, you’re used to looking at a word and pretty much knowing how to say it. Unfortu...
The g in Spanish can one of the more difficult letters to pronounce, at least for those who hope to be precise. The same is true for the j, whose sound it sometimes uses. Beginning Spanish students can think of g has having two sounds, although those who want to be exact will find...
Wood Sep-26-2012 2 votes Permalink Report Abuse There are many people, including foreigners and not, who do not understand how English "slides" letters from one syllable to another when forming compound words and when adding suffixes and prefixes. From my studies, I know that in German that...
sometimes his accent got pretty thick and it was hard to understand him since he dropp'd a lot of letters out of words. I'll look on my old laptop when I get back to see if I still hav a link to video made by British TV (I think) quoting an Englishman way back in the 1700s...