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Quo usque tandem-cykel📎
🍉 wimi@jdskog The great vowel shift. 😁 (Jag var noggrann, v och b är bredvid varandra på tangentbordet)
GavrocheExcellent !
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Leif SamuelssonRead this out loud.
The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité
This is different.Even a native English speaker has to find this interesting. English must be a very old language, because how else could one explain the ra...
Raul Portales@jdskog beer / bear / beard / bird has been the bane of my speaking English for years.
Judeau (EatTheRich)@jdskog That was brilliant! I can only imagine the pain people go through learning English as a second language. It's painful enough learning it as a first language.
Shred@Judeau From my own experience: You don't just have to memorize the meaning, but also the pronounciation. The fun stops when you read a new word somewhere, and then don't know how to pronounciate it.
I guess every language has its hardness. In German, you'll have the pain of splitting endless compound words at the right places to get their meaning, and breaking your tongue when trying to say them.
Norman Wehrle@nwehrle I really like German in a sort of love/hate way. I studied it for 5 years in primary and secondary school, and I understand quite a lot when I read it or listen to "formal" (polished) speech, but whenever I try to express myself I just get ethereal lists of prepositions in my mind, and I probably sound like a boxer who has been hit on the head one too many times, stuttering and mumbling...
Maj - 🇨🇦@jdskog the "Noooo" is just so perfect!
Mikie L'Oxymore@jdskog I just gave up having a good prononciation in english long time ago. ^^'
WildEnte@jdskog beautiful. This video requires referencing to the poem "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenité though.
In written form:
https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
And, a shortened version in a nicely spoken but video:
https://youtu.be/1edPxKqiptw
0x10f/kalle/qalle@jdskog
-/ɪə(ɹ)/: ([dfghnry]|cl|s[hmp]?|)ear
-/ɛə(ɹ)/: (b|p|s?w)ear
either, depending on meaning: tear
-/ɪə(ɹ)/: ([dfghnry]|cl|s[hmp]?|)ear
-/ɛə(ɹ)/: (b|p|s?w)ear
either, depending on meaning: tear
pixelpfuscher@jdskog oh là là, c‘est totalement affreux !
Aviva Gary@jdskog lol this is so very real
and as a dyslexic person who went through school in an English speaking place this is EXACTLY how they teach you 😆
Josef Kusek
Chick Enheart@jk @jdskog @sesivany This reminds me mr.Callagher 😅
https://youtube.com/shorts/Qxohw-X4wDM?feature=shared
https://youtube.com/shorts/Qxohw-X4wDM?feature=shared
PhosphenesGlad I grew up speaking English, because I never would have learned it otherwise.
chrissicool ✅@jdskog Reminds me of this little gem: https://youtu.be/zJ69ny57pR0?feature=shared
mbeddedDev@jdskog I love such sketches :D
Ybrisali👏 🎶 It don't come easy...🎵
Das große Lu und das kleine la@jdskog
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Once being a teacher for German as Foreign Language I sometimes struggled with my mother tongue because I couldn't answer students' questions like "Why is it pronounced that way?!" ...
My helpless answer was "Do not ask 'why' when learning a language, please." 🙃🙂
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Once being a teacher for German as Foreign Language I sometimes struggled with my mother tongue because I couldn't answer students' questions like "Why is it pronounced that way?!" ...
My helpless answer was "Do not ask 'why' when learning a language, please." 🙃🙂
Markus Roeder@jdskog die deutsche Sprache ist aber auch genauso grausam, wenn man sie lernt
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Aaron earned an iron urn baltimore accent meme
Wilfried Klaebe@wonka A true Classic! 👍
Hannah@jdskog English is hard, but it can be learned through tough thorough thought, though.
T_X@jdskog regarding beer and pronunciation I always have to think about this song from a Kiwi band :D : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNIOlX-K0s
Deja Voodoo - "Beers"
Florian Heubeck ⌨☕🌩
Jawaka@jdskog I bet that the origins of ear and bear were very different despite the similar spelling. Let me check...
Yep, one comes from middle English - eāre - and the other from old English - bera. Pronunciation and spelling are slippery things.
Jonathan Gerlach