If English wasn’t your first language, maybe if you learned English later in life, were there any words that you had a really hard time learning how to pronounce? Do you think that had to do with the sounds made in your first language?

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    English as my first language and I can’t get that one right either.

    No one can.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        You don’t say the last ‘R’? I’ve always said it ‘woo - stur - sure’ or ‘wi - stur - sure,’ depending on how fast I say it.

        I’m American though.

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          13 hours ago

          That’s because you’re American. That’s how you say it with an American accent. Like think about how Brits say “sure” vs how Americans say “sure”. Americans pronounce the R far more.