Thursday, October 18, 2012

English pronunciation for native dutch speakers

A long time a go, german was the language of technology and science. Even before that it was latin. Today it is english. Where I live, everybody speaks a bit of english, and some courses and presentations are made in english, even if the majority of the audience is flemish. Problem is, there are some words that many people pronounce incorrectly all the time. Very bad. Your audience will have a hard time understanding you and you make a fool of yourself. Here is a short list of the most annoying mispronounced words. Some of these words have an audio file in the Wiktionary, but for some, you need to rely on phonetic writing. So please, please, pretty please: don't mispronounce these words any more. If you're not sure about other words, look them up.

1 comment:

salamandreta said...

wow that's funny! even if you live closer to UK you wrote the US pronunciation :) hehehe

also I realize that I always mispronounced integer and finite :( the 'fi' of finite remembers me to financial and I'd always pronounced like fifty :S