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You wouldn't believe it but for many of us non-native english speakers, his pronounciation is obvious and sounding naturally, while the "english'ized" one is fu
by kunley 16y ago
You wouldn't believe it but for many of us non-native english speakers, his pronounciation is obvious and sounding naturally, while the "english'ized" one is funny if not ridiculous.. ;)
- xyzzyz 16y agoThat's true, first time I heard it when applying for an internship, I had hard time to understand what the interviewer is talking about. Now I watch more conference videos.
- Natsu 16y agoYou're right. Once I learned about "Latin vowels" a lot of things fell into place in regards to pronouncing foreign names and places. This goes far outside of just the Latin-derived languages. We use the Latin alphabet, after all. So if the language can be written with this alphabet somehow (even if the locals don't usually use it), there's a pretty good chance that you should assume they use the Latin vowels, too. No guarantees, but I've managed to surprise more than a few people by pronouncing things correctly.
- TillE 16y agoThe difference is that most languages don't reduce so many vowels to schwas. If you just pronounce the vowels, you'll do much better with non-English words. And assume i = ee, a = ah, etc.