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> And many letter combinations contradict one another across different words: think of “through”, “though” and “thought”. I live in Germany now but I'm America
by junon 1y ago
> And many letter combinations contradict one another across different words: think of “through”, “though” and “thought”.
I live in Germany now but I'm American. The poem "dearest creature in creation" is always a fun party trick. German is difficult but it's a good reminder that English is, too.
If you're a non-native English speaker and you can get this poem even 50% correct you're doing really well. Most Americans (and, I'd imagine, other English native speakers) would also struggle with it.
https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.html https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem....
- Digit-Al 1y agoSoooo long; I got bored about halfway through. There was only one word I was not familiar with though.
- usrbinbash 1y agoThe fact it is so long, underlines the magnitude of the problem. English is one of THE WORST languages when it comes to encoding its phonemes in its alphabet. I am familiar with pretty much every word in that poem. Knowing the word isn't the problem. How these words are correctly PRONOUNCED though, that is the actual issue. And even I got tripped up on some of them.