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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 17 of 20 25 April 2015 at 10:44am | IP Logged | |||||
And the English stress Russian names wrongly even more often. In fact, Russian pronunciation rarely goes beyond the former Soviet Union. Edited by Марк on 25 April 2015 at 11:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 18 of 20 25 April 2015 at 10:58am | IP Logged | |||||
I am not sure whether the portion is bigger but it should be comparable. But that the pronunciation is correct only in the former Soviet states is not surprising - that is where Russian was spoken, after all ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4670 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 19 of 20 26 April 2015 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The ugliest pronunciation I've heard
is ižmahčifõni for smartphone (it is the way people in Rio pronounce it) Brazilian people consider Slavic languages ugly but they should pay more attention to the way they speak. In my book, soundwise, Portuguese (either European or Brazilian) sounds more Slavic than Macedonian. Edited by Medulin on 26 April 2015 at 8:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| epictetus Groupie Canada Joined 3884 days ago 54 posts - 87 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 20 of 20 11 May 2015 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Easy examples for place names:
When speaking Spanish, I accidentally pronounced Canada in the English way to my Spanish teacher and another time to a stranger and both corrected me immediately... Canadá (rather than stress on the first 'a'). In Serbian, 'London' has a Serbianised version based on the River Thames for historical reasons. Saying 'London' in English would be both confusing and pretentious (extra pretentious points if you're an American saying it in the British manner!). A third example is that when I'm speaking Spanish quickly (and especially when with someone who speaks both English and Spanish), I'll pronounce English loan-words using Spanish sounds by mistake as in ween-dos instead of windows if talking about which operating system my laptop is running. Before self-correcting, I look for their reaction and sometimes correct myself in English in passing before moving on with the conversation in an attempt to lure them into telling me how they'd say it. Great quiz show clip on Brits and the acceptable pronunciation 'Paris' and 'sauna' among other things (about a minute in). Edited by epictetus on 11 May 2015 at 6:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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