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1 eins (the "ei" is pronounced like the "i" in "Hi".) 2 zwei stvi 3 drei dri 4 vier feer 5 fünf foonf (not quite, but English doesn't have an ü-sound) 6 sechs sex 7 sieben zeeben 8 acht oct (the "ch" is actually just as in the Scottish pronounciation "loch") 9 neun noyn 10 zehn tsayn
The number "eins" is also inflected as the indefinite article, but I will spare you the (potentially involved) grammar lesson.
Also, for those of you who know your way around multiple keyboards, you can add keyboard layouts in CONTROL PANEL -> REGIONAL AND LANGUAGE SETTINGS, "Languages" tab. A button then appears in the system tray showing the currently active language abbreviation; click here to load a different keyboard layout. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
I've lived in more than one Spanish speaking country and to this day I still have difficulty getting people understand me when I say "tres" (3). Usually I hold up three fingers whenever ordering 3 anything...
Approximate pronunciations are all we can do sometime ;)
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I'm going to stick with the x though... Although you are correct, I suspect that difference may be a little fine for most US natives to master right off the bat. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
ALL finnish letters are ALWAYS pronounced. They are always pronounced the same - there are NO exceptions.
Making Finnish a perfect speech synthesis test platform You can't be me, I'm taken
Never mind if it gets more difficult to choose the correct Dutch words, or get the pronunciation just right after a few drinks. The Dutch are almost all bi-lingual and many have learned the basics of German - French - English and the talented few also the classics Greek and Latin. The Dutchies who love their favorite European holiday destination, can often speak fluently Spanish, Italian or Turkic.
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Oui aka @dKos as creve coeur and new creve coeur
[En: yellow, to empty v, to lay v, dough, hedge]
I once read somewhere that during the war the Dutch would ask suspicious persons to pronounce Scheveningen to prove their Dutchness. You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
aap noot mies wim zus Jet Teun vuur Gijs lam Kees bok weide does hok duif schapen hear MP3 (100K)
1 = bat 2 = bi 3 = hiru 4 = lau 5 = bost 6 = sei 7 = zazpi 8 = zortzi 9 = bederatzi 10 = hamar
And of course, the most important word is...
beer = zerbeza or garagardoa (also: kaña = a half-pint glass of beer)
Basque vowels = Spanish vowels; 'z' and 's' are pronounced slightly differently, but they are both kinds of s sounds--'s' is pronounced with a curled back tongue, and 'z' is pronounced with a flat tongue (like 's' in English).
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