minus-squareFtumch@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?linkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 day ago“The”. The “th” in “the” is the only sound in English I can think of that doesn’t have a very similar counterpart in Dutch. The closest you could get using just Dutch phonemes would be “zuh” or “duh”. linkfedilink
minus-squareFtumch@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?linkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 day agoWorcestershire linkfedilink
“The”. The “th” in “the” is the only sound in English I can think of that doesn’t have a very similar counterpart in Dutch. The closest you could get using just Dutch phonemes would be “zuh” or “duh”.