The way you say a word is called pronunciation. In French, there are some sounds that are different to English sounds. Even if a word looks the same and means the same thing, the way that you say ...

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Unlike languages like French or Spanish, where there’s an even relationship between word spelling and pronunciation, English can be a bit more difficult with some of the hardest words to pronounce.

And for quite a few of them, it's because the British took a French word and re-pronounced it according to English spelling rules, while Americans preferred a pronunciation that sounded more ...

Words that are difficult for a native French speaker to pronounce may look vastly different from words that a native Mandarin speaker might struggle with. Just because Icelandic looks outlandish ...