Comments on: Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:49:58 +0000

This is awesome! You should post a YouTube video so we can listen to the correct pronunciation.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:06:29 +0000

This is great. I was actually just going over words like this with a family member who is homeschooling her daughters. They are going through this kind of thing right now. Fascinating stuff and a little funny. Crazy how complicated the English language is.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:06:18 +0000

This Poem would serve as a good material for those who want to perfect their pronunciation. It also helps for one to read it aloud so they could hear if they said the word out right.

By: Zena Yannuzzi

Zena Yannuzzi — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:27:45 +0000

This is a little eye opening for so called native English speakers. Our pronunciation of these words is purely thoughtless. “And only Scotsmen call it deed!” Good one; as ‘high’ is ‘hee’.

By: sophia

sophia — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:42:26 +0000

its very beautiful and very meaning ful

By: Patrizia Serafini

Patrizia Serafini — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:46:50 +0000

it’s an interesting tool to use , but I’m afraid I need a native speaker reading it for me!!
Is there any recording available?

jb says: Dunno, Patrizia. You could try Google.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:29:48 +0000

This is headed straight to my Linguistic professor’s attention. I have a feeling he’ll get a kick out of it.

jb says: Hi Kim. I hope he does.

By: Outta Me, Onto You

Outta Me, Onto You — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:07:34 +0000

[...] times about whether learning english is more difficult or if spanish is. I believe english is, and this is the poem I was thinking of when I said so! Thanks to John Baker’s blog for publishing [...]