Journaliste multimédia installée aux Etats-Unis, je couvre l'actualité américaine au sens large pour Marianne, L'Humanité Dimanche, Lemonde.fr et quelques autres. Ce blog est le reflet de mes observations sur le terrain. I am a multimedia journalist based in the U.S. I cover the news for French outlets such as Marianne, L'Humanité Dimanche or Lemonde.fr among others. Here you will find my observations and pictures around my reporting.
samedi, janvier 07, 2012
Can you pronounce this?
I came across this fun test for English learners... and English native speakers. This is an exercise on English pronunciation. I challenge you to read this poem without stumbling.
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Read more there.
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