I feel honored to know that you included Sindhi language in your video as it's my mother tongue. Meherbani awanh ji ta awanh Sindhi khe unji ehmiyat dini 🇵🇰😊
A large swathe of the sounds exist in various dialects of different languages. I wonder how many natural sounds modernist scholars working to make up some standard tones have eliminated. The modern sovereign state is an artificial barrier to human solidarity and harmony.
I'm Russian and used to have lisp when i was a kid and pronounced "s" like "th". Good to know that it helped later to learn English. My classmates were struggling with "th" but not me.
That definitely became a brag later in life! Meanwhile I’m a native English speaker but when I was younger I used to be terrible at pronouncing numerous sounds, especially the “th” sound (I don’t remember what other sounds but I do remember that I had to do speech exercises to kind of correct my pronunciation so I’m assuming I struggled at more than just the “th” sound). It wasn’t very helpful especially considering the fact that my name has that sound in it. Anyway the point is this comment brought back memories of me explaining to people that I couldn’t pronounce the “th” sound when introducing myself. Also sorry for this comment being so long
@@sampanda407 I couldn't say alleluja (Polish eq. of hallelujah) for the life of me. Every other damn word, no matter how difficult - I could pronounce, includking a tongue twister: Konstantynopolitańczykiewiczówna - I was nailing it every time, but not that damn alleluja. I rponounced it as: ayeyuja XD It was a short lived issue, but still. I guess everybody had some issues with pronouncing words in their native languages but they simply don't remember. Also, I am an English teacher and one of the first things I teach is... pronunciation of th :D
I agree. I've tried to explain to people how to pronounce the German r in e.g. "hart" and that it's different from r following a consonant as in e.g. "treffen". The latter seems to be a lot easier as it has an actual sound whereas the r in "hart", "stark", "fahren" etc. is quite elusive.
@@YuliaHadassahK doesn't it almost prolong the vowel before it? In treffen this is more the back tongue r. Can't describe these, I can only pronounce them :P
I’ve taught scores of Japanese people to pronounce “6th“ over the years, and there’s no process more guaranteed to produce tears of joy. It can be done folks!
Just curious, which version of 6th? The English one (where the "x" is rendered as a simple "k" instead of "ks") is quite a bit easier than the other versions where the entire "ksth" string is retained.
@@tbirdparis - What do you mean by "[t]he English one (where the "x" is rendered as a simple "k" instead of 'ks')"? Are you saying that in England people pronounce the word _sixth_ as /sɪkθ/ rather than /sɪksθ/? I'm from the US, and I've certainly never heard anyone pronounce the word that way.
as Polish, id like to correct some things: 1. first phrase is a tongue twister, hard even for poles. 2. if u say prosię instead of proszę, everyone will understand you, we rather use word świnia to call a pig, prosię is a small pig. 3.the last phrase is also a tongue twister, but i never heard that before
I’ve studied Spanish, Arabic, Esperanto, Chinese, and Portuguese, and the only one i’ve ever struggled with at all in terms of pronunciation, or ever received any negative feedback from native speakers in, is Arabic. Pronunciation has always been my best skill in language, and even in languages i haven’t studied i’ve been able to impress native speakers by my imitation skill. But Arabic has been a totally different, humbling experience..
As an Arab, I can confidently say that it’s almost impossible to sound like a native if you are not native. Our language is just too hard phonetically. And we Arabs can imitate most sounds of other languages easily, even if it doesn’t exist in our language. Our throats and tongues are already well trained. For example in this video the only sound I genuinely couldn’t imitate was the Czech R.
@@Ahmed-pf3lgsorry to say that but even Arabic speakers can struggle with the pronunciation of other languages. I am always skeptical of general statements like these.
@@annettg1202 I don't have this impression. Tell me any Arabic native speaker who sounds like a native in all languages as he claims. I have come across languages with far more difficult sounds anyway
For Russian the emphasis (ударение) is the most difficult part of the language. In Polish on every penultimate syllable. In Russian very irregular and unpredictable.
@@alfonsmelenhorst9672 yes, the "shifting" accent, my nightmare, when I was learning Russian XD Polish has predominantly stable accent on the second to last syllable in words. If the word has only two syllables the accent is on the first one, obviously. Not talking about dialectal varieties, of course, but standard version of Polish.
"Ř" is really crazy... so Poles got rid of it a couple of centuries ago and replaced it with an ordinary Ż (but they continue writing it as "rz"). By the way, Ř in Czech often becomes voiceless, typically after another voiceless consonant.
That's why in Polish there is one sound that can be spelled as "ż" or as "rz", depending on word's etymology. A real struggle for Polish kids at school.
I'm a learner of Polish. For some strange reasons, I didn't struggle much when I started learning this sound, despite it also doesn't exist in my mother tongue, Thai. Probably thanks to my teacher and my Polish friends.
Georgian sounds like it was seriously taken from prehistoric times and don't mean it in a bad way - when I hear linguists talking about Proto-Indo-European, I think of Georgian for some reason, it just feels like a time machine. Greetings!
I'm from England and have always pronounced the "th" sound just as a regular "f" sound, it's how i naturally grew up and learned it, for my whole life no one has ever mentioned or questioned it either
You're my hero. I'm a Russian and TH was the most fucked thing I ever struggled with in my school days. We dont have that shht in Russian, and no articles either))
TBH I think the only people who are bothered by pronunciation of "th" are English teachers - I've been in many different parts of UK yet almost all of them had different pronunciation of "th" and even me, nonnative speaker, it was easy to pick up, so the differences have to be huuuuge.
The Tlingit language uses the "ɬ" sound like Navajo. Actually, this sounds is quite common in the native American languages of the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska. Tlingit has an ejective form of ɬ, as well as combinations of it. For example dl, tl, tl'. The language has no L or R sound that is in nearly all languages. It also has a near full set of ejectives, including the back part of the mouth. It is likely to contain sounds in no other language.
@@LangXplorer Thanks for having an interest in the Tlingit language! Certainly the phonology and verb system is the most intimidating aspect. It is a very beautiful and unique language. The ɬ is one of my favorite sounds, so it is cool to hear it is on the Caucasus languages. It is a part of the world I'm interested in. I found it quite interesting that Georgian phonology had some similar features. The ejective consonants seem to be most common in mountainous regions.
I also immediately thought of Tlingit! Glad to see it in the comments. I think the -tl sound in the Nahuatl language has a similar tongue position too (and it's in the same language family as Navajo!)
I would have thought Tlingit would have easily made this list. There is even a book called "Sneaky Sounds" that is meant to help with the difficult pronunciation.
I guessed Upper Tanana instead of Navajo or Tlingit because that has the sound too. Although I guess it makes sense since all three languages are grouped in the Athabaskan/Na-Dene language family.
Ejectives in Georgian are difficult. But strangely enough, some ejective pronunciation of certain consonants has been creeping its way into many English dialects relatively recently. People are increasingly making their "k" sounds ejective, with quite a distinct click to it, when trying to make emphasis.
My father unknowingly makes ejective consonants relatively often in his speech at the end of words, especially at the end of sentences. He makes an ejective k, t, and p (and probably more) pretty often.
So for me as a German the ejectives like k', t' or ts' are not that difficult. With this q', I'm not sure if it would be pronounced as the "qaf" in Arabic or only with a glottal stop. And the kh is the most difficult so I can't pronounce
What about Russian? The famous "Ы" sound (it exists also in Polish and Romanian, but not in the same exact form), hard and soft consonant pairs for almost all consonants (and always making minimal pairs!), dark L before vowels, strong vowel reduction (especially of "O"), assimilations of consonants, unpredictable stress patterns (unlike Polish or Czech), even pairs of words with the same exact orthography, but different stress...
for me hardest part in Russian is the intonation, you ve to learn for each word, in Polish is always second last syllable, whereas Czech always first: btw medieval Polish was like Czech!
Most people get it wrong when learning foreign sounds. If you can’t hear the sound, you won’t be able to make it. So the first stage is to listen to the language, and gradually you will start to build a representation of it in your brain. Once you have that, you can then start to make it yourself. For some sounds, such as both ch sounds in German, and the ll in Welsh, you might need some help from a native speaker - on RU-vid say - explaining the mechanics. And it often takes time, because you’re training your muscle memory. In other words, your tongue and mouth muscles are having to learn new movements, not unlike learning to ride a bike. In fact, an accent comes slowly, as your hearing and muscle memory improve. Sometimes you can’t make a sound until you get the timing and intonation correct. Even if your accent stinks, keep at it, keep working, you will get there. Oh, and native speakers are often not good teachers, they can be the worst, because it’s natural for them.
I've been studying Georgian (used to live there a couple of years ago and will be moving back next month! 🇬🇪) and absolutely love the language. It's so beautiful and rich. I don't have too much trouble with the sounds except for that dreaded ყ sound. I can use it with an "a" vowel afterwards, but definitely struggle with following it with an "i" vowel. Oh well, just gotta practice and practice! ❤
As a Georgian learner I can assure you the pronunciation is the easiest part… if you think pronouncing ყ is difficult, wait until you see the verb system 🤣
3:54 Ewe is considered on of the most difficult languages in Ghana. It doesn't just do that weird thing to the 'f' sound, it does it to 'd', 'v' and 'p' as well. It gives the language a characteristic sound as if the speaker's mouth is filled with food.
Hey Ollie, Japanese is definitely one the hardest languages to learn (for English speakers), but the one thing that isn’t that hard is the pronunciation
What makes it difficult for English speakers isn’t exactly the pronunciation, but more so because of the three writing system: Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji. Similarily, both English and Japanese use intonation depending on the pitch accent
The intervocalic T and D in American English in words like better and header is quite a rare sound and difficult to articulate for non-native speakers. I can even tell in movies that it's a British actor playing an American character when he or she sometimes let slip a not so quite genuine rendition of those sounds.
You're talking about the voiced dental/alveolar tap, right? I thought it was a pretty common sound in a lot of languages. I know Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and some other languages use it.
@@katelinakeene7578 It's not exactly the same. The tap is ever more slight and with more aspiration in the American version. But yeah, I get what you mean, it does sound quite similar to the r in some variants of Spanish as well as Japanese, Korean and most dialects of Turkish.
@@elimalinsky7069 That tap sound or something very close, I believe can also be found in many European languages, namely Portuguese, Italian, French, German...
I say "Sixth" properly. 😁 Icelandic and I think Faroese also have the "Thorn" and "Eth" sounds, as well as that "tl"/"ll" sound in Navajo and Welsh (Tlingit has it too). That's one of the nice things about Finnish; the pronunciation is very straightforward. It's the case system and consonant gradation that will get you.
I'd like to say, that Czech consonant {ř} is mostly confused with polish dyphtong {rz}. In Czech {ř} makes sound like a [rʒ] while in Polish {rz} makes just [ʒ]. Recently in Polish existed a dyphtong {rż} that makes the Czech {ř} sound but it exactly has evolved to {rz}. Thete is also a letter {ż}, that also makes the sound [ʒ]. In Polish we have also a letter {ł} that stands for the sound [ŭ] or [w]. Polish is not a language, it's a mind state. And I say it while I'm actually a Pole.
I looooove polish! Am learning polish at the moment "So-che-vi-tsa kowo mee-ele mwy" ;) And "vwo-swa-vek" I don't find pronun hard til i hit words like prszeprasam with 4 or 5 consonants in a row haha
Hungarian is incredibly complicated when it comes to grammar and complexity. But the pronuntcation of the individual sounds itself isnt that difficult or unique compared to other languages in Central Europe.
The Sicilian Language - and yes, it is a language, not a dialect of Italian, has roughly 9 sounds that are not found in Italian. One of the most difficult is DD as in the word “beddu” (beautiful). Even children of Sicilian immigrants have a hard time with it. It is basically like the D in English “good” but with a longer “stop”. This is extremely difficult for non-natives when it is an initial sound as in “ddà” - “there”. Then there is the R. Similar to the Czech R, the TR, which has variations within it, the STR and the DR, similar but not quite like the DR of English “shrug” and “drug”.
This was a fun video! As a kid, I may or may not have been the bored kid in the classroom that would make all kinds of noises with my mouth…and never got caught🤣I thoroughly enjoyed attempting to make all those sounds!
Olly, I just returned, and this time around I learned via Wikipedia that Nexalk is also known by the name Bella Coola, and is on Canada's Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A few weeks ago, I saw this word on a video here, and was so intrigued, I called the tribal office, and learned the following: Ka:’yu:’K’t’h’/Che:K’tles7et’h’ = kah-you-kuh-CHECK-ul-seth, which is also on Vancouver Island.
First of all, there is a missing letter in this sentence in 9:47: "Soczewica, koło, miele, młyn" [Lentils, near or wheel, grinds, mill] Second: It is a real pity that most linguists never spoke about minority languages. Even when my native is Silesian I would like to share some news about Kashubian. It is a West Lechitic language that sounds awesome, but is hard to speak [Phonologic is more unique compared to other languages from this group]. Here is a sample: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NAYpp73_qG4.html Pozdrŏwiōm! Chōwcie siã!
I didn't expect our language, Japanese, to show up on this list. It's so easy to pronounce, including the "f" sound, which may be more of an "h" sound at times.
Americans have a strange kink with claiming that Japanese is difficult. I've been learning English for 25 years and Japanese for only 15 years, yet I sound completely natural in Japanese and people can't really tell on a phone while I gave up on attempting to sound natural in English - it's just too hard and messy, it feels like the sounds are endless and every word needs a separate pronounceation training, which is just too much
Actually to replicate Japanese accent is pretty easy, much easier than English or Russian with their random stress and up and down intonation and schwa sounds instead of clear vowels.
the [ ř ] IS a sound you can find in spanish. it's mostly known as "assibilated r" and tend to occur when people with a Andean dialect pronounce word with s and r close together. Well some r at the end of a syllable sometimes turn into a ř, kinda randomly too.
Danish actually has four standard ways to pronounce d: hard (often in the start of a syllable, such as in "dansk", "Danmark"), soft (as demonstrated on the video, and which derives from an ð, so actually a variant of the th-sound found in English words like "leather"), silent (in front of an s or t as in "spids" or in "mareridt", or occasionally at the end of a word/syllable in some dialects, such as "mord" in Jutlandic) and as an epiglottal stop (often after a konsonant and at the end of a word as in "and" or "ild"). In some Jutlandic dialects, the soft d kan take on the character of a Danish j (similar to y in English) and on the island of Fyn it is often missed out completely. So yeah, we actually have lots of ways to pronounce d.
I was learning Japanese before i quit but learning that fu sound as super easy. the moment they said the sound is between a h and a f i mate the correct sound quickly and accurately first try.
The trick is listening. Listen to regular A then Ayn repeatedly until you hear the difference. I did the same with B and P until I managed to do it lol
I have some advice for you, and I am of Arab origin, and I am happy to help you with the pronunciation of “ayn” in The Arabic language is that the letter “Ayn” comes out of the muscles that are used for vomiting, that is, from the stomach, if you notice that
It seems very difficult for native English speakers to pronounce the nasal sounds of Portuguese, especially the "Ã" like in the words "Pão", "Não", "Então".
I just make a regular English "f" sound when I want to say the syllable "fu" in Japanese. I can make the trilled "r" sound (famously used in Spanish), even at the end of a word, and can do the rounded and nasal vowels of French. The French "r" is the one sound in that language that I really can't do, I wonder how I sound to native speakers when I try to approximate it. Making foreign consonant and vowel sounds as a native English speaker is always a lot of fun. I particularly like the clicks of southern African languages, such as Xhosa (Nelson Mandela's first language).
I knew x!óõ (Taa) would be here, it’s my favourite language, I mean I’m a British 14 year old so I don’t have a chance of speaking it but I think it sounds amazing.I think the term khoisan is a tad outdated because it groups together completely unrelated languages just because of region but im not entirely sure. A Good video though, it’s a language far too few know about.
The “Ы” sound in Russian is pretty hard for foreigners too. Probably the closest thing to it in English can be found in the phrase “go with it” (the second “i” sound)
Hard disagree. It's nothing like it. At least most of the time. English "math" doesn't sound like the Danish "mad" at all for example. I think I've only heard it somewhat like the "th" when somebody says "gider" as in "det gider jeg ikke". To non-natives the soft D really sounds much more like an L. It's like trying to make an L sound without letting your tongue touch the top of your mouth. For context, I'm a Dutch person living in Denmark for about 4 years now.
@@IvoB1987 To make a soft d, you have to place the tongue towards the back side of the top front teeth as you would for a hard English th-sound in for example the word either or wither, but not actually make contact with the teeth by moving it downwards. The same sound as @runerain mentions in the words chosen, but a soft d never comes at the start of a syllable. It is actually also pretty much the same tongue placement many languages use to make an l-sound, so maybe this is the root of your confusion? But to a Dane l and soft d sound nothing like each other ;)
@@CrisFromSvartsot most guides and also most people say to put the tongue to the bottom teeth, not the top. Maybe it depends on the region or something. Danish pronunciation really is a huge pain in the ass
@@IvoB1987 Well, you have two Danes telling you pretty much the same thing. The soft d derives from ð, which is the same as the hard English th-sound, as in "leather". Not the soft one in "math". So go to make that sound, but turn the end of the tongue down at the last minute. And no, Danish pronunciation is not so bad. The Dutch gutterals are harder ;)
As a southern Norwegian I always get tripped up by Danish because it's so close but yet so different and I couldn't quite figure out the missing link. Shame I found this video the day after coming home from Denmark, but hopefully I'll remember the tongue trick for next time
English is my second language and found it not too bad to learn, although I found french and German much easier. I think if you can learn Welsh you can speak anything.
The Welsh town of Machynlleth stumps many English speakers. It uses the throat-clearing CH sound (very common in Klingon I believe) followed quickly by the LL sound and a TH to round off. I can do it!
Hmm like a man which already tried to speak with different people from Poland in Polish I can proof that Polish pronunciation really not so effortless for foreign people who learning this language but I for example already used to speak in this language and also pronounce these different languages and remember only one this skill will come to you eventually. Just continue learning this language
8:22 Actually in arabic we have something called قلقلة qalqala which is emphasising certain sounds and pronouncing them at the back of your throat so we know how to make this sound also
As a danish person who is fluent in english has family in france and thus speaks spme french and is at a conversational level in japanese I see this as a complete win
Turkish has the R with horns. Especially when the R is at the end of a syllable or a word, we make the exact same sound but we still spell it with a regular R. Günler Haftalar Arkadaş İrdele Those r’s are the exact same sound with that one.
It's interesting and weird to see different sounds, and different sounds so difficult to pronounce. I find it more difficult to pronounce the "r" that isn't in English or rolled/trilled. Danish is so difficult in the pronunciation, more so than in French, and with even more silent letters than in French. "Though" in the "th" is how to pronounce the "d" in Spanish. The Czech one of the r with a written accent on top was once ranked the most difficult character in the world to pronounce. Only in English does a spelling bee exist. I am interested in Georgian to learn and I have begun to learn it.
Hehe. 9:40 reminds me of the legend that the Flemish in the war against the French in early 14th Century, had their password be "schild en vriend". Those who had trouble pronouncing it correctly had their head cut off.
Écureil sounds like squirrel in Swedish, ekorre. I noticed that you pronounce the s-sound as the retracted-s, like how the Icelandic, the Finnish, the Spanish, the Greek and the Danish pronounce "s". Some people in China do this, too. In Northeast China, we have two click sounds similar with the Khoisan language in our dialect, often used in rural regions.
@@hiberniancaveman8970 Nowadays there's no difference in pronouncation between Rz and Ż. Until XVII century Rz used to sound exactly like Ř. Now it's a relic in some dialects like Masurian.
I found that the “gy” in Hungarian is a little tricky. The “sps” in English is a tough one (like in “lisps” or “crisps”)… always makes me laugh saying a word with an “sps” ending because it sounds so crazy 😂
I find Russian 'softened' b, m, v, p, t, d... exotic and difficult enough. Or at least Serbian (BCMS) Č/Ć and DŽ/Đ, Greek and North Macedonian DZ... What about Chinese sounds in 'Renmin Ribao'? 😊
I am a Portuguese who has studied 7 languages, although I'm only fluent in 5 of them, and there will, very probably, be an 8th one in my future when I move to Thailand. I effortlessly reproduced all the sounds I saw in your video within 3 or 4 tries. Nevertheless, I gave up on trying some of the sequences of 4, 5, or more chained sounds in some of the languages the speakers displayed. Language is an amazing thing, no matter the sound of it.
I could be wrong, but I believe that's further forward. If I'm not mistaken, the Czech sound is made with the tip of the tongue against the gum ridge, while the Irish sound is made with the blade of the tongue there. There is, of course, some variation among Irish dialects. I'm ready for correction or confirmation.
@@angreagach I'm Czech. You are right with the czech "ř". :-) Btw, there are another difficult sounds for the English speakers in Czech: c, č, ď, h, ch, ň, ř, š, ť and ž. All of the vowels in Czech can be short (a, e, i, o, u, y) and long (á, é, í, ó, ú or ů, ý) and their length not depend on accent, which is valid - for the example - in Russian. Length and accent are in Czech two different and independent categories.
i think i as a swedish person managed to produce some of these sounds! my roommates are probably wondering why i'm doing weird random noises in the middle of the night.
Pero si el Japones es de los mas faciles de pronunciar, claro hay sonidos que no existen en nuestros respectivos idiomas nativos pero aun asi el Japones tiene una pronunciacion muy simple Y no estuvieron los idiomas sudafricanos como el Zulu, Xhosa, Swati o Ndebele que tambien cuentan con clicks, y una gran variedad de consonantes y vocales, o algunos del caucaso como el Abjasio, Checheno, Avar o Circasiano (que con por mucho mas dificiles de pronunciar que el Georgiano y tienen mas sonidos eyectivos) Por experiencia propia intente estudiar varios idiomas del caucaso y puedo confirmar esto, el mas dificil para mi fue el Abjasio por la cantidad de fonemas raros y dificiles que tiene, ademas como el Georgiano o el Circasiano el Abjasio tambien carece de vocales Esto no lo saben muchos, pero otro dificil es el Mazateco, especificamente el dialecto de Xalapa, es tonal, tiene +20 vocales, sonidos eyectivos y sonidos silbados, creo que este tambien podria considerarse como dificil
@@lisamarydew Si, obvio casi nadie tiene tantos clicks como los idiomas khoisan, pero los idiomas sudafricanos que mencione igual son mas dificiles de pronunciar que muchos de los mencionados en la lista
15:58 Navajo and Welsh aren’t the only languages that make that sound I am a native speaker of a Dravidian language in pakistan called Brahui we also have that sound for example the word for milk in brahui is “paał” non native speakers speakers of brahui often pronounce it as ‘paal’ or ‘paalt’ we also have it in words like ‘Teł’ ( scorpion ) ‘meł’ ( Sheep ) ‘Hił’ ( fever ) khał/Xał ( Pain ) tuł ( Sit ) Hał ( grab ) etc I and many others even use it as a interjection for pain as “ił” or “Ał” like an english ouch
my family's accent (comprised of monolingual spanish speakers only) has the czech Ř where normal spanish would have an initial R trill. and so i've always pronounced it like that so my native variety has 3 rhotics. only now I realize no one else I know other than them says it that way.
The adjective part is different in those two cases (pięknie proszę vs piękne prosię - note the lack of i in the second which means different sound). Most native speakers would be clued by this. Unless this is something you also unable to pronounce.
In old Czech it used to be “stblo” (gen. pl. stébl) which was replaced by “stéblo”. I guess it was pronounced as [zdblo] due to regressive voicing assimilation, and this is not that far from Polish “źdźbło” /ʑɟʑbwɔ/. ;-)
In my part of Norway the Navaho and Welch sound is used. The tongue should be pressed to the teeth at one side of the mouth and the lips are closed on that side. The sound comes out at the other side of the half open mouth.
I would say that Hmong has really tough pronunciation. A huge number of Hmong vowel and consonant sounds simply don't exist in English. Combine that with ~8 different tones, and you have a pronunciation nightmare.
Man, I love knowing all about languages (even though I only know 2) and seeing all those different sounds. I didn't have such a hard time getting the pronunciation of Ayin or ř and I say, when you get the hang of it, is not really that difficult, anyone can do it.
Japanese is one of the easiest languages pronunciation wise (the bilabial fricative literally takes seconds to learn). Everything else in Japanese is a nightmare though.
@@marikothecheetah9342 If you can pronounce double consonants in Italian and long vowels in most European languages, they shouldn't be a problem. They may sound intimidating if you overmysticize them.
@@marikothecheetah9342 Pitch accent is something else entirely and it's definitely not a matter of life and death in Japanese unless you want to sound like a native, in which case good luck learning any language.
@@Tukemuth "When dictionaries give pitch accent, they'll usually indicate it with a number. The number tells you the mora where the last high pitch is." - yeah, totally different. And yes, I do want to speak like a native, what's wrong about it"? :/
To think Grandma could have taught me Polish...beyond the correct pronunciation of the name Przbryz. She used to be disgusted when local sportscasters butchered the name of the family who lived around the corner from us. Grandma would say, "it sounds just like it is written!" Anyone who knew them knew it was "Shih-bish." The sportscasters thought it was "Prizz-beez."
I am sorry, but you mispronounced this name. It should be Przybysz, not Przbryz, which is unpronounceable with a four-consonant onset in a closed syllable. Przybysz (meaning newcomer, by the way) is a two-syllable word (przy-bysz), with only one cluster of two consonants, which is much much easier to pronounce.
@@ErinaBee.sMoney Most Americans are unable to hear the initial consonant (especially devoiced one) in such a consonant cluster. To them Pshih and Shih sounds exactly the same. I had this conversation multiple times about the name Krzyżewski when all they hear is Shishefski (also not good with voiced zh sound). I told them they may not be able to hear that the K is there when I say it but I can certainly hear they are not saying it.
Ř is such difficult sound, that even I as 22 y.o. native speaker can't say it correctly. But this defect helps me with being able to reproduce other different sounds..
Most Māori pronounce wh as simple f. Back in the 1960s, old Māori folk were saying they could remember when they were children, and even then the old folk pronounced as f. Comparison with other Polynesian languages indicates that it almost certainly was once a ɸ. There is a section of the western North Island where h is a glottal stop and wh is a glottalised w: I can't distinguish it from an ordinary w. I have heard a very few Māori pronounce it as ɸ - I think mainly from around the Bay of Plenty, but I could be mistaken. Some older New Zealanders (myself included) pronounce the English wh (in "when", "what", etc) as ʍ, which to me is indistinguishable from ɸ. Exception: the wh in "wharf" is pronounced as an ordinary w.
This is a great vid. I looked up Xhosa language ten years ago, or more, when Trevor Noah hosted the daily show (television program in the usa) and then I proceeded to learn how to do those sounds and now I can pronounce literally anything you throw at me. It's not easy though, and I am a savant in some capacities, so, it's wild to me how versatile and variable language is. I grew up making silly sounds, so, it's not surprising to me that I can do that though.
The /ř/ sound is quite extended in South American Spanish dialects and some western Brazilian Portuguese dialects, mainly from Ecuador to Paraguay and northern Argentina and northern Chile. Is an allophone for the /r/ in those dialects. To my northern-Mexican ears, sounds as a retracted s (/s̠/ from northern Spain, Greek or Finnish) but voiced.
