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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-04-13

"There should be a hotline you can call where you can safely pronounce words you've only ever read out loud for the first time, and they say 'oh sweetie' and kindly explain how it's pronounced." potch (@potch), 2019-04-05

[Note that some dictionary websites do have pronunciation samples (i.e. audio snippets, not just the written-out pronunciation) ... but not all of them are as reliable as one would hope.]

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minoanmiss: Minoan women talking amongst themselves (Ladies Chatting)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 06:49pm on 2019-04-13
As someone who constantly mispronounces words I learned from reading, I could use that. BUT, my sweetie told me something the other day that made me feel better, which was that my doing so demonstrates that I *am* learning by reading. *beams*
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brewsternorth: Electric-blue stylized teapot, captioned "Brewster North". (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] brewsternorth at 07:26pm on 2019-04-13
Very occasionally Wikipedia has been known to have audio snippets for pronunciation purposes - such as "Eyjafjallajökull" - but it's far from consistent.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 02:45am on 2019-04-15
Oh, yes! Ordinary words I *might* be able to find in the right online dictionary, but *names*... I get the vast majority of my news in writing, not through audio, and this can lead to problems sometimes. :-(
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