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Friday, April 16, 2010

And you thought English was hard!

Students are always complaining that English is hard to pronounce and why do we have to write words one way and say them another! Why can't English be more like Spanish? Well, English isn't all that bad when you compare it to Icelandic! Here is a video from Youtube showing the correct pronunciation and all the different ways English speaking news-reporters have been pronouncing the name of the glacier where a volcano erupted this week -Eyjafjallajökul. It's proof that English isn't that odd after all.

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