Hard To Pronounce Words

[charahome]

I am originally from Puerto Rico, the hardest word that I still struggle with is "Literally". I cant pronounce the relly sequence. Between rolling the tongue, not rolling, soft r, followed by l's.. Yes, a big discord.

[sillylucy]

Anything with a "larly" ending. Words like "singularly" just make me trip up. It is like my mouth does not want to make those sounds at all.

[pandandesign]

I think "banana" and "umbrella" are very difficult for me to pronounce because I am not able to say them the correct way. Some people have a hard understand me when I try to say them, which I try but still can't get it the right pronunciations. I think it has something to do with using my tongue or something.

[ShannonRiveras]

Thousandths.  I always end up saying "Thouthanths". Not because I have a lisp or anything, but that word just gets me tongue-tied.

[pahagwl]

English is an easy language phonetically. It only has a few words which are difficult to pronounce. The ones which I find difficult to pronounce include, Otolaryngology and entrepreneurship. These are the words which I struggle with sometimes.

[Rosa]

There are a few English words that have me struggling to make the pronunciation but the one that comes to mind now is 'amateur'. Even when I think I have the pronunciation correctly it still sounds a bit awkward.

[Br889]

I had a similar problem bro. I always looked for some usefull tutorial and articles like how to pronounce English words correctly I bought some audio courses on Udemy and I always watched american movies and TVshows.

[宇崎ちゃん]

Anything that makes flip flops between L and R sounds.
Although I'm not a native speaker of any Asian language, living in Japan and speaking Japanese all the time made it almost impossible for me to correctly pronounce things like "Hillary", "salary", etc.
Additionally, some words that use "th" can be difficult, so it always ends up in an "f" sound.

[Corfer05]

On 8/31/2013 at 3:41 PM, tulosai said:

I'm especially interested in the opinions of non-native speakers, but Americans and Brits, feel free to chime in too.  What are some of the hardest English words for you to pronounce?

When I was starting to learn English one of the difficult word was "scheduled" I'm from central America.