13 Languages with HARDEST Pronunciation

How many of these impossible languages do you know? 👉🏼 https://youtu.be/2rxA-GBYJb0

My mother - a native English speaker - often used to hum the sounds for the phrase "I don't know" rather than say the actual words.

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.

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!

For whatever reason "R" seems to be the hardest sound in every language. Except if you're British then it barely exists.

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..

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

"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.

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.

As a Georgian I was genuinely happy to see Georgian language here

As a Russian I find in Czech more challenging distinction between long vs. short vowels, rather than Ř.

Polish: "you have to say very simillar sounds next to each other" English: hold my beer with "-sth"

Czech's fricated r is how I used to pronounce the trilled r before I learned how to do it properly

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

The "sh" sound problem Japanese Sh=Mandarin X(palatal) Bulgarian Sh=same as English Polish Sz=Russian Ш(retroflex)

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 YouTube 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.