Are there any words that you have/had difficulty pronouncing?

The word that has always seemed quite difficult for me to pronounce is parallelogram.

 

I find 'regularly' a bit awkward to pronounce, takes a few tries before I get it right.

 

In English, I always had problems pronouncing anything with 'th' like in word 'three'. Took a lot of time before I learned it properly. Now it's ok, but still sometimes when I speak English, others may notice it may slow me down a bit when I say these words.
Also I was always confusing the pronounciation of 'tree' an 'three'.

 

Had a bit of a mumbling/stuttering problem when younger, my worst were specialty, especially, specifically, and psychopath.

 

I have some trouble with the word "acts". It just feels wrong when I'm saying it

 

I'm having problems with "literally" and "comfortable".
Both words just sound so strange when I say them, but I can't find out how to say them properly. Everytime when I hear someone say these words, I stop and listen and try to say them too xD

 

LOL same here, still can't say it right after so many tries.

 

Not really anymore. I used to have issues with pronouncing "r" sounds as a child. I would pronounce things like "weally" or "pwonounce"

 

Me too! It didn't last too long into school age, but it lasted long enough for me to be made fun of for it

Now I pride myself on my enunciation, but I still seem to have a little problem with the past tense ending -ed followed by the word "it". In a phrase like "edited it" I might add an extra syllable so it becomes "editeded it". I don't even notice I'm doing it.

 

I've always been a bit of a mumbler, and although I've started enunciating more and speaking more clearly, "particularly" can still catch me off guard.

 

I still have issues with the "r" sound. Normally if it follows another consonant like "Cr" or "Tr"

 

aluminium

 

I used to work in a call center for a pharmaceutical company, so I had a few doozies on the phone. One of the worst was Isavuconazonium Sulfate.

 

Oh yes. I often cannot remember what those words are when people ask though.

This time I do remember one. I have no clue how to pronounce cucumber? I always say "cute-cumber". I hate it. I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to this word.

 

In English: My own name :lol:. Whenever I pronounce my name, Paul, it sometimes sounds a lot like Cole; I sometimes pronounce "night," as "naiht;" I tend to drop the "g" sometimes (e.g. evenin' ma'am); probably as "probly;" "granted" as "granite;" I have trouble with "wash" words. I sometimes add a soft "r" and pronounce it as WArSHING machine.

In Spanish, I CANNOT "roll my 'r's,'" so I either have to make the double r sound as a very "soft" r. I speak very fluent Spanish, but it really breaks down the conversation when there is a word like tierra. I often am told I have a South American accent when speaking in Spanish, and I think it's because of how I have to make my Spanish sound to avoid pronouncing words in a way that's impossible for me.

I did stutter a bit growing up and had a year where I was seen by a speech pathologist at school.

 

I still struggle when it comes to pronouncing the word penguin. Sometimes I get it right and sometimes I don't.

 

Every god damn word in Swedish!!!! :/

More than half of the vowels in this forsaken language don't exist in my native language so I often struggle with words that differ by a single vowel. Many of them I just cannot pronounce in a way that would make them close to how they're supposed to be pronounced by a native speaker. For example I pronounce ber (ask, request) and bär (berry, carry/wear) almost the same. I sometimes feel sad for the wretched souls that have to parse my shitty "Swedish".

From the consonants, I cannot pronounce the "r" sounds of which there are several. The ng cluster is common in the middle of some words, for example pengar (money), but I just cannot say it, so most of the time I pronounce it as a slightly distorted n. LJ in my native language is pronounced as one sound but in Swedish it is separated into two sounds, L and J (j is pronounced like yolo and not japan). They also have the weird sj-sound which sounds like light breeze but I just pronounce it the same way as h (like in hokey), but they also have the h sound.

 

"Homogenization" is one word I can never get right, and for some reason I never stress it the right way either, but for the record I'm not a native speaker.
Oh, and every word in Dutch that has the "sch" cluster. I used to think that the harsh sound written as the letter "g" would get me, but nope.

 

Just because of my accent, I find it insanely difficult to pronounce the word "mountain" the way it's supposed to be pronounced. I actually also have a hard time pronouncing "Vermont" the way non-Vermonters do.

 

There are many. I had years of speech therapy as a kid. I can't say it helped a lot. As an adult I learned what I was doing wrong for some of them.

Speaking of pronunciation, maybe this should be a new thread but, how do you pronounce some of those other pronouns. Ze, zir zem, i can guess but what about Hir? I want to say it like "her". I don't personally know anyine that uses these. I have a friend who uses they/their, but isn't bothered by she/her.