whats the easiest word to pronounce in english?
when you are reading, how you know to pronounce a new word?
How do one learn to pronounce new words ?
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my friend says "a" (when its uh), just asking to see what our consensus is lol
so like, wouldnt diphthongs be on some level harder than non diphthong containing words? so like even short words like "I" would be harder than the "a" example from my friend. also, words that follow english's relatively weird usage of the latin alphabet might also be disqualified?
i know that the question of what defines an easy to pronounce word is a huge part and is different for every individual, but tbh all i really care abt are some creative answers and reasonings yall have :)
ones have a certain guide thanks to the alphabet to know how, but mostly the pronunciation are different so
which is the method to know how to pronunciate as a native speaker when you are learning new words?
You don't. It's simply not possible, and the best you can do is guess. This problem affects native speakers as well, and there is no way around it. For instance, my sister used to think "scourge" was pronounced like "courage" with an s on the front.
If you know the word, you can go to http://dictionary.cambridge.org and you write the word and press the US audio symbol and you will hear how to pronounce it. For example, I look to leather: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles/leather But let me say you that English is different to other languages like Spanish, there is not a way to know how to pronounce it only by looking at the word. In Spanish there are rules named "Agudas" "Graves" and "Esdrujulas" that you can look at a word and know where is the accent, but in English you need to know it because of the pronunciation.