| In each sentence below, two words are incomplete. The two words end in the same three letters, so they look like they should rhyme, but they don’t. See if you can figure out the missing letters in each sentence.
Example: One symptom of bronchitis is a ro___ co___. 1. When God speaks, it is a w___ from the L___. |
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107 Regional Slang Words
John Green of Mental Floss presents words specific to certain regions, such as Indiana’s “pitch-in dinner”, England’s “loo”, and Ireland’s “to rabbit on.”
Enjoy! (genießen!)
Though many Germans can speak English perfectly well, they have trouble pronouncing many words.
Like ‘squirrel.’
In this video, ten Germans try their best to pronounce the name of the fluffy tailed rodent.
“To be fair, most native English speakers can’t say the German word for “squirrel” (eichhörnchen) either.”
David Ley, a drama professor at the University of Alberta in Canada, demonstrates how to speak in a proper British accent in this three-minute video.
Enjoy!
David Ley recently became an Internet sensation for his use of a vibrator to improve vocal range for singers and actors.
Now Ley—who is a drama professor, and voice and dialect coach at the University of Alberta—offers a three-minute tutorial on how to speak with an upper class British accent. With Ley’s help, a hard candy and a little practice, you’ll be directing the sec-retree to the lav-retree in no time.
Here is a link for any guy that feels ambitious after watching this: Italian, Conversational: Learn to Speak and Understand Italian
Prankster Whatever sent his Italian buddy Raffaello onto the streets to test an old adage. Do girls really fall head over heels for a romantic foreign guy?
Apparently, yes. Even when they can’t understand a word he says, many offer their phone numbers.
But how are you going to meet up later if you can’t understand each other…?