Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Beijing Pronunciation

I just read an article online talking about how the wonderful announcers on US television are having difficulty pronouncing the name of the city where the Olympics are being held. Personally I thought it was pretty obvious and easy, but apparently it's not. Here's a video of how to pronounce the name.

1 comment:

Sarah said...

Very funny.

I read an article that was dissing on Americans for using the "French" sounding [zh]. It said that it was weird that Americans use that since it's not even in our language.

I wanted to comment and ask the writer if he'd ever said the word "pleasure" before. If so, how did he say it? I use a [zh].

But in the end, I didn't comment. I figured it wasn't worth my time to write a note on someone's site that I didn't even know.