Archive for the ‘Pronunciation’ Category

Top pronunciations in Japanese

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

1. Kawaii
2. arigato gozaimasu
3. hajimemashite
4. itadakimasu
5. Hiroshima
6. Subaru
7. konnichiwa
8. aishiteru
9. doraemon
10. Nigiri-zushi

Top pronunciations in Spanish

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

1. mierda
2. Paella
3. Che Guevara
4. Te quiero
5. gracias
6. Hola
7. Te amo
8. Ibiza
9. Oaxaca
10. México

Pronunciations heard 25 million times

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Do you think Forvo is useful? We hope so :) But here is a nice figure that confims that idea. Do you know how many time have been listened to the pronunciations on Forvo? Well, more than 25 million times. To be exact: 25.307.322.

Top pronunciations in Swedish

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

1. IKEA
2. Lykke Li
3. Mjölner
4. ABBA
5. Sverige
6. Björn
7. Göteborg
8. Järnspikar
9. Jag älskar dig
10. Stellan Skarsgård

Top pronunciations in Russian

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

1. Роман Павлюченко
2. Stolichnaya
3. Mikhail Gorbachev
4. Привет
5. Владимир Владимирович Набоков
6. эрекция
7. здравствуйте
8. Svetlana Kuznetsova
9. Medvedev
10. Dmitri Shostakovich

Top pronunciations in Dutch

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

1. Schiphol
2. Dijkstra
3. Godverdomme
4. Gouda
5. Scheveningen
6. Dirk Kuyt
7. Hoegaarden
8. Hieronymus Bosch
9. Utrecht
10. Piet Mondrian

Top pronunciations in Portuguese

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

1. Ronaldinho
2. João
3. Paulo Coelho
4. Rio de Janeiro
5. Paulo Freire
6. Caipirinha
7. Eu te amo
8. Merda
9. Saudade
10. Ronaldo

Top pronunciations in Italian

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

1. Ermenegildo Zegna
2. Gnocchi
3. Bvlgari
4. Lamborghini
5. Dolce & Gabbana
6. Versace
7. Moschino
8. Salvatore Ferragamo
9. Caprese
10. Bolognese

Stereotypical incomprehensibility

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Have you ever said “it sounds like greek to me“? It´s a common phrase when you don´t understand something. But what does a greek speaker say? and a spanish? There´s sort of a solution in this graph created by language log with many language relations.language relations

Most searched pronunciations

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

For those who like statistics here we go again. This are the 10 most listened pronunciations at Forvo:

1. Fuck
2. ดูหนังฟรี
3. Gwyneth Paltrow
4. Mierda
5. Kimi Räikkönen
6. IKEA
7. Hermès
8. Wikipedia
9. Yves Saint Laurent
10. Carrefour

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