Archive for the ‘Pronunciation’ Category
Pronunciations heard 25 million times
Monday, December 28th, 2009Do 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, 20091. 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, 20091. 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, 20091. 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, 20091. 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, 20091. 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, 2009Have 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.
Most searched pronunciations
Saturday, November 15th, 2008For 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
Surprised? What do you think of this list?
Best football players
Friday, June 20th, 2008Football (soccer) has been a high activity category at forvo. There are more than 500 pronouced words or names related to football, including the best players ever like Zinedine Zidane in french, Pelé in portuguese, Johan Cruyff in dutch or Maradona in spanish. Do you miss someone in this list? Go ahead and add their names to forvo.
