Archive for the ‘Pronunciation’ Category

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

Surprised? What do you think of this list?

Best football players

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Football (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.

Sharing pronunciations

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Many people don´t know that forvo pronunciations are ready to be shared and posted in blogs like this. Follow up these steps:

1. Find the word you want to embed. In this example, the recently passed away designer Yves Saint Laurent

2. Copy the code under “share this pronunciation”. The chosen pronunciation is what we call the “standard” by complex calculations ;) (votes, type of user, etc).

3. Paste it to your post like this…

So that´s it. You could even do some nice compositions. Good luck!