Pronuncionary: a blog by forvo, the pronunciation dictionary » Pronunciation http://pronuncionary.com Add, pronounce... and blog Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:23:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Happy 1 million pronunciations! http://pronuncionary.com/2011/05/happy-1-million-pronunciations/ http://pronuncionary.com/2011/05/happy-1-million-pronunciations/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 07:51:29 +0000 Forvo Team http://pronuncionary.com/?p=452 We are celebrating these days our third year online and coinciding with this anniversary we have reached an amazing number of pronunciations: 1,000,000. We have no words to thank you for making this possible but we have a graphic instead :)

Our friend Asier has created this nice infographic where you can see the evolution of Forvo and also the key data in our way.

Let’s go for 2,000,000!

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1. Eyjafjallajökull
2. Julian Assange
3. Sláinte
4. Vuvuzela
5. Gnocchi
6. Justin Bieber
7. Taoiseach
8. Viognier
9. Caipirinha
10. Rooibos

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Update: How to redeem the code.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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