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;[p When: 14 Apr 13 19:15

yeah its not that bad only some letters are different spelled but its always the same like W in polish is said as V, J like Y (jerzy - yeshy) we have some unique syllables that arent even in czech , slovakian or russian but overall its not that bad if foreigners can just spell W and J correctly . same me i never learned french but can pronounce the way my gf getting wet immediately

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caramba When: 14 Apr 13 19:51

Apr 14, 2013 -- 6:48PM, ;[p wrote:

its like in your native language phonetic symbols being marked ʃ--- is like shyt

so ʃ = snake sound, makes sense

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caramba When: 14 Apr 13 19:54

;[p • April 14, 2013 7:27 PM CEST
michal prrysięzny - thats tough for foreigner,unspellable, would be like: me-how
like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIQCj9-EmFk&t=1m40s

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;[p When: 14 Apr 13 19:54

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mouse trap When: 14 Apr 13 19:55

"Watching a lot of football helps because you get exposed to all sorts of names and sounds in different languages..."

--> just beware of the commentators and their lookalikes that provide material for this thread

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;[p When: 14 Apr 13 19:56

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AZ91 When: 14 Apr 13 20:15

ʃ means 'integrate' (in mathematics)

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smb360 When: 17 Apr 13 11:44

Another guy tries Matosevic and fails. How hard can it be?

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smb360 When: 22 Apr 13 18:14

Sorana Keer-Stayer

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caramba When: 25 Apr 13 16:09

maybe commentator isn't doing anything wrong and it's only in my head, but when he says Annica Beck it sounds like Ana Quebec to me.

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caramba When: 16 May 13 13:16

Kirilenka.

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 09:05

Agnaysia Redwanska

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AyersRock When: 29 Sep 13 09:14

jock er vich

si mon

is it that hard? YANKS?

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jjjjj When: 29 Sep 13 10:05

dave luddy was hillarious yesterday with lots of WTAnames he obv has never heard of.
highlight was "hercock"

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 10:22

Koenig on Laura

"Laura Robson of Great Brurn"

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caramba When: 29 Sep 13 10:27

Koenig? He's doing the Thai final at the moment.

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 10:41

oh he's equally annoying though but only got the sound on occasionally. i've thought that was Robbie before though, what's his name?

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 10:42

got it on now and still think it's him

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jjjjj When: 29 Sep 13 10:43

dont know his name, but he doesnt sound like koenig at all. and he is highly annoying

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 10:45

may be i've been always bashing Koenig when it was actually this guy

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jjjjj When: 29 Sep 13 10:49

probably. i dont like koenig, but being objective i have to admit he is a decent commentator - if you compare him to the average inapt comm.

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 10:53

it's mainly his intonation(...) which can drive you just about insane

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 10:53

*about

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caramba When: 29 Sep 13 10:58

Sep 29, 2013 -- 10:45AM, nofx wrote:

may be i've been always bashing Koenig when it was actually this guy

Koenig is GOAT commentator, whereas this guy AKA Nishikora man is one of the more annoying ones.
this is robbie koenig, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI40OUyicIk

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nofx When: 29 Sep 13 11:07

sorry Robbie. but it was about speech and mixing them up because i find his annoying too

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caramba When: 02 Oct 13 12:40

Lisitski

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smb360 When: 02 Oct 13 20:09

That's actually not far away, listen to the Polish ones here: http://www.forvo.com/word/sabine_lisicki/

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caramba When: 02 Oct 13 21:00

Oct 2, 2013 -- 8:09PM, smb360 wrote:

That's actually not far away, listen to the Polish ones here: http://www.forvo.com/word/sabine_lisicki/

Hmm, the German on there says it that way, but everytime I've heard her name pronounced on German tv shows the hosts have pronounced it lɪˈzɪki.

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smb360 When: 03 Oct 13 01:17

Surely the Polish way is the correct way; it's a Polish name.

Here are some more Polish words with the 'ck' sound sandwiched by vowels. They all pronounce 'ck' as 'ts'.

http://www.forvo.com/word/tacka/
http://www.forvo.com/word/ubecki/
http://www.forvo.com/word/jab%C5%82onecki/

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;[p When: 03 Oct 13 01:50

we pronouce every single letter not run of letters like in english , "ts" is close to pronunciation of c only

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;[p When: 03 Oct 13 02:03

dont think germans use c like polish therfore german pronunciation should be close to what caramba said but this is polish surname so ahould be pronounced polish way. same like with robbie grabarz english high jumper, its polish and comentators were saying it that way during olimpic

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Nightwatchman When: 03 Oct 13 02:19

Cheap labour....that's what you poles are lol

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smb360 When: 03 Oct 13 02:26

you wish you could be like ;[p

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smb360 When: 03 Oct 13 02:27

Oct 3, 2013 -- 1:50AM, ;[p wrote:

we pronouce every single letter

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smb360 When: 03 Oct 13 02:27

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smb360 When: 03 Oct 13 02:28

was saying that I messed up there as the 'k' is still present, so I should have written 'c' = 'ts' myself

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caramba When: 03 Oct 13 05:45

Youzhny Bouchard

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caramba When: 03 Oct 13 06:35

Suarez Novario

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caramba When: 03 Oct 13 08:52

Agnasia Radwaunska

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caramba When: 03 Oct 13 09:20

Petra Kivoteva