English pronunciation is really difficult and sometimes beyond comprehension; take this first example:
Ghoti= fish. Click here if you don´t believe me as for its meaning and here to check its pronunciation
Sometimes making yourself understood, even in relation to the most basic sounds of the English language, can turn out to be a pretty hard task. Watch this clip from the television game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.” This show offers large amounts of money as prizes if you answer correctly a series of multiple-choice questions; in this case, the contestant faces big problems when trying to word his answer: something as simple as saying the first letter of the English alphabet.
And accents…well, that´s another story. Understanding people with, let´s say, a strong (or not so strong) Scottish accent is difficult for most native-English speakers from other English speaking countries -and for some voice-recognition technology in elevators, for that matter…
