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Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking

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Kidra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I once had a roommate from Chile and he asked what the difference in pronunciation was for “juice” versus “Jews”. I’m still not sure I properly got the difference across…

Also the difference between “to rob” and “to steal” was an interesting thing to think through and then explain.

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samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I can see why he’d have trouble with those two, because Spanish doesn’t have the English “z” sound. They’ll both sound the same using Spanish pronunciation .

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