If it makes you feel better, most Americans can’t pronounce squirrel either.
“Skwerl”
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Ethalis@jlai.lu 4 months agoNo offense intended since I’m fully incapable of pronouncing tons of English words properly (fuck “squirrel” specifically), but as a Frenchman who has lived near Mulhouse for a few years and interacted with a lot of foreign students, what you said probably wasn’t close to being the exact same as that guy
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 4 months ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Shit colored tree rat” is also an acceptable pronunciation.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ignore the letters in English, it helps just as much as ignoring the letters in French.
Squirrel is pronounced like skwir-rel.
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He he he … No. It’s closer to skwurl.
kommerzbert@feddit.de 4 months ago
For all languages I have learned so far ‘squirrel’ is really hard to pronounce for non-native speakers.
English: squirrel
French: écureuil
And the germans kill it with: Eichhörnchen