Polish pronunciation help? How to say żółw ?
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at
3:30 am
Ok so im just learning Polish and i was wondering the word for turtle so i looked it up and got żółw . As you can understand I have no idea how to pronounce that. Can anyone tell me how to say it?
So its like shuhv ?
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Hi,
You chose an interesting word to pronounce.
Click on the link below and you will hear the right pronunciation.
http://www.ivona.com/?tk=Vpt4YKkk
ż = zh (like in "measure")
ó = u (like in "push")
ł = w (like in "water")
w = v (like in "vase")
Your Polish-English/English-Polish dictionary does have a pronounciation guide before the pages of the vocabulary, doesn’t it? All language dictionaries have those. Better pay closer attention to that.