Tag five

Dec 30, 2018

Can you really count to five?

I’m quite sure that even people who are not very confident about their English in general would not hesitate to claim that they can of course count to five. However, if you take pronunciation into consideration, this is not be true for many of them. (This post was inspired by an announcement I recently heard

Jun 21, 2014

How to pronounce v and f in English

By Martin in Pronunciation, TV English Tag 5 gum, english, every, f, few, five, german, give, have, life, live, pronunciation, rightguard, rule, serve, surf, v, view

Every time I take the bus in Munich, I hear the number five (as in U5, the underground line I take) being pronounced incorrectly, namely as [faɪf] instead of [faɪv]. You can hear the correct pronunciation here. This common mistake among German speakers is also often made in the case of live; live is correctly pronounced as