Karkaar Academy

30/05/2022

Waxaa macadku bilaabayaa courses ka soo socda:

1) General and Intensive English-Morning 6am-7am
2) Summer Course for Secondary School Students-Morning 8am-12am
3) Summer Course for Secondary School Students-Afternoon 16pm-18pm
4) Summer Course for Secondary School Students-Evening 18pm-19pm

08/04/2022

Summer Course starting in June 2022

30/05/2018

18/04/2018

Common Pronunciation Mistakes in Somalia

15/04/2018

Most Common Pronunciation Mistakes in Somalia

Some words in English are just difficult for us Somalis to pronounce and pronouncing a word correctly usually does help you spell it the right way. Good pronunciation will also help others to understand you better. If you try to speak English and people misunderstand you, blame yourself sometimes because you had not put some effort into looking some words up in the dictionary.

We will try to correct some of these as correctly as we can but we will not cover them at one go as that needs a lot of time and effort. A few words will be covered every week. Here are some of the most mispronounced words in Somalia:

work /wəːk/ is pronounced as wook (or woog) in Somalia. It may sound nice in Somali, but not so much in English. I do not want to hurt your feelings but the correct pronunciation is Weeg/week.
Famous /ˈfeɪməs/is pronounced as faamoos in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is feemas or feymas/feymes.
Hear /hɪə/ is pronounced as heer in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is hiya
Volcano /vɒlˈkeɪnəʊ/ is pronounced as folkaano in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is folkeyno
Tiger /ˈtʌɪɡə/ is pronounced as tiiger in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is taygar
Final /ˈfʌɪn(ə)l/ is pronounced as fiinal in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is Faynal
Google /ˈɡuːɡl/ is pronounced as google in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is guugal
person /ˈpəːs(ə)n/ is pronounced as peerson in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is peesan
Worm /wəːm/ is pronounced as woom in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is weem
Stomach /ˈstʌmək/ is pronounced as stoomaj in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is stoomak
Headache /ˈhɛdeɪk/ is pronounced as heedeej in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is heedheyk. It is painful not to know the sound of a word you want to use!
False /fɔːls/ is pronounced as faalse in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is foolse.
recipe /ˈrɛsɪpi/ is pronounced as recaayb in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is resebii.
Receipt /rɪˈsiːt/ is pronounced as resebti in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is risiit.
Word /wəːd/ is pronounced as wood or even worse as woord in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is w**d.
Car /kɑː/ is pronounced as kaar in Somalia. The correct pronunciation is kaa. simply ignore the “r”.

Did you know that some of our top politicians mispronounce most of these words and we Somalis want them to represent us abroad? No wonder they are regarded as uneducated (and to some extent as imbeciles) by the foreigner profiteers they are dealing with.
In your attempt to speak better English, it is a good piece of advice to look every new word up in a dictionary.