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最近、reddit.comサイトで、英語学習者にとって、もっとも発音しにくい英単語をまとめました。君は何語正しく発音できるかな？

squirrel(リス), penguin(ペンギン), sixth（６番目）, rural(いなかの)， choir (教会の聖歌隊), height(高さ), recipe(レシピ)

日本人学生にとっては、特に下記の単語の発音は難しいそうです。発音してみてください: very, zoo
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下記のオンライン辞書からの音声をクリックし、正しい発音を確認してください。

Notes:
paddy 稲田，水田;
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I listened to a professor from Gifu University talk about the environment on Sunday. He said that people in Japan used to eat 300 grams of rice per day, but now they eat only half that much rice. Since 1970, farmers have been growing less rice, so there are fewer paddies. This is bad news for Japan’s frogs because more than half of them live in rice paddies. Although you may not like frogs, they are important to us because they eat insects, and they become food for large birds. This professor said that we can help to save Japan’s environment by eating more rice. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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