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Vice President Kamala Harris and pop singer Chappell Roan were among the year's most talked-about people.
副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯和流行歌手查佩尔·罗恩是今年的话题人物。
Their names were also among those people said incorrectly, or mispronounced.
她们的名字也在那些人们说错或发错音的人物之列。
In early December, the language-learning company Babbel and The Captioning Group released a list of words that people in the U.S. struggled with the most in 2024.
12月初，语言学习公司Babbel和字幕组织发布了一份2024年美国人最难学的单词名单。
The list also provides a look back at the year's most discussed subjects and people, from pop culture to politics.
这份榜单还回顾了今年最热门的话题和人物，从流行文化到政治。
Esteban Touma is a linguistic and cultural expert at Babbel.
埃斯特班·图玛是Babbel的语言和文化专家。
He said, "It's a nice way to kind of look back into the year and see everything that has happened."
他说：“这种方式可以很好地回顾这一年发生了什么。”
Chappell Roan became famous this year and is nominated for six Grammy awards.
查佩尔·罗恩今年成名，并获得六项格莱美奖提名。
But people still do not know how to say her name correctly.
但人们仍然不知道如何正确读出她的名字。
The list says her name is pronounced CHAP-uhl ROHN, not SHA-pel ROW-an.
名单上说，她的名字发音为Chap-uhl ROHN，而不是SHA-pel ROW-an。
During Harris' campaign for president this year, two of her young relatives spoke at the Democratic National Convention to teach the crowd how to say her first name, pronounced COM-a-la.
在哈里斯今年竞选总统期间，她的两个年轻亲戚在民主党全国代表大会上发言，教人群如何念她的名字，发音为COM-a-la。
Also making the list was U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, whose last name still causes some problems.
美国交通部长皮特·巴蒂吉格也在名单上，他的姓氏还是会让人们感到困惑。
During his 2020 presidential run, his campaign made shirts with the pronunciation "Boot-Edge-Edge" to help.
在他2020年的总统竞选期间，他的竞选团队制作了发音为Boot-Edge-Edge的衬衫来帮助他。
Other words on the list include: — Dutch Kooikerhondje, pronounced COY-ker-HUND-che, is a breed of dog that became known this year.
榜单上的其他单词包括：-荷兰语Kooikerhondje，发音为COY-ker-HUND-che，是今年出名的一种狗。
That is because Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Shohei Ohtani has a Kooikerhondje called Decoy that appeared with him at an opening game.
因为在洛杉矶道奇队的棒球选手大谷昭平的首场比赛中，和他一起出现了一只叫Decoy的Kooikerhondje狗。
— The name of the actress Zendaya is often mispronounced as zen-DIE-uh, but it should be zen-DAY-a.
-女演员赞达亚的名字经常被误读为zen-DIE-uh，其实应该是zen-DAY-a。
— Online fast-fashion business Shein is SHE-in, not SHEEN.
-在线快时尚企业Shein是SHE-in，而不是SHEEN。
— Newly discovered exoplanet Speculoos-3b is pronounced SPEK-yuh-lohss three bee.
-新发现的系外行星Speculoos-3b发音为SPEK-yuh-lohss three bee。
— Phryge, the mascot of the Paris Olympics, is pronounced FREE-je.
-巴黎奥运会吉祥物Phryge的发音是FREE-je。
— Semaglutide, the drug in weight-loss medications Ozempic and Wegovy, is pronounced sem-ah-GLOO-tide, not SEE-mah-gloo-tide.
-减肥药Ozempic和Wegoy中的药物Semaglutide，发音为sem-ah-GLOO-tide，而不是SEE-mah-gloo-tide。
— The last name of Irish actor Barry Keoghan, who starred in "Saltburn," is pronounced key-OH-gin.
-爱尔兰演员巴里·基根的姓氏发音为Key-OH-gin，他曾主演过《Saltburn》。
Nancy Niedzielski is chair of the linguistics department at Rice University in Houston.
Nancy Niedzielski是休斯敦莱斯大学语言学系主任。
She points out that most of the words on the list are not English, so it is not surprising that they would be mispronounced in the U.S.
她指出，榜单上的大多数单词都不是英语，所以它们在美国被读错也就不足为奇了。
The key to pronouncing them correctly, she said, would probably just be hearing them spoken.
她说，正确发音的关键可能就是听别人是怎么念这些单词的。
Touma, a native Spanish speaker, said if you cannot pronounce a word, it is important to just keep trying.
图玛是一位以西班牙语为母语的人，他说，如果你不会发音，重要的是不断尝试。
"One of the problems we have is our mouths are not trained to do those sounds that come from different languages," he said.
他说：“我们有一个问题，我们的嘴巴没有经过训练，无法发出来自不同语言的声音。”
Touma admitted even he struggles with some words, including Harris' first name.
图玛承认，他甚至在读某些单词的时候也很困难，包括哈里斯的名字。
Even though he knows the correct pronunciation, he said, it is hard to get it right in a conversation.
他说，即使他知道正确的发音，也很难在对话中发对。
As Roan's music gained popularity, it was an interesting cultural moment to watch as people learned to pronounce her first and last name, he said.
他说，罗恩的音乐越来越受欢迎，看着人们学习念她的名字和姓氏，这是一个有趣的文化现象。
"The way we create understanding with each other is just trying to do these things," Touma said.
图玛说：“在做这些事情的时候，我们就可以相互理解。”
I’m Jill Robbins.
我是吉尔 · 罗宾斯。
