Howjsay.com tells you how to pronounce words, foreign or English

SITE Howjsay.com

DESCRIPTION Helps you pronounce foreign words

TARGET AUDIENCE When your destination doesn't only involve the English language

BOTTOM LINE Just try and stump this database!

Howjsay.com helps you avoid the embarrassment of mispronouncing words when you're in a foreign land.

If only we'd known about this website before we went to Australia for the first time. We would have known how to say "didgeridoo." When discussing travel to Southeast Asia among friends, we would not have mangled the pronunciation of "Angkor Wat."

Just type a word or phrase into Howjsay.com (its dictionary has more than 135,000 entries), and move your mouse over the pink word that pops up (or click "submit"). A voice pronounces it. We tried to stump it with "Rijksmuseum," but, sure enough, the narrator said the word was Dutch and then pronounced the Amsterdam museum's name.

You can learn how to say English words, too, of course.

Howjsay is also available as an iPhone App or a BlackBerry app (both $3.99).

But be warned! You might not want to show it to your kids. Plenty of four-letter words are in the database.

- Los Angeles Times