How to pronounce "Vlog"

[Nanning]

A while back, China's Weibo users hotly discussed the pronunciation of "vlog" on this twitter-like social media. They offered a variety of pronunciations with Chinese characteristics.

Later I found in Oxford dictionary that this buzz word is read as [vlog]. Technically it is fine, but in real life, such a combination of v and l is hard to speak and there seems to be no such words beginning with vl, right?

So for convenience, I think it should be read as [Vi:log]. What do you say? I like to hear the opinion of native speakers of English.

[TheQueen]

Hi there!
Nope! It's pronounced like it is spelled: vlog. Native speakers have no problem pronouncing this combo. Consonant clusters like this can be hard for non-native speakers to pronounce though! The trick with combos like this is to get the mouth ready to pronounce both sounds together. So I get my lips into the V position and my tongue into the L position before I even begin, so that I can say them almost at the same time.

Hope that answers your question!