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Learn English with Easy English: Do you know how to pronounce words such as e.g. "Leicester", "plumber", or "vegetables"? In this episode, we have asked other teams from the Easy Languages Network to pronounce 20 English words non-natives usually can't pronounce.
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Due to teeth problem can't pronounce exactly tk u
I'm sorry to break it to you but I know 'em all well, but the hardest word for foreigners is always 'world'. I learned English quite by myself in 4 months when I was kid, although I was born and still live in Brazil (this may be a joke or not, they don't pay me for my English and don't care). As far as I remember I understand 13 languages. I'm humbly working by myself, but I suppose I don't count cuz I'm a wicked person (I know how to do well many things), this is how I survive in this hectic place rn. I'm trying to release my brand, if you'd like to sponsor, lemme know it, 'cuz it's gonna ship worldwide and possibly be made in the USA, helping animals and people. And hit me up if you do research and post word world spoken by foreigners, I'm curious if it's a worldwide trouble as I taught Japanese and Brazilian, they all get awfully stuck there and never get it right. My friend told me someone said to him my English is mindblowing like a native though, go figure...ppl always think I'm from somewhere in the UK though. I honestly don't know why ppl have so much trouble. I'm planning on learning Korean and Russian in this life haha
It is rural, for the life of it, I can not say rural. I was born in Germany, living for almost 40 years in Australia, I still have an accent. My son was eight when we came over, and some people can pick it up on his w's.
@@christelgrimmer4478 is a と！
@@JapanShopBrazil damn that is so cool 😎
"Colloquially." The Greek woman is cracking up because "collo" means "ass" and "quially" means "another one." It sounds like you're asking for more ass.
5:50
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Thanx, thats so funny.
Sadly, that may very well be where it came from. The royals do it properly. The way common people do it is just "another ass".
@@theTeslaFalcon just searched for 'colloquial etymology',
Turns out it's from the Latin word colloquium meaning to 'speak together' /conversation
Hello Easy English 👋
Hello Easy German! ❤️
Easy English should try pronouncing German words. Hahahaha
@@jiachengloh5443 Oh yeh, we should do this. Will be only Mitch then though. 😂- Isi
I love this crossover 😍
@@noelantezana7328 Thanks 👊
Word - Pronunciation
1:07 Vegetables - 1:36
1:49 Sixth - 2:18
2:43 Leicester - 3:33
3:50 Developed - 4:11
4:23 Colonel - 5:02
5:14 Choir - 5:30
5:44 Colloquially - 6:03
6:30 Massachusetts - 6:42
6:57 Manoeuvrability - 7:26
7:54 Jewellery - 8:10
8:18 Squirrel - 8:33
8:45 Rural - 8:57
9:08 Deteriorate - 9:32
9:44 Gauge - 10:08
10:16 Heir - 10:55
11:03 Hierarchy - 11:21
11:30 Ingenuity - 11:46
11:59 Miniature - 12:15
12:25 Plumber - 12:52
12:59 Quay - 13:35
When I was six my father sent me tomthe store for Worcestershire sauce...after nearly ten minutes he gave up and said just do your best...I went did my best the lady in the shop smiled and knew just what I needed...it was really scary though. Later I lived in Worcester,,Massachusetts so I got plenty of practice.
To be fair, many Americans can't say Massachusetts.
Mass-a-choo-sets
Not Mass-a-too-ses
@@latinaalma1947 ... fun fact ... when the political situation was kind of on the rocks - it was pronounced “ mess of two shits “ ... :)
@@Ataralas Mass-a-choo-setts is just an accent. It's not wrong it's just an unintelligible sound in most American accents.
Thank you!
"This will be a piece of cake, I speak English very well"
Easy English: "Are you sure about that?"
After watching Easy German for so long and struggling still to speak German confidently, it is a guilty pleasure to watch one of the best German crews struggling.
😂
Thank God that my country was colonised by Britain. I know how to pronounce all these words
Ach so! Ich stimmt auch 😅😅
@@barbaratanyanyiwa4652 Fascinating thing to say, haha. I'm not being rude either, it's just very interesting to hear. :)
Die schadenfreude 😉
As a native English speaker "heir" vs "hierarchy" blew my mind a bit, that's simply unfair to anyone learning the language.
Why? I'm Dutch and don't understand why it should be unfair!
@@marie-jacqueline2180 Well I never noticed that we pronounce "heir" (air) and "hier" (hi-er) so differently, if I was just learning English I would be confused
Though, brought, through, thou.
@@baskervillebee6097 thorough throw trough tough lol
@@abifeldman6750
Yes. It's a wonder anyone learns English. It makes no sense whatsoever.
In speaking with a Mexican, he told me a word he has difficulties saying in English, is REFRIGERATOR. So, I told him to pronounce it as FRIDGE and everyone will know what he is talking about.
Amogus
Or ree-frigger-rader as all the cool lazy folk say
It's still "ice box" in some parts of the country, but usage is dying out with the older people.
We call it just "ref" in my country. Lol
@@gunnargetz5980 what is amogus?
Well tried citizens of other nationalities. Many of us brits would fail miserably at trying to learn your languages!
Agree and …I’m born and raised in the USA … two of the words are still hard for me lol
Ikr
Nobel Laureate Tagore , in his Gitanjali , says God's gifts keep pouring into our little hands, ages pass and still God keeps pouring into our hands.
I feel somewhat the same about
about learning English pronunciation.
For the past 60+ years I have been learning the pronunciation of several words of English and there are still many more to learn.
To be honest, this mixing of everyday English words like plumber and vegetable and words like hierarchy is not fair to either the native speakers or the
Or the foreign learners. How about making a video made up of common words with difficult pronunciation for the learners and a video of difficult words for the native speakers?
I'm American and I was today years old when I learned that "Quay" is pronounced "Kee"
I'm still confused about that one. I could start I've heard people say Kay, e.g. Shane MacGoean in a Pogues song
There could hardly be a more thoroughly non-American English word.
Yeah I'm American and I have no idea what that word means, nor did I know how to pronounce it.
@@cherin6703 It's a wharf. It didn't appear in England from France until circa 1700, well after American English was established.
In the US is it is pronounced qway, in places linked to England and Australia it’ s Key.
And yes it’s a wharf or dock.
Key or cay in the US is a small tropical island
I'm not going to lie, some of those words are slightly difficult to pronounce for us english to.😅
I know! That’s why we didn’t take part 😅
@@EasyEnglishVideos I personally say "min'ya'chur" (slightly pronouncing the 2nd i), but I'm a Canadian in the USA. Plenty of people here would not. Maybe I'm just odd and/or wrong? 🤷🏻♂️🤣
Yeah I totally would have pronounced Leicester as lai•chest-er lol
I was fine except for gauge. I thought it was "g-or-j" at first as well
@@Caaaaspeeer Well done, gauge is so deceiving
I'm German and I pronounced about 80% of the words correctly. I'm quite proud of myself 😁😁
I'm not surprised at all, some English words are similar to German
In America we pronounce “miniature” as ‘mini-a-chure’ a few of the ones who mispronunciation by British standards actually nailed it to my ears. Lol
In Seattle we pronounce it like the Brits do...where are you??? honestly if someone said 'mini-a-chure' I would think they are imitating a hillbilly.😜 It must be a east of the Mississippi thing.🤔
@@vsedai In parts of Canada (around Toronto and Ottawa) it's pronounced with the 'a'. Sounds weird and lazy without.
@@MarieAnne. Oh, I was reacting to the comment 'In America.' America is a big place...so is North America.
@@vsedai in fact Ameria is a complete continent
The letter R needs to be in there. Please stop dropping it 🥺
As a native English speaker, and teacher- I’m here to say: English is NOT easy! Native speakers have a hard time with all the odd and inconsistent spellings! 😫
Not to mention acronyms and idioms.
And this language with such an inconsistent and capricious pronunciation is the one that has been imposed on all humanity as a language of international communication.
As a non-English speaker this language actually seems like the language with the easiest pronunciation. There are still words which I have never seen or heard before but most of the time I get the pronunciation right, often because I know other words which follow similar pronunciation rules.
Except for Arkansas - I will probably never be able to remember that this word isn't pronounced like it's written like Arkansas but rather like Arkensaw.
Also have to add that I sometimes find it harder to correctly pronounce words in my own native language, German, than in English.
@@Grey_Warden_Invasion As an English speaker who hardly knows their own, let alone another language, I’ve never heard the work Arkansas
@@giraffeface905 lol it's a state in the US of A
I can barely pronounce "rural" when I'm sober and I'm English
For the longest time i pronounced colonel as col-on-al and English is my first language 😂
Rural squirrels run in Wirral.
🤣🤣
😅
I still laugh about “The Rural Juror” from 30 Rock. lol
Everyone's faces when they pronounce the "th" at the end of "sixth" 😂😂😂. Surprised constipation
Us Englishman usually have this weird sound we do after the 'six' in 'sixth' it is an s sound pronounced by putting your tongue between the upper lip and upper teeth so it sounds very unusual and not representable by any character in the alphabetm
As an Englishman who has lived and worked in many other countries I'd suggest a few words of caution. NEVER try to learn another country's language too well, else you risk people not realising you're foreign, which can get you into big trouble with colloquialisms. We English like to hear your foreign inflections. We're totally used to hearing errors in attempting to speak our language and (unlike some countries) we're totally happy about it. We're just honoured you took the trouble to learn to speak "our" language. Thank you, Rick
"honoured" teeheee
@@stepawayful you have a problem with respecting someone who has taken the trouble to learn some English?
@@rickbear7249 for God's sake lighten up. Good thing you're not the stereotypical uptight Brit... Oh.
Actually it was you I was giggling at. Not the non - English students. And after your comment, the giggle has turned into an outright guffaw! 🤣🤣🤣
@@stepawayful that's okay. He's a Brit so I think bombs flavours of misspellings are humorous.
I'm Scots and speak Portuguese, I was asked by a Portuguese person if I lived there.. Felt chuffed.
As a learner of multiple languages, my compassion for those poor souls on the English journey is endless. I cannot even imagine coming at English from scratch 😳
They have my compassion too, but this highlights why learning language from writing is a bad idea.
I came from scratch and I must say English wasn’t the easiest language to learn, but also not the hardest. The structure of the sentences in English is really different than in other languages I already spoke, so that was really hard at the beginning, but once I got that, English turned out to be quite easy. The structure of the sentences was way different than I was used to but actually also way more simple and logical than I was used to. There is one correct way and not multiple correct ways but also multiple incorrect ways, like in my mother tongue. Pronunciation is easy IMO except for the th sound. The words are a lot like their translation in my mother tongue. Also, you pick up English quite easily from the internet, tv, etcetera. The spelling doesn’t always makes sense but that’s only a problem when I have to read out loud in class and come across a word I don’t know. Guessing how to pronounce it is tricky.
@@Sophie-cm2un I'm trying to learn Spanish and I am SO bad at it. The sentence structure gets me every time.
@@bellajaid and what is you native language? Because spanish structure is easy for me, but the grammar kills me (subjontivo.. whyy? : D ).
@@PropertyOfK English... but I'm not sure I have a good grasp on that either 🤣
The easy greek guy got them all so well
Also Manuel from easy german
I think Dimitris (from easy greek) is an English teacher.
I am impressed with him...
Thanks! 🙏 @@dimitrapl.9615 I trained to become an English teacher but never actually worked as one, I realized that working in language schools teaching children wasn't for me.
@@EasyGreekVideos WORD
@@EasyGreekVideos I thought you were raised bilingually? I saw an episode of Easy Greek where you said your father was Australian. Keep up the good content, you and the Easy Languages team.
I was pleased to see that the German guy with the nearly *perfect* American accent finally got one wrong ;-)
the word: "sixth"
me, a native English speaker: "sixt"
Where are you from? I’m from Midwest USA and I pronounce it with the “-th” at the end.
@@bradsmith2661 Just that they say it incorrectly, I think? Haha
@@Amy-oh8qb Oh, huh! I guess I've never heard a dialect where it's pronounced "sikst". Right on thank you, you learn something new every day! My bad!
That's my advice to learners who struggle with 'th'. Just find the common ways natives avoid it and do what they do. "Sixt" is one I know a lot of natives do.
The hardest tongue twister in English: "The sixth shiek's sixth sheep's sick."
Matteo: "there's so many vowels" - coming from the Italian 😅
I noticed it too and chuckled.
Haha i am italian and I agree with him! Do you think we have many wovels? We very rarely have 3 in a row for sure and also don't like having many consonants in a row. From my pont of view there are many languages out there with a lots of consonants! It's interesting to see my native language from another perspective :)
@@NessunaOmbra Classic example: "l'aiuola". I think for us as native English speakers the reason it seems that way is that in Italian you pronounce all the vowels, whereas even when we have many in a row, it's often one sound.
Yeah it’s a different challenge for us pronouncing gli aerei or pizzaiuolo for example. Knowing how to pronounce it based on simple rules is not the same thing as overcoming the physical challenge.
He sucks
I have been learning English since my childhood and I knew what most of those words meant..but I have no shame in accepting that I don't pronounce a single word of those correctly. 😅😅😅
Thank you Easy English for showing the struggles of my childhood.
-A non-native speaker.
The man from Easy GREEK knew them all!
Cause he’s part Aussie!
True lol
He is half Australian.
That's so cool. I'm going to play it to my students, whose first language is ENGLISH, because they will know less than most of the people on this.
Let us know how it goes please lol
I'm an American and, crap in a hat, I couldn't imagine how difficult English as a second language must be. Such a hodgepodge of rules from donor languages.
Plumber and Lumber
Gauge and Gouge
Daughter and Laughter
To be honest, the only thing that is hard about English is the inconsistent spelling. English grammar is one of the easiest in the world.
If you have the privilege of accessing western media at home, learning English as a second language is not that hard if you are still a child. If you're an adult however, it's much more difficult
Don’t get us started on all the “oughs”! Cough through bough bought fought drought laugh....
Wonderfully stated!
@@gratituderanch9406 There's an old I Love Lucy video on CZcams that demonstrates this very problem. It is histerically funny! Ricky (he's Cuban, remember . . . ) and he's reading a story and all these words come up, just one right after the other. He mispronounces all of them and gets really frustrated. Lucy has to correct him every time. Look it up, it's not long. But vary worth it.
I'm an American and realized I can't say colloquially either and have never in my 67 years had any need or occasion to say it! So foreigners, don't feel bad! English is WIERD!
I was trying to imagine using that word in a sentence.
@@kasnarfburns210 colloquial is like a fancy way of saying "common." Like with regional dialects and sayings, they're the colloquial language of a certain area.
Or, as some would write, WEIRD!
Chris from Finland
I’m from Georgia and I have to agree it is a weird language
And Georgia is in America and I still can’t pronounce some words
Yeah, I took for granted how much memorization goes into how we learn to read with our language borrowing words from so many languages until we got stuck with reading only virtual school for 1st and second grade.
Non-native speakers do seem to struggle with the "th" sound quite a bit. Kudos to anyone who tackles the challenge of learning a new language. 👏
I love how German leady just start german talking
Cari when trying to pronounce Gauge in 9:53 like a real German: GauGe 😂😂 This was amazing!
Yes! Like Geige (violin) in German.
That was a tricky one!!! 😳🤫🙃
As a Southerner in America, am I the only one that just learned Quay is pronounced like Key?😂
As a fellow Southerner in America, I must admit I spent at least half my life mispronouncing that one.
Northeastern American, never heard that word in my life
When I was a child I decided 'determined' was pronounced 'detter-mind'.
I thought misled was mye-zld for years. I read more than I speak/hear. Embarrassing moment!!
@@TK-ij2xi i hate that embarrassment when it’s your own language but you’ve read a word so long a way you like and find out in public that isn’t correct at all 😅😬😕
“Name a more ambitious crossover than Avengers: Endgame”
EasyCrews:
Wow! Big words there 👊
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Ufff... True words
Caesar, wearing a gaudy helmet, could not gauge how much gauze he needed for the wounded, gaunt soldiers, after the battle of Gaul.
(only “gauge” is pronounced differently from the other gau- words!)
I like!👏👏👏👏👏
That's a tough one, though some thought and a thorough run through of the options will see you right.
This sentence is foul!!! For all the right reasons!!!!
The movie "Up" taught me how to pronounce Squirrel-
Nope. Americans (and therefore the dog, Dug) say "skwirl", but the English pronunciation is "skwi-ril".
I am "choite" proud ;-). I got most of them right.
The word "heir" is actually related to french. That's why you don't hear the h.
And the german word for "squirrel" ("Eichhörnchen") happens to be the most difficult german word for french native speakers.
Je suis d'accord. J'ai appris allemand en France et j'ai toujours eu des difficultés avec Eichhörnchen
That was funny. As a Brit, it had never really occurred to me before how ridiculous our pronunciation is.
As an Indian, I was taught the British English since childhood.. I'm so glad to have been able to pronounce most of them correctly except Leicester 😂
Well done Sagarika 👊
And Worcester is "worse-ter" which I wasn't aware till I was in my 40s.
No..most indians pronounce the word vegetable wrong....
@@jollybell5452 yes most do.. But not everyone.. I, personally, belong from the northeast and our pronunciation is usually quite different from the rest
Yeah. I could pronounce them too🤣
Me, a jamaican that speaks English and patwa: "yes this is very informative"
dela vago pronunciation is "patwa" spelling is actually "patois".
Hi guys, I am British, I didnt realise English was so tricky for non native speakers.
Well done every one for having a go. I am learning Spanish and struggle with pronunciation. However It seems Spanish is more straight forward.
Can I just say how much this video made my day?? I watch every single new Easy German, Easy French, Easy Catalan, and Easy Polish video! (As well as having finished all of the now-dormant Easy Portuguese and Easy Welsh haha) Language learning is so stressful sometimes, it's a joy to see that none of us have to be perfect and that we can still enjoy talking together :) Cheers from the US, Easy English!
Ahhh thanks for writing such a nice comment and thanks for your support for Easy Languages 😊
Marissa is amazing 💖
@@EasyFrench 💖 jsuis super fan hahaha
sorry but shouldn't it be none...has? Isn't none a contraction of no one or not one? So, isn't one singular and not plural. "None ... have" sounds wrong to me. Ja oder nein?
@@petravh4711 Hey Petre - I'm a native speaker, so while I can't explain the grammar as well as an English teacher might, it's "we have" and thus "none of us have" since it's first-person plural. In your example "no one" would be the equivalent to third person plural, so like it's "he has" it would be "no one has".
This might not be the easiest explanation (like I said, I'm not a teacher) but my grammar is correct :)
As a native English speaker, I apologise
Forgiven ✝️
It's the Romans'/Germans'/French's/Norse's fault for conquering the British Isles over and over, not yours!
@@ryanparham3051 true. It’s changed our language . I feel English is the easiest language to learn. Ok after Spanish
Thank you 🙏🏻
@@JustanotherLisa Its the easiest cuz everybody knows it, but if u would learn it not in ur childhood it would be much harder than for example the Roman languages
What a splendid idea, kudos to the various Easy team members
The greek quy with the bird painting got everything right 😊 Well done him!
He is half Australian.
Honestly English might be the easiest language to learn. I took classes in school but it just came naturally with tv shows and movies
We have a Leicester near my home town, seems like everyone says it differently, lol! To everyone learning English: We LOVE accents and it's absolutely adorable the way others pronounce things. Honestly, a lot of native English speakers have trouble with these. ❤❤❤
I teach ESL at the moment to a Georgian national. I sent her this video. I’d like to suggest some more for your team:
1) vocabulary
2) regularly
3) frequently
4) decimated
5) violence
6)thought
7) though
8) eighth
9) continuously
10) exhorted
11)Mackinac
12) tenths
11) multiplicity
12) complicity
13) quiet
14) quartz
15)vindictive
How are you doing 😊😊👋👋👋
I live in the US, speaking our version of English, but managed to get all of them right! I somehow managed to pronounce Leicester correctly, since I visited England a couple of years ago and saw how similar names were pronounced. You should have included Worcestershire Sauce in your list. Here in the US, we pronounce every syllable, but I met someone from that town that said the correct pronunciation was wuhster or wooster. :)
Reassuring to realise that speakers of other languages have the same trouble with English as I have when I'm trying to speak Dutch, French or German. I don't feel quite so bad now!😁
No, only french and english have these problem because their orthography is a loose approximation to the real pronunciation.
english is very difficult you just don’t realize how bad it actually is if its your native language... also, americas tendency to also want to spell extra things weird on top of that like kwik kopy
@@gerardsotxoa How about Irish orthography?!
I really love learning about different languages and seeing how other people learn English and their thoughts. I would have never imagined that 'Sixth' would be so hard for many foreign speakers.
That "th" is notorious in most parts of the world just on its own...paired with an "x" it's a real troublemaker...
It's that bloody th with your tongue in between your teeth ...
This made me realise how good my English is! Can't believe these words that are so easy for me are so difficult for someone else.
@@marksandsmith6778 English is not my first language, but I've been taught it since a young age. It was just interesting to see how just like I struggle with French pronunciations there are so many who face issues with English pronunciations. That's all.
that's so sweet of you to say. I am a writer by profession and if you ever need help with the language I can definitely assist! 🇮🇳
@@marksandsmith6778 Hahaha, I absolutely love that video!
@@marksandsmith6778 also I would love to read this!
@@marksandsmith6778 I shall wait!
"Sixth" has always been my arch nemesis.
If you want to cheat and make life easier for yourself, say it quickly like a plural.... ‘Sixs’ with a slightly longer sss on the end 😉 No English person will notice the difference 👍
I speak English natively. The advice I have to my German friend was to just pronounce it like a normal 't'. If you breeze past "sixt" in a sentence no one will notice. I also suggested for situations with t-h-s like 'maths' or 'moths', just pronounce it as an 'f' like "maffs". Swapping f for th is something natives to in some regions so it's not wrong.
I worked as a receptionist years ago, and one day I told an american guest that his room was on the sixth floor. I said "six" cause the "th" after "x" sounds impossible for me 😁. He laughed and made fun of my pronounciation in front of his colleagues. Thank him, now I can pronounce sixth correctly. Though maybe he could be nicer to non-native speaker. I mean, c'mon, six and sixth sound not so different hahaha!
@@monicac5927 Not too mention, how anyone could be confused by six and sixth when you're referring to what floor a room is on.. he knew what you meant, just kind of a jerk. I wonder how many languages he spoke fluently and flawlessly.
edmaluf. Can I help?
Probably the TH gives you more problem than the "six".
The problem is that the tongue is at the back of the teeth at the end of six but needs to get between
the teeth immediately for the "TH".
Try a technique which musicians use with difficult passages, "muscle memory."
Say them separately. Firstly, work on the "TH" bit on its own.
Repeat it over until you've got it somewhere near right. Very slow rhythm at first, then increasing the speed. When satisfied with that, say"SIX TH", also spaced out but in slow rhythm. Then gradually bring them closer together.
But don't do it on the train..They'll think that you are a bit crazy!
Manuel of Easy German always has good pronunciation in English. It’s basically American already.
I was thinking the same. Sounded like a native accent a few times lol.
When he busted out Massachusetts I really did a double take. Like a native.
Many Germans speak really good english. I think it's could be their education system 🤷♂️
@@PigSty1985 FYI, he's lived in the US for about a year.
@@ashleebenedict6523 not only him. Most young and/or educated Germans in general are very good in English and don't have strong German accent (deal with Germans at work in German firm, and German side of family. Not German myself)
Native English speaker... I've never seen the word 'Quay' before, but after looking it up, now I understand why the 'Florida Keys' are called that.
... I looked it up too - 'Key' is from the Spanish 'Cayo' meaning 'island'. 'Quay' is an ancient Brythonic word meaning 'side of'.
@@nicks40 yes and reminds me of French “quai” or in plural quais like quais de Seine. Sides of the Seine in Paris.
Same here! I didn't recognize the word and would've said it like it looks as well.
Not quite… As Nick hints, “quay” is used for waterside restaurants, not islands. (At least in the USA it is.)
I'm not English and I knew that. That's because I live in Manchester - we have Salford Quays here, haha 😉
I have a great respect for the sterling efforts and authenticity of everyone. It is a real boost to see I am not the only one who struggles, especially seeing my Italian, French and Spanish teachers, great fun!
I agree! Many thanks to the INCREDIBLE language teachers at Easy Languages to show us how to enjoy the struggle of learning a new language. Very encouraging! And fun!
💗❤💕 Love! I love how this demonstrated the impact of native language, the value of exposure to different words, and the hard-to-predict "rules" of English. Thank you to everyone who shared their pronunciation and had fun!
Janusz's confidence makes me think he got it right everytime
Try pronouncing "Janusz's"
I am a native english speaker and I didn’t know Quay either.
Makes me think twice before I pronounce it
I think it's a word with limited applications. In the US Midwest I have only ever read it, and thought it was pronounced kay
It's the British spelling of the US "key", when the sense of "wharf" is intended. Probably not much use unless you live by the sea. Then it's more useful, especially if there are localities whose names end in "Quay".
Another native English speaker here and I didn't pronounce "quay" correctly either.
I know they were going for the British pronunciation, but to be fair, “quay” has different pronunciations outside of the UK. “Kee,” “kay” and even “quay.”
As an Native American English Speaker:
Jew-ler-ree
Zarsla, as a native American English speaker you would be wrong.
Nope, that's how I pronounce it. Born and raised here for sixty-three years.
Jewelry (American) = jew-el-ry
My family always pronounced it “Jew-ler-ree” also. I learned in college it’s a typical Willamette Valley (Western Oregon) pronunciation. There are a lot of interesting pronunciations of small town western Oregonians. They just haven’t been studied and documented by linguists as much as other (southern, Appaloosan, etc.) regional accents / dialects have.
American speaker. Same if not just jewl-ry
A great episode - so nice to see all the other language hosts - most entertaining and an excellent reminder to native English speakers of the degree of difficulty in learning English. Congratulations on an informative and fun 'test'.
Thanks for your great words Rod… it’s a language never mastered, applied to both natives and non
The Greek guy is amazingly good!
Some are really hard for me..
He is half Australian.
I like how Manuel basically has an American accent. XD
He spent some time in the US as a student.
he really is good, his relaxed facial/mouth movements look native (and sound that way too)
@@petelobl Much prefer British English to American
@@jeanjacques9980 nobody cares
@@forranach Depends whether you determine that the language spoken in America is grammatically correct English or not?
it’s so touching when they all teamed up to pronounce the words.Idk why but it impressed me very much
i LOVE languages!! 😍 my 1st were Spain spanish & american english. then around the same time (before i was 7) my parents spoke plenty of french & italian with each other at home. now at almost 50, i am on duolingo studying latin, portuguese, hebrew (to read the original Scriptures), irish gaelic, & brushing up on my french & italian 😀 i LOVE it! thank you for this video. it was fun to hear some words that are a bit different between british & american pronunciations 😄
as an american, I want to thank football for teaching me how to pronounce leicester ⚽️💙🦊
🎵 Jamie Vardy’s having a party 🎵
@@EasyEnglishVideos u guys brighton hove albion fans ?
@@justinllamas1 No, but they have a place close to my heart, I'm a Manchester United fan (Mitch) and they have an ex-academy player (Danny Welbeck) so I always look out for him. I've been to watch Whitehawk (smaller local team) though.
@@EasyEnglishVideos ahh I understand. hope man u get new owners soon and inject new life and blood into ur club. the debt / financial situation there is getting ridiculous
The same rule applies to Gloucester.
Easy German brought me here. So nice to see familiar faces try on English. They probably now understand the struggles of even pronouncing my profession in German
You can see that these people are having fun. My first language is English and my French is terrible but I do have fun learning it.
Ooh, you made them hard. Sometimes context can help. Well done team! 👏
"Quay" is taking this native speaker back to the time I told a friend to meet me on Queen's Quay in Toronto and embarrassed myself by saying "kway" 😂 The "kw" sound at the beginning of "Queen's" even makes "kway" feel more natural to say! I think the person who named it did that on purpose 😄
It's great to get an outside perspective on your own language. The pronunciation difficulty isn't usually what surprises me - it's the intonation! Intonation is so natural in your own language, and quite hard to master in another. Props to all the English learners out there putting in the hard work!
As a native English speaker there were one or two words I had trouble with mainly because I rarely use those words. This video also gave me insight into how tricky English can be for non-native speakers.
Manuel is definitely a "ringer". He speaks like a native. I detect more American English than British. Kudos to all of you, nicely done!
That was very enjoyable to watch!
It always makes me so happy to see the Easy Languages family collaborate! (Didn't get quay :( )
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I got them all except for the last one, and I’m a native speaker. I have great respect for anyone who learns English well as non-native speaker..
Yeah - quay is weird... why can’t we spell words phonetically??
@@taylorism7787 I'm a Malaysian where English is taught as a second language, and the reason I got every single pronunciation right was because we were taught British English since we started school 😁
@@EH23831 Because English isn't a phonetic language, but one that is made by the people and not by authority.
I'm English and I got em all wrong cuase I speak like a pleb, good video.
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I take it your accent isn’t the queen’s English ;)
Native English speaker here, and today I learned the word “quay”
You’re not English . Stop lying.
“Sixth” where I live sounds like
“Si-f” with a glottal stop in the middle.
This was such a wonderful video! The pronunciations of "sixth" really made me chuckle!
Thanks Andy!
Thanks for sharing this video is of great importance for a lot of students of the Inglish language.
Many students quit their course because of the details in pronunciation. This is often due to lack of interest on the interest of the teacher, I think.
3:21 when Cari jumped to German😂😂
Good one! Idea for next episode: how to pronounce Irish names
Too difficult, methinks. Pronouncing a name like Caitríona can hardly be done by most, just by looking at the letters of the name. Speaking of pronunciation: Ms. Balfe can do a great English accent as well as an American one. Well, that's what actors and actresses professionally do, I imagine.
What a bunch of good sports! As a native English speaker, I do recognize that it’s a difficult language to master. I’m trying to learn Spanish and the rolled rr sound is not a sound my tongue knows how to make. I sympathize with these folks. The brunette man in the blue shirt really nailed these! Highest marks for him!
Wow, that Greek guy was so good!!! 😊
He is half Australian.
As a native English speaker who actually uses “colloquially” in conversation, I probably only nail it about 50% of the time. 😅
Dude I swear I hate saying it!!!! LOL I avoid it like the plague when I can 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I can relate! I know how to say it but whether my tongue and lips are going to allow me go is another question 😂
I worked phone computer tech support in Silicon Valley with every kind of accent imaginable! The best way to understand new English speakers... and be understood by them... is to help them relax by not rushing, being friendly and complimentary.
@@markzhang2785 aren't you a little desperate??
OMG:
you all are my heros for doing this! I’m taking my TEFL certificate course now and I am just starting to appreciate how difficult english is to learn as a non-native language. bravo to all of you wonderful people! you inspire me to continue studying my non native languages, thank you!
ihr alle seid meine Helden dafür dies video machen! Ich besuche jetzt meinen TEFL-Zertifikatskurs und beginne gerade erst zu verstehen, wie schwer Englisch als “Nicht-Muttersprache” zu lernen ist. Bravo an euch wundervolle Menschen! Sie inspirieren mich, meine “nicht-Muttersprachen” weiter zu studieren, danke!
todos ustedes son mis héroes por hacer esto! Estoy tomando mi curso de certificado TEFL ahora y estoy empezando a entender lo difícil que es aprender inglés como lengua “no-nativa.” Bravo a todos ustedes, gente maravillosa! me inspiras a seguir estudiando mis idiomas “no-nativos,” gracias!
This was so interesting to watch. English is so complicated! Well done. Most of the pronunciations would ( generally) be understood!
‘Rural’ reminds me of the show 30 Rock when Jenna was starring in a film called ‘The Rural Juror’ and nobody could say it properly.
I had the exact same thought!
Or like trying to say, “judicial system” without sounding drunk. Lol
Omg yes 🤣
That was fun to watch! Thank you!
There are sooo many tricky words in English and the fun part is that they don’t have to be very long or have millions of vowels to puzzle you.
Recipe, for instance (re-see-pee). Made a video just last week about such words. English always inspires.
My Canadian friend, who is a speech therapist, had such a strong accent with the list of words below, that I ‘taught’ her how to say them in standard English!
Project (noun), squirrel, thorough, yoghurt and bird.
As a American I thank you for giving a great effort at our difficult language. Good effort 🤙🏻😎🥃
As a 35 y/o native (U.S.) English speaker I've never seen "Quay"; This one even stumped me, and Leicester; England doesn't count. lol j/k
That was a great episode, Mitch. The whole team did a great job :) Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much Tomek, they all did a fantastic job! 😃
These participants are such good sports. Well done all. Your English is way better than I this English lady would ever be able to learn any of your languages.
My mother tongue is German. Except for the last word, I couldn't understand what was so difficult about the words. 🤷🏻♀️ I guess my teachers in school taught me well. 😅
How nice to see so many of you in the same video!!
Non native speaker here. Though I have English as my medium of instruction, most teacher can't pronounce the words very properly. After looking up word after word I'm so happy that my pronunciation has improved so much. I got 15/20 which I think is very good for me. Never knew that the 'b' in plumber is silent. Thank you Easy English for helping me learn.
Good job Shirley! Glad it helped you 😃
My Mexican friend who's first language is Mexican Spanish has a helluva time pronouncing "worrying"
I swear, that Greek lady could pass for Spanish the way she pronounces her English, especially at 4:36.
I thought she was Spanish!
(I'm Spanish speaker).
I don't know if she should learn Spanish or if I should learn Greek...
@@organicmatcha8117 i think I could identify the nationality/native language of pretty much any European by the way they speak English, EXCEPT for Spaniards (Castilian) and Greeks.
To me they always sound alike.
Easy Language crossovers are like Avengers-tier haha...
Kinda proud I got all correct! I knew "quay" from hanging around with some sea-faring people. In German it's (modestly) called "Anlegstelle" (Place to load something at, idk Isi will know better) or Pier.
With Gauge, I made unfortunate mistake of giving a short talk on "GOWJ" Theory during my undergraduate, in front of an audience that didn't hesitate to correct me. Nice one! again!
Glad you enjoyed it! And we’ll done on quay 👊
Everyone did really well honestly ❤️
I'm learning! Thank you Easy English😊
I agree with the comments below that it's great to see the Easy Languages team working together and laughing with each other and at themselves. It's all part of language learning. Excellent. I'll be using this, along with video 49, in my speaking exam preparation class for Level 1 / B2 on Monday. Thank you!
That's great to hear, I really hope they enjoy it! ep. 49 was one of my faves to write and film