The problem with English is that the written form has almost no relation to how it's pronounced, unlike a lot of other languages. So people learning English make the mistake of thinking words are spoken as they are written, and native English speakers are often unable to pronounce foreign words by just reading them, they need to hear them to learn how they are spoken.
I am learning both English and French (second and third language) and I am quite sure that French pronunciation is much more regular and easier to learn than English.
RobertBlackford That is because they are using French spelling with semi-English pronunciation rules. In their own contexts, French has the more regular pronunciation.
English: a language in which - 1. you don't pronounce words the way they are written; 2. you don't write words the way they are pronounced; 3. you don't pronounce silent letters; 4. you pronounce absent letters; 5. every vowel is often pronounced as another vowel; and 6. many letters are often pronounced as other letters.
Actually there is no language where you pronounce evertything how it's written. Polish is quite easy with it, but we have things like "sz" "cz" "rz" "ch" which aren't pronounced "c-z" "s-z" "r-z" "c-h". Funniest thing? We pronounce "ch" same way as "h" (also "rz" like "ż") I believe nobody knows why we use "ch" or "h" if there is no difference between them in pronounciation, only ortography. For words to look more fancy on paper? Still I respect French most for inventng language with "eau" pronounced as "o". "Hey, man how we will call thaat liquid?" "Let's just write all vowels but one." "Done, but how we will sa it?" "Just like missing vowel.
@@Petaurista13 in Spanish we pronounce every single letter written. There is just the N followed by I rule and the silent H. I think the worst is french. Also in Irish names u dont pronounce a letter as it is written like Niamh is pronounced as Neave
Hi as an Italian student in the UK, with a good knowledge of the English language and with basic knowledge of French, I found this video extremely rude towards foreigners. I found you very condescending and I found you very belittling when giggling when replicating the mispronunciation of words. I would like to hear you speak Italian with correct pronunciation.
+HarleyLudo I'm actually learning Italian (you can hear me speak it in my Q&A) and I always laugh at my mistakes. You're going to find it hard in the UK if you're so sensitive and can't laugh at yourself! Loosen up, this video is just for fun.
+NataschaO check out the video of my speaking fluent Spanish and laughing at my own mistakes which I made whilst learning the language. Just search 'Perra choriza' 👍🏼
I am still learning and I appreciate the pronunciation tips, thanks a lot for that. I love English pronunciation and I find your video very nice and useful. As respectful advise, I consider there is no need of laughing about non-English speakers’ mistakes in order to be funny. I see you run a business on english teaching and you should try to be as much diplomatic as possible. This could prevent possible clients to use your services. I hope you take my words nicely. I wish you the best and thanks again.
yo vi el video donde hablas en español. Y en realidad pronuncias muy bien. Pero, se nota que el discurso estuvo muy bien preparado y al final de la historia cuando inicias a hablar libremente cometiste uno o dos errores de género y quizás ni te distes de cuenta. A mi me sucede lo mismo con el inglés. Si me preparo de antemano la pronunciación es bastante buena, sin embargo cuando necesito improvisar entonces caigo en errores a veces banales. Otra cosa que ayuda mucho es convivir con una persona que habla ese idioma. Es mucho más sencillo aprender y a la vez adquirir una buena pronunciación respecto a otra persona que habla diariamente otro idioma o no tiene la posibilidad que otro lo corrija.
I hear you dude. She is Right Honourable, and there's no doubt. She does one to one on line lessons, unreal lol ! My mate pretended he was Swahili and signed up for 10 weeks. Even got some free lessons thrown in too.
@@KaiserSoze212 Thank you for this sophisticated and good manner of delivery. I hope if you send us educational clips, because I am still a beginner in learning the English language, my mother tongue is Arabic. Thank you again.
Please tell me I am not the only one who speaks English as a 2nd/3rd language and doesn't mispronouces these words. Seriously, I don't see the difficulty on these words, especially "crisps".
Mounatain Eagle As I can see, the ones who mispronounced these words are actually English speaking people. I can only communicate with English on the internet (my country is a non speaking English country) and I was able to pronounce these words right
Being British doesn't mean that you speak well English. It's just a nationality. I'm British but I leave in France so I don't speak English like a native. Mais je parle français couramment ;) 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Stephanie Smartphone to the patio doors leading to the windows on ground floor apartment situated in the UK for the opportunity to reflect on their own way of getting a bit of trouble from eBay UK and Europe for the opportunity to work with you and your family
@@pradhyumnaadusumilli3865 well just go to @asianboss channel. Watch the interview with Indians. I swear they have worst pronunciation among all Asian countries. Even worse than Philippines and Thailand.
Hallo Lucy, I am from Indonesia Saya dari Indonesia Saya lagi Belajar Bahasa Inggris Conversation Video ini sangat membantu saya dalam belajar Conversation in English. Saya mengucapkan Terima kasih Salam, Suprijono
@Khushi Kumari We've been under British rule, so we can get them right, but most people have a terribly annoying accent. I was in america b4 coming back to india, so I have an american accent, and i just wanted to pick up a british accent so i am here.
in filipino english you pronounce every syllable lol you'll here ppl com-for-ta-bol. but all in all, we know how to pronounce all of what lucy taught haha
Menkuna - I pronounce them (wors) all correctly too, and I'm from Scotland. (Amazing, eh?) I would add that I don't pronounce them all as she thinks they should be uttered. "Wensday" e.g. I would say "Wednsday" (as in Odin's day). Comfortable is just comfortable as it's written, and I have never heard people pronounce any of the other words mentioned wrong. You'll like this story as you're from Germany. - I met a dapper old gent from Germany about fifteen years ago and we had quite a long conversation in a hotel lounge, during which he told me he had been coming to Scotland on holiday every year for decades. He was telling me that his children (now adults) were also repeat visitors and enjoyed hiking in the Islands. So when I said my sister in law's people came from Harris, he looked puzzled and said "You say Harris, (hard A), So did I, but when I was taught English I was told to say Herris". I said "Of course, you were, because you were taught by an Englishman, they're best ignored where pronunciation is concerned". I went on to asked him why he began coming to Scotland. He said he was in the Luftwaffe and used to fly over Glasgow during the war. He told me that after they had completed the bomb run, they would fly out over the Clyde estuary and then make the home run from Loch Lomond. He said he was so impressed with the beauty of the landscape that he determined to visit after the war was over. I smiled at him and said "Do you know, It was even more beautiful before you flew over". He was such a nice old guy. They really were a different breed in these days, I don't know if I could have done it.
I learned to speak Harris also like "Herris", it feels for me really strange to say it with a hard A (thats the thing thats mostly in my head after reading your comment. I could be prouder of myself.)
Menkuna Oh I don't think pride has much to do with it. You just have to stop assuming that people are right in everything they say just because they were the first to say it. There are place names like Milngavie which are pronounced "Milgai', Greenwich pronounced "Grennich" etc. It isn't a lack of pride which causes me to feel normal about pronouncing them in a way which seems at odds with how they're spelled. Sometimes we just forget to ask questions. That's why we need the very young, they haven't learned not to ask obvious questions yet.
Watching ur vid remindes me more than 20years ago, sitting back in school when the teacher asked how to pronounce to dance and i was proud to respond the american way and she said its wrong cuz we learned british english :D
Hi Lucy Thanks for the lesson on pronunciation. Could you please help me know why the word DOOR is pronounced differently from other words with a double vowel /o/. Example; Room, Doom,pool, these words double vowel oo change to /u/ but the word DOOR doesn't change. Thanks so much
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Yeah, but those are words I learned in primary school... Like, all of them xD Though I can imagine it being difficult to imagine words, that are hard to learn for foreigners, when you've never had trouble pronouncing them yourself ^^ I think longer words with a tricky pronunciation would have made a better video for people, who already speak English a little but want to improve their pronunciation nontheless :)
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I can tell about my experience in Brazil, my native country. Even in middle class schools, English has little importance and we are taught by non native English teachers, with either little knowledge in pronunciation, either not much care to reinforce it. If we really want to get past being only acquainted with the very basics, we have to take classes at language schools. Still, since we have mostly little to zero involvement with English on a daily basis, it gets to a point we all get to speak only a broken English between ourselves, during those language school classes. Thanks to videos like this, and other many resources on internet, we can now study, improve and practice our skills by ourselves.
i see lots of comments about people complaining they never heard anyone making these mistakes. well, i'm a Brazilian English teacher and i can relate to many of them - not all. But people DO MAKE these mistakes, so stop assuming that because you've never heard it isn't said :)
mamadoritos well I’m pretty sure the majority of people who watched this video clicked on it because she’s English and they wanted to compare their ALREADY SPOKEN ENGLISH from Somewehre else to British English to see if there are any wrong pronunciations 🤷🏽♂️ I mean. That why I watched this video
Zoe Liakos But shes talking about the way to say it in English, Greek may be its origin, but most of the English Language have words that derived from Greek words.
Most of the mispronounced words she had said were first time in my ears, I think I've been taught correctly by my teachers since I knew how to pronounce them all. 😂✌
Hmm, Lucy, got to disagree on 2. Native US speaker here. In the US, saying “t’YOUsday” for Tuesday is perfectly acceptable, as is pronouncing every single syllable in comfortable as in “COMfortabull,”where the “forta” part is said very quickly as you land on the “bull” which is stated a bit more slowly and clearly.
I think nobody says those words as you did! I live in a country where most of the people don't speak english correctly, and still, I've never heard somebody saying Fru-It. WTF. The only one which may be true is the Vegetable one. But anyway, before you start doing these videos, how about you learning a new language? I am sure, even if I tell you a few times some words in my language, you won't be able to pronounce it. Of course some foreigners hear some words in they're correct form, but simply cannot say it.
+Hayky Vlog I speak fluent Spanish and i'm learning Italian. If you're interesting in hearing my Spanish, just search 'Perra choriza'. It's a video where I make fun of all the stupid mistakes I made whilst learning Spanish.
Hayky Vlog in Italy most of people say fruIt, chOcolate, vegEtable and so on, because we speak with different accents, and all the words that she says here are pronunced wrong sometimes
I note that some native English speakers also struggle with this. Even on national news, I hear presenters say sickth and fith rather than sixth and fifth.
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It is an English word - it's an English word of Greek origin. So it's as much an English word as architect, encyclopedia and telephone are. In English it's pronounced the same way as Emily pronounces it in the video. Its foreign etymology doesn't preclude it from being an English word now.
FlowersInHisHair U can say what u want but it still greek, even if English borrowed this word. Like many other words , video , audio , plus , ego , viceversa from Latin , twerk from German , or bravo from Italian. Same for Italian we have many German and Arabian words that we used every day but it doesn't mean are Italian. we just use it, the sad part is that in this way the languages lose their uniqueness. U can't be agree but it still a fact
4 years ago (dec 2016) my english substitute teacher showed the class this video to learn how to pronounce these words. I've been watching Lucy's videos for awhile, and today i found this video then realized it was her video that we watched 4 years ago. I just wanna say thank you so much, because you really helped me learning.
i really appreciate you, but can you help me how to pronounce the words down below? 1. pull - pool 2. seek - sick 3. scene - seen 4. seam - seem 5. full - fool 6. cell - sell 7. week - weak 8. knot - not - note 9. loose - lose 10. new - knew 11. land - lend 12. leave - live - leaf 13. knight - night 14. hole - whole 15. leak - lick - leek 16. reach - rich 17. it - eat 18. ate - at 19. Sin - seen I gave 19 words for this moment, hope you can help me mom. Thanks a lot.. Best Regards.
Martin of Gliwice There is an old joke in America about a Polish-American who goes to the optometrist to be tested for glasses. The optometrist points to the chart on the opposite wall, with random letters on each line, smaller and more of them reading down, and asks, "Can you read the last line?" The patient replies, "Read it? I KNOW him!"
I'm Juan The standard vision testing chart has a series of lines of letters starting with a huge E on the first line and becoming smaller and containing more letters towards the bottom. The letters do not form English words and are mostly not pronounceable to English speakers, so the idea that the 20 or so letters on the bottom line spell a Polish name is the punch line ("READ it? I KNOW him!").
Why is it that English words can't be spelled in the manner in which we speak them? You do realise the alphabet we use was originally created to be instruction on how the word is to be pronounced, don't you? Why does english have to be so wierd when it comes to spelling vs. pronunciation?
English is a complex language. A simple example is there, their and they're. They are all pronounced the same by native English speakers but are used differently. Languages should be complex because we are intelligent beings, otherwise we would still be grunting lol.
+William Dwyer ( I have no clue how to pronounce your Surname the right way but i guess you have trouble to pronounce mine right as well ;) ) English is originally a Germanic language, so the grammar is pretty similar to German at least when it comes to how we structure our sentences. But the vocabulary is highly influenced by Romanian languages like Latin, Spain, French or Italian. It's typically for Romanian languages that the pronunciation is different from the spelling. P.S. Is it right to pronounce your Surname like wire with a D in front. I am just curious :)
But a language being complex and expressive doesn't mean you can't have a one-to-one mapping between the sounds making up the spoken language and the letters making up the written language. It wouldn't make English less complex if fruit was written as froot, Wednesday as W(h)ensday, queue as que, vegetable as vegtable, chocolate as choclat, etc.
wirth6 but changing/simplifying (American English) words that already exists a certain way just because it makes things "easier" is the unnecessary dumbing down of a language.
I came to the UK and couldn’t put a sentence in English together. After 1 year of living in the UK I realised I couldn’t say the ‘s’ at the end of ‘crisps’. 6 months after it just came out… that day I realised I’d probably speak and write English better than half of the native population. 3 years later, was proof reading essays in university for native friends, then at work in my student job, I was delegated to write letters of referrals to hospitals. Never considered myself a linguist but have managed to get far with it but, I attribute it to the emphasis to grammar in my schooling at my home country. I was shocked that many contemporaneous people of my generation born in Britain lack the foundation of grammar unfortunately. Not many people know what a noun, pronoun, adverb, adjective, phrasal verb mean 😢
