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Their pronunciation is acceptable for non-native speaker (of the language origins of the spirits name). However as they smugly claim inclinations to correct people, they too would need correction should they ever mention the name to the respective natives. I do also think that maybe this might be best. For example as a waitress in a french brasserie, I improved my pronunciation (from a french native) to the point that non-french speaking guests would feel annoyed as they would not be able to understand their order being repeated back to them. By toning it down (putting in an English accent to the words), they got the french feel they came for without the language barrier confusion and embarrassment of not pronouncing things correctly. Basically perfect pronunciation comes as brixomatic said, with a bit more feel for the language then someone simply telling you it's pronounced a certain way.
"I like to drink it neat or on the rocks" is the response you get from a bartender when they can't think of an actual drink that uses the aforementioned liquor.
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Funny, if American Bartenders say you've been mispronouncing names like Grand Marnier and mess it up themselves completely, trying to correct you. Why don't you get someone who actually speaks French to pronounce it correctly for you if you can't? Same for some other names, like Becherovka - if you can't even pronounce the "ch" correctly, don't teach your dead wrong pronounciation as "right". It's like saying the English "th" would be correctly pronounced as "s", after claiming everyone usually has it wrong. Use Skype if there is no one near you who is a native speaker for god's sake. Well, at least this video serves as a comedy about the American feel for language.
greatwhitepriviledge French people would probably never dare to tell the rest of the world, that they have been mispronouncing "Halle Berry" all the time and their weird way of pronouncing it would be correct. And those Germans who can't pronounce a "th" properly would be equally crazy to tell the world they're doing it wrong and "Thatcher" was correctly pronounced "Setcher". And it'd be equally ridiculous, if an American that can't pronounce a "ch" told the world it's been pronouncing "Michael Schumacher" wrong and his pronounciation would be correct. And no, that was far from "close enough", and you should know that, if your french was worth a dime. It's perfectly okay, if you can't pronounce something properly, and if it's close enough for everyone to understand that's perfectly okay too. And you don't need to run around teaching everyone the correct pronounciation either, but if you do, you better do it correctly and if you can't you don't tell the world your bullshit was correct. If you can't pronounce something correctly, don't sell your wrong pronounciation as correct. Know your limits, simple as that. And hey, we're talking about bartenders here, they've got guests and fellow bartenders from all over the world, it's not that they couldn't find someone who could say it correctly for them, if they can't.
greatwhitepriviledge As I said: You might have lived there, but you obviously have no feel for the language. Have you even listened to the examples I've given?
greatwhitepriviledge They don't say "this is how an American fool with no feel for language would pronounce it" they actually claim their bullshit was correct, which it isn't, because if it was, even the French would be wrong! If there is one who is being ridiculous it's you by trying every trick in the book to claim they're pronouncing it well, which they aren't and I've given proof by audible examples. Get over it.
greatwhitepriviledge Well, this is going in circles, so no need to discuss any further. You don't get that this is not: "this is how an american with no feel for language would pronounce it, this should be good for any bartender out there", but "this is how you pronounce it correctly". Okay, I get that you are too stupid to get the difference. Regarding the audible examples: I have posted links that you can click on that will read the correct pronunciation for you. But it seems you weren't intelligent enough to find them further up the conversation. My bad, I should have noticed.
I think this video is really clever. I laughed heartily at how well informed, well spoken, clearly talented bartenders flop at pronouncing french liqueurs correctly. Great joke, please post more. Maybe try an Australian or Japanese version sometime. I'd love to hear Punt e mes in a South African accent.
Becherovka is a pretty czech liquor .. but its not pronounced with a K after "be" , thats how you guys say it to make it easy, but its actually a Ch , czech sounding exactly the same as "J" in Juan when you say it in spanish (Chuan for czech people when we pronounce it) ... so try to say that CH there, and its correct
So hard as a native french speaker to hear the bartenders correct them and say this is the correct pronunciation. No sorry, you're still pronouncing it wrong, closer, but still wrong.
It would've been acceptable for me if this video was named "10 Spirits You're Definitely Mispronouncing - Mispronounce it a little less now" or "10 Spirits You're Definitely Mispronouncing - Listen to American Appropriation". Like some of the Czech friends noted, is exchanging mispronounced /tsch/ sound in Becherovka for mispronounced /k/ any better? Why not go the extra mile and at least appropriate it to /h/ which is the closest you can get in English.
If I was Willy Shine, I'd be pretty embarrassed by this video. Not only is he so obviously reading his notes on the spirits but he even mispronounced the Grand Marnier upscale product at the end. Maybe you should have consulted someone who speaks French before deciding to do it? Maybe you should have left it to Erick. Props to Pamela and Erick who were amazing in this video!
honestly once you learn how to say the french vowels, they are consistent and I know exactly what sound "au" or "eu" or "u" is supposed to make. That's why the IPA was based off of french. Eu is like "uh I hate this homework" with pursed lips. Leek-uhr
It'd have been nice if the word stayed on the screen as we saw people try to pronounce it. I can usually figure out pronunciations with enough time to see the word to roll it around in my head and on my tongue for a while, but not when I don't even have enough time to read the word initially. Of course, I knew most of them, and the ones I didn't, I haven't encountered before.
Sorry to say, but their pronunciation guidelines are not correct for all of them. For example. the last one is french and is to be spoken as such The pronunciation was the worst of all probably. Same for Cointreau.
I love how all these videos believe you to not know how to pronounce a word when actually the people they get in to pronounce the shit do a worse job of it than me. Especially that last bloke, you're pronouncing it more like an Italian would than a Frenchman and there is no pause that long in the word btw. The problem with english speakers is the inability to pronounce "é" it's short and hard unlike 'ay".
liquor and liqueur are two different things. liquor is the distilled end product and liqueur is liquor with ingredients added in after the distillation.
Good grief. Why can you Americans not pronounce "liqueur" properly? It's NOT "le-KOOR", it's a nasal le-KYEAR. Listening to someone tell me how to pronounce the name of a liqueur without being able to pronounce the WORD liqueur is mind-blowing.
Only in New York would you have such CONFIDENT bartenders (I'm 100% positive they prefer mixologist) correcting your pronunciation of a foreign liquor name, with their own worse pronunciation. Half of these are said wrong by the bar backs themselves. What a disgrace of a video. No wonder "Liquor.com" has no subscribers.
