ENGLISH WORDS THAT ITALIANS USE 

You both are so much fun! Keep posting these awesome videos. You both should have a morning TV show. I suggest that those of you who have nothing constructive to say maybe not say anything at all?!

ma dai nessuno dice okeya

Ma okeya lo dite voi Ahahahhahahahha

Ok con la ah finale, mai sentito O.o

Noi italiani pronunciamo le parole inglesi con l'accento italiano perché se pronunciamo le parole con l'accento inglese sembra che vogliamo fare i prof. Non so se mi sono spiegata bene...😅 Comunque nessuno dice okeiya...?🙅🏽

Allora dico la mia: se sono con gente italiana per forza devo usare l'accento italiano, ma se sono con stranieri parlando inglese devo usare la parola correttamente in inglese :)

Gli italiani non dicono OkayA😂

I live in Sicily for more than 3 years now, but this summer I heard "weddinggg plannerrrr" for the first time and it still cracks me up =)

Hamburger come from german its a german word not a english. Italian say that right. English speaker say Hamburger false.

Any Italian that hears for the first time a North American pronouncing “spaghetti” something closer to “spgedi” would be surprised just the same way. Not to mention “bruschetta”! Loanwords are often butchered to fit in another language’s sounds.

in italian "assassino" is used to define anyone who killed a person, volontarly or not. "killer" is mostly used to address someone hired to kill. "serial killer" is used too, but I think it's used in the same way

È logico usarle con accento italiano durante una conversazione in italiano. Come fate voi con spaghedy brusheda pepperony salami proshudo frrary e tanty altwy

Fun fact: in France they have the Alliance Française, who (amongst other things!) try prevent the infiltration of English words into the French language. For example when the word ‘weekend’ started to appear in French, they introduced the word ‘vacancelle’, but it wasn’t popular, so to this day we have ‘weekend’ in French. ‘Computer’ was at first used in French, but the Alliance Française introduced ‘ordinateur’ which was more popular so it stuck :)

But...in Italy we say Okay ahahhaha NOT OKAYA with the a! It's a stereotype ahahahah

You missed VIP! VIP always makes me laugh...they pronounce it "veep". Gets to me every time lol

That intro was everything XP Lovedddd this Sof! Can't wait for more future collaboraziones

It's super cute how Zoey pronounces every R like it's a double R ahah I sadly never got the chance to talk to English-speaking people learning Italian, so I never realized how much our pronunciation may be difficult for you. I can get now why you sound like Super Mario ahah I'm sorry but it's just super cute XD Btw, since I've spent only short periods of time in English-speaking countries, my English pronunciation is a bit wierd, and I still can't tell the difference between a word starting with an A and one with an H (I just can't get it, and I make super silly mistakes because of it T^T) I really can get how difficult it is to learn another language and to get the correct pronunciation and I feel really pleased and honored when people start learning my language. I feel that any other Italian should be proud there are people spending time on it, instead of criticizing everything. I enjoyed the video a lot, keep it up girls!! :D

Well, i never heard an italian seriously say "occheia" or "okeya" we say "occhèi" in italian, which not sounds like "ouch-hey" but its something like "och-kay". Sometime i heard people say okeya just for fun or by kids when are sad or bored, like american people say "see ya" instead of "see you". But maybe i never heard it because im italian. (i hope google translate did a good job this time. Hear "och-kay" on google translate for the right sound).

“Occheia” non l’avevo mai sentito😂 noi diciamo “Occhei” tante volte (intendo con la c marcata) ma “occheia” mai mai maii😌😂

But in Italy we are even used to say "fine settimana" instead of weekend. Italian is quite permeable to english words and foreign words in general.

You're great fun ! In Italian all the written letters are pronounced, so it's normal to read the double "pp" and the final "g" in "shopping" and so on. But we don't say okeya, we simply stress more the final sound. The speakers of all language are influenced by their own pronunciation: you will never be able to say "spaghetti" and "Pavarotti", it will always be "sp-ghechi" and "Pav-rochi" :)

Hi Sofie! I recently discovered your channel and I gotta say this is one of my favorite videos among the ones you uploaded: it really cracked me up and, in all honesty, I found it very accurate as an italian who was born in Italy: if we just wanna go through it with a fine tooth comb, I'd say the only "wrong" pronunciation is related to the term "okay" (actually I've never heard that sound before, but I'm pretty sure you have...probably it may depend on the fact that Italy has a ton of different dialects that can really mess things up sometimes) I'm so sorry to see lots of touchy italians who totally misunderstood the meaning of this video...however I'm not that surprised that most disrespectful comments are written in italian (I assume those triggered individuals don't know like anything about English: that's why they are not able to understand neither your sense of humor nor this kind of "linguistic comparisons") Speaking of which, if you ever happen to make a sequel to this video, I just thought of other funny words: Hardware, Shampoo, Abstract, Authority, Last Minute, Corner, Goal, Part-Time, Low cost, Partner, Performance, Relax, Speaker, Turnover, Break, Party, Tomb Raider (definitely one of my fav...I hope you already got a change to hear it 'cuz it's worth it! Lol), Baby-sitter, Water, Pullover, Basket, Globetrotter, Modem, Slogan, Mountain Bike, Thriller, Poster, Poker, Master, Pub, Club and so on. Needless to say, you did a really good job! Keep it up! :)

we don't say ekeyjah or weekendah

Such a fun video and convo. Loves it! I’m hooked🤪

Il video è fantastico anche per qualcuno che vuole imparare l'inglese/anericano ma la maggior parte delle parole fanno parte della nostra fonologia e in italiano si pronunciano nel modo che tu consideri "sbagliate" per noi sono giuste e sono pure nep nostro vocabolario♥️

Ma okeya lo dite solo voi... Non ho mai sentito un italiano a dire okeya...

The funny things is that most of the technical words of the TLC and Internet words actually have latin origins, so from many point of views English is actually a language that is more "latin" than the modern italian.

I’m Italian and I can talk English quite good, but I realized that I say this words in English in the Italian waaaaay!!! Ahahahahah so funny, I enjoyed this video a lot🤣

La cosa bella è che se parli con degli italiani e dici queste parole come andrebbero pronunciate ti prendono per il culo, se invece le dici in questo modo italianizzato orrendo allora tutto ok ahahaha

Per tutti gli Italiani sulla difensiva: Non hanno pronunciato male le parole. Le hanno solo enfatizzato troppo. Penso per dare un'idea piu' chiara alle persone che parlano l'inglese come lingua madre ;)

Sounded just like my grandmother and and great-aunt speaking English 😆

there are many words in the English language which come from other languages, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek etc. and are not pronounced with the original pronouciation, but they are anglicized. Like many English words in Italy are Italianized, at least in the pronunciation.

as an italian i think that the way it works is that, since a lot of the words we use daily are english, not just "imported" but relatively new words which we only know pronounced in english (not like week-end which you can find in an italian dictionary, or like computer which has more or less revisited english pronunciation) changing phonemes or just pronunciation of letters mid-sentence is very difficult and confusing so we stick to a natural "euphonic" pronunciation. I really dont know why it works but strangely enough butchering the pronunciacion, despite having learnt the correct way of saying a word, really helps communicating between non-native-english speakers. Also, since im pretty young, i noticed a phenomenon between my peers and me: the habit of completely mixing vocabulary; with internet culture, globalisation etc. i noticed some entire conversations to have up to like a third of the words in english (semantic things like nouns or verbs, not grammatical one like conjuctions or prepositions) which happens so naturally it is scary. Its a very exciting moment to be alive.

When you talk about Italy, your are more and more graceful.!

I think that you do a good job! Don’t listen those tipe of bad comments, they just don’t want to see reality...maybe just 2 or 3 pronunce are wrong

i love how they suddenly got so excited for twitter :D

Yep, it's that in Italy we use many English words that we pronunce like a "translation", but I also think that the pronunciation could depend by the language we're speaking: for example, when I speak Italian I find easier to pronunce English words with Italian accent, and on the same way, when I'm abroad or I'm speaking English with foreign tourists I usually pronunce Italian words with English accent... I feel strange to switch accent in the same speech x)

You should do this kind of videos with an actual Italian at your side, so he can correct your errors in pronunciation

"Manager" has come full circle, it's an English word derived from Italian

Thanks ladies for the Italian accents. Im moving out there soon and I have no clue on how to speak Italian. Well... Keep on making more of these videos.

I'm italian and my girlfriend is Belgian and yeah every time is too funny " Hamburgher compiuter gugol ert ( Google earth)" :D

zoey is learning very fast the Italian accent very good

Vogliamo parlare di come gli inglesi pronunciano i cibi italiani come “gnocchi, spaghetti ecc”?😂😂

Cool video! It always amuses me, how anglicisms are used in different languages and sometimes even become universal words! Accents on point, by the way! 😜

Had a lot of fun watching this video.. it’s all about the way Italians pronounce Italian words.. we pronounce every single letter.. so obviously when it comes to speaking other languages we keep that habit, which is of course wrong. And our R is always strong and rolled.. ;)

Yaa, it's funny and interesting to watch, Thanks for sharing, 1st like

Really funny video! Other examples are: Management: manàgement/manàgment Call center: col sènter Performance: perfòrmans Reception: recèpscion The Big Bang Theory (tv serie): de Big Beng tèori Ceo: ceo/seo Audit: àudit/òudit Latin lover: latin lòver

Never heard okeya in Italy, because nobody say in that way. But yes, we saying "l'iPhone" and "l'iPad", because it means "the iPhone" and "the iPad". In those specific case, we add the italian articles before names.

i'm italian, we dont say 'okkeya' we say 'okkey' without the final a. dunno if in Rome they pronounce it in that weird way but here in the north we dont.. annnnd we dont say 'crachers' but 'crecher' (i'm using the italian way to pronounce, read it that way lol)

spaghedy invece di spaghetti? nessuno lo dice?quante parole italiane rovinano gli americani!?

1:17 Io non ho mai sentito un italiano pronunciare (Okay) " *Okeia* " ! Adesso non esageriamo ! Che gli italiani purtroppo pronuncino molti termini inglesi diciamo all'italiana, questo è scontato...si sa ! Però non esageriamo . :) PS: se poi, al contrario, andiamo a vedere come gli inglesi o americani pronunciano le parole italiane....beh....lì poi c'è solo da ridere ! 😉

Hi girls! ... Congratulation for this funny video! :) ... In Italy we learnt so late to speak others languages. Many Italians don't speak a word of English or French or any other language that's not Italian. Many Italians don't speak Italian neither. In Italy, the most part of people speaks dialects. We have thousands dialects in Italy and this is the reason for we often pronunciate so bad the most part of words from others languages. We try to speak them the most correctly we can but our pronunciation is deeply influenced by the dialect spoken in the area where we live in. To get it harder, inside immigration caused the mix of different dialects, so we also have cases of dialects spoken with a wrong pronunciation. We have cases of hybrid pronunciation from different dialects spoken together. For example: My family is originally from Venice, so in my family we speak with a Venetian inflection. But I was born in Milan and when I was a child, dialect was so used in Milan, so I learnt Milan dialect from old people when I was a child, but I speak with a venetian inflection. At the same way I speak Venetian with a Milan inflection. Often people who hears me to speak thinks I'm from Modena, because the mix of Milan and Venetian inflections sounds similar to Modena typical pronunciation. Apart from this, in Italy nobody were used to speak English before the '80s ... Just a few people were speaking a good English. This's because before the '70s there was not the teaching of English to school. And all our old generation of English teachers were Italians, not English or American or Canadian or Australian ... So they were teaching us English speaking by Italian wrong pronunciation. I seriously learnt to speak a correct English when I came to USA in 1995, after the High School, and I stopped to live in New York City for 3 years long. Then I moved to Los Angeles and to San Francisco, where I stood one year in both. Last Summer I went to Canada (and I loved it so much!) where I was never recognized as Italian tourist because my pronunciation was the American one, not the Italian one. I'm sure if new Italian generation will learn English from teachers who naturally speak English as their first lenguage, they surelly will learn to speak as good as I did, when I lived in USA. Another reason for Italians don't speak correctly English is because of the wrong teachment they receive to school. Italian system to learn as English as any other lenguage from around the world is the main cause for they don't speak it correctly. To school we only study grammar rules but we are not used to improve ite speaking continuosly. We watch at the movies on TV and to the Theaters from USA but they all are in Italian, not in English like in Germany or France or Holland ... In these Countries they only see American movies in original language and this is one of the reasons for the have a most correct pronunciation of any single word. In Italy we are not used to watch movies in original language, we are not used to speak all days all time just English neither. I work for a famous international fashion brand. I know in all others countries around Europe people just speak English at the office, not matters in which Country they live. Not in Italy. In Italy people just speaks Italian. Or Dialect. No other languages are spoken in Italian daylife. It's natural Italians have a terrible pronunciation of English. They are not used to speak it.

if you don’t know the “Italian accent” don’t do this type of video bc you are sharing fake information.

Wondering how long you both have been living in Italy and did you know the language before moving there...you speak so naturally. I'm an American of Italian decent and am so jealous! ❤️-Linda

The mix between Italian language and English language it's called "Italish". So a really nice video!

Prova a pronunciare zuzzurellone 😀

Italy accent is so interesting! I think Japanese-Engrish is bad but i never mind, It's normally in japan!

That was fun!

Wow I'm so excited, Sofie & Zoey this will be legendary! 💯

I love italian " okkei" more than all the ways of saying okay :). And it's not okeya lol xD

Stretching is actually on of the first English words added to the Italian vocabulary, we don't really have an Italian word for that. Some Italians in the comments are saying that you got it all wrong, but I can confirm that Italians who never studied English pronounce those words exactly as you pronounce them in the video. Italians read every single letter in a word so unless they heard English or Americans speaking (by the way English and Americans have very different pronunciations) they will get the pronunciation wrong. Double T in American is equal to a soft D in Italian (not even a proper D) and the R is silent, if you have to write in Italian how Twitter is pronounced by Americans that would be "Ciuide", for Italians the sound "TW" is very difficult to reproduce correctly as it doesn't really exist in Italian.

Brava !!! Mi fa ridere tantissimo quando dicono "Cake"!!! È non ne parliamo di "Sponge Cake" ..troppo forte ma mi piace haha

Ghiaccio is a good word to explain how to pronounce words in italian. It shares the same latin root word as the english "glacial".

Hi Zoey, great to see you Lady! :)

Your Italian accent in spot on

AND WE DEFINITELY NOT SAY “CRACKERS” we say “crekers”

Yes, but you're teaching her the romanesco-italian-english! ^__^

Sofie you're so good at pronouncing these words the italian way!!! great job on the accent. truly accurate. (i'm italian!)

Lol 😂 great way to Wakeup

Italian words that English use: confetti, andante, grave, lentissimo, allegro, vivace, vivo (and all musical tempo), fresco, terracotta, magenta, architrave, falsetto, oboe, ocarina, piano, piccolo, soprano, sonata, campanile, cupola, gesso, intaglio, torso, villa, veranda, imbroglio, capriccio, ghetto, stiletto, mercantile etc... Plus all English words that have Italian origin: apartment, bank, bankrupt, cash, merchandise, management, arabesque, orange, arsenal, brigade, cavalier, cannon, credit, capitalism, jeans, umbrella, sepia, grotesque, extravaganza, novel, balcony, archivolt, cartoon, solo, archipelago etc...

Vi adoro!!! I'm in LA from Milan and just the same with pizza, spaghetti and every single first name, not to mention mine.

No, solo no, assicurati di pronunciarle giuste almeno

Bravissime Sofie e Zoey! It's the truth :-)

We say "missunderstanding" a lot as well

La pronuncia di okay e weekend con la A finale io non l'ho mai sentita, secondo me è una pronuncia romana! Comunque mentre vedevo questo video ho provato un senso di vergogna perché anche io pronuncio le altre parole nel modo italiano :D

I’ve never said okey like “okay-ja” and I’ve never heard any italian saying it that way. Maybe in Southern Italy it’s like you said, but in Northern Italy we often don’t even say okay, we just say “ok”

you both instantly look more beautiful when you speak the same english word in the italian way :)))))))))

You have an amazing italian pronounciation.

We just say "ok" and not "okyah" at all. Anyway very funny video, I think it would be very funny to have a video based on the american pronounce of the italian words like "brusceta", "pistascio", "spgheti" and you know, all of this stuff 😂

fai un video sugli scioglilingua italiani?

do italians use things like LOL, LMAO, or STFU when texting? Or do they have their own sort of other acronym?

It's weird seeing some of these comments about the pronunciations being wrong and saying no Italians add an A (uh) sound to English words. I've not met many Italians but the ones I met added an "uh" sound at the end of several English words. Maybe it's regional, but it's definitely a thing that at least some Italians do.

this video makes me think that there is more italian influence on turkish than I thought. comes to ear more similar than english.

Sofie, your Italian accent sounds pretty good to me, but I don't speak Italian. Is it considered a good accent by Italians? Also, I was told that Italians in the South of Italy prefer to cook with butter.

Computef is latin : computare Marketing came from latin : mercatus, mercator Phon is greek and means sound Tablet: latin tabula Media ( pronunce media not midia) is latin Bus ( pronunce bus not bas ) is latin : omnibus that means public ( othef latin word ) Plus ( pronunce plus non plas ) is latin Senior ( pronunce senior not sinior ) is latin

4:55 la L la usiamo come articolo(so che c'è solo nella lingua italiana ma informatevi,per favore )❤

what the hell is that okeya thing girls ahah love your videos!

There are some Italian words used in English (Maestro, stereo, video, radio, spaghetti, pasta)

This was funny. They also use "social" for social media, like "gira sui social", pronounced more or less as "soutchel" :D Have you ever heard it? Makes me smile every time.

It was quite fun, but are you sure you're pronouncing those words the right way? I mean, I can tell you're Italian by the accent but in this particular video, you don't sound like one at all I'm sorry. Probably that's because you're listening to the other girl and being influenced by her way of pronouncing the words...

Ahahaah this was so funny! I feel like now in 2021 there are a lot more English words (recently "cringe" was added to the Italian vocabulary)... anyway did you notice that we always pronounce them singular, independently from the actual number of the things we mean?

we don't say okaya and should we pretend to be in english (Or american) when we actually are not?

great examples

dipende tutto dall'accento, ci sono parole che dall'inglese Malaysiana a quello British, a quello americano cambiano totalmente pronuncia

Hi. I think that is all true, but two words (i'm a "schiappa" in english, i hope you can understand me). The word "ok" probably ends in itanglish (itanglese) with the tipical italian sounds for words that ends with a consonant: a schwa, not with an "a" so clear. Italians usually aren't able to hear it, so it's better you don't ask us about it. The second wrong word is cracker. In northern italy we learn at school a few simple wrong rules to badly pronunce english: you must change certain vowels. For example "a" became "e" as in cracker ( italian pronunciation "kreker"), but not in car. It's a weird mistery. "OO" became "u" as in look (italian pronunciation luk). I think no one in italy says "kraker" but "kreker". Nowadays i know that these rules are absolutely wrong. The English has different sounds that we don't know or we don't use. All the rest is right because we usually pronunce all letters and exatly all vowels with the italian sound. Weird but true.

funny because it's true, I am an American that lives in Rome, when speaking Italian and inserting an english word I have to say it their way, because if I pronounce it right they don't understand me LOL you forgot i boxeRRRR, then the chefs say il buull I assume it is suppose to be the bowl, but they could say ciotola instead of buull

Your accent is so good in Italian

Semplicemente adorabili ❤️

I don't know any italian that add an "A" at the end of English words

hehe! I think you are both amazing!