Learning English: "Ough" is tough to figure out 

The writers of the show had some absolute insight to this chaotic language we call English. It doesn't even follow its own rules.

Severely underrated episode!! Okay with the grape stomping and Vitameatavegamin, but this doesn’t get ‘enoo’ credit! 😂

I completely agree with Ricky here. Spanish is easy, straightforward, and logical: what is written is exactly as you pronounce it over and over; it doesn't matter what word it is. There are a few exceptions to the rules, but it certainly isn't as crazy as English. No wonder many foreigners have a hard time learning it!

I agree with Ricky on the Spanish language. I like how when you read Spanish you actually pronounce every letter.

Sorry,but I totally agree with Ricky. The English language is hard for people who are born here to understand,never mind if you’re from another country!🤓

“Well I know it can’t be cow!” knocked me over. Like you’d tip a cow.

Hold it Shakespeare.lol

Little Ricky: "Daddy, read me a goodnight story."Ricky: "Go ask Mommy, Partner "

Classic clip. Every language has its quirks. Explaining that words have genders in Spanish to non-Spanish speakers creates the same frustration that poor Ricky had haha

This is ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS. My teacher showed the video in AP Human Geography to make a point on how different cultures have different dialects, which causes a "pronunciation variation", which results in different syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and cadence of words in different languages. When my teacher showed us this video, EVERYONE in the class was laughing out loud, and that is saying something because my class has 30 people. Thank you for sharing this video with youtube. I would share this on social media if I actually used social media.

I'm going to show this to my Advanced ESL group. They're sure to get a good laugh from this!

That episode was so funny!😂😂. It’s true though. The “ OUGH” in English sounds different almost every time.

There are 3 main categories of writing systems. Phonetic like Spanish, syllabic like Japanese, and pictorial like Chinese. The writing system of English is actually more similar to Chinese with the pictorial writing system because you have to remember the spelling of the word as a whole unit.

For me, this is one of the ILL show's most brilliantly written episodes - also hilarious and wonderfully performed!! Terrific!!

A brilliant piece of writing & beautifully performed.

I think it was in this episode that Desi taught me the Spanish vowel sounds! I loved him as much as I loved Lucy!😍

As English speaking person I agree with Ricky. Learning English was really hard.

My ex Wife is from Cuba and we would have times like this. It was trying to explain the workings of the English language that made me realize how inconsistent it is.

Well I know it can't be COW 😂😂😂😂😂 WHAT is this BOOGES...😂😂😂

This is one of the most brilliant scenes in comedy history.

A lot of people think of many different I Love Lucy classics but this is also a favorite of mine because it rings so to to the craziness of the English language and so many people cn relate to that scene.

Ricky:”I’m pooped” Lucy:”This is indeed distressing news, to what do you attribute your plethora of fatigue?”😂😂😂😂

Absolutely brilliant skit! So far ahead of its time. And i remember learning all those words and their same spellings but different pronunciations in grade school in the late 50s, early 60s. It was known as Phonics, which isnt taught today. No wonder English is difficult to learn for foreigners!

Loved this, I tell our second graders all the time- All the rules we learn get broken, its a crazy language!

This is funny to me because usually Ricky is the one who is unimpressed this time is lucy😂❤

hahaha Love I Love Lucy and LOVE Ricky! 😂

Yes, of course use it. I also have a textbook for beginners. Find it on Amazon.com link: a.co/d/j5pwTLJ. More at www.iwtle.com

What Ricky says in the end fits also Italian and Finnish. Systematic, semi-syllabic/syllabic languages where combination of letters (a syllable in a sense) is always pronounced the same way

This is one with Hans Conreid as the tutor. His tippy tippy toe through the garden had me laughing so hard I almost got sick! And Fred got dressed up as a little schoolboy and came prancing in with a lollipop. Absolutely top notch writing and acting. Brilliant.

Who are here from the GTU or any other universities from india 😅

Although, spanish is my first language, english is the more challenging and the most beautiful in the voice of the best poets and novelists. Even Gabriel Garcia Marquez loved his One Hundred Years of Solitude in english translation. So, there's something to that!

They are so funny. 😂 They had their Career many years before I was born. I missed them. They were too early for their time. But they are still relevant even in 2020 and so funny and loveable. 😀 💐 Efrat. Israel.

"His hands were strong and 'row'. "

I used this clip when I was teaching Oral English in China, both at University level and Elementary level.

I forget where I read it, and I'm paraphrasing, but I've always loved the comparison that English is like several languages stuffed together like little kids in a trench coat pretending to be a single adult.

I had to share this with my daughter and her BF who is from PR. LOL So funny. Sounds just like them!!

It might seem random that all those words ending in -ough are pronounced differently, but there are explanations for each one of those pronunciations, they're related to the word root, whether they come from french or from latin, etc. But these explanations are so hard to remember (because there are too many of them) that at the end you just have to learn the pronunciation by heart

English is two different languages mashed together: German (Anglo-Saxon) and French (Norman), with some other language bits tossed in: Latin, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, etc.

This is so true. My husband is from Central America and this happens to him all the time

This is WAY HYSTERICAL!

I Love Lucy episode with Ricky trying to learn English. Enjoy! 🤗 Season 2, Episode 13 “It’s only Tuesday.” 🤣🤣

Lol I totally understand Ricky lol hahaha

I think in a hundred years this will still be the best example of the goofiness of English 👍👍

Anyone from LD,sitting in English lab, listening this masterpiece?

By the way, why the plural of "Goose" is "Geese" and the plural of "Moose" is not "Meese"?

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Sounds like a conversation hubby and I would have 🤣🤣

The guy is somewhat similar to Joey(Friends)....I can very well imagine Joey in the same situation saying the same thing in the same way😂😂😂

I stand with Shakespeare on that one 👌🏼

This is my first time enjoying your RU-vid channel. Great content! Looking forward to hearing more from you! Your video was so informative. Thank you so much!

Think my favorite English-word mispronunciation of Ricky's is "Psychiatrist", as he pronounces it, "pissykiatrist". Ha ha ha, "pissykiatrist", now that'll always be one for the books to better remember Ricky by. Ha ha:)

My Spanish teacher showed this to us to show how easy Spanish was, I was the only one who know where the clip came from.

"Peasant" and "heart" didn't get him all confuse. I wonder why.

English is a language with many linguistic battle scars...

This made me die of laughing 😂😂😂😂😂

The ones who came up with the English language clearly were drunk. 😂😂😂

Im with you Ricky Ricardo The same thing I said In Spanish we don’t have that sounds Like we write same pronunciation

The look on Lucy’s face when he says, “booges” Lol she’s thinking, “.....what the fuck?!” Lol

Do you cough when you plough through tough dough?

I was first shown this in Spanish, and I watched it again in AP US History

Believe it or not American English is reported as the most difficult language in the world to learn and the most challenging version of the English language worldwide. This video even explains why.

i kinda wanna show this to my english club at my school here in japan but i dont think they will understand as they are junior high school kids. maybe only the high school kids might get it. would be fun to make a little activity with them about how some words spelled differently but sound the same or have same parts (like -ough) but sound different. kind of to show them how absurd it is at times

Fabulous!

Many, if not most, languages have a defined standard which gets updated periodically in a "language reform". Such language reforms attempt to sync up the written language with the spoken language, including with regards to spelling. For example, as an English-speaking German student in the early 70's, I became interested in Dutch as a research topic but could not find any books on it since it was going through a language reform at the time. Every spoken language diverges from its written form over time, but languages which allow reforms are able to sync up the spoken and the written while the language that do not allow reforms result in the spoken and written forms drifting ever further apart. English has no standard and hence has had no language reform in centuries. English spelling is a treasure-trove for historical linguists, but a nightmare for language learners (and even a few native speakers). One point was given by Robin Williams in his movie, "Moscow on the Hudson", in which he played a Russian who defects in NYC. In one scene with other restaurant dish washers, all non-English native speaking immigrants, he asks everybody else if their mouths also hurt after speaking English all day. In the early 70's we had a fellow student from Yugoslavia who remembered her one hour of English class as them coming out of class with all their mouths hurting from trying to pronounce English (it is tortuously different from most other European languages, especially in the vowels). The other point is a half-remembered quote from somewhere. It was from a student of English to the effect: "Why is English spelling so hard? To make us look stupid?"

I'm studying to become an english teacher and I plan on showing this to my students to show how phonetically inconsistent this crazy language is

Now that's a crazy language... An English speaker said it himself 😂

My mom's made the same complaints haha, this was perfect

This is so hilarious 😂

This is what I'm always trying to explain about d/Deaf learning English. English is fricking bonkers

My second favorite lucy episode.

Ricky was right about the Spanish language

I use this for many of my ESL groups!

How the hell can this classic have 81 thumbs down?🙃

So funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By the way... why the plural of "Hoof" is "Hooves" but the plural of "Roof" is "Roofs" instead of "Rooves"?

2:42 one for the Spanish language... 😛

Yeah,,, that's what I was talking about Ricky Ricardo said it clearly... Spanish pronunciation is just simple, not matter what it's always pronounced exactly the same (with so few exceptions, obviously like any rules out there) ... not that crazy OUGH pronunciation... pretty weird!!

Very help full

Yes Ricky, but at least our language has spelling bees! :-)

I always crack up at 'booges'!

I'm a native English speaker, and even I think o-u-g-h words just need to go straight to the boiler room of Hell.

ough ough ough ough ough

Classic episode.

LOL THIS IS FUNNY

English is uff to learn.

English is a mess because it's a mish-mash of a bunch of different languages. Ricky (Desi) has a good point that in many other languages, the spelling and sounding out of words are consistent, through and thruff.

I came here from fuller house 😂

So true. Verissimo.

RICKY KNOWS HOW TO PRONOUNCE THOSE WORDS "THROUGH" WEEK TALKING WITH FRIENDS BUT CAN'T PRONOUNCE THEM WHEN HE READS???😅😂 "OH THAT'S IT I HAD ENOUGH OR SHOULD I SAY "ENU"😂😂😂

“You mean to tell me that I could’ve gotten out of all this just by taking you to a movie?”😂😂😂😂

please, where can I find it without subtitles? I want it for a language class. Any help, please! Thank you

Can't get enu with this.

Is there a funnier show of all time than I love Lucy?!

"Rock a bye baby"

Like his accent anyway

I love *I love Lucy*

Which movie does this clip belong to

Ricky was really right about the non-sense stuffs in the English grammar . But the thing here is he was at least trying to learn it. In these days most of recently arrived latinos are just concentrated in Univisions noveles and Telimundo

many people say i have same accent as ricky

English is straight Babel