Hello lovely students! I would like to remind you that I teach Modern RP and that there are many varieties of English. This is intended to be a fun little test! Please let me know how you do! Also, get your FREE PDF and exercise pack here 👉🏼ex.ewl.info/pdf150new (It's a good one! I give you 15 EXTRA words!)
English is my native language and I still only got 13/15. Meteorologist and indict really threw me for the loop. Also, I'm your age, and super impressive that you know a whole other language this well! I'm failing my French classes lol. I know, like, four sentences and a bunch of random words 😅
As a native English speaker, albeit Australian English I struggle to pronounce a lot of words correctly including meteorological. So don't fell bad for having trouble pronouncing a word that even native speakers struggle with,
What a nice thing to share! I’m a native speaker as well, and while I don’t have any trouble with singular words, I often stumble on my words in a sentence. Sometimes, I have to stop myself and repeat the word slowly to get it right.
Ok I’m a native English speaker, or as much as someone from Northern Ireland can be, but I found my pronunciation deteriorating the more I looked at the words. At first glance I could pronounce the words, if I didn’t think about things and had a sort of run at it. Then when I started to read things out syllable by syllable everything became suddenly disconnected and I lost myself amongst the weeds. This all makes me even more impressed by those that have English as a second (or third) language!
I'm a 75 yr old Englishman and was expecting to get them all right. I got two wrong. One was a foreign food which I've never eaten but the other was Entrepreneur ! I have always pronounced it as Au - trepeneur so many thanks for clearing that up for me.
I got all 15 correct - but then I am a 76 year old Brit who had pronunciation drummed into me in Grammar School - AND spelling - AND grammar! The word ‘iota’ is also Greek. It’s the name of a Greek letter - the equivalent of ‘i’. It is often just written as a dot hence it has become symbolic of the smallest possible quantity.
As a native Greek,the Tzatziki isn't pronounced TSA TSI KI but TJA TJI KI (like we say Jungle) and meteorological(μετεωρολογικός) is also a greek word!Thank you Lucy...love your videos 🙏
@@alabamahanna Yap , it is Tzatziki like we say tzaki (τζάκι) in greek which means the fireplace, and in English is pronounced as I said (Jungle) for the first "tza"or the well known Christmas song "Jingle bells" for the second "tzi"... 😊☺️ ☺️ 😉
I am from India and I have English as my first language throughout. Still I get to know so many things. I even stayed in the US, France and China. Simply love this lessosns
I got all correct. I have always been good at anything involving pronunciation, spelling, or writing. When I was five I could spell "antidisestablishmentarianism" I even taught my sister how to spell it. She still remembers that. I am a great-grandmother now, so it's been a while. Thanks for your excellent tutelage Mom.
In my opinion, the (12) "Iota" should be prononced as it is. It's a latin word (coming from the greek) [yota or eeota] so you should prononce it good like you do for "Alpha" "Omega" etc...
"Iota" has been used in English for around 400 years, and back then Latin and Greek were pronounced with English vowels. Incidentally, how do you prefer to pronounce "omega"? I've heard several versions here in the UK.
I got 14 right! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm Chinese from Hong Kong living in Greece and I feel amazing to get so many right!!! When I get frustrated in learning Greek, I remind myself how amazing I am with English!!!
Hello Lucy, I was able to successfully pronounce only 10 words out of 15. But I want to correct my pronunciation mistakes when you teach me the right pronunciation Lucy. Thank you so much Lucy for teaching me good British English.
I speak English as my first language (and the only language that I know) and I got 12/15 correct. So don’t worry if you don’t get them all correct, even people who speak English might struggle to pronounce them.
I was mispronouncing words like 'quinoa' prior to subscribing to your channel, but this time I got 15/15 correct pronunciations. Thank you for such helpful videos. ❤
I pronounced about half of the words wrong at first but after hearing it I was able to pronounce it right. Thank you very much for this lovely video Lucy 🫶🩷
Got them all. I have a weird sort of advantage though. I started life with a lot of medical difficulties, one of which was hearing, and once they fixed my hearing I got to have speech therapy for the first eight years of my life. I was taught to look at words critically, and just because a word was spelled a certain way doesn’t mean it would be pronounced the way it was spelled. Sort of an early critical thinking regarding the English language! 😂
As a native English speaker I find that when a learner speaks, I can understand them when they accent/emphasise the word on the correct syllable. This is much more important than almost any other aspect of pronunciation in my experience. Of course the problem is that there is no rule that tells us which is the correct syllable to emphasise! The only way to know is to hear the word or see where the stress is in a dictionary.
I was born in England and am an english speaker with Welsh and Spanish as secondary languages. I thought I’d wizz through all of these words but I pronounced Indict wrong! I didn’t realise indict was spelt like that at all, I thought the word indict was short for indicative 😅, you learn something new every day.
Thank you very much. I got them all right! To say I wss amazed wouldbbevan understatement. Dad was hired by an American co. so we went from Argentina to NYC, learned French, Italian and Portuguese just by listening at a very young age helps mev"wrap my tongue around words" as you say. I was delighted to confirm I hot them right. But I would definitely neef a lot of prsctice to get thst ectremely long word you showed.
Got 13/15 happy with my result, I got the small ones incorrect like indict and another one i forgot 😅, but yea i appreciate this :) . Not a native English speaker but it's nice I got that score :D
I'm apparently a twelve year old girl, and English is my third language but I got them all right! I can speak both American and british accent, when I saw you use the British accent I immediately turned into British accent from American. So I can make all of the correct Pronunciations as yours.
Got all of them right. Indian here, who married into a white British family, and had to teach them the spelling of pigeon (they thought it was pidgeon, still not out of the 14th century in many ways).
This is the first video i am watching to improve my pronunciation. I look forward to watching more video of yours. Great work Lucy, Namaste🙏from Nepalese man living in Doha.
English speakers speak english as they want. They pronounce a simple word like "bus" as they want depending the day of the week. Same with "bath" and many others. That's why they always ask you: ¿Could you spell it for me, please? I asked many People in the UK ¿How should I pronounce this surname? Or this Village? And they told me " I dont know, I've never heard it before". Amazing. In Spain everybody know how to pronounce every single word even if you've never seen that word.
Maybe English borrows too many foreign words, so the pronouncement systems have developed as variety as much. You could respect the words original sound and you can also using phonics to pronounce the words that you never see before.
All I can say is cough, bough and through. All spelt similarly but pronounced differently- coff, bow and throo. Or how about Bromborough and Edinburgh. Two place names spelled differently but which perfectly rhyme with each other
Yeah, I’m South African and learning Spanish, and it’s very refreshing to learn a language where I don’t have to just guess at the pronunciation of words half the time. Spanish is a comfortingly easy language, I love it.
Native german here, learned english in school and i often had detention because my english teacher hated me for some unknown reason..... so i had a lot of time going through the words plus cable-tv came to german households with american channels that were broadcast, mostly news and game shows and later on during my workeducation a schoolmate showed me an english shop in my city where you could buy food, books, movies and all other kinds if stuff from the UK. Because they rented out movies as well we were often there and i started consuming all kinds of books in english as well through which i learned a lot more than through school, all kinds of idioms and all those things no english teacher will ever teach you. So this here wasn't that challenging. I still wouldn't say my english pronounciation is "amazing" but if i wouldn't tell you where i'm from, you'd probably have a hard time guessing.
Surprisingly with both dyslexia and a speech impediment, the only word I got wrong was indict, i tend to read and write words the way they sound so i was very excited to get 90% of them right
I'm used to pronouncing/reading complex chemical names. So don't find these particularly hard. I'd say I'm quite adept for a non-native english speaker. But still it's always good to know if I've been making mistakes to improve myself in the future. Bonus word! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I learned to say this as child, because I thought it was fun. It's good practice.
15/15. But I'm a native english speaker. From Canada. So I had fun with the british accent on the pronunciations. They sound so proper, where as mine is closer, but not exactly like American pronunciation...and less proper sounding hahaha. I absolutely love english and all it's variations. ❤
If you ask me to pronounce February, I will pronounce it correctly. If you don't ask me to pronounce it, I will pronounce it exactly as wrong you did. I was born the 22nd of February. 😂
I can understand how new English speakers have a difficulty with this language. I am Canadian and missed two of the hard pronounciations. I love Lucy in the way you do this
It seems that everybody have been able to pronounce them all correctly .. .I can't believe it My score is 6 out of fifteen and my first language is Italian
I can't believe so many claimed to be able to pronounce that Greek word. And a Greek (Grecian?) wrote in to say the given pronunciation was wrong. With co-opted foreign words, should you pronounce them as in their original way or according to English normal pronunciation? Entrepreneur is the most often mispronounced in various areas, enTROPeneur is the South African version.
I guessed the following four words wrong. 🙂 KEE-noh-uh (wrong stress) in-DIKT (spelling pronunciation, this time with correctly placed stress) IGH-uh-tuh (wrong stress and also reduced the second syllable) ZAHT-see-kee (I guessed the fist ‹tz› sequence would be as in ‹tzar›, but it turns out it’s as in ‹tsetse fly› which also can have the first ‹s› dropped, unlike ‹tzar› or even ‹tsunami› were it’s the first ‹t›)
14 out of 15. I surprised myself by getting entrepreneur wrong. I have never realised the middle r is in there and I have always pronounced it entrepeneur. You learn something every day. Cheers.
Wow, it was 12 words. Maybe because I love the English language and always look for an explanation when I stumble over a word that I don´t know how to pronounce. Thanks so much Lucy for your amazing tutorials! Best regards from Munich
Thank you, Lucy. I so proud of myself. Apparently I’m not so bad in pronunciation as I thought and I should continue to develop and master my English in general, including pronunciation ! 💖 thank you!
I am a native speaker and got 15/15ish. I pronounce February as Feb RUE ary because my third grade teacher insisted. I'm not totally convinced it's correct now. My biggest problem word is quixotic. Like you I had a bad school experience, reading around and trying to pronounce it as Kwix.
Thank you for adding the word February. I confess I mispronounced it more often than not. I was hoping you would have added Wednesday as well. We Americans pronounce it more like Wenzday as a shortcut. Thanks for the lessone.
I got 13/15! Indict and indubitably got me! 🇸🇪 living in 🇫🇷 speaking 🏴 with my partner and also learning 🇮🇹 ! Iota we have in Swedish too, jota! ”Jag fattar inte ett jota!” I don’t understand an iota (literal translation). My English is alright and I so enjoy your videos!
Just discovered your channel. I got 14 of 15 correct. I aced 13, but stumbled on quinoa, although I gave myself a pass on it, because you did say that pronouncing it as keen 'no wah would be acceptable, and that would have been my attempt. I had no clue on tzatziki--I'm from the American South, and I have never tasted that, or even seen the word. Thank you.
Okay i definitely adore your sweetness n respect to other language speakers n obviously your efforts ! You r doing a great job Very honestly i just got 5 right n am a Pakistani here with BS ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENT OF SECOND YEAR ! thank youuuuuu it wass sooooooo informative lovee youu!!!❤️❤️
As an educated native English speaker, I was relieved to get them all right. I was puzzled by February. Many people in North America leave out the first r and substitute a y sound as you suggested, but you leave out an entire syllable when you say ry instead of ary!
I could pronunce 8/15 words right ma'am. Thank you for conducting this fun based exercise. I would love to learn many more interesting and informative words like the ones appeared in the video.
I love your videos and often share them with my friends. Among them there's one who teaches English literature in a university in India and I'm sure she loves your channel too. I didn't know two of the words but I did get all the rest right.
Respected teacher Lucy , I'm Estella , reading in grade 9 , I have watched your many videos n really liked them , I also told about your channel to my friends n cousins, they also liked it very much , teacher Lucy, your videos had helped me a lot in my tests n exam n I appreciate your work so much . teacher lucy I needed audio books to make my English more better so plz guide how to get them , please please reply teacher
Tricky words , Lucy , my results not to write home about ,.. about 50 % wrong , and I have to play this video over and over to better my pronounciation . BTW , I really appreciate the good American style tips , Bringing back some memories words pronounced by my former American students here, teaching them ( Dutch and Latin based) medical jargon , in the Netherlands a few years ago .
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Hello lovely students! I would like to remind you that I teach Modern RP and that there are many varieties of English. This is intended to be a fun little test! Please let me know how you do!
Also, get your FREE PDF and exercise pack here 👉🏼ex.ewl.info/pdf150new (It's a good one! I give you 15 EXTRA words!)
Hi Lucy ❤ I love your videos 😍
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When you say "hello, lovely students" believe me I m really ready to give my soul to your Excellency 🙏😇
Hi teacher ☘️🧿🌼
I found "genre" word as confusing one because it's first stress mainly difficult to pronounced 😅😅😅!
I adore how respectful she is to other languages
Heart for valuing her consideration for different languages❤
True that. But just in general, there’s no need for anyone to show disrespect for other languages ❤
Me too
I totally agree with you.
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I'm not a native and am thirteen years old, got 12/15, and I'm happy!
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@@LovelyBLINK1169 I am a K-fan too!
sameee ! i love english but sometimes my french accent is too strong for that lol
@@stargirl23-u5q same lol
English is my native language and I still only got 13/15. Meteorologist and indict really threw me for the loop. Also, I'm your age, and super impressive that you know a whole other language this well! I'm failing my French classes lol. I know, like, four sentences and a bunch of random words 😅
I scored 100%. English and art have always been my strengths.
Wow... I'm a KerriAnn. Yours might be the closest name to mine I've ever seen! 😊
100% for me, also. English and arts, also. And languages 😊
Congratulations : ) Your profile picture is nice too : )
@@KayoEll That's a nice name : )
@@melindawargowsky8176 Congratulations : )
I'm very happy with myself for getting all 15 correct. I'm a 58 year old male from Pennsylvania, USA.
As a native English speaker, albeit Australian English I struggle to pronounce a lot of words correctly including meteorological. So don't fell bad for having trouble pronouncing a word that even native speakers struggle with,
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Yes...your right✋ Why do you do your words that sort complicated(?)🤣🤣🤣 Too much letter make the words to tongue twisters, all the time.🤣✋
What a nice thing to share! I’m a native speaker as well, and while I don’t have any trouble with singular words, I often stumble on my words in a sentence. Sometimes, I have to stop myself and repeat the word slowly to get it right.
@@Dreamer_121 …then forget to learn German! 😉
@@GianMarcoTavazzani you Joker 🤣🤣🤣 Even if i dont wanted to learn...German is my new native language🤣🤣 I live in Germany.
Ok I’m a native English speaker, or as much as someone from Northern Ireland can be, but I found my pronunciation deteriorating the more I looked at the words. At first glance I could pronounce the words, if I didn’t think about things and had a sort of run at it. Then when I started to read things out syllable by syllable everything became suddenly disconnected and I lost myself amongst the weeds. This all makes me even more impressed by those that have English as a second (or third) language!
HA! I am forgein english speaker and somehow managed to get all correct! Soo yeah! :D
I'm a 75 yr old Englishman and was expecting to get them all right. I got two wrong. One was a foreign food which I've never eaten but the other was Entrepreneur ! I have always pronounced it as Au - trepeneur so many thanks for clearing that up for me.
I also got two wrong: quinoa, and the Greek food. However, English is my second language.
Good that you only got the foreign word wrong. It did not belong on the list.
I've been known to skip the second "r" in "entrepreneur".
Wow. Thanks for sharing
I'm 78 and English and I got one wrong. Don't indyked me.
I got all 15 correct - but then I am a 76 year old Brit who had pronunciation drummed into me in Grammar School - AND spelling - AND grammar!
The word ‘iota’ is also Greek. It’s the name of a Greek letter - the equivalent of ‘i’.
It is often just written as a dot hence it has become symbolic of the smallest possible quantity.
You saying: I struggle with this word" It is so comforting. This was super fun. Spanish follower here 😅
The best language is the Castilian Spanish spoken in the north of Spain.
@@rongarza9488 no empieces con tonterías 🙄. Comportate como un adulto.
@@whateverhuney ¡Hostia! Suenas como alguien de América. Les voy a cazar.
@@rongarza9488 . Onda Vital
@@rongarza9488 ... Ok
As a native Greek,the Tzatziki isn't pronounced TSA TSI KI but TJA TJI KI (like we say Jungle) and meteorological(μετεωρολογικός) is also a greek word!Thank you Lucy...love your videos 🙏
Acording to the father from 'My big fat greek wedding'...every word has its origin in greek 😅.
But...to be fair, it's almost true. Greek or latin 😂
I was taught to say cha zee kee. Am I wrong? I worked in the Cyclades for 2yrs.
@@alabamahanna Yap , it is Tzatziki like we say tzaki (τζάκι) in greek which means the fireplace, and in English is pronounced as I said (Jungle) for the first "tza"or the well known Christmas song "Jingle bells" for the second "tzi"... 😊☺️ ☺️ 😉
Also a native Greek here and I agree, tja-tji-ki is the way to go! Minus that, I got 14/15! Not too shabby!! 😃
Ooh, excellent knowledge. Please tell us more
I am from India and I have English as my first language throughout. Still I get to know so many things. I even stayed in the US, France and China. Simply love this lessosns
I got all correct. I have always been good at anything involving pronunciation, spelling, or writing. When I was five I could spell "antidisestablishmentarianism" I even taught my sister how to spell it. She still remembers that. I am a great-grandmother now, so it's been a while. Thanks for your excellent tutelage Mom.
In my opinion, the (12) "Iota" should be prononced as it is. It's a latin word (coming from the greek) [yota or eeota] so you should prononce it good like you do for "Alpha" "Omega" etc...
Absolutely agree!
"Iota" has been used in English for around 400 years, and back then Latin and Greek were pronounced with English vowels. Incidentally, how do you prefer to pronounce "omega"? I've heard several versions here in the UK.
modern greek or ancient greek
@@brendanmarchal Both.
Oh yes! That's why I first have pronounced it like that like yota!
😂I am a French lawyer and the one I got wrong is "indict"!! Thank you so much Lucy for this great video. This really enlightening 😊
I got 14 right! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm Chinese from Hong Kong living in Greece and I feel amazing to get so many right!!! When I get frustrated in learning Greek, I remind myself how amazing I am with English!!!
Hello Lucy, I was able to successfully pronounce only 10 words out of 15. But I want to correct my pronunciation mistakes when you teach me the right pronunciation Lucy. Thank you so much Lucy for teaching me good British English.
that was great as always! only got indubitably wrong :) being german probably helps not stressing about the longer words
great work! I also find that word really hard!!! I have a lot of outtakes 😂
Ja… ich hatte gerade dem @Dreamer_121 geschrieben: "…then forget to learn German! 😉" 😀
To be fair, it’s a word that gets mangled by many English speakers and many more wouldn’t know what it even means
I speak English as my first language (and the only language that I know) and I got 12/15 correct. So don’t worry if you don’t get them all correct, even people who speak English might struggle to pronounce them.
I was mispronouncing words like 'quinoa' prior to subscribing to your channel, but this time I got 15/15 correct pronunciations. Thank you for such helpful videos. ❤
I pronounced about half of the words wrong at first but after hearing it I was able to pronounce it right. Thank you very much for this lovely video Lucy 🫶🩷
Can we use a seconds to appreciate her efforts ❤
I got them all right. Great quiz. Thank you, Lucy.
Can we use another second to appreciate her beauty ❤❤
A few centuries ago, I've learned to pronunce every word as you did in my German school. We where tought "Oxford English".
It works till today.
The absolute best!
I got 10 right. I have learnt a lot. Thank you, Lucy.
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That's awesome, I just got four.
Got 13 not me but my son !
Got them all! Thanks to the great English teachers I had throughout my school years!
Got them all.
I have a weird sort of advantage though. I started life with a lot of medical difficulties, one of which was hearing, and once they fixed my hearing I got to have speech therapy for the first eight years of my life. I was taught to look at words critically, and just because a word was spelled a certain way doesn’t mean it would be pronounced the way it was spelled.
Sort of an early critical thinking regarding the English language! 😂
14/15 !! I only missed indict, because I've never heard that word before. But it was really fun to try it out !
You really amazed me with these hard-to-pronounce words as per usual. Thank you, Lucy
What fun! Knew all 15 without a problem, love words! Looking forward to more.❤
As a native English speaker I find that when a learner speaks, I can understand them when they accent/emphasise the word on the correct syllable. This is much more important than almost any other aspect of pronunciation in my experience. Of course the problem is that there is no rule that tells us which is the correct syllable to emphasise! The only way to know is to hear the word or see where the stress is in a dictionary.
Good observation.
I was born in England and am an english speaker with Welsh and Spanish as secondary languages. I thought I’d wizz through all of these words but I pronounced Indict wrong! I didn’t realise indict was spelt like that at all, I thought the word indict was short for indicative 😅, you learn something new every day.
14 out of 15 just Greek I missed pronounced from Birmingham originally now in Sydney Australia for 63 years
Thank you very much. I got them all right! To say I wss amazed wouldbbevan understatement.
Dad was hired by an American co. so we went from Argentina to NYC, learned French, Italian and Portuguese just by listening at a very young age helps mev"wrap my tongue around words" as you say.
I was delighted to confirm I hot them right. But I would definitely neef a lot of prsctice to get thst ectremely long word you showed.
15/15, I am a german, talking in an american accent, dealing with english MULTIPLE times a day. I feel like I speak/write more english than german.
I successfully pronounced 8/15 , I mispronounced: quinoa, indict, genre, infamous, iota, squirrelled. Thanks, I learned a lot 😊🤝
This is probably my favorite kind of lesson! :)
my too❤😊
Thank you queen ✨ You're so respectful and sweet queen... Have gotten 14 correct... 🛐
I'm a native English speaker (Minnesota, USA) and #14 is the only one I didn't know but all other 14 words I pronounced correctly.
YOURE LITERALLY MY SAFE PLACE!!! when i feel exhausted anxious have panic attacks etc i come here and even the accent feels better😊
The word "indubitably" killed me. :) So 14 out of 15 for me. Thank you Lucy!
Same😊
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Got 13/15 happy with my result, I got the small ones incorrect like indict and another one i forgot 😅, but yea i appreciate this :) . Not a native English speaker but it's nice I got that score :D
I'm apparently a twelve year old girl, and English is my third language but I got them all right! I can speak both American and british accent, when I saw you use the British accent I immediately turned into British accent from American. So I can make all of the correct Pronunciations as yours.
Dear Lucy, I love your videos and your pronunciation a lot. Thank you very much! Greetings from Germany.
Got all of them right. Indian here, who married into a white British family, and had to teach them the spelling of pigeon (they thought it was pidgeon, still not out of the 14th century in many ways).
Hi. That's nice. Congratulations for being married and getting all the answers too : )
Have you ever heard of "pidgin English?"
@@jvallas yes, what about it?
This is the first video i am watching to improve my pronunciation. I look forward to watching more video of yours. Great work Lucy,
Namaste🙏from Nepalese man living in Doha.
Jazakallahkaira!wish you best of luck.....❤❤❤
I'm from India 🇮🇳 I found a better world in your video and now I will immediately improve my English ❤
I am also an English teacher and I love to teach English in effective ways...
Got them all. I'm one of the only people I know that pronounces February with the R included. I pronounce it Feh-brew-air-ee here in the USA.
As do I, & I firmly believe people think I'm mispronouncing it. LOL
@@jvallas I feel that. My husband teases me about it (goodheartedly).
10 - 15 thank you Lucy for teaching me how to pronounce perfectly
English speakers speak english as they want.
They pronounce a simple word like "bus" as they want depending the day of the week. Same with "bath" and many others.
That's why they always ask you: ¿Could you spell it for me, please?
I asked many People in the UK ¿How should I pronounce this surname? Or this Village?
And they told me " I dont know, I've never heard it before".
Amazing.
In Spain everybody know how to pronounce every single word even if you've never seen that word.
Maybe English borrows too many foreign words, so the pronouncement systems have developed as variety as much. You could respect the words original sound and you can also using phonics to pronounce the words that you never see before.
All I can say is cough, bough and through. All spelt similarly but pronounced differently- coff, bow and throo. Or how about Bromborough and Edinburgh. Two place names spelled differently but which perfectly rhyme with each other
Yeah, I’m South African and learning Spanish, and it’s very refreshing to learn a language where I don’t have to just guess at the pronunciation of words half the time. Spanish is a comfortingly easy language, I love it.
@@clareshaughnessy2745 What about Bicester?
@@davidtuer5825 lol, and towcester!
Mam your way of teaching is amazing. I learn easily from your videos. I salute you. Keep it up.
Native german here, learned english in school and i often had detention because my english teacher hated me for some unknown reason..... so i had a lot of time going through the words plus cable-tv came to german households with american channels that were broadcast, mostly news and game shows and later on during my workeducation a schoolmate showed me an english shop in my city where you could buy food, books, movies and all other kinds if stuff from the UK. Because they rented out movies as well we were often there and i started consuming all kinds of books in english as well through which i learned a lot more than through school, all kinds of idioms and all those things no english teacher will ever teach you. So this here wasn't that challenging. I still wouldn't say my english pronounciation is "amazing" but if i wouldn't tell you where i'm from, you'd probably have a hard time guessing.
I can’t believe how easy this was. As an Aussie, who loves language, and correctness, I was in my element.😊
Im English ( 13 yrs old ) and I just found this and watched it to see if I even know my own language - I got 14/15 😂 not to bad i guess
same I’m 13 too and I got 14 as well
13/15 for me!
Me too, I’m 14 and speak English as my first language. I got 12/15
@@laylascarlett2010 sad how bad I am at my own language
Surprisingly with both dyslexia and a speech impediment, the only word I got wrong was indict, i tend to read and write words the way they sound so i was very excited to get 90% of them right
Anyone with all correct??? ❤❤❤❤❤
Me.
hey lucy, i am not a native speaker. i have scores 14/15. thank you. i've been following you since 4 years.
I learned the pronounciation of the word "indict" thanks to Donald Trump 😂😂😂😂
This is my favorite post ever!!🤣🤣🤣 Good old Orange Foolius rides again!
Now let’s just get him into gaol, aka jail. In other words, behind bars!
I learned dementia because of Biden
@@sharim Your mouth to Gods ear.
@@sharimI don’t want to get political, but everyone here has different political views and I respectfully disagree with you.
I'm used to pronouncing/reading complex chemical names. So don't find these particularly hard. I'd say I'm quite adept for a non-native english speaker. But still it's always good to know if I've been making mistakes to improve myself in the future.
Bonus word! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I learned to say this as child, because I thought it was fun. It's good practice.
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious 😂
I had an education, so had no problem getting them all correct.
15/15. But I'm a native english speaker. From Canada. So I had fun with the british accent on the pronunciations. They sound so proper, where as mine is closer, but not exactly like American pronunciation...and less proper sounding hahaha. I absolutely love english and all it's variations. ❤
If you ask me to pronounce February, I will pronounce it correctly. If you don't ask me to pronounce it, I will pronounce it exactly as wrong you did. I was born the 22nd of February. 😂
I can understand how new English speakers have a difficulty with this language. I am Canadian and missed two of the hard pronounciations. I love Lucy in the way you do this
Nobody really answer how many they got right😂
I got all except the Greek word and spell check doesn't accept it either.
in some cases d figure is 15😂😂
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It seems that everybody have been able to pronounce them all correctly .. .I can't believe it
My score is 6 out of fifteen and my first language is Italian
I can't believe so many claimed to be able to pronounce that Greek word. And a Greek (Grecian?) wrote in to say the given pronunciation was wrong. With co-opted foreign words, should you pronounce them as in their original way or according to English normal pronunciation? Entrepreneur is the most often mispronounced in various areas, enTROPeneur is the South African version.
Great thank You, Lucy!
Tzatziki - it also pronounced as TsaDsiki - T and T reduced on Ts and Dz in speak form.
Thank You twice.
My tongue hurts😂
I guessed the following four words wrong. 🙂
KEE-noh-uh (wrong stress)
in-DIKT (spelling pronunciation, this time with correctly placed stress)
IGH-uh-tuh (wrong stress and also reduced the second syllable)
ZAHT-see-kee (I guessed the fist ‹tz› sequence would be as in ‹tzar›, but it turns out it’s as in ‹tsetse fly› which also can have the first ‹s› dropped, unlike ‹tzar› or even ‹tsunami› were it’s the first ‹t›)
you didnt just say tzatziki is an english word 💀
Yeah, you're right. She didn't.
15/15 for me!!! Pronunciation has never been difficult for me. Thanks to a life of reading.
She pronounced quinoa wrong though. She said the American/British pronunciation. 😅
well.. to be fair, it’s explicitly English pronunciation I guess!
Kwin oh a
But it's ..... English.... pronunciation......
14 out of 15. I surprised myself by getting entrepreneur wrong. I have never realised the middle r is in there and I have always pronounced it entrepeneur. You learn something every day. Cheers.
Well done!
Americans 👇
Wow, it was 12 words. Maybe because I love the English language and always look for an explanation when I stumble over a word that I don´t know how to pronounce. Thanks so much Lucy for your amazing tutorials! Best regards from Munich
Thank you, Lucy. I so proud of myself. Apparently I’m not so bad in pronunciation as I thought and I should continue to develop and master my English in general, including pronunciation ! 💖 thank you!
I am also an English teacher and I love to teach English in effective ways...
English is my second language, and I found all of those words extremely easy to pronounce. Simple stuff!!
As a South African I see this as an absolute win, like how on earth was I able to pronounce everything perfectly🇿🇦
I am a native speaker and got 15/15ish. I pronounce February as Feb RUE ary because my third grade teacher insisted. I'm not totally convinced it's correct now. My biggest problem word is quixotic. Like you I had a bad school experience, reading around and trying to pronounce it as Kwix.
10:45
Iota is also the ninth letter of the Greek Alphabet (Θ, θ), although in Greek it is pronounced as "yota" .
Thank you for adding the word February. I confess I mispronounced it more often than not. I was hoping you would have added Wednesday as well. We Americans pronounce it more like Wenzday as a shortcut. Thanks for the lessone.
I got 13/15! Indict and indubitably got me! 🇸🇪 living in 🇫🇷 speaking 🏴 with my partner and also learning 🇮🇹 ! Iota we have in Swedish too, jota! ”Jag fattar inte ett jota!” I don’t understand an iota (literal translation). My English is alright and I so enjoy your videos!
Thank you Lucy, so I just found out something amazing! I got 15/15 in this video.
Thanks Lucy, I find it helpful to replace ‘qu’ with ‘kw’ cause it makes sense in my mind😊
Just discovered your channel. I got 14 of 15 correct. I aced 13, but stumbled on quinoa, although I gave myself a pass on it, because you did say that pronouncing it as keen 'no wah would be acceptable, and that would have been my attempt. I had no clue on tzatziki--I'm from the American South, and I have never tasted that, or even seen the word. Thank you.
Okay i definitely adore your sweetness n respect to other language speakers n obviously your efforts ! You r doing a great job Very honestly i just got 5 right n am a Pakistani here with BS ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENT OF SECOND YEAR ! thank youuuuuu it wass sooooooo informative lovee youu!!!❤️❤️
As an educated native English speaker, I was relieved to get them all right. I was puzzled by February. Many people in North America leave out the first r and substitute a y sound as you suggested, but you leave out an entire syllable when you say ry instead of ary!
I previously pronounced it ath-let but now I know it should be ath-leet. Thank you!
12:46 how she rounds her hand 🤩🤩🤩 i think its perfect!
14/15 correct. I'm from the U.S. and have always felt that had excellent pronunciation skills, but I don't pronounce the first "r" in February 🌝
being from india where we speak british english it was quite easy to pronounce them
I could pronunce 8/15 words right ma'am. Thank you for conducting this fun based exercise. I would love to learn many more interesting and informative words like the ones appeared in the video.
i got everything right but indict - that's crazy! never knew about it in ten years of studying english!
About 8/15, it's hard to count because of proud mispronuntiation, both mine and shared with our host! Greetings from Brazil
All of them. Was a spelling champ in high school and love challenging words.
I love your videos and often share them with my friends. Among them there's one who teaches English literature in a university in India and I'm sure she loves your channel too. I didn't know two of the words but I did get all the rest right.
Got them all! :) very happy as someone who moved to the UK as a teenager and am now bilingual!
Congratulations,dear Teacher for your right prononciatons of words.l'm following you on Gonaïves,Haïti.
I'm a spanish young person and I got 14/15 (indict was the one I got wrong) so I'm pretty proud!
Respected teacher Lucy , I'm Estella , reading in grade 9 , I have watched your many videos n really liked them , I also told about your channel to my friends n cousins, they also liked it very much , teacher Lucy, your videos had helped me a lot in my tests n exam n I appreciate your work so much . teacher lucy I needed audio books to make my English more better so plz guide how to get them , please please reply teacher
Tricky words , Lucy , my results not to write home about ,..
about 50 % wrong , and I have to play this video over and over to
better my pronounciation .
BTW , I really appreciate the good American style tips ,
Bringing back some memories words pronounced
by my former American students here, teaching them ( Dutch
and Latin based) medical jargon , in the Netherlands a few years ago .
I got 12 words out of the 15 and I really enjoyed the video, thank you so much