21 English words you’ve probably been mispronouncing

21 common English words that are difficult to pronounce
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There are 1.8 billion people in the world speaking English and everyone is kind of adding something to the language and starting to mispronounce words. We hear somebody using the wrong pronunciation and start to do the same. If you are interested to find out what kind of words you've been mispronouncing all this time and if you want to speak English like a native without any mistakes, keep watching this video!
Words used in this video: GIF, salmon, prerogative, bruschetta, espresso, babushka, pizza, Wednesday, Greenwich, Reading, genre, police, often, stomach, meme, niche, sugar, cocoa, raspberry, bowl, status
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Time codes:
0:00 Intro
0:39 GIF, salmon, prerogative
1:58 Bruschetta, espresso, babushka
3:07 About Skillshare
4:17 Pizza, Wednesday
4:55 Two words that don't follow the logic
5:20 Genre, police, often
6:15 Stomach, meme, niche
7:07 Sugar, cocoa, raspberry
8:14 Bowl, status
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[@linguamarina]

What are some other difficult words from your language that came into English? What is the right way to pronounce them? Let me know in the comments 😀⬇️ Time codes: 0:39 GIF, salmon, prerogative 1:58 Bruschetta, espresso, babushka 3:07 About Skillshare 4:17 Pizza, Wednesday 4:55 Two words that don't follow the logic 5:20 Genre, police, often 6:15 Stomach, meme, niche 7:07 Sugar, cocoa, raspberry 8:14 Bowl, status

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Some words in English that borrowed from Hindi , in Hindi we pronounced these as : Jungle - jan-gal Pyjama - pa-ja-ma cashmere - Kashmir thug - thag Dingny- din-gi Chutney - Chattni

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[@vaishnavikesarwani3822]

Statutory... How to pronounce this word?

[@ya.yanixx]

Am I the only one who didn’t get the difference between “prerogative” and “prerogative”.... yeah ok

[@andrewsld]

People usually pronounce it as perogrative, without the first r.

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No, I didn't hear it as well.

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I rewatched this prerogative part two times and didn’t get it until I read this comment

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Where do u from?

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@@ryanayyouby6427 same question

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questions

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@@ryanayyouby6427 actually, the Statment is inappropriate, it should be : where are you from?

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Hello Teacher, It''s a great video . The last word as "Status" has two meanings so my understanding is we need to pronounce the word as per the situation . Status -A relative social or professional standing & Secondly,the situation at a particular time during a process . Please correct me if I'm wrong . Thanks

[@ahmeds4]

6:03 I remember once I was talking to a native speaker, here in the states, and I pronounced the word with silenced t, but she didn't understand it. I repeated the word multiple times, yet she didn't get it until I wrote it down. I thought she was correct, but now I realized that I was saying correctly, thank you! & yeah, I will show this video to her and she'll hate for that lol

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[@VanillaCuckoo]

A couple of notes on differences in British pronunciation: 6:50 Niche. The word 'niche' is always pronounced "neesh" here in the UK, never "nitch". I've only ever heard the "nitch" pronunciation occasionally from Americans. 1:19 Salmon. The letter L is never pronounced in the word 'salmon'; it is silent in both the United States and Britain. Even the clip of the British example didn't include the L sound! No matter where you are, the word is always pronounced "sam-n".

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[@RAMANGOEL1]

Some words in English that borrowed from Hindi , in Hindi we pronounced these as : Jungle - jan-gal Pyjama - pa-ja-ma cashmere - Kashmir thug - thag Dingny- din-gi Chutney - Chattni

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we use these in urdu

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[@sinadjavadi405]

The first two words you mentioned originally are Persian :)

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@@sinadjavadi405 googled jungal word etymology you'll find it's originated from Hindi. Pyjamas although originated from Urdu/Persian used in Hindi too.

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"Karma" is a word from the language hindi, and it is pronounced as "Karma" not " Kaarma"

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Pronunciation of "niche" was a surprise to me. I usually struggle with "flour" and "beach" :D

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This lesson is really very important for all becu'z most of the people are often mispronuncing these words.. I've learnt a lot from you and I've been learning daily ... Thank you so much dear 🙏

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[@dombollward7719]

I'm from India and the word which is mispronounce in english is "yoga" it's a sanskrit word which is pronounced as "Yog" the word "Gandhi" is also pronounced incorrectly in english by skipping the sound of H in the name, H is not silent. "sherbet" is pronounced as sharbat

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Also Mantra and Karma

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People almost always say wrong polish word "pierogi" they don't have they own word for that dish

[@JuliesTales]

Sorry, Marina, but in the UK the 'l' is also silent in salmon. Just like in the example that you used in the video.

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Agreed. I correct my students on this all the time with my Russian students

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I like the way u pronounce stomach, clear, easier for me to understand. Wish u can do that to all the words, but still i love ur video, thanks a lottt

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[@vaibhavmishra1362]

KARMA In Hindi/Sanskrit it’s actual pronunciation is KARM (without the sound of A)

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When you are from Bosnia and someone says "burek sa sirom" (a kind of pie with cheese) THAT'S INCORRECT AND IT REALLY TRIGGERS US Burek is only with meat!!!!

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[@MsFunny920]

Could you please explain the difference in pronunciation of the word “prerogative”? I didn’t get that from the example

[@TheMissPalina]

I m Italian, but "bruschetta" it is pronounced differently; pay attention to the double "tt" than is often wrongly pronounced "d".

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even "espresso" it is not pronounced like this

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We Japanese say "virus" as a ウイルス(uirusu). We don't say the word in the same way people who use English do. This is one of common words of Japanese-English xD

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I’m American, english is my first language, it’s 12 am and I have no idea why I’m watching this. Anyway, everything you say is accurate tho

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Does she pronounce correctly? In your opinion?

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[@victoriabiryukova3230]

Dictionaries say that there is an unstressed schwa sound in the word "stomach", not i🤔

[@kristelkoukoua1854]

Yes, it should sound more like "stuh-muck" and less like "stuh-muck", but I do hear even native English speakers saying it this way... particularly young children.

[@ololo3520]

Yeah, exactly. I've never heard it to be pronounced with long /i/, it should be schwa sound

[@user-gt2ev4ft8g]

What about the word “ballet” 🙂 I mispronounced it when I was a student

[@etiennedorvault]

it's a Franch word so you can pronounce it "ballai", dont pronounce the "t"

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Omg this video is so helpful 🥺

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Useful as Always Keep the good work up God Bless You

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Totally useful. I agree.👍

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COCOA!! I don't know but literally i never think that i should pronounce that 'a' sound cause it sounds weird XD....

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How about cleanliness/ detail/quarantine/ detail/ although/ hospitable?:)

[@joelhall5124]

Nobody says "Salmon" here. That's how you pronounce the surname, not the fish.

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I've heard a few of my British friends say salmon with the "l" included... but there are many dialects, accents, and idioms within each major language group, so really, it's not 100% accurate to say that native speakers of one language always our never say something one way or the other. I grew up speaking American English from the NW, but I've also grown up with certain pronunciations that are non-standard for sure, but know many people of the English language that would never say things the way we say them and the true in reverse. Language is such a fluid, diverse creature, I think all the differences make it so fun!

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As long as the word “gift” is pronounced with a G, I will continue saying Gif. I don’t care what that one guy calls it.

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Thank you . Love it 😍

[@amenahalawi9111]

I pronounce them all correct I have learned all these words mentioned in my school since kindergarten I’m not a native English speaker I’m Lebanese and english is my SL but luckily I am fluent,marvellous,and splendid🥳 Note:marvellous is written with double L as i know not one L

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I just want everyone to pronounce "Rasgulla" as Raw-show-goal-laa. 😌💜 Rosogolla. I am so disappointed in everyone that they keep on mispronouncing this word 😭 It hurts my pride as a bengali!!

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Grow up! There are problems greater than that

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same objection lol

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So u r bengali 😂...

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Good lesson for prononciation. I will download this lesson. Thanks you Marina

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[@kirillpalazov354]

Кто не ожидал увидеть тут "babushka"??