11 VERY challenging English names to pronounce

[@Sereno44]

Waaaaaoooo the best teacher of English as Second language disclosures she's not native speaker but she is a genius because she teaches and speaks English better than native speakers

[@EmeraldSky33]

I'm a native speaker with linguistics training and this was fantastic. Your American accent is fantastic! I can only hear the tiniest hint of non-native accent, it's so wild. I appreciate that you included the name Siobhan because it's Irish and you'd be amazed how many Americans have no idea how to say it 😂

[@tommytwist8834]

I feel so lucky having found your channel. You're making my effort to get rid of my accent a lot easier. You're so professional.

[@didier.gerost.07]

one must be very humble learning English ! hugs from Gstaad Switzerland thanks so much !

[@catwoman3247]

"Barbara where is my fish " 🤣 hilarious

[@thegirlsoul3808]

I work in a BPO first of all thank you so much..very useful video.. I need to focus on active listening and remember foreigner names could you make more videos on the same topic

[@fernandoellingtonbeker30]

I really loved it. I learned to pronunce names that I did not know how to pronunce them.

[@NdayambajeJacques-pn4mj]

Thank u so much.to teach English online,

[@lenadoesenglish5810]

Hi, Haddar! Thank you for this video! 😊 Just realized the r sound followed by the th sound are the hardest for me to pronounce! 😤

[@RhillEnglish]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:28 🗣️ Hadar presents 10 challenging names to pronounce for non-native English speakers. 01:27 📝 Tips for pronouncing names Arthur, Rory, Cory, Jonathan, and Carl. 02:57 🗣️ Pronunciation guide for names Ethan, Barbara, Aaron/Erin, Joaquin, and Deidre. 07:26 📝 Explanation of the pronunciation of the name Siobhan. 08:31 💡 Share other challenging names in the comments section. 09:02 🎓 Embrace pronunciation mistakes as they are opportunities to learn.

[@kesthetic5443]

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[@adrianaassef4433]

One more time, you are the best! 😊

[@jagbhulanja1223]

Thank you so much.

[@BaruanaCalado]

Thank you, Hadar! Great tips!

[@ElMoscas114]

Wonderful.

[@mounimmounim3515]

Thank you so much

[@everc2766]

Awesome ⭐ your pronunciation of "Joaquin". You really have the ability to pronounce well, definitely has a gift on you.❤️🌟

[@alexandroalmeida822]

I heard for the first time the name "Siobhan" when I watched "Mare of Easttown" with Kate Winslet. The sound of that name was so different from the spelling when I read the subtitles and the way the characters called this proper name. Btw I loved this lesson. Please make more videos like this, one video for boys' names and other for girls' names that are very hard to pronounce.

[@dragon_toad]

Heck, a lot of native English speakers have trouble with Irish names - it's a different alphabet, it's not actually English, so people get thrown trying to apply English rules to a non-English spelling

[@nabilaazzabi5709]

Thank you Hadar for this wonderful lesson! It's my first time knowing about Siobhan as a name :) I had a South African colleague, I met him for the first time on an online meeting, his name was Eugene. As my second lauguage is French, and as he didn't introduce himself, I called him Eugène during the whole meeting even though I was aware that he's not French. He didn't correct me but I felt bad fo mispronuncing his name!

[@ВладимирМуковозчик]

Aine, with an accent on the A. This is Irish and it really surprises a lot of people to hear how it sounds.

[@selvakumar5219]

Hello mam. I am your new subscriber. And your teaching is awesome.

[@englishwithmiranda]

I'm a native English speaker, but always found the name "Deirdre" really hard to pronounce.

[@fozybinhweel2952]

I loved the names after this video. Thank you ... :)

[@freeenglishgrammarproject5615]

Great Channel !!! Subscribed !!!

[@hadar.shemesh]

Welcome:)

[@freeenglishgrammarproject5615]

Greetings from Italy :)

[@samrathaldar5323]

Nice video .

[@ajaymirajkar7595]

Sometimes I always getting confused about how to pronounce the names of American people. It's a valuable lesson about the pronunciation of their names. Thank you so much 😊 😊

[@alonakuian8595]

Great content

[@robertoaguilar406]

you are the best

[@Blossom-nc2iq]

Do u do accent coaching ?

[@younisbrohiyounisbrohi1530]

Nice

[@JuYa-yp9fr]

Can you pronounce Keira?

[@aslanov2001]

Hadar, how is it going? I'm struggling with the pronunciation of the sounds ' r + th ' like in the words ' ratheR THan ' and ' otheR THan '

[@aslanov2001]

Can you please make a video about that 🤗

[@krishnasarkar1348]

Fantastic. Where are you from?

[@PorterB]

Imagine my surprise when I was working with a girl at university on some coursework who told me her name was 'Siobhan', and I knew how to spell it from The Sugababes! Turns out I spelled it wrong, and her name was actually spelled Chevonne :x

[@lighting7508]

As a native speaker from UK (London/Essex) I wouldn’t even pronounce most of the names like you do 😂 For example I’d say something more like Ahh-thuh, Basically I’d do a non-rhotic ‘r’

[@foxyrider46]

Can you pronounce Daniel Thank you

[@nushar5366]

Thank you Hadar for this lesson and it`s important, 7:12 Joaquin is not /kh/ as in Arabic /خ/? About the sound of Siobhan /shvan/ in Kurdish we have this name and it is written and pronounced exactly as /shvan/ /شڤان/ which means (shepherd). Hadar, if I were English native speaker I would shadow you because your voice and sound is much better than many native speakers.

[@trinatran9890]

Hi Teacher!

[@qentrepreneurship9987]

lovely😀

[@executivedysfunction]

I thought of a few scenarios listening to your video. First, many native speakers lack the skills to teach the pronunciation of their own names. And vice versa. I have trouble learning to pronounce names in languages I haven’t studied like Hindi or Finnish. Second, I think literacy in phonetic written language makes the process of segmenting and blending easier. So people with poor literacy in their native language will have trouble exercising your advice. Third, use of words like names may have unexpected rules, such as gender differences, diminutives, and even pronunciation changes in different positions in sentences such as sounds be silent or pronounced based on adjacency or grammatical position. Fourth, I think you need a lot of experience and insight to even discriminate, much less rapidly process, new phonemes. So teaching pronunciation is going to be different based on the native speaker’s language. I think most people have difficult breaking down the formation of words like all the intricate timing of breath control, voicing, nasally, gliding, lip position, palate closure, vocal pitch. Wow! What a difficult challenge for a speaker with little experience learning other language. Thank you for your openness about your own experience.

[@pripricoelho]

Rory I learned in Gilmore Girls :)

[@lenaruibina]

I learned it in Doctor Who :)

[@altmrrelaxed]

You get a like and save in a playlist because my name is Arthur.

[@richardfrangie3518]

👍

[@aris3698]

How to prononce Forough? It is a Persian name.

[@匡少荣]

I am always lost when it comes to the names of the celebrities in American and Britain 😅

[@pripricoelho]

Even my name beeing a common name in english, I don't know how to pronounce it in the English way...

[@willianrom]

Is "Siobhan" a male or female name? - It's firt time i see this name.

[@hadar.shemesh]

Female . It’s Irish in its origin

[@willianrom]

Thank you so much

[@real_hello_kitty]

Saoirse.

[@MaureenMmannja]

Elhanivy

[@abcd......1661]

Let pronounce my name Nguyễn cường Quyền!!!

[@hadar.shemesh]

I’m on it!!

[@real_hello_kitty]

Nguyen.

[@lenadoesenglish5810]

Oh, Rory was such a disappointment in the Gilmore Girls revival!

[@Limonada_RC]

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[@tintamalambo444]

I expected to find names like Colonel and Stephen🙄🙄🙄 not impressed

[@alonakuian8595]

If you renamed this channel, it could have gotten more subscribers

[@juanmanuelmendozalopez8610]

I feel in love with you, heheh