How English Sounds to NON- English Speakers?? (Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, UK, USA)

[@annahashimoto3772]

(Native US English speaker) I had never heard "sesquipedalian" before, and even though I'd heard "lugubrious" and "vicissitude" before I didn't remember the meaning of either. Very fun video!

[@My.world-d9]

Julia you are so cute and funny girl I love your character❤ 😎

[@fabricio4794]

I see Julia i click.

[@ELLOBOking-ro6hs]

She is like a pop star

[@ridwan.dwi311]

Fr 😂

[@davidfernandez1992]

Yeah, just like Ana

[@alfisha4461]

She is over i don't like her

[@fabricio4794]

​@@alfisha4461 who cares about you

[@christiantuccio9811]

In Italian 1. Precipice _precipizio_ or _burrone_ 2. Glass _vetro_ (material) or _bicchiere_ (container) 3. Vicissitude _vicissitudine_ just as other people said in the comments, this word is rarely used in the daily life 4. Sesquipedalian _sesquipedale_ (unknown) 5. Lugubrious _lugubre_ on the contrary, this word is very common 6. Think _pensare_ 7. Vase _vaso_ 8. Skull _teschio_ 9. Hierarchy _gerarchia_

[@anthonyestevez2399]

Sesquipedalian is used to describe a word that is polysyllabic; long, like this word itself.

[@vic1ous511]

I thought it was an animal family, something prehistoric similar to Sasquatch 😅

[@johnchen3599]

Julia is best

[@ELLOBOking-ro6hs]

I hope one day she does like videos in English about her life in Korean

[@alfisha4461]

She is very extra

[@Siddhiksha-sq1dl]

That "Hi Rocky" got me rolling and falling off my Bed 🤣!!! I was laughing for 10min straight 😂😂.. TOO FUNNY!!

[@Talafia]

As a native English speaker I have never seen these words in my life lol. I don't even remember learning any of these in any AP Lit or honors English classes

[@VictorVæsconcelos]

Yeah, they got a bunch of rare words. These words are so rare, some of them retained their Latin features. Generally when a word is loaned it absorbs previous changes to the languages. So, for example, Latin -tio becomes English -tion. But if it's a loanword only used, for example, in legal documents or scientific latin, or other places where people try to sound smart, then it retains its form. That's the type of word they had here. Vicissitude has basically the same form it had in Latin. Even as a native speaker of a Romance language, I only ever hear "vicissitude" in poems or other such stuff. I think most native speakers of Romance languages don't even know what it means, even if they broke it down (because the parts still make sense in my language).

[@ahtantofa]

It can only be a joke

[@SherriLyle80s]

I'm 44 yo and have heard of most of them myself except the V word. Maybe it's just experience? I can't hear every word in the English language. If you are younger, even with those specialized courses, it doesn't change that outcome. I have learned that the day I stop learning is the day I'm 6ft under.

[@gayZ99]

I’m halfway through the video and I remember lugubrious from AP Lit but that’s it so far lol

[@lbell9695]

I've only heard precipice (which I myself use in my day-to-day life). And MAYBE lugubrious. Everything else was a WTF moment for me.

[@NessaChris1990]

Nobody's fluent when the "vicissitude" comes up. Not even the American girl! 😂

[@VictorVæsconcelos]

It's a Latin word. It's used regularly enough in Portuguese (especially in poems) but in 15 years of speaking English fluently I've only seen it used once or twice. And I read philosophy and stuff, it's just really an extremely rare loanword.

[@NessaChris1990]

@@VictorVæsconcelos Wow, now I don't speak Portuguese either. And I'm Brazilian... And I read a lot... Not poems though.

[@arhangeo]

"висисићуд"

[@hurricane31415]

It's a French word. About 30% of English is French.

[@SamtheI]

@@VictorVæsconcelosI know that word because I used to play Vampire the Masquerade rpg 😅

[@leca7216]

Julia é tão lindinha!

[@andremachado2538]

Suponho que todos comentaram deslizes e a Julia é a mais divertida sempre. 🇧🇷

[@yungmarqmusic.7608]

yo can i just say portugese speakers from what i can tell, yall make it seem like english is really yall first language. “julia” i think is the one everyone is talking about, her english is EXCEPTIONAL fr, genuinely reminds me of how good at English speaking my girlfriend is. she was born in sao paulo and when we first started speaking i was genuinely under the impression she was a foreign exchange student from america living in brazil or something. another video from this channel, i was watching two other girls speak portugal and brasilero and i was genuinely super impressed with how super fluent the english came from them. its like you REALLY have to listen to find the accent or youll miss it. fascinating!!!! 💯

[@sena167]

People here in Brazil like to make the effort to sound as close to the native pronunciation as they can, but it's not everybody. Personally, I like accents, so I don't mind not sounding like a native English speaker.

[@wilvin2627]

It reminds me of How people in the Scandinavian countries tend to speak English with a native American accent. I have seen a lot of people on KZbin and even on-the-street interviews and it was hard to tell they were not American natives, especially in Sweden. From the few Swedish people I have met in person, they say it is almost a second language there.

[@videosladvd7823]

The indian girl said "vase" and julia listened it wrong

[@ELLOBOking-ro6hs]

I hope y can see this @Julia , i really like your vibe,🔥 as a Brazilian i always looking for videos with you or the other hermanos and hermanas from South America anyhow keeping being such a good person 💚

[@OathKeeper95]

Hi Rocky got me 🤣💀

[@Sweepout]

I love how you have made these challenging but also still possible for them to get some! Its made them much more enjoyable! :)

[@Alexandre-akira]

Julia eu te amo 😊

[@williswameyo5737]

In Swahili, the English words have to end with vowel sounds or be filled with phonetic syllables to make it in the phonology of Swahili For instance: Television becomes Televisheni Fridge becomes Friji

[@acidceed]

Not the Brazilian girl trying to constantly push the blame on the Indian

[@raymundoii]

When the Brit said "Vase", I knew it wouldn't reach the end. I'm more surprised the fricative V reached the end there, although it did become a "W", which I feel is more acceptable than a Billabial B. Edit: repetition

[@vashthestampede4716]

Vicissitude means a succesion of events or happenings that escalated to an end. The amount of process that happened before something. Changing of events.

[@mahidulhasan1313]

Love From Bangladesh 🖤🇧🇩

[@sts.sam.my.]

I really like this group, they all bonded very well I can’t help but imagine if they were an idol group hahahahahahahaha I’d love to see them

[@vvi6426]

9:06 exactly, in some Indian languages like Hindi, the "W" sound has a slight "V" sound too, so sometimes it is easy to get confused or mixed up when Indians say English words with those sounds... but it is very very subtle

[@offsdexter2]

man, I heard vase, and I usually defend julia xD

[@vvi6426]

@@offsdexter2 oh yeah i heard vase too, just that i could also understand if julia didn't understand it at first lol

[@yudasgoat2000]

Sequipedalian: One and a half feet, or "person who likes using long words"-take your pick.

[@Iscreamredwhiteandblue123]

bruh hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words and hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia has that word

[@williswameyo5737]

It has Latin origin

[@ootts456]

They say L and R are hard for koreans and japanese to pronounce but it's actually not. The real hard part is to tell them apart when LISTENING since both the "L" and "R" sounds don't exist in our language and for real It took me like months of practice to differentiate them in daily convos I still sometimes mix up words like right/light, row/low etc when my ears are 100% awake though well yes you guessed right I'm mostly differentiating them by the context not really by the sound but let's not talk about that here

[@GBelneau]

The “G” in lugubrious sounds like the “g” in “gum”, rather than the “g” in “gym”

[@VictorVæsconcelos]

Merriam-Webster gives both

[@GBelneau]

@@VictorVæsconcelos From what I saw, Merriam-Webster gave an alternate pronunciation of the second “u”: loo-GOO-bri-us or loo-GYOO-bri-us. Similar to how an American is likely to pronounce “tube” as “toob” and in Britain, they’re more likely to say “tyoob”. As far as lugubrious, in either instance the “g” sounds the same.

[@Worldaffairslover]

The g in what??

[@cousinentertainement]

the brazilian girls is too much omg

[@Tbm_Maxx]

Yeh sab prakar ki bhashaye bahut achi hai ❤

[@ganelonmeunier4446]

In French : 1. Précipice 3. Vicissitude 5. Lugubre 7, Vase 9. Hiérarchie

[@AloeYouu]

This was entertaining. Would have been interesting to see the results with Mariko first in line too.

[@PedroHenrique-jd2zs]

"vicissitude" como jogador de Vampire the masquerade eu me senti representado kk

[@Carlos-xz5cz]

Oq significa?

[@PedroHenrique-jd2zs]

@@Carlos-xz5cz O significado em ingles foi falado no vídeo mas no jogo é esse: Conhecida também como doença da alma, essa disciplina da ao usuário a capacidade de manipular dois dos mais importantes componentes de um ser vivo, carne e osso. Essa habilidade permite que o usuário seja capaz de moldar carne de seu próprio corpo e de outros seres através do toque criando deformidades e alterando principios básicos da estrutura corporal como densidade e tamanho. O usuário pode facilmente transformar partes dos seu corpo em armas fazendo crescer seus ossos como também criar feras quimericas através da união profana entre dois seres vivos ou parcialmente vivos. Essa disciplina por muitos anos foi considerada uma disciplina imunda proibida entre os membros da extinta camarila por ser usada como método de tortura pelos membros do sabat.

[@ahtantofa]

Mano eu entendi quase todas as palavras e tem nativo de inglês falando que nunca ouviu essas palavras na vida deles Só pode ser piada, não é possível

[@PedroHenrique-jd2zs]

@@ahtantofa sim kkk

[@arcanjo8274]

primeira coisa q eu pensei tmbm KKKKKKK

[@willreason979]

Lugubrious is pronounced LUH-GOO-BREE-UHS. The J would sound like Gum rather than Judge

[@FranciscoAreasGuimaraes]

That's what I was going to say

[@apenasK.]

Oooopa! O Brasil ta de volta de novo! É isso! Brasil na thumb, clique meu no vídeo! 🇧🇷⚡

[@mly3982]

These words are even hard for native speakers.

[@Imaxgie]

Julia Julia Julia Julia like this comment 😆😆😆😆😆

[@ELLOBOking-ro6hs]

She will see this comment tho xd

[@Imaxgie]

@@ELLOBOking-ro6hs I think not

[@junjunjamore7735]

Even the British dont know the language sometimes. The G in "lugubrious" is pronounced with hard G.

[@msmendes214]

To be fair, as an American some of those words pronounced with the UK accent would confuse me too!

[@curtiswfranks]

Brazilian and Korean women are fixing it even when it gets messed up immediately.

[@rashmikiran4602]

PARINKA: did she cut her hair 😭 Noooo... I loved her hair in one of her street interview.

[@sonnymagalhaes9203]

Nice.

[@the_pr3d4t0r8]

Indian girl definately said Vase.

[@aliasincognito0]

I literally used this sentence today: "Burdened by the VICISSITUDES in HIERARCHY, the mortician threw the LUGUBRIOUS SKULL into the PRECIPICE nearly breaking the GLASS VASE." I don't get why people are saying these words are uncommon; I use them everyday along side gobbledygook and absquatulate.

[@RogerRamos1993]

Why say lugubrious when you can say upset, according to the American girl? Just say the upset skull. Or The ups and downs of life in the hierarchy

[@RogerRamos1993]

Why say lugubrious when you can say upset, according to the American girl? Just say the upset skull And The ups and downs of life in the hierarchy

[@williswameyo5737]

Hierarchy , I almost fully roll the r, most of our local languages and Swahili have a rolled r sound

[@williswameyo5737]

I had a hard time to pronounce th sounds in some English words, due to influence from my local language which lacks that at the end of words, in Kenya🇰🇪, the sentence structure and grammar of English words may be influenced by Swahili and other local languages

Hi, Rocky! Think about it! I have a recipe that needs a glass (or a vase) of a lugubrious sesquipetalian that needs to be delivered by lots of Prius, and if you manage to deliver it in time, you will score it (or be scalded).

[@UrLocalSusMasterBTCP]

Fun fact: Mariko lied about not knowing English. She's spoken English in older videos.

[@doubler1230]

Dang, really? I totally didn't expect this.

[@AT-rr2xw]

That might just be instinctual humbleness. She may know more English than she acknowledges, but she is probably nowhere near as comfortable with it as the others are.

[@vegan.rex_8]

Arabic next please🙏

[@profRogerioOkuhara]

Eu bocejei no 11:31. Culpa da Julia.

[@MasterWingman]

1:21 LOL the source got it wrong to begin with. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jonathancauldwell9822]

In the UK only those who were raised south of the Bath/Bahth isogloss have the long ah vowel pronunciation. The majority have a short a in words like glass. It's the difference between RP and Northern RP.

[@dontgive1115]

I've been my whole life saying vase as bass and Britain way to say it really sounds like boss to me even when I know V and B sound difference

[@Blackjackbubble]

They really should change the order of the girls with each word-or every other word.

[@wojtekmieki8211]

cool

[@Bazroshan]

Oh dear! 'Lugubrious' went wrong before it started!

[@DontCareL0L]

9:58 As an Aussie, I am telling she sounded *NOTHING* like an Australian lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@mauricio77vicente35]

I find it funny how in words that have the sound of 'L' the japaneses say them with the sound of 'H,' practically replacing their sound, while south koreans and chineses phonetically change words that have the sound of 'H,' to 'L.'

[@ubuntuber1619]

Korean girl is something😍

[@thisisnthenry]

Emma face is so white 😮❤

[@hamidrza9632]

What's this comment 😐yeah she is white So what?

[@ELLOBOking-ro6hs]

The camera effect dude ,the while background also makes it makes so people look like ghost

[@schooltechnology3551]

I want a slavic language video like this! 😢

[@Ricardo-zs7kw]

Yes😢

[@videosladvd7823]

Maybe the didnt find a pair of the same slavic language

[@Verbalaesthet]

Wait what? She said [skoll]l not skull [skall]

[@ilovepie002]

They were speaking times New Roman 😂

[@aroacecreature]

The Korean one is so funny, I wish she stays for more videos!

[@BCowcorn]

Re the differences between British and American pronunciation: I've heard that British English pronunciation has changed more in the past couple hundred years than American English has. I've also heard that English has changed more in its pronunciation over time than most other languages, so an English speaking time traveller would have a more difficult time than average. It's also why many English words have strange silent letters, like the silent k in "knife"; the spellings did change over time to sync with pronunciation, but then got locked in by the invention of the printing press.

[@LeninKGB]

At times i encounter English words that make me wonder if someone actually really factually uses them in everyday life..like "Acquiescence","Imprimatur","Connivance".. They are in the dictionary,but hey,would the average native speaker even recognize them pronounced or written?:)

[@VictorVæsconcelos]

These all seem Latin. I can tell you that acquiescence is used frequently enough in psychology. Imprimatur looks like it was imported directly from the diary of some Roman emperor. Connivance sounds like an attempt to make conniving more French. It almost seems to revert the "natural" -ing ending which many Latin loanwords evolved to have in English to the French one. So no, they don't look like they're used enough because they hardly even evolved from their original forms, and it's been thousands of years. Words that are used frequently evolve. It's more of a situation through which it sounds erudite to use them so people insert them in the language but they never really become popular. Perhaps a memory of the transition between French and English as the international language.

[@williswameyo5737]

Some have Latin origin, they are not originally English, like susquipedalian is of Latin or Greek origin

[@RogerRamos1993]

People use those words...in writing.

[@tutucox]

safra boa , eita

[@fabricio4794]

@@tutucox aquela sul coreana então é deliciosa,ela e a americana coxuda

[@FranciscoAreasGuimaraes]

Sorry Julia, you are always great, but she said Vase correctly

[@Giacomini03]

Actually it started from the British girl, she said with the British accent of course and the Indian girl just repeated it with the same sound that she heard That made Julia understand “was” instead of “vase” just because the sound of the letter “a”, it became clear when the American girl said , sounding much more to A than O 🇧🇷 ❤️ 🇮🇳

[@jurii_vladimirovich]

It's good to know I'm not the only foreigner who doesn't know all the English words.

[@tommyc139]

Second❤ with yours

[@edgarmedrano225]

sheeeees baaaack

[@OscarOrtiz-w2h]

The red what that means. Wow

[@googlemarie3975]

Hi, Rocky! 👋

[@martinwolters1839]

Mariko ♥️♥️

[@SinarNila]

Dis ya giem uda bi 1000 taim muor fun ef dem did chrai ges di wod dem fram Inglish Kriol tu Yuuropian Intanashinal Inglish. Den it woulda be a fun game, it woulda level everybody up. A game like dis gi a lot a favor to di Statesian an British people dem before di game staat an den it lose it fun.

[@SmellyCat-j7n]

They got "think" wrong. It's not "thank". LOL

[@_chaeng_]

01:58 💀💀 that's wild LMAOOO

[@nicjansen230]

I thought I was fluent in English, but I'm starting to think I'm not

[@ur-inannak9565]

When 90% of native adult speakers dont understand a word, its not a word, even if a haughty academic decides to use it. English also has the opposite problem, where words that are so clearly English that any 10 year old kid will know exactly what it means can be considered non-English because it doesnt have a dictionary entry. For example swanling.

[@manalittlesis]

How can you guys leave out Thailand from this game. It'll be dangerously funny of you put japanese, Korean and Thai in between 😂

[@mattmexor2882]

It's funny that the British girl said to the Indian girl regarding 'glass', "I realize that you say it in the same way as a British way", but the Indian girl has an American accent and I think she thought the British girl was saying "gloss". To my ear she said an 'o' sound not that 'ah' sound the British girl used. The Brazilian girl changed the 'o' back to an 'ah' and the Korean girl took that as an 'a' and changed the 'ah' into something more like the 'ae' in the American pronunciation of 'glass'. Somehow two wrongs made a right.

[@Jayydubss]

Nah if i hear someone using those words while talkin to me ima take it as disrespect and we fighting

[@Riveller]

In portuguese (br) we have the word vicissitude and its meaning is the same as in english but... it's a word nobody uses. Specially the young ones. It's a word for old novels, that is.

[@marydavis5234]

I’m almost 63 and have not heard of most of these words

[@gabc7858]

If there's a korean and a japanese in a game to pass the word forward it is funny lol

[@Zittless]

Japan 😍

[@mythicalgirl2005]

The Japanese girl did really well for someone who doesn't speak English at all

[@RogerRamos1993]

Julia speaks English better than I do but she makes a mistake that many foreigners tend to make. She pronounces pronunciation as pronounciation.

[@tommyc139]

PLEASE react to spider girl challenge plz that's my special request from Kentucky USA ❤❤❤

[@5tfgu6tfb]

마리꼬 여기서 뭐해요ㅎㅎㅎ

[@sammishpluser8439]

they both pronounced lugubrious wrong at 10:49 the subtitle is wrong too, she said R is like more enunciated and not uninitiated

[@offsdexter2]

I thought it was ludibrious by the pronunciation, the hell is lugubrious 😭

[@yuzhuzhang3617]

Excuse me🥲,who is Julia? I'm new here.

[@dex1lsp]

Hold up, do British people really pronounce "lugubrious" with a soft g like that?? 🤨😂

[@HamidjonDavlatov]

7:17😂😂💚

[@jianboyan8078]

Was the second girl to right a Japanese? She sounds like a korean to me.

[@APYT1124]

are you sure this is english? coz i speak english no idea what these words is for some of the words ofc

[@nishant.71792]

Indian girl is the best

[@geekley]

What happened to the cute girl's finger?

[@hurricane31415]

Funny, many of your (difficult) words like "precipice", "vicissitudes", "vase" are actually French words. Lugubrious comes from "lugubre".

[@williswameyo5737]

Some are of French influence, due to Norman influence on English, such french words entered the language

[@thiagooliveira583]

English has some weird words haha but I mean, if you use those words translated in Portuguese, people wouldn't know the meaning of it either because they are not common, maybe they would know how to repeat it but never know the meaning of them

[@OscarOrtiz-w2h]

So does mean going out

[@chris_aguy2141]

Took AP Lit in high school, never heard of some of these Also I was expecting to see Non English speakers, not people that could speak on a native level so well that they don't even have an accent