I love Lucy english Pronunciation

[@Thinker669]

"I know it can't be cow."

[@Capcoor]

#processofelimination

[@GarethPW]

I also watched the video.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

I am thruff with this, thunked teh man.

[@conandenz8413]

It probably could. You never know.

[@shinichi9do]

Yeah lmao

[@leslietaylor4458]

You cut off the best part "Our kid is gonna learn to speak Spanish"

[@brucek1102]

"promise me until our child is 18 you won't speak to him!"

[@gretchennelson9965]

“And what’s more you’re not gonna talk to the kid until he’s 20 years old!”😂😂😂😂😂

[@CamilleGG451]

🤣🤣🤣 oh that's right!

[@brittburton3264]

Spanish is much more sensible.

[@dianapoveda3343]

Ive.been watching videos that people say Spanish is hard, because of the conjugation and accent or tilde. English is difficult.because of same writing different pronounciation and a word.with too many meanings which in.Spanish is not that extense. I also had some French which reminded a little of Spanish with the verbs.conjugation but more accents, since we just have one tilde.

[@twilightshadow1795]

The writers who wrote that story and scene did a great job.

[@MrWolfSnack]

Likely because Desi Arnaz was actually Cuban and they got some real Cubans to gather around to give some perspective on how they see English and what they had problems with and made that into the script

[@Me-bj4uf]

@@MrWolfSnack that’s so amazing for the time period.

[@ruthpurkey5682]

@@MrWolfSnack It couldn't possibly be because the show's professional comedy writers, who were native English speakers, were aware of the inconsistencies in spelling and pronunciation and thought it would be a good gag. 🙄

[@leslietaylor4458]

I love Lucy writers were legendary.. they wrote the standard in comedy

[@53Aubergine]

It's actually a riff off an early editorial Dr Seuss wrote called 'The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs The Dough.'

[@anonygent]

I didn't really grasp how difficult English is for foreigners until someone said to consider the past tense for make, bake, and take. Then I understood.

[@scienceboy20814]

We all made those mistakes when we were kids.

[@LOONAbd]

as a Spanish speaking person that is learning Deutsch, god I wish it was like in English

[@anonygent]

@Akira S maked, book, and tade.

[@anonygent]

@barutaji Why so? I know about the lack of gendered articles, but what else makes English easy to learn?

[@magicmulder]

Irregular verbs exist in other languages, and English only has some 210-ish of them.

[@yashwinning]

Imagine if someone only ever learned written English then heard people speaking it for the first time.

[@nixnavarro5814]

That's what transcription exists for.

[@madeleynecarat3368]

What do you mean? It's a known language because it's the easiest to learn

[@crazyjohnb22]

@@madeleynecarat3368 no its ridiculously hard to learn

[@madeleynecarat3368]

@@crazyjohnb22 Are you required to learn languages for applying for a university ? Just wondering....

[@madeleynecarat3368]

@@khoado2060 But that's one of the reasons why I was interested in learning english... I have to learn another language, before applying for a university

[@RealSkyDiver2]

This scene isn’t making fun of him but of how inconsistent the English language is. That’s some pretty smart writing actually.

[@larrysmith2123]

It's making fun of him and it's funny haha pure comedy dear.

[@2up3rm4n1]

@@larrysmith2123 they made much more fun of her not understanding Spanish than they did of his English. He seemed oblivious to his English errors, or even ridicule toward him, but once again, she was the every person left out of the loop when Spanish people were around, or for that matter, anybody who spoke a language she didn't understand.

[@Crackmode119]

Brilliant.

[@L.Spencer]

This is me and my husband, to a T.

[@Mxyzptlksac]

My husband is Chinese, he did this as a kid. He was confused

[@daltysmilth]

Normally, Lucy is the Clown and Ricky is the straight man. In this case... actually in this case, the English language itself is the clown.

[@wooby4104]

"normally... Ricky is the straight man" normally? are there instances where Ricky is gay? 🤔

[@Sourcoolness]

@@wooby4104 is that just a really bad joke or do you honestly not know what a straight man is in comedy?

[@wooby4104]

@@Sourcoolness just a really bad joke :']

[@davidthomas8258]

In the acting business, a straight man meant a serious actor.

[@Berries20]

@@wooby4104 don't worry it wasn't that bad, made me chuckle aloud 😂

[@shaneturner500]

My favorite line missing from this video: Lucy: when you proposed to me I didn't know if you wanted to marry me or take me to the movies. Ricky: ARE YOU TELLING ME I COULD HAVE AVOIDED ALL THIS JUST BY TAKING YOU TO A MOVIE?!?

[@queenierose7046]

Chaim Turner 😂😂 I love that line too

[@danielleking262]

LOL !!!

[@evm6177]

🍷😆😆

[@clare9621]

It’s such a solid dad joke- and such a good example of the fine line in this kind of humor at the time with the “why did I get married” thing. Like people rag on it all the time but I feel like it was supposed to be like this- the “my life might be easier without you, but not better”. But if you’re secure enough you can make that joke and it’s relatable to every relationshipz

[@jackevans9574]

I dont get it honestly

[@ailurophile4341]

This made me appreciate to have learned English from a young age.

[@tohopes]

i like ur avipic

[@MrFram]

Daniella Karan Pfft. English is one of the easier languages. Many learn it later in life and speak it much better than English speakers speak any foreign language

[@daniellakaran5760]

@@MrFram Yeah you're right. I'm learning French and it's harder than English.

[@melaniebai]

Truth.

[@mannynoneya7143]

Daniella Karan I wouldn’t say that

[@KirillShamsutdinov]

I knew a guy who refused to learn English when he saw how "though" is written.

[@greekpapi]

Throo??

[@angeldemon89]

Thoff

[@MrSophire]

If he lives in a country that doesn’t speak English that’s fine but if lives a country that primary speaks English, then he is a wimp and should try again.

[@matthew8153]

jomsart Sorry, we’re still on the 8th edition of newspeak in the grown-up world.

[@adammcfall5133]

Cough Through Though Tough Enough Rough Trough Plough Dough Bough ought I before e except after c: science

[@SuopIsTheWinner]

Awww those clever writers!!

[@whisperingthylacine]

That's why it's the hardest language to learn.

[@sandk7969]

@@whisperingthylacine Japanese have 40,000 characters.. im Asian so.. i find English easier than other Asian language. Though or tow thats just my opinion..

[@sandk7969]

@paul you okay, if it comes to that.. lets agree that English is easier.

[@greenrobot5]

Polish is hard to even try to pronounce

[@NoName-qf8iu]

Sand K totally agree. I’m Asian and I tried to learn other languages both eastern and western languages and finally I found English is the easiest language I’ve ever learnt.

[@BooDotBoo]

This makes me respect people who learn English even more. Even if they don't speak it very well, if you learned it, with how weird it is, you are amazing!

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

I agree

[@zephyrerazortail5478]

Greenlander here. English is taught to us as third language. Greenlandic and Danish being first two. But I kinda had to sacrifice my conversational skills to learn them haha I dunno how to keep talking to people.

[@nicoleellis6794]

O, thank you)

[@madiarnomartana8926]

And it's funny.

[@latsnojokelee6434]

As a former English as a second language teacher, yes this is a very quirky language with very irregular rules.

[@jekubfimbulwing5370]

"English mugs other languages in dark alley and goes through their pockets for spare vocabulary and loose grammar."

[@ariaflame-au]

Jekub Fimbulwing Paraphrased from James D Nicoll

[@AdiiraKuro]

English is like the easiest language I've ever learned. Teachers took about 2 years to explain how english works and then went for repeating and pronountiation. Other teachers explained rules of our native language for 8 years and were not finished. Germany teacher took 2 years just to explain how it is possible for paprika to be "der" or "him" , how to bend phrases depending on who do you speak with (one child, many children, one adult you know, one adult you don't know, many adults you know etc.) and how to make past tense. We didn't even got to future tense and the school was over.

[@အုပ်စိုးပိုင်]

@Red not exactly in the same family. English is a Germanic language where French is one of the Romance languages. They are both in members of the Indo European language family though. But yeah, with tonnes of French words in English, it'd be more or less easier for French people to learn English.

[@pikksen7905]

အုပ္စိုးပိုင္ Myanmar English is a Germanic language, but, as mentioned, took a pretty large number of vocabulary and features from the Romance family.

[@aureumrose]

It took my mom years to learn enough English to communicate properly when she moved to America. She still has problems with English after all these years. So for her, English is impossible to master.

[@coldbrewprods]

suddenly everyone in the comments are linguistics experts

[@andrewbui8295]

d b Lol ikr. There is no such thing as “the easiest language” or even “the hardest language.” The learning capacity and motivation to learn a new language and like it is different for everyone. That’s what makes us human. I’m a Vietnamese American, born and raised in Southern California and my parents would speak Vietnamese around me growing up. Come to discover western childhood tv shows and going to public school, I favored English a lot more as the years went by. To this day, I’m still crap at Vietnamese and with my parents, I speak “Vietglish” if you will. Similar to how people admit they speak Spanglish from time to time. And for me, I have zero motivation to learn a new language. English is my first. Why bother? Some people prefer to be bilingual, they can go ahead and do that. As long as I don’t get crucified just for refusing to master a second language, we could co-exist without any issues.

[@jeidun]

Andrew Bui you haven't heard of chinese lol

[@Okwardi]

Jayden did you even read what he/she said? Lmao.

[@spiritualopportunism4585]

That'll be $10k for acknowledging my presence.

[@lazypaw7448]

Oh I'm very much NOT an expert. I'm in college studying Modern Languages and interculturality but dude am I always a minute away from having am existential crisis

[@antonellac7189]

he's cute when he says he made a little mistake lol

[@ailurophile4341]

@IR E same lmao wtf was this comment, indeed

[@xirensixseo]

should i also make a lil mistake or was that mistake this reply?

[@paxsmile]

*Depression House* of course he is.

[@shalomcohen1309]

When I lived in Israel, I had a friend that I helped with his English, which was pretty good already. Reading and spelling was another story. I played THIS video for him to make him understand that HE wasn’t crazy, that it was ENGLISH spelling that was crazy. It was very helpful, and he also became a big Lucy fan.

[@Canadiantubemaster]

It may help if you showed him these videos as well. They document how English became what it is...kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWK7gqtvpax6mpI

[@mightisright]

Love this scene. Every other word in English is an exception to some rule. A truly bastardish language.

[@cgavin1]

Sir, I would like to introduce you to Hungarian!

[@jadenlevi9486]

Go phuch yourself.

[@misssincere5762]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CoinOrc]

There are a lot of languages that are way more bastardized than English.

[@humantwotwentyone641]

Actually, they're not really exceptions. There are different rules for pronunciation depending on surrounding letters and which syllable the letters are in.

[@donniemontoya9300]

"I Love Lucy" ages remarkably well. I've always loved it.

[@WelcomeApathy]

I find a lot of things in it does not hold up, but there are definitely parts that do, and it is a classic. Lucille Ball was brilliant.

[@lloydkline6946]

Either way. It tv 📺 woman do not stick around the house waiting for their husband's to come home. I still ❤ 1950s,1960s ,1970s, 1980s 📺 tv show better

[@luvlols4462]

In an early episode Ricky drugs Lucy to make her pass out so she will stop pestering him. She is also regularly threatened with domestic violence for disobeying her husband. This show scared me off marriage at a young age lol

[@morganlance.knight]

My last 2 brain cells trying to come up with what I'm gonna say next

[@VOLAIRE]

In the middle of a class presentation

[@CL-mp4vn]

I say "enu"

[@toompyfloyd4074]

Booges

[@noemistephanie93]

Lol

[@lilacdoe7945]

'Though' it was 'tough', our teachers went 'through' their lessons until their students had learned 'enough' to easily read this.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

😄👌🏻 Good one.

[@thegreencat9947]

The tough coughed as he ploughed the dough. Dr. Seuss.

[@victoriaodegaard1]

bough (ow) rough (uff) ... and then enough (uff) at the end through (oo) cough (off) English is my first language and I think it's pretty ridiculous how many pronunciations there are for things. If I didn't grow up learning this language, I'd be very frustrated, I'll tell you that.

[@eleSDSU]

And even in your explanation the vowels are wrong xD

[@xoqvuz]

though (oh)

[@theirishviking9278]

You think thats bad this is a gramaticly correct sentence Wouldn’t the sentence “I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and and and and and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign” have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

[@victoriaodegaard1]

@@theirishviking9278 Really? You can put that many ands in there and it's still grammatically correct?

[@victoriaodegaard1]

@@xoqvuz True. That's another one. I was just listing the examples from the video

[@greenrobot5]

This is why we don't have spelling bees in Spanish. It would be too easy

[@anipigs]

You sure? A lot of people confused about their H's and in Latin America S, C and Z are pronounced the same... Just like V and B in some countries, ah, and when G and J make the same sound as well... Y and LL. I mean, it's not "hard" but it's not as "easy" even for some native speakers, I can't even imagine for non-native speakers.

[@themaggattack]

@@anipigs But Spanish is pretty consistent, once you know the rules. (With a few irregular verbs and only a few exceptions like "la mano".) However, English is just all over the place! English seems to have made rules only to break them!

[@killjoyer]

WhatAWorld English is that revolutionized language that confuses everyone even itself most of the time

[@buccuducks]

Yup, had a teacher tell me if you can say it in spanish, you can spell it. It is very phonics based so you spell it like it sounds.

[@anipigs]

I wasn't comparing it to English, I was just saying it's not *that easy* to spell as this person was saying.

[@Will-en3kn]

Doctor: What brings you here today? Me: I have a really bad *cow*

[@ryutuk7534]

This comment made my day tbh AHAHAHA

[@FireMinstrel]

Bad cow! Shame on you!

[@VeryEvilGM]

A naughty cow.

[@Plainejan]

Corona...

[@Will-en3kn]

@@VeryEvilGM shut up

[@Metqa]

I did this episode in my ESL class. Much Empathy was had that day. They felt much better about their progress seeing how crazy English is.

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

That’s genius!

[@patchesdf]

Making fun of the English language. I love it

[@bonbonpony]

Have you seen GradeAUnderA's one? ;)

[@davespringer777]

Gallagher has some great english/school jokes. You'd love them.

[@liquidtvafternoons5315]

@@davespringer777 Man, he was exposed as a massive prick years ago

[@srinblmlmlke]

Anne my point

[@Kronos0999]

Learn to speak it first.

[@Nisa_002]

A person: English is damn hard Old Chinese: Hold my tea

[@margot2001]

And they say french is difficult ! :-D

[@goldengold8568]

margot2001 French is difficult.

[@margot2001]

@@goldengold8568 I know : I am French ;-)) (difficult but also beautiful and very precise language).

[@fishramen5390]

Yeah and I have to learn both of those languages as second language 😑😑

[@margot2001]

@@fishramen5390 relax : tout va très bien se passer ;-) (meaning : everything's gonna be ok)

[@emittlame8095]

The person who created English was trolling.

[@dragonprincefan9550]

That would be the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Celts again, Anglo-Saxons and Duch for about 100 years on and off, French, and then a few hundred years for two languages becoming one, that's not even mentioning the many that I forgot and the countless regional dialects that impacted others.

[@vincentmuyo]

Don't forget that printing solidified spelling back when they didn't have enough types to spell words like they sounded, and the spelling was based on a specific Wessex dialect.

[@heaintloveu]

Darth Traya kids that were around in the 80s and early 90s - Generation X - but we only use it to sound funny or to make someone laugh

[@nicolarollinson4381]

😂

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@@vincentmuyo thanks for reminding me. There's a fact I learned in the distant past.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

English: I can have multiple pronunciations! Also English: Screw it I'm tired here's a bunch of words that look or sound exactly the same, good luck!

[@thisbushnell4824]

We went through yolk, yoke and yoke today, my hispanic s/o and I... good thing I was born a linguistics teacher.

[@danielleking262]

Should be that look exactly the same* really, lol 😂

[@eran0004]

Scrough*

[@_simon.s_]

Sometimes I stare at a word for a long time and makes me wonder, "Is this even a real word?"

[@nrggvrn5576]

Semantic satiation m8

[@drewsmith1383]

Microwave Transformer I feel weird knowing what that word means

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

That's how I feel about horbgorble.

[@danielleking262]

Doppelganger was always such a strange word to me, I thought it was a fake made-up word until I learned it's real. Like abracadabra 😂

[@tkf15]

English is my only language. I can't tell you how many times I have to put down a book I'm reading to Google a word because I either don't know what it is or how to pronounce it. Usually it's both

[@mephostopheles3752]

Hey, can you blame the guy? English is hard. But it can be taught through tough thorough thought, though. EDIT: Christ, I get it. “eNgLisH iS aCtUaLLy ThE eAsiEsT lAnGUaGe!!1!1!1!!” I bet none of you speak it right though. It has so many little bullshit nuances and rules that not even NATIVE speakers remember. Sure you can communicate, but it’s technically not grammatically sound.

[@eleSDSU]

Nah, English is the easiest language by far.

[@anastasiarivera3063]

DID YOU JUST

[@sharonsmalls6846]

Mephostopheles I love it!!!

[@Fairiesofrock]

Spanish is harder than english 💁

[@sharonsmalls6846]

Mephostopheles Yes! So many persons have difficulty knowing when to write weather and whether, there, their, and they’re. They have difficulty distinguishing a homonym for example right and write.

[@shizustacean]

English is the type of language that Bologna and Pony rhymes But Tough and Though aren't

[@M0tt0ri]

What? How is it?

[@angela-kc3wc]

M0tt0ri Bologna is pronounced balonee

[@YourMajesty143]

That's bc bologna is actually a borrowed Italian word. English examples could be like neigh and nay, sweet and suite (Although suite might be borrowed french), side and sighed, clothes and close, marshal and martial, packed and pact, holey and wholly, you and ewe, write and right, colonel and kernel, weight and wait, pique and peak, one and won.

[@Bellomony]

@@YourMajesty143 Clothes and close doesn't necessarily rhyme depending on what 'close' it is because if it means nearby then it is pronounced with an 's' rather than a 'z' and if you have my accent then the 'th' in clothes is pronounced as a 'v' so they never sound the same.

[@roxyshow123]

@@YourMajesty143 Clothes and close are close but not the same. Cloves and clothes sound almost identical.

[@omaravilhosopontodevista8885]

Back when I was learning English, it always amazed me how simple phrases can be formulated, but also how confusing the way words are pronounced

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

I’m a native English speaker in America but still remember conjugating verbs out loud in class. We had to memorize them just like a non-native speaker would.

[@franciscoduarte1925]

Pode crer.

[@lynxadventure21ana44]

Welcome to English where every rule is actually a loosely fitting guideline.

[@ampz1466]

Its a pirates code. 😂

[@jeffcolorado]

I had a high school English teacher who explained "GHOTI" can spell 'fish'. Use the 'GH' in tough for the 'F'. Use the 'O' in women for the 'I'. Use the 'TI' in nation for the 'SH'. That spells fish.

[@Evieteresa]

Jeff B The ‘o’ in the word “women” is more like the ‘e’ in “eh” than the letter ‘i’. So that doesn’t really sound right when saying “fish”.

[@dayveo]

Depends on your accent

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

That was a puzzle from the Riddler in the original 1960's era Batman TV show.

[@NihongoWakannai]

That's not how english works though. In the english language, you read a word as a whole, not sound by sound. The sound of letters is dependant on their neighbours.

[@tc2241]

Guys, the idea that his teacher was getting across was that, to non-native speakers, the pronunciation of words can be difficult depending upon your understanding of context and order of appearance. Honestly, English is quite inconsistent with many of its words.

[@Shottoru]

english is just plain ol weird and confusing even as a first language

[@synaesthesia2010]

At least we only have the one alphabet, Japan has 3

[@0120-c2k]

@@synaesthesia2010 One of which has *thousands* of Chinese-originated symbols, the Kanji.

[@StarryxNight5]

@@0120-c2k which barely have any rules for about a thousand characters so you have to memorize them.

[@nishiahochi4905]

@@synaesthesia2010 But atleast Japanese has 2 of their alphabets to correctly phoneticize the words in their language. English can't even decide how many sounds a vowel should or could make.

[@st4rpt_603]

english is one of the easiest languages to learn try to learn portuguese for example or languages with another alphabet.

[@stevenmcnabb9185]

Another gem from later in the episode: Tutor: Now there are two words that you should never use: one is "lousy" and the other is "swell." Fred: Well tell us the lousy one first then tell us the swell one.

[@mrj.kottari8453]

English: mix of proto-anglic, ancient norse, very old french + some old germanic words. No wonder there are 5 ways to say "-ough" 😄

[@Romanus_Matthaeus]

50% latin words, 49% german words, 1% -native.

[@synaesthesia2010]

There's 7 ways to pronounce ough

[@Romanus_Matthaeus]

@Dread Wolf mix (native) proto (greek-latin) ancient (latin), very (latin) old (german) + (latin) some (german) words (german). No (native) wonder (german) 5 (german) ways (german) say (german). As we see by example of these 2 basic sentences, german and latin are predominant in english. If his sentences were more literal and scientific there would be more and more latin words.

[@Romanus_Matthaeus]

@John Reynolds Norse is German language, you won't find almost any words in English that are pure Norse and aren't of German origin. Yeah, poo and pajeets are Indian words, but all these other languages besides Latin and German have a very minor impact on English.

[@ShadowFoxSF]

And that is just at the end of a word...stick a t at the end and it gets a slightly different sound.

[@anthonywhelan5419]

So funny. Then you have all the accents. I grew up in Australia with a father from South Dublin, Ireland, a mother from County Mayo, Ireland. The combination of the the different accents trying to teach me to speak and read was torture.

[@garrettstanfield4068]

Could’ve been worse. Think about being born in the USA and having New England, Southern, Brooklyn, Chicago, Texas/Western, Midwestern and Californian accents fighting to get on top.

[@themaggattack]

As my great aunt from Mayo use to say: "Don't ye understand English when Irish is spoken to ye?" (Just be glad it wasn't a northern Irish accent, you'd be done for, for sure! ☘😉) "Is fear gaeilge briste na bearla cliste!"

[@themaggattack]

@@garrettstanfield4068 True story: My mom was 6 years old when her family moved from NY to AZ. It was the same year president Kennedy was killed. The whole country was devastated, but being fresh off the boat Irish, my family was absolutely beside themselves. Some kid at school told my mom: "Well how do you think I feel? He was MY president!" Sure, my mom's whole family was Green, but she was borne in NY. Apparently, my mom's NY accent had this kid convinced that she'd come from another country! The kid refused to believe that NY was part of the U.S.! 🤣

[@Romanus_Matthaeus]

You are most likely take your accent from the school and friends than parents. Your first grammar and literature teacher have biggger impact on your accent than anyone in the family.

[@bromptondevice7685]

@@themaggattack I worked with a gentleman from Northern Ireland once. Very nice chap but I did wish he had subtitles.

[@LittlexLola]

My husband is from Mexico.... this is literally our life 😂😂

[@lelandunruh7896]

My wife is a Swiss polyglot and my brother's wife is Mexican and learning English. The pronunciations around the house get more than a little interesting!

[@jalyc8515]

I worked with another nurse who was from Peru and when she got mad or excited, it was half English and half Spanish. I was the only person in the hospital who could understand her. LOL

[@tcconnection]

English has more Latin words in it now than Germanic. Many English-speakers screw up saying chiles, tamal, etc. And we don't even want to get into how inauthentic the food is at supposed authentic restaurants, lol

[@tomasck2973]

@@tcconnection point being?

[@thisbushnell4824]

De acuerdo!

[@davehue9517]

Lucy and Desi really were ground breaking in so many ways.... they took on topics that many others didn't and made it funny

[@johnperrigo6474]

Well played Lucille and Desi. They were quite good actors. Good comedy requires very good acting.

[@luvmyrecords]

My mom was among the first generation of ESL teachers. She still thinks this is the greatest demonstration of what challeges her students from all over the world had while learning to read, write, and speak English (ESL is not the same as bilingual education, and with so many different languages represented among the students, English was the only option in the room.)

[@nicole8923]

After a rough lesson with my ESL class, I decided to show this so they understood that it's not just them struggling. 😆

[@luvmyrecords]

@@nicole8923 Perfect!

[@DannyBPlays]

fun fact: in spanish, you can know how every single word is pronounced once you learn how each consonant/vowel(or group, like LL) sounds. After that, you'll pronounce 100% of the words correctly every time

[@Tocinos]

I know practically no Spanish yet I can still read it aloud almost as coherently as I can in English

[@cattifyed]

I love this. Rickies English is actually really good, he just hasn't memorized all the context rules

[@sfmike711]

@Anita Knapp : It's Ricky's.

[@jjwp-ql5rv]

I'm glad my native language is English, or else I'd be stumped learning it.

[@MrFram]

English is actually one of the easier languages. You only think it’s hard because it’s the only language you know. Many other languages have crazy “rules” and a trillion exceptions. Sometimes even a seemingly phonetic language (words spelled almost like they are pronounced) can turn the few ambiguities it has into spelling nightmares.

[@vio3366]

Naah it's not that dificult

[@madeleynecarat3368]

I have to learn two languages before entering university, I chose english (I finished the advanced level, that's enough) and the next will be french or italian which.... sound similar to spanish. It's so easy cuz the vocabulary is very limited therefore there aren't many words to use, for example, what are the ways to conjugate Play as a verb? Played, playing, plays... in spanish tho... Jugar: (s/he) jugó, (we) jugamos, (you) juegas, (I) jugaré, (you) jugarás,(we) juguemos, (s/he) jugará, (I) juego, (they) juegan, (s/he) juega, (they) jugaron, (they) jugarán and (we) jugaremos... I would think spanish is hard to learn for english speakers cuz of, as I said before, the limited vocabulary they are used to. I liked 1D as well, so being interested in wtf were they saying in interviews helped a LOT I guess xd

[@akuroatomostointernet3577]

Nah. Its mainly the pronounciation. Otherwise, there are FAR worse

[@d..b5490]

Imo it's not particularly difficult.. In a global scale we're all very exposed to it, so maybe that just makes things easier, most people are somewhat familiar with the sound of it

[@donnalubrano2856]

This scene epitomizes why I have nothing but respect and admiration for anyone who learns English as a second language! I’ll bet there is no language on earth with more inconsistencies and contradictions!!

[@ManiacoPorSiempre]

True, it's hell at the beginning, you go from basic, then understanding pretty much everything they say in cartoons to not understanding anything of what they say in movies and TV series for adults, it's frustrating. Now I can understand pretty much everything, but it was really hard.

[@donnalubrano2856]

@@ManiacoPorSiempre Great achievement! That took hard work and dedication. Bravo!!

[@digitalunity]

"That did it, I've had enough. Or should I say 'enu?'" This show was a treasure

[@Luna-os5jf]

i think english is an easy language to learn grammatically, but the pronunciation really throws me off 😞

[@shelbyherring92]

For the most part in conversational English, yeah. In academia though, it's a nightmare, just ask any English Composition student.

[@shengchuangfeng227]

To Chinese native speakers, the grammar is still way too difficult.

[@Tiffany-ov2jf]

nope, grammar is more complex to me

[@germanher7528]

Inglés es fácil solo dices las cosas al revés, por ejemplo si le quieres decir a un niño "ven" en inglés le dices "voy" :)

[@spyho7406]

@@shengchuangfeng227 the most confusing thing about chinese grammar for me is that for example: 我爸爸工作在一家公司 is wrong, but 我爸爸在一家公司工作 is correct! You have no idea how many times my teacher told me that the verb always comes last :')

[@LunalovaniaGaming]

I always come back to this clip because it never stops being funny, and it shows just how hard English can be to learn. People don't realize how hard it is.

[@juliantheivysaur3137]

German: we have 4 cases and strict grammar rules Chinese: our writing system is ancient and very sensitive to stroke order Japanese: this language inherits chinese characters. Even if they don't fit the grammar. Also, prepare to learn multiple readings for characters. English: HAHA, PRONOUNCIATION GO BBRRRRRRRR.

[@Flowerbarrel]

Yep. That’s why Japan’s literacy rate is around 90% and the US’s is...well...I saw a statistic somewhere that said around or below 60% of adults are below proficiency in English.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

I took Japanese for 3 years and to this day I have far less issues with pronouncing a new word in it than I do for English, my native language. Just saying C is for Cat is pure insanity when K exists!

[@Pughhead]

Chinese isn’t sensitive to stroke order, it just affects how you write the character.

[@JeddAhyoung]

All languages seem to have their easy parts and their "hard" parts. Still, as a native English speaker, I can attest that English is sometimes just pretty stupid. - German - yup, it's the grammar (and probably the phrasal verbs as well for people not used to that). - Spanish - it's the verb conjugations that usually get people who don't come from a Romance language. - Chinese - a tonal language which can be difficult for people not used to it, and the writing system. (Stroke order isn't necessarily a huge issue, but literacy can be.) - Japanese - yes, the three writing systems, and the respect system baked into the culture and the language. You can't use the language without understanding the culture. - English - perhaps not a "hard" language for everyone, but man, oh man, is it a fuckfest. It's like someone took a bunch of languages and dropped them into a blender with a turd. Spelling and pronunciation can trip up even native speakers. English grammar may be its only saving grace (and even then, the simpler conjugations and lack of declensions means that word order matters a lot more, which can also be hard for learners).

[@jakobmaximilianriedl1013]

German: *has supposedly strict grammar* me, a German: *laughs in determinate article declension*

[@RaynmanPlays]

"I have an idea. Let's make a pidgin language of Dutch." "Sounds good." "We're God-fearing people, so we should probably add some Latin in there." "I'm a little worried about that, but I guess it can work." "Hey, I'm from France and I'm your king now, so I will respect people more if they borrow words from French." "But..." "King."

[@tifree_cs4736]

LOL

[@Nonamearisto]

"ROI. If that's too hard for you, just say "Royal" when describing a king." "We can already use 'kingly' or something like that." "And don't forget 'Regal', as it comes from Latin, and educated people from France use that for most reading and writing anyway."

[@priscillajimenez27]

And add the intellectuals of Athens language as well...Greek

[@MBM1117727]

German not Dutch

[@RaynmanPlays]

@@MBM1117727 English was Germanic in origin, but it's closer to Dutch (also a Germanic language) than German. This is why native English speakers have an easier time learning Dutch than German. Its origins are most likely rooted in Dutch, not German.

[@CrankyGrandma]

Desi Arnaz was a brilliant comic actor.

[@cherieadams77]

Desi Arnez

[@francoherrera1265]

@@cherieadams77 Arnaz

[@davidvan6258]

I've had Enu of these KZbin recommendations that crack me up xD

[@zskr257]

thu i still think it's great

[@morphobots]

@David Van Agreed. I'm thruff with these recommended videos.

[@misschocoholic2126]

I tow it's funny.

[@Zubaidah000]

'enow'

[@DiggitySlice]

This whole video is basically one joke that is delivered extremely well. I miss good TV

[@meagangilley154]

These are iconic. ❤️ I’ve watched all of them growing up. They’ll forever be classic.

[@cleanestdirtyshirt2611]

what is the name

[@KookieDough94]

@@cleanestdirtyshirt2611 It's in the title, "I Love Lucy".

[@LovelyLies16]

And we say Chinese and Greek are hard to learn. This is still a prime example of how hard the English language is to understand and how a certain set of words or even a sound (like "to", "too", "two" or "there", "their", "they're") can sound exactly the same and yet mean totally different things.

[@aspergerart4635]

English is not a hard language! it's so easy you don't even need proper study to learn it and that's why it is kinda "default" language now: because it's the easiest language ever

[@user-me8hy8ew4o]

Yes, english isn't the world language because it's easy. But I think that's still pretty easy to learn in comparison with other languages. And you get used to the pronunciation after a while. Even in french after a while I could pronounce most words right (ok, with a heavy accent I guess, but i am talking about having an idea how to say something that is written like -aux or so)

[@user-me8hy8ew4o]

@@MulberrySeason Yes I know. But for me it was so much harder to learn the french pronunciation than the english one. Maybe it's because I learned english longer and began earlier

[@russellchido]

Chinese has way more words than sounds. It's context driven as fuck.

[@sunnyyyyyyyy01]

Nah, there are way more complex languages than English.

[@davidmiddlestetter5127]

It reminds me of a very old Dr. Seuss cartoon that showed a rough farmer working in a field of bread & was captioned: "The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough."

[@insertname1857]

David Middlestetter bro i'm a native english speaker and that confused me, needed to read it a couple times

[@MichelleAiello]

As an English major and former English teacher, all I can say is - I’m glad it’s my native language. Thanks for posting, fellow Aiello 😂

[@_simon.s_]

G and H have a weird relationship man!

[@twilightsparkle9368]

Their relationship is complicated

[@nrggvrn5576]

It is not an ordinary relationship

[@charadreamuur7229]

They are an odd pair-

[@thisbushnell4824]

Remember ghoti? Pronounced fish! 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@RossOzarka]

Just like Lucy and Ricky!!

[@7Steveski]

I just sent this to friends who teach English in another country. English has some crazy pronunciations and this was a hilarious way to highlight some of them.

[@Cabin13houseoflife]

What did your friend said back?

[@redshirtveteran5688]

"That's rough." It certainly is.

[@landonletterman831]

Though I believe Ethel and Fred got their jabs in, Lucy was the only one allowed to make fun of Ricky's accent, lol

[@alexmasubay2101]

this is nothing compared to today's comedy...this is gold! i eant more! i just cant get enough! or should i say, enu?

[@northshore1000]

unknown unknown I appreciate that you commented on the comedy gold in this clip! Yes, we know, English is a terribly difficult language to learn, as most folks in the Comments point out. But it was this scene that highlights the concept in a most clever & amusing way.

[@mar10ssj1]

Lucy is a timeless gem

[@m_gwb]

It's so cute when Desi says "uh, so I made a little mistake" and then shrugs lmao

[@lindanicolausson6148]

It is the cutest thing ever!

[@raine.994]

I love this clip. I have a child with Dyslexia and we laugh watching this together because it's so relatable. It helps him see others struggle too & it's Okay to make mistakes. English can be hard, laugh it off & keep going. ❤

[@NinaNooneknows]

I do believe that Finnish would also be difficult for someone who didn't grow up speaking it, but man, at least our pronunciation is like 98% consistent.

[@whatzittooya3873]

Torilla tavataan

[@CanadianMonarchist]

I saw a wonderful meme which said, “Learning French has helped me to live in the present, because I can’t conjugate any other way.”

[@koroconnell]

Any ESL student knows exactly what he's feeling 😂

[@chrisw6164]

A Latino man named Desi Arnaz invented the 3 camera sitcom that’s been a tv staple for 70 years.

[@AnasCreativeCorner]

Desi Arnaz was a genius and thanks to him and him alone, we are able to see reruns, not just of their show, but others. Period. And, they were soulmates. Period again.

[@BharathRamMS]

Enough, or should I say "enu"... Best line ever!

[@koolmckool7039]

English: exists Rest of the world: NANI?!

[@isratjahanishu8347]

The Frick 😂😂😂

[@koolmckool7039]

@@isratjahanishu8347 😂

[@Ninatic]

English is way easier in nearly every way compared to my native tongue though, so nah. Rest of the world is fine.

[@koolmckool7039]

@@Ninatic What's your native language?

[@Ninatic]

@@koolmckool7039 Finnish, sir.

[@tron3entertainment]

"Never mind making fun of my English." "That's English?" -Lucy crashing Ricky's Show as a clown

[@whoisharo4689]

This scene is so genius. The writing is epic. So well done.

[@alexiatr]

Exactly, in most languages the same conjunctions of letters tend to have the same sound. But in English it's pronounced different just because.

[@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr]

Alexia Tr that’s because English is a mixture of Greek, Latin, and Gaelic, so the English language can be confusing to none English speaking people.

[@owlblocksdavid4955]

@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr mostly old english (germanic) and middle French (romance). Most of the common greek words came through Latin, and most of the latin words came through french.

[@Telecasterluvr]

Jess Oppenheimer, Bob Carroll Jr and Madelyn Pugh were such fantastic writers.

[@eddieyyy3]

“What is this booges?” Lmao

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Meanwhile Mandarin: *"石室诗士施氏，嗜狮，誓食十狮"* this is pronounced as "Shíshì shī shì shī shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī" and it means "In a stone den was a poet called Shi Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions." This is from a poem called The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den which is a poem that is meant to showcase how hard Mandarin is, showing that different words can have the same sound. Literally, the poem is this pronunciation being repeated. Also Desi Arnaz is definitely one of Cuba's best gifts to the world. A national treasure who changed the state of sitcoms

[@nerhues]

“Hold it Shakespeare” 😂😂

[@AmosNomore]

Cracked me up when I was a little kid and still never fails.

[@loralieashrose592]

I love, I Love Lucy she's hilarious "hold it Shakespeare!" Bless Ricky xxx

[@Jan_Koopman]

It is thought that English pronunciation can be tough, though it can be taught through thorough learning

[@carmcam1]

why do i feel like i‘m reading kanji.

[@hankkingsley2976]

on the thruway.

[@TheMan21892]

Well I know it can’t be “cow”. Perfect delivery 👌 lmao

[@CupOfTae_SugaKookies_Sprite]

Sometimes The English language upsets me. It's so unnecessarily difficult. People just over complicated everything. It's annoying! But it's also the only language I know so I guess I gotta deal with it lol 😂

[@jaybirdie1428]

hi army! I did NOT expect to find another here 🤔

[@arielvidriales]

As a native Spanish speaking teacher myself I have come to the conclusion that English speaking people have a harder time learning Spanish than the other way around.

[@rachelf5466]

I don't think it's fair to say "people overcomplicated everything." English is a hodge podge of multiple languages. The main reason each spelling has multiple pronunciations is because the words were influenced by different languages. So not people's fault, but yeah English is crazy confusing.

[@tinaz.6137]

Rachel F still better than Chinese by far, even with Chinese as my first language. Imagine having the same character having different meanings and pronunciations or the same pronunciations having totally different meanings and characters

[@idkman309]

Lmao,I'm Brazilian and speak Portuguese,and bro, Portuguese is 100828303930 times harder,I got to learn English on my home,but there is also English class on School,and a lot of kids have a hard time to learn it,because the sounds are lowkey very different lmao

[@Raquel-is-weird]

I recently asked my grandmother who is in her 80s when she first saw a television and what she watched. She shared that when she was I her teens/early 20's her family got a TV so her brother could watch the baseball games instead of just hearing them on the radio. The first show my grandma watched was this one, I love Lucy. :) it's fun learning about her life

[@alexandrareber8387]

English is easy to learn but difficult to master. When I started to learn English, it was so simple compared to German and French, no genders, no adjectival agreements, simple verb conjugations. However to get anywhere near bilingual level as an adult learner is well nigh impossible - and I've been married to an Englishman and living in London for years. It's not just the prounciation, it's the nuances and subtle word order too. You have to say 'look at the cute little white dog" said my husband to me today out shopping, you can't really say "look at the white little cute dog". Why not? I dunno, just sounded weird, he said.

[@starruchan3798]

"So I made a mistake" AwwwwwWWWW

[@tonymusic720]

Bamboo can grow up to 6 stories tall... Personally, I had always thought it could grow up to 7 stories tall, but that's another story.

[@KettuKakku]

*storeys

[@jusufagung]

@@KettuKakku 😂

[@andreshernandez1180]

Tony Music just a “tall” tale

[@Tyler_Mills26]

I love when Ricky gets to the word "cough" and slowly goes "coo?" Then Lucy smiles at him like "incorrect please try again" and then he's like "I know it can't be"cow"!" Although I would have laughed if that was the pronunciation and he was 100% certain that he was gonna get one correct haha it's a shame they cut off the bit about their child learning Spanish coz it's easier haha xxx

[@sfmike711]

@Louise Mills : Why do you spell out every word in your post except for "going to" and "because"? It's no wonder that non-native speakers have such a hard time because people like you are going to confuse them with nonsense words. Put yourself in their shoes and let that guide you.

[@Tyler_Mills26]

@@sfmike711 I never really thought about it if I'm completely honest! When I speak to my friends I say "coz" instead of "because" and "gonna" instead of "going to" like that's just the way I talk. I don't even realize that I'm doing it! I had to search my entire post to find what you were on about like I completely skipped over the words as that's the way I type/talk. And I have just made a conscious effort to not type "coz" lol I actually had to reword at least three sentences 😂😂 xxx

[@sfmike711]

@@Tyler_Mills26 : Among friends it's easy to speak that way. The same thing would happen if a non-native speaker were part of that conversation. While I'm very good in Spanish, I still have some difficulty when listening to children or songs (even in English it can be a challenge). Don't beat yourself up, just be aware. Peace.

[@marcelocasarotto8479]

its funny to me beucase the word "coo" sounds like the slang"cu " (asshole) in portuguese

[@Tyler_Mills26]

@@marcelocasarotto8479 oh Christ really? xxx

[@emmaduchac5402]

My Mexican coworker is a sweetheart who didn't *officially* learn English, but essentially picked it up by ear from the age of 18. She's one of the best ESL speakers on our shift, but she'll still ask me for input, assurance, or advice from time to time--and often, the answer is something like, "Yeah, we don't know why it's that way either--but you can say it this way or that way, or you can keep the way you have been and Americans will generally still understand!" A lot of us don't speak English 'correctly' anyways, lol. She's also very funny, and will return the effort (or most any kind attention) by teaching Spanish back. XD

[@aviezerscop401]

I actually love the English language, but I sympathize with this.

[@aviezerscop401]

@Squiddy FancySon Are you fluent in it?

[@aviezerscop401]

@Squiddy FancySon That's generally what people who aren't proficient in it say.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Squiddy FancySon Spanish definitely doesn’t sound any better though

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Squiddy FancySon beats having masculine and feminine word types

[@llallogen7380]

My grandmother learned English as a third language to better communicate with the man she wanted to marry. She used I Love Lucy to learn it!

[@АлинаДергалева]

His acting reminds me Joe from Friends

[@ryandavid739]

You mean Joey.

[@CompilerHack]

Oh the one where Fifi teaches him French, right?

[@higashiwhy]

Алина Разина Joey, it's Joey

[@Jaym369]

You mean Joey learned his tact from Ricardo.

[@michelew2191]

Never realized it but they do have similar mannerisms.

[@thomasgallipoli8376]

Such a wonderful classic show. Well written and superbly acted.

[@XCoolxXBeans]

I’m so thankful I was raised learning English, I never realised how hard it is!!

[@dogzillasquad9524]

when Lucy pass away my grandma never was the same how my grandma was so funny like Lucy and she say I lose more than a friend a sister and I said she was not your sister and she said I know ,but to me she was like a sister we don't has to be related she was my inspiration and I said oh grandma we know but now and you still our inspiration please can you be funny again but is not the same ,I love my grandma very much I don't know what I do with out her 😢😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

[@cesarmendez5812]

this took my heart straight away

[@dogzillasquad9524]

Cesar Mendez same here she doing better way better not to funny but we still love some Lucy and course my bless grandma 😘😘😘

[@ibrahimdauda1358]

Jessie Girls oh my!....this makes me shed little bit of tears! Plz can tell me when does she passed away?

[@lesliewheeler7071]

Now, let's see her read in spanish ☺

[@carultch]

Spanish is a hell of a lot more consistent in how its letters represent the sound of words. Sure there are regional dialects, like LL usually being said like a Y, but a few places say it like a ZH. Or G in Guatemala being almost dropped completely so it sounds like Watemala. And there is the wildcard X, where you don't know if it is pronounced like an SH, a Spanish J, or a ks sound like it is in English. But X is a rare letter, and most words obey the pattern for what the letters represent. And people will understand your intent if you rigidly follow the Spanish pronunciation rules without adapting to regional deviations.

[@sweetcaroline2060]

I grew up with this one too. Man we had good entertainment. Especially our music. This was my favorite and I saw Ricky on SNL in his later years playing a Cuban doctor who treated his patients with lit cigars. He, all by himself, was hilarious. I never saw him without Lucy. ❤

[@kaiannely]

even as a native english speaker learning how to WRITE these words confused me sm hahah like ?? spelling tests were the absolute worst lol

[@Mr_Giraffe989]

My favorite representation of the English language being complicated, are the 3 words: colon, colony, and colonel. They each have the letters, "colon" in them, but each one is pronounced differently.