Europeans Try to Pronounce Difficult English Words!!

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Today, 6 Europeans tried to pronounce difficult English words!
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[@Noah_ol11]

Giulia sounds so italian...it's because she is italian , don't worry about that , Giulia , you're great , Andrea is from Spain so also has her way to speak , same goes to Ria from Germany

[@tatumergo3931]

But it is also the part of Spain Andrea is from, and I would say is the same thing for Rita.

[@milantehrandubai]

Exactly and also the Frenchie

[@dezm1]

The accents are evident BUT that’s 110% fine. You speak multiple languages and that’s such a cool and useful thing to do. Most people that are rude about foreign accents are limited to only that language

[@emjizone]

People understand globlish.

[@raychat2816]

Andrea is mercilessly adorable

[@TheInterestingInformer]

As someone learning a foreign language I will always appreciate a foreign person having an accent in English, means they took the time to learn my language which is incredibly challenging. 👏

[@davidoregan_]

8:00 In british english, squirrel actually is pronounced skwi-rul and not skwurl

[@brendaa_3723]

Andrea is back ! ❤❤❤ Hiii from Spain 🇪🇸 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 to my favourite spanish representative 😂I feel you with rural and squirrel 😂😂😂😂

[@sandracorres8321]

Its my favourite too!!⚡ And hi from spain🤗🇪🇸

[@stephenrowell9373]

Great to see one of the all time World Friends favourites back again , Andrea !.

[@afjo972]

And now choose English words that are actually difficult to pronounce: lieutenant, coronel, impecunious, fortuitous, exacerbate, intransigent, obstreperous, strengths, recalcitrant, sanctimonious, surreptitious, ubiquitous, unfathomable, mischievous, epitome, drought, sixth, thorough, Worcestershire, Massachusetts, nauseous, embourgeoisement

[@n9ne]

might be difficult if you don't know the words, but once you hear them i'd say they're rather easy to pronounce. it's mostly words with multiple R's and TH that are difficult to pronounce.

[@Iconejey]

Some of them are straight French words and some have french roots. Would be fun to hear the french guess to use an American accent for them

[@honaldjason]

I can’t pronounce strenghths

[@elsasvenski1566]

Almost all these words are French or have French roots.

[@danm.8634]

As a Spanish speaker, all those words are easier to pronounce than "rural", "murderer" and "through". The TH and multiple R's combined are very very hard. However, in my opinion, the hardest word in the English language will always be "can't", Americans pronounce it in a way that is annoyingly similar to "can" and I can't get how to naturally pronounce those two words differently in American accent no matter how much I practice 🤷🏽‍♂️.

[@crs7937]

y'all seem to have so much fun!! KEEP IT UP!

[@henryqu19]

In this game it's always bad to be 1st on the flanks, because it will always start on one side or the other, I understand like Andrea 🇪🇸 and Camille 🇧🇪 😂 ,loved the video. P.s : Giulia "Hammer , Hammer" to hit Jessica though 😂

[@johnchen3599]

Giullia’s streak HEATS up again! 🔥🔥🔥 Please let her be the in more videos!

[@marcbecker]

Giulia is soooo coool! Really love her personality.

[@pile333]

It's pretty funny how non native English speakers perfectly understand each others while natives maybe sometimes have problems in understanding English spoken by non natives! 😄

[@simonepunzo4890]

È verissimo 😅

[@binxbolling]

Brits pronounce squirrel with 2 syllables.

[@mopeybloke]

So do Americans.

[@binxbolling]

@@mopeybloke not most

[@Jennnnnnn_xo]

I love you, Giulia!

[@nathanspeed9683]

I can feel their pressure when someone with a hammer may hit you 😅!

[@cherylblossomfp]

the Spanish one is so funny, she and Giulia are my favorite ❤️

[@enricohasselhoff5936]

As a German I'd say that the Dutch girl nailed both German words (which didn't come too surprising, but she still did it well), but I was positively surprised how well the Spanish and Italian girls hit it, as they speak Romanic languages, and they did it both in a different way: the Spanish girl got the flow (although she used the rolling "R" in the "Kreuzschlitzschraubendreher", which I barely noticed), while the Italian girl broke the words down, went for precision (which sounds very German to me) and really got that German "R" right. I can't tell which one sounds more natural to me, I'd give them both a shared second place pretty close behind the Dutch girl (who got the flow and the sounds naturally), and I find it encouraging, that one doesn't have to do everything right, but can do it their own way and still seem natural in their own way and maybe even expand the language just for how sweet that is. Best wishes and keep it going, I really enjoy your videos :-)

[@enricohasselhoff5936]

@@jake-qn3tl Rather quite the opposite. I appreciated that one can interpret a language in different ways and give it different aspects and widen the horizon and enrich a language by that. I love all three of them. Edit: Now that you said it, I realised I wrote my comment under the wrong video. There were no German words in this one. Maybe I find the video that I meant to comment and put it there, but nevertheless I love Andrea's flow, Giulia's precision and Luna's naturality. Didn't mean to Germanize this one, sorry for that.

[@BaronDandy]

Everything is better with Andrea on stage

[@AquaticJackie]

I think all of them pronounce 'squirrel' correctly. Those pronounce in the British way don't deserve the hit. The Dutch girl knows the American pronunciation so she avoids the hit.

[@rafacosta_x_]

It's like the British pronunciation is of 2 syllables and the American way is just of one

[@101steel4]

Americans struggle with many English pronunciations.

[@liukin95]

Yes as a Brit myself it was infuriating to watch.

[@mblazin1532]

Wow Giulia is so damn cute!

[@padmanabhsaha6657]

So glad to see Giulia back.

[@emmanuelwood8702]

Giulia is the best.

[@edusauni1064]

Andrea is the best 💪🏽❤️

[@1rkhachatryan]

I love your new hairstyle Andrea, you look great

[@bert2744]

the belgian girl is from the french speaking part, the dutch speaking part has way less of an accent.

[@GV-sw7dw]

Giulia is so stylish 😍

[@peaceblob]

i mean, the spanish girl pronounced 'yacht' like an actual english person lol

[@davidskidmore6768]

Oh these girls are funny 😂

[@NikhilGupta-jw3ob]

how is it that everytime world friends, awesome world and global earth post videos at the same time

[@littleturnip99]

I love you, Andrea!

[@joestasitunes]

As a half Italian, Giulia speaks very good English and has very little accent imo 👍

[@atzanda]

Andrea is so nice and funny, she is my favourite ❤

[@pullibo]

Fantastisk, dette er det bedste. Sprog er historie

[@ikpts]

Half of the "corrections" for 'rural' were unwarranted.

[@iamchico]

Absolutely. They all literally said the same thing and the American couldn’t even say it correctly herself,

[@emmanuelwood8702]

Giulia was pronouncing everything correctly yet the American girl kept bumping her when she cant even pronounce the words in her own language correctly.

[@iamchico]

Was infuriating to watch. I’m happy the Italian and Spanish girl called her out on it. Thank God.

[@hbodiver]

I love these videos 😂

[@AT-rr2xw]

She really called it with the Dutch speaker, who definitely sounded the most American.

[@101steel4]

But they're trying to sound English 😉

[@ReinkaosRecords]

All ppl from Spain we hear personally think have such a STRONG accent

[@killtime20]

It's really hard for us to figure out when something sounds different than how it's written. That's why you have spelling competitions in USA, spanish it's pretty straightforward

[@Serenity_Dee]

Giulia doesn't sound like an L1 English speaker but she doesn't sound like how Italian learners of English as a second language usually sound. I certainly wouldn't have guessed Italian.

[@emmanuelwood8702]

Giulia speaks English really well .Its not easy for italians to learn to speak English fluently .But i can tell she has put alot of effort into it. Its alot more effort than most english speakers put into learning other languages . I have alot of respect for her because of that .

[@youngvegas8115]

i fell in love with the dutch girl lol

[@ussnewjersey1756]

in our language the words' means/meanings: (with wiki) thoroughly - alaposan, teljesen yacht - jacht brewery - sörfőzde adjective - melléknév genuine -őszinte rural - vidéki squirrel - mókus

[@frafraplanner9277]

Yes confidence is so important when pronouncing sounds in a foreign language!

[@jake-qn3tl]

English is a European language you know

[@bettajoeresmenia5536]

Hi andrea love you miss you

[@lewspaceph]

You guys missed an Englishwoman.... the luxury of English ^_^

[@romanymohareb]

The American girl style is reminding me of the orphan movie 😅

[@bofferius8530]

Luna was essentially without detectable accent with the possible exception of "brewery" which requires a little more broadening of the mouth in the transition from the "u" to the "r" sound in American English. Ria was next best with just the faintest German accent.

[@martijndevis]

the hammer is a funny addition.

[@matt47110815]

Squ... Squirr... Rat with bushy tail!! 😅

[@titteryenot4524]

As a native English speaker who also speaks French, Spanish and Italian, English (and, arguably, even more so French!) must be quite tricky for non-natives in terms of many pronunciations. We don’t have those little things above and below aiding pronunciation the way French, Spanish and Italian have. However, as ever with these things, it depends what you look at. Yes, (aside from French, the Latin languages may be easier to pronounce - “say what you see”), but what they _didn’t_ tell me at the start of my Latin language adventure, was just how extensive the use of the subjunctive is, particularly in Spanish and Italian but French, too. As the subjunctive is virtually extinct in spoken English, I would argue that this is perhaps _the_ single most difficult thing to master for a native English speaker when learning the Romance languages.

[@utha2665]

We do have some, the two dots above the i in naïve means we sound both vowels, so instead of nave it's nay-eve. The same goes for Noël and we could use them for coöperate or zoölogy as well but people either use a hyphen of nothing at all and just remember how to say it. There's an interesting channel called Rob Words where he talks about adding these accents to make reading and pronouncing words easier.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@utha2665 Yeah, but tbf ‘naïve’ is a French borrow word and moreover, it’s mostly just written as ‘naive’ more often than not these days. I agree that perhaps for non-native English speakers having these dots would aid English pronunciation but they’re not really needed for the natives!

[@utha2665]

@@titteryenot4524 Some like to use them and it certainly shows you how to read it. I have seen native English speakers say nave, which when said like that sounds like knave. I'm just saying there are some words that use the diacritic marks, unfortunately they do get dropped because modern keyboards don't provide an easy way to type them. I had to copy and paste them from a google search.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@utha2665 Yeah, fair point, well made. Now that I come to think about it, it probably _would_ be useful to use some of these markers in certain words. However, if you have a half-decent education, for the vast majority they wouldn’t really be needed. 👍

[@Lloyd_legendary_green]

Aswe Dutch we learn those words for tests😅

[@EddieReischl]

It's tough to judge them too harshly, it makes sense that they would usually have a British English influenced pronunciation. Even with the word "genuine", you can pronounce it "jen u wine" if you are trying to emphasize something being authentic, "genuine Corinthian leather", or even "that's the genuine article right there, that is." when you're from Wisconsin like me and discussing good moonshine with someone from Tennessee.

[@sorayavos1457]

As a dutch person I can tell you that most if not all english classes are British english instead of american english. Which is fine but it's a bit tricky when test come up. Because we are more influenced by american english than british english. I love both but do use american more.

[@pile333]

These girls are all so funny!

[@almyrianna6956]

Dutch girl, I got you covered sister language.

[@NandoDisco]

Andrea has the 'it' factor.

[@dex1lsp]

LOL She really put Andrea from (e)Spain through the ringer!

[@MRAPEXPREDATOR1]

They pronounced “squirrel” correctly. The American pronounced it wrong.

[@olliered9924]

I was thinking that haha surely the "British" English should be correct pronunciation too

[@MRAPEXPREDATOR1]

@@olliered9924 Exactly lol 😂👍

[@emjizone]

I'm pretty sure I can pass the whole test, even with words I don't know, provided one of the other participants passes before me so I can hear the correct pronunciation at least once. To be fair, participants should try the test in isolation before coming together to compare results.

[@ginnypotter2655]

Brewery haha, my English friends say brew-rey but I've heard Americans or Canadians say breery.

[@user-rv1mb6tj8f]

I think the hard words there are thoughts, though, thoroughly

[@utha2665]

Don't forget through, trough and drought.

[@user-rv1mb6tj8f]

@@utha2665 o yeah, have these words too.

[@aimdeka7023]

could be interresting to know where the word comme from. english and french have a lot of word in common. for exemple rural could really be a french word in the beginning. an squirrel look like a lot as écureuil ( maybe in old french it was writen 'Escureuil' wich become "scurel" in english... )

[@lexwolverine555]

squirrel (n.) "agile, active arboreal rodent with pointed ears and a long, bushy tail," early 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Anglo-French esquirel, Old French escurueil "squirrel; squirrel fur" (Modern French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scuriolus, diminutive of *scurius "squirrel," variant of Latin sciurus, from Greek skiouros "a squirrel," literally "shadow-tailed," from skia "shadow" + oura "tail," from PIE root *ors- "buttocks, backside" (see arse). Perhaps the original notion is "that which makes a shade with its tail," but Beekes writes that this "looks like a folk etymology rather than a serious explanation." The Old English word was acweorna, which survived into Middle English as aquerne. Link: www.etymonline.com/word/squirrel#:~:text=%22agile%2C%20active%20arboreal%20rodent%20with%20pointed%20ears%20and,from%20PIE%20root%20%2Aors-%20%22buttocks%2C%20backside%22%20%28see%20arse%29. The native Old English word for the squirrel, ācweorna, only survived into Middle English (as aquerne) before being replaced. The Old English word is of Common Germanic origin, cognates of which are still used in other Germanic languages, including the German Eichhörnchen (diminutive of Eichhorn, which is not as frequently used); the Norwegian ikorn/ekorn; the Dutch eekhoorn; the Swedish ekorre and the Danish egern.

[@utha2665]

@@lexwolverine555 It's really interesting seeing English change so much over the centuries form its roots from the Anglo-Saxons and how Latin, Old Norse, Norman French, Modern French and a host of other languages have enriched what we have today.

[@emjizone]

7:29 It's not what she said that you did not. It's what she did *not* pronounce. The less non-essential letters you pronounce the better.😂

[@iosifstalinrulez]

How symbolic this is. The USA goes around and hits with a hammer those European countries that speak differently than the USA.

[@homiekeen23]

In real life, people are overly polite. Online, people are overly rude. 😂

[@st.6959]

Spain 😍

[@nininyoko13]

What is up with the subtitles and missing whenever the German girl said "channel" XD I could understand it just fine

[@OptLab]

Krewel, Scruel, Cruel, Itscruel!

[@naturaljustice4654]

"if you can't hear the differences, then you cannot pronounce it correctly" (something like that), just a saying. I'm not native American, born in Europe.

[@nedeast6845]

"Genuine"....some prounouce it "jenuin" some pronounce it ""jenuwine"...you say tomayto, I say tomarto

[@juliavanduinhoven6594]

luna slay

[@defg572]

do next kosovo pleaseeeee

[@armelleetaix373]

Impossible à prononcer "thoroughly" pour un français ! Le "th" suivi de ghly...est très difficile pour nous ! Je confirme. Tout comme Monsieur et écureuil pour eux ! Et le "r" français !

[@yanothefourth]

Luna just better than everyone Dutch 🔛🔝

[@averagegeographyenjoyer9034]

I spent my entire time getting annoyed at the American pronunciations for these words. As a brit I can confirm that we pronounce the words quite different to the Americans.

[@matthewdaub]

Whats the point of the hammer if she literally taps them with it.

[@art3mide644]

The other girls have better English accents than American ones.

[@KayVolkering]

Yeaaa there is a reason we Dutchies are the most non native English speaking country and indeed a lot of us hide our accent pretty well. I oersonally also grew up practically online and an an English teacher so my accent is apparently non-existent. I was once in a gaming lobby with all Murrican peeps and one of them that was there early on had asked me where I was from. When he found out I was Dutch he decides to ask the whole lobby to guess where I was from and that he would give money to whever got close to the right answer. At first all of them guessed states but because they kept being wrong they just guessed other english speaking countries. None of them even thought to go to europe let alone The Netherlands xD it was hillarious having them bang their head. I could also clearly hear the differences in pronunciation and I'm sure Luna could as well xD we are hammered on pronunciation in the Netherlands 😅

[@wanderingbufoon]

idk, US has 4 regional accents (not to mention specific accents). Think about the US as a bigger EU. Each state is a country type deal. So it's pretty much unfair that her basis of accent is her own. BTW, the most standard American accent is dutch/netherlands accent.

[@seanwurmb4077]

They all said sorbet correctly. Sorbet and sherbet are different things.

[@mahesito]

Poor Andrea. Andrea, maltratan sin razón

[@101steel4]

They pronounced them better than the American 😂

[@bre_me]

Spanish speakers have a hard time differentiating between the English Y and J sounds because in Spanish, the “y/ll” sounds can sound anywhere between an English Y and a J depending on your accent and how strong you pronounce it

[@albertopinoblanco]

I didnt hear any diference when they pronounce yacht!

[@benk6192]

You should make people say Worcestershire sauce 😈😈😈

[@101steel4]

Especially the American 😂😂

[@christian.pertoni]

Please guys , stop video at 3:10 and check the face of german girl ahah

[@enricohasselhoff5936]

would love to let foreign speakers try to say "February". The more I try to do it right, the worse it gets (so mostly I just ignore the challenge and just wash over it and finish my sentence and I'm always happy when I get away with it). Could be a nice word to say. Maybe in Febru-... in Feb-ryu-wa-... maybe in Febyiaryuar- ... Maybe next month :-)

[@anthropomorphicpeanut6160]

Maybe next month is a pun or am I reading too much into it?

[@badeng4787]

American putting this letters and not using them😂

[@leontnf6144]

I feel like whenever doing English pronunciation videos like this, the American needs to be aware that there are different pronunciation variations. For the most part British English and American English can sound very different especially when it comes to vowel sounds. The American can't say the guests are wrong just because they pronounce it the British way. But when British people speak it they are automatically assumed to speak flawless English. This isn't fair. I am not saying the American should know everything but they should be given the list of words beforehand so that they can do some research on the different pronunciations and don't go around hammering people based on intuition. Usually Europeans would learn British English in school. If they are constantly judged by an American, they will soon lose their self confidence to speak English. Quite some words tested in this video coincidentally have different British and American pronunciations like "squirrel", "yacht", "thoroughly" and "brewery".

[@rafacosta_x_]

Yeah, that's a very important point that I was thinking about when I was watching the video. Even within the US they have different pronunciations and obviously there are also different kinds of pronunciation in other parts of the world

[@antoniopera6909]

Ok

[@GeoffCB]

Yes, as in Australian English where we would pronounce brew-er-y and squir- rel. Luckily they didn't do mirror!

[@zak3744]

@@GeoffCB English-speakers: mirr-uh Americans: murrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 😆

[@utha2665]

@@GeoffCB There should be a Brit or an Aussie as a judge judging how an American pronounces words like squirrel, brewery, rural, herb, solder. They'd be bopped every time, lol.

[@frafraplanner9277]

2:48 She said the Spanish Y sound, which sounds similar to the English J sound, but is actually not our J sound

[@surfboarding5058]

English is European

[@aliasincognito0]

5:40 Me when I'm deciding whether to go down on my girl.

[@dl1083]

Somebody else needs to do the subtitles for World Friends

[@holdencaulfield8429]

....With an American accent.

[@rayanshah7291]

Pakistan also exist dear friends

[@n9ne]

wuwal

[@Armoure10]

Fun video 🙂 But com on, thats NOT English, thats umerican or unglish o.O

[@jeskoumm]

I've found to be more connected to the group than individual encounters....Which would be squirrelly with every candidate....They're all decent, the seed is ready

[@stefantaylor6011]

yo they're all hot!

[@k_ali632]

Why american don’t change their language ? In order to make : 1 letter = 1 pronunciation , like spanish for example . Every letter is pronouced and always the same way ! ❤ high hai taf etc

[@101steel4]

Americans don't have a language

[@corsarodoro7890]

Giulia and Andrea ❤🇮🇹🇪🇦❤

[@hugokana6425]

Are you sure the French girl is French? :) Because we use Yacht in french too and we pronunce it like in english. Maybe the stress in front of a camera.