Amazing pronunciation tips. I'm surprised I got only two words wrong; "Edinburgh" and "Worcestershire". I'm Brazilian, and certain sounds are different and more challenging for us. I loved your didactics.
Very nice ma'am. As far as I concerned English is very difficult language. Because English is not mother tongue. Though I am trying to study English. Everybody is saying that if you are speaking English, you have to think in English. But, how to think in English. Now I am speaking English. How to speak in English that first time I think in my mother tong, then I translate in English. I don't know that this way is very right. English listening is very problem. Sometimes, vocabulary maybe a very problem.
Hooray, I answered all correctly!! But if I took this test a year ago, I would have got "Rural" and "Worcestershire Sauce" wrong. And, I still cheat "rural" by saying it in an American accent for fast speech in a sentence 😆 You're hands down one of the best English teachers out there on RUclips, Emma. Always rooting for you ❤
Mispronounced Worcestershire only and I’m an English teacher. I guess I’ve got some extra learning to do regarding the most “challenging”English words to pronounce and I’m most definitely going to continue watching your pronunciation videos. Thanks a million for the content as well as your methodology. Brillant 🤩 Keep it up
As an advanced learner (I got an 8.0 result at an IELTS exam few years ago), I've not found the words in this video difficult to pronounce. But there's always the opportunity to improve on other words and I actually have a question for you. What has always puzzled me (but I've never asked a professional teacher) is to hear some highly educated English native speakers pronounce the word stressing the second 'e' (ɪntər'ɛstɪŋ), instead of stressing the first syllable ('ɪntərɛstɪŋ) as indicated in the dictionaries. Another striking occurrence is to hear (practically invariably and universally) the word pronounced with a rather elongated (and quite irritating, to my taste) mellow sound (something like ), instead of the shorter , which is the phonetics indicated in the dictionaries. I mean, the two words above are not rare in spoken English..., so how come they have started differing from the official pronunciation a very long time ago and too many educated speakers seem prone to concede?
I think a lot of English native speakers these days are heavily influenced by American TV and films, and English pronunciation, especially among younger Brits, is becoming a homogeneous 'Mid-atlantic' mixture of traditional English and West-coast American. Also, you quote the word "good", that has a completely different pronunciation in Scotland, generally pronounced similar to "food" rather than the traditional English pronunciation the same as "hood".
It's simply a matter of accents, of which there are a wide range in England, and an even wider range across the British Isles. Education has little to do with it. There is no such thing as 'official pronunciation' - who's going to officiate? There are simply different accents, and sometimes one accent becomes dominant/more common. In the case of 'interesting', stressing the third syllable more than the first is a minority phenomenon, and for that reason should not be recommended to learners of English. But that doesn't make it wrong.
@@jacknoble9054 In the case of "good", my suspicion/inference is that the softer and more sustained pronunciation (rather than a more 'explosive and ultimate' gʊd) may be a cultural/psychopersonological need of a people that is too used to situations like "keep calm and carry on" (even when waiting for an NHS examination for two years), no weapons to the policemen in the streets, no peremptory/cutting opinions but prudence etc. In short, it seems to me that the pronunciation may fit the speakers. Or maybe I'm too impudent?
In the case of 'interesting', in everyday speech native English speakers don't pronounce the second syllable and the pronunciation becomes 'intresting', with the stress on the first syllable. You will also find that the 'e' becomes reduced to a schwa sound. As for 'good', I'm a native English speaker and have NEVER heard the elongated 'oo' you mention.
roberto, the elongations of words like int-er-esting and goood are typically done as the person saying the word either mulls over, or wants to emphasize, the point they are making; note however that the stress in 'interesting' is always on 1st syllable, though the -ter- is voiced in its elongated form
I would never know how to pronounce Edinburgh or Worcestershire if Emma hadn't told me in the video. They're utterly peculiar words. Notwithstanding that, the other contents enhanced me a lot. I thought that I knew the basic words. In fact, I had assimilated their meaning. I didn't know the correct pronunciation though. I look forward for more materials like that. Cheers, Emma.
As a native speaker myself, you might want to try go for more natural words in your writing to be more clear. Using more advanced words unnecessarily just feels off: a bit like a 14 year old writing one of their first essays and using a thesaurus and all the most complex words they can muster to seem smart, but ultimately becoming artificial, or worse, incomprehensible.
Hi Emma. It's really my first time of viewing your lessons online, but I really love it and I honestly think that you've become my English teacher, nothing less than it. Thanks ❤😊
I can't believe i pronounced all of them correctly, really I just can't believe it 14/14. To be honest i heard all of these words somewhere on the BBC news and alot British pronunciation channels, podcasts and movies. It's been 5 years since ive been learning alot of British accents. So thanks to them and also thanks you for taking this amazing test for boosting my confidence level. Cheers 👍👍
Hey Emma I'm from Bangladesh and English has been the language my family predominantly spoke at home even though my mother tongue is Bangla. I got all correct mostly because I have always been super conscious of my pronunciation as in school we do follow English as a first language not second. I love you made it clear that it's okay to pronounce things with an accent 💖
❤ I got all of them right even the place names and the saucer and I am not a native speaker _!!_ 🎉 I've been studying Endlish for over 15 years. After having learned the core vocabulary, I've focused on the pronunciation of Proper Names. The books I have used and recommend are: *Longman Pronunciation Dictionay* and *Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionay* Hugs from Hortolandia, BRAZIL🇧🇷
Hi Emma! It's been wonderful experience to go through a lesson of practice because your tips are great to help to pronounce the words correctly. Thanks & regards.
I am a doing a major in my English and wanted make sure I could pronounce words properly and your video helped me a lot and I got most of them right except two and the big boss was so tough that I paused to spilt the words to pronounce it thank you alot
Thank you Emma. I'm from Pakistan and nursing student ,l watch your video regularly and l love you very much, because you help me in English pronunciation.this pronunciation skill is very important to Pakistani,to learn and speak English frequently thanks ❤
Hi teacher... 👏: ) In my country 🇲🇾, I found a few words that people are normally mispronounced for instances : Almond, subtle, salmon, plumber, Leicester, without silent those letters... L, B, C... bla bla.. 😂 Something easier about our language (Bahasa Malaysia/Melayu) we'd just pronounce directly whatever the spelling words are written.😎
Hi Emma :) Thanks the lesson! The most difficult word for me to pronounce is "sixth". I usually just say "six" in my speech. And, of course, "worcestershire". I had no idea what it is to be honest. But now I know how to say it 😀
I think this is quite useful to native speakers as well. Since here in the U.S. there are regional dialects and it's also interesting to see British pronunciations.
What a relief to learn that I don´t have to pronounce the TH in sixth and months in spoken English! I´ve been struggling with that for about 50 years! Thank you so much! And I mispronounced 3, Worcestershire being one of them, of course. No so bad.
My score is 9 And the last one is harder to prounce but also you get rid of my prounciation of rural which is a problem for me since childhood. Can you imagine after 22+ years I got the correct method to prounce it in a second with your teaching.Thanku for that mam.
Thank you for this video. It was a lot of fun to hear which words are hard for English learners. I have had a good number of students come through my classes who's first language is not English so this was most helpful. Here in the Southern part of the U.S., we pronounce rural and squirrel a little differently from UK English. Still, it is fun to hear the different pronunciations. Thank you again for the video and lesson. 😊💖🙏
I'm also from the south and the way she said 'squirrel' was so funny to me! I didn't know British English speakers said it that way. I knew of many other words they pronounce differently than Americans but not this one.
Y los alumnos también aciertan? Por Dios interlingua o esperanto. El inglés es una lengua imposible de dominar por su fonética. Necesitas media vida para entrenar el oído.
👋🏽 Olá! Sou brasileira e estou aprendendo inglês!🎉 Gostei dos vídeos, principalmente quando você pronuncia sílaba por sílaba, esclarece muito, pois no Brasil não temos essa pronúncia forte nas letras. Obrigada🎉❤
I'm just 12, I am a Turkish person, I can't say that I passed this test because I got a wrong "Edinburgh" When you said how can we say ıt, I said "ohh right" so, I love you're videos. Thanks for the video!💫🌺
Hi Emma, Thanks for making such a beautiful and helpful video lecture about the pronunciation of difficult levels. Waiting for next lectures. Thanks, and keep it up 💯
OK, so... Me a guy from the USA, wacthing this with keen interest. We have basically the same words in American-lish as they do in English... but I detected about four words we would pronounce differently here in rural USA. Rural being one of the four. Now I know Edinburgh is in Scotland but I'd bet you all the tacos in Mexico that it is pronounced with a hard G at the end here in America, like we would pronounce Pittsburgh. Squirrel... Americans have a different pronunciation (hard to explain)... and the BIGGEST difference would be.... worcestershire sauce... I think most, or at least some would pronounce it... wish-kish-er sauce.... but I don't know if there is consensus on that... so yeah we differ.
Great video! Thank you very much. I got wrong many words 😅. The word "chaos" is very interesting. Usually English words with a "ch" pronounced as "k" come from Greek words where the "ch" was written with the letter χ and it was pronounced not as k but as German "ch". Other examples where this tricky ch can be found are words from Greek such as "stomach", "chemistry " or "chiropractor".
Found this video very entertaining! I come from Poland and look forward to study English language at a university as soon as I finish school! Out of all these 14 words I managed to get 11 correct, thank you for doing those type of tests, they help a lot!!
Hi Emma, I had a good time learning from you. I was totally wrong on Edinburgh and Worchestershire - but I remember I was taught to pronounce it Wooster (in American accent). I don't know if that can be accepted? But, on a second thought, to pronounce a thing or a place in England, the British way is a way to go.😂 Just sharing you my idea. Love from Bali 🙏
Hi Emma: Nice video. As a man who was born in Argentina, but whose lifetime dream is to live in England (or the UK rather), I can say I got ALL them right. Now, when it comes to SIXTH, I don't drop the TH, I change the X for a C, because I think it's better to say SICTH, than SIX, Another thing is: SHIRE is difficult, but there are many cities with that name, and one that's also quite tricky is Gloucestershire, where "Gloces" is pronounced similar to "Glows". Thanks & greets from Argentina (Hope it is from England someday). Marcelo Miguel Bazan. PS: When I visited London in 2017, I had the chance to "play" with a squirrel in Greenwich Park by throwing pieces of bread on different directions for it to go and get them. 😍
Hi Emma Thanks a bunch for your incredible teaching lessons. I found it lovely and I believe it's gonna help me a lot I learned a lot of things from your lesson I made 3mistakes with it but it was been so wonderful for me❤
We have always said 'Wuster sauce', leaving out the 'shire' completely, and that has been so wherever I've lived in the UK, although I have never lived in Worcestershire. The only exception was in the public bar of my local over 50 years ago, where it was usually pronounced Worcestersheershire sauce. One English pronunciation that annoys me is that everyone now seems to put the stress on the second syllable of 'harrassment', whereas, like most English multi-syllable words, the stress was always on the first syllable. Regardless of how or why that happened, I will continue to pronounce as I always have.
I believe I got them all right ❤ Except for the 🐿that got Americanized as a result of Hadar's influence on me 😂The big boss got a slightly longer ending from me as well, but nothing that would make it incomprehensible I hope 🙈 So, I'd give myself 12,5/14 for my British pronunciation! 😂Thank you so much for this video, it was so much fun! I'd love to see more of these on your channel.
I completed this test with 100% accuracy, even I pronunciated the word "Worcestershire" correctly. I couldn't believe myself but thank you because your videos also helped me to get this result.
Hey there , Emma ! I am 13 from India . We mostly spoke Hindi ,Telugu etc.. but as per me it was little easy + hard . I got 12/14 , the only words a got wrong are "Edinburgh" and "rural". And yeah i discovered this video after 5 months 😅 .Thank you for your hardwork . Lots of love from India .....💜💜
Hi , Emma. I'm Ahmed from Egypt. Your video about pronunciation is so useful and interesting as well. In fact , I pronounce all words well except for 3 ones. They are: height , edinburgh and worcestershire.
I have a lot of problems with where to put stress in words, in English as well as in any other langugage. It would be cool to see a pronuncaition video focused on that! Here I got all the words right.) thanks for the vid ! you are such a joy to watch, so positive! :)
I scored 100%. I am an Afrikaans native speaker, but was taught RP/SSB at school, and I received A's for both languages. I now suffer from aphasia after a dozen strokes, so I am humbly proud here. It does help that I had several relatives from Worcester in South Africa. I simply don't know why people struggle with Worcester.
Your pronunciation tips are really splendid ❤ i did able to say all words with correct pronunciation but i got just two words wrong. I'm bangladeshi and i'm really surprised to have your RUclips channel cz it's really helpful for developed my pronunciation skill💙❤Thank you!
I'm half Italian and half Brazilian, I usually speak English with some friends and I understood all the words correctly except chaos... I was so confused! The Italian word 'caos' is so similar to the English one that I mispronounced it! Thanks for this challenging test!♥
Rural is the difficult word to pronounce, the word height I pronounce it hate like you showed us your video, the word squirrel I pronounce the /I/ /ai/. The last big boss I find it longer because I'm not native English speaker. You're the most helpful
Today i watched your video first time and i became fan of your detailed information that you are providing us for pronounciation 👏, i really appreciate your detailed explanation...👍
Speak with northern English dialect so all correct, but still very well educated in English, history and Swedish These are quite easy words to learn through hard work and word rhyming techniques.
The only ones I disagreed with you about were rural for which we say "ROO-r'l" rather than the more awkward "ROO-uh-r'l" though it is heard in Australia but only when speaking slower, and secondly we prefer "WUS-ta-sheer" for Worcestershire and regard "WUS-ta-sha" as too toffee a deviation like when the British pronounce Wednesday as "WENZ-dee" yet of course we have no trouble understanding the British. Good job Emma!
I really like your pronunciation videos. I only got two words wrong like everyone else. But now I can pronounce a lot easier. Thank you. You are a great teacher 💝
Living in the UK, I would have pronounced it as Wooster Sauce leaving out the shire. I don't know anyone here who would add the shire. There is the complication if you are pronouncing Worcestershire, is it woostesure or woostesheer? I have heard it pronounced both ways. As a native American speaker, I would pronounce squirrel as one syllable, but I do come from rural Pennsylvania and the "R" and it was a shock to me that I had an accent even in America once I got to college. Thanks for this. It was fun to watch. 😊
Well.. the most difficult words for me to pronunce were rural. chaos and Worcestershire sauce. I pronunced correctly all the other ones. Have a nice day!
Hey, Emma, and thank you for this video! I'm going to watch the next one too after a while. The only little mistake I've got was a schwa sound instead of that /ɔ/ in 'chaos'.
Thank you for this video, very useful test! My mistakes were: - missing the a sound in rural, I always said Ru- ral - pronouncing wo- instead of wu- in worcestershire. I'm from Italy and I've been studying English for all my life, just because! So thank you!!!❤
I'm not a native speaker ,i live in india , but i have an accent of a native, my friends say that . Also i passed and did all of them correct. Thanks Emma 😄❤😊
14/14. But I always struggle a little bit with squirral. I know how to say it but still often had difficulties to do so. Your pronounciation tips are very helpful.
A whole lotta thanks, dear Emma, for the test. I've nearly passed it. Chocolate is ChOklit flying out from my mouth. For me, TEMPORARILY - is the hardest word for a foreigner. I usually say "tEmprely" or even simply nonrhotic "tEmpely" with the stress on the first syllable. As well as NATURALLY - "nAchely". Wonder whether it's right. Apropos, Gilbert O'Sullivan so sang.
I speak Spanish, once I traveled in a koren fligth to Asia. The flight attendant used to correct my pronunciation. She had a British pronunciation and I learned american english. .. funnily, in the flight back, it was an American flight, and there i felt more comfortable, the flight attendant didn't care about my american English with Spanish accent....😂😂 By the way, I got an 10/14. Out of practice. Really good test.
Hi! So, I actually am the 'Language head in my school and well, I did get all correct. The last one's trick is to say -woo-sest-i-sh-ai-uh- so I guess it should have been much more higher according to my standards! If by any chance you do PART 3, please please make it harder!! Regards
I think I'm lucky as I come from Australia. I was taught the correct pronunciation of many words before we became a (70s-80s) Multi-cultural Hotspot. As it happens scored 100% on my pronunciation :-)
This was the first time I'm seeing your video and i subscribed it at very first second i saw how you explained everything by the way i passed all of them but hardest was boss level . I'm from INDIA 🇮🇳 and I'm 13 but i can speak English really well and i promise I'm gonna see every video of yours , you're such a great teacher for me , thankuuu love you sooo much ❤
Oh, I love that Gloucestershire, Worchestershire, Lewisham, Grosvenor and other toponyms You won't pronounce correctly, unless You already know them :) Messed up with Edinburgh a bit, but sorted out others correctly.
Interesting that you included 'squirrel', as a non-native English speaker this to me is one of the most difficult words. I pronounce it: "SKWRL", which is more akin to the American pronunciation I guess.
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How many did you get correct? 🤔 And should I do another video like this in the future?
Yes, yes, yes!!! Such videos are of great useful.
Yes, Oui ,Да , Sim
I really enjoy these videos
Definitely
most of them (because I study phonetics) BUT the english sauce!
Hey Emma, I mispronounced only two: Edinburgh and the big boss :)
Amazing pronunciation tips. I'm surprised I got only two words wrong; "Edinburgh" and "Worcestershire". I'm Brazilian, and certain sounds are different and more challenging for us. I loved your didactics.
I'm with you in that. But after Edinbara I thought in English from London and I got the wastasha correctly...
Estou tendo que reaprender para saber pronunciar, já que o que é lido e escrito são diferentes.
Pronunciation of Worcestershire sauce & Edinburgh 😳... OMG!! Thanks Emma.
i am ossetian, and i got those 2 wrong,
Very nice ma'am. As far as I concerned English is very difficult language. Because English is not mother tongue. Though I am trying to study English. Everybody is saying that if you are speaking English, you have to think in English. But, how to think in English. Now I am speaking English. How to speak in English that first time I think in my mother tong, then I translate in English. I don't know that this way is very right. English listening is very problem. Sometimes, vocabulary maybe a very problem.
Hooray, I answered all correctly!! But if I took this test a year ago, I would have got "Rural" and "Worcestershire Sauce" wrong. And, I still cheat "rural" by saying it in an American accent for fast speech in a sentence 😆
You're hands down one of the best English teachers out there on RUclips, Emma. Always rooting for you ❤
Mispronounced Worcestershire only and I’m an English teacher. I guess I’ve got some extra learning to do regarding the most “challenging”English words to pronounce and I’m most definitely going to continue watching your pronunciation videos. Thanks a million for the content as well as your methodology. Brillant 🤩
Keep it up
My stepdad would jokingly call it "what's this here sauce."
Seriously, I can't pronounce Worcestershire and I've lived in the United States my entire life and don't speak, read, or write anything but English 😂
Magnifique teacher ,congratulations for his job from Guatemala .
Just 9 😢... I'm completely shocked by the pronunciation of Edinburgh! You're a great teacher, Emma!
As an advanced learner (I got an 8.0 result at an IELTS exam few years ago), I've not found the words in this video difficult to pronounce.
But there's always the opportunity to improve on other words and I actually have a question for you.
What has always puzzled me (but I've never asked a professional teacher) is to hear some highly educated English native speakers pronounce the word stressing the second 'e' (ɪntər'ɛstɪŋ), instead of stressing the first syllable ('ɪntərɛstɪŋ) as indicated in the dictionaries.
Another striking occurrence is to hear (practically invariably and universally) the word pronounced with a rather elongated (and quite irritating, to my taste) mellow sound (something like ), instead of the shorter , which is the phonetics indicated in the dictionaries.
I mean, the two words above are not rare in spoken English..., so how come they have started differing from the official pronunciation a very long time ago and too many educated speakers seem prone to concede?
I think a lot of English native speakers these days are heavily influenced by American TV and films, and English pronunciation, especially among younger Brits, is becoming a homogeneous 'Mid-atlantic' mixture of traditional English and West-coast American. Also, you quote the word "good", that has a completely different pronunciation in Scotland, generally pronounced similar to "food" rather than the traditional English pronunciation the same as "hood".
It's simply a matter of accents, of which there are a wide range in England, and an even wider range across the British Isles. Education has little to do with it. There is no such thing as 'official pronunciation' - who's going to officiate? There are simply different accents, and sometimes one accent becomes dominant/more common. In the case of 'interesting', stressing the third syllable more than the first is a minority phenomenon, and for that reason should not be recommended to learners of English. But that doesn't make it wrong.
@@jacknoble9054 In the case of "good", my suspicion/inference is that the softer and more sustained pronunciation (rather than a more 'explosive and ultimate' gʊd) may be a cultural/psychopersonological need of a people that is too used to situations like "keep calm and carry on" (even when waiting for an NHS examination for two years), no weapons to the policemen in the streets, no peremptory/cutting opinions but prudence etc. In short, it seems to me that the pronunciation may fit the speakers. Or maybe I'm too impudent?
In the case of 'interesting', in everyday speech native English speakers don't pronounce the second syllable and the pronunciation becomes 'intresting', with the stress on the first syllable. You will also find that the 'e' becomes reduced to a schwa sound. As for 'good', I'm a native English speaker and have NEVER heard the elongated 'oo' you mention.
roberto, the elongations of words like int-er-esting and goood are typically done as the person saying the word either mulls over, or wants to emphasize, the point they are making; note however that the stress in 'interesting' is always on 1st syllable, though the -ter- is voiced in its elongated form
I would never know how to pronounce Edinburgh or Worcestershire if Emma hadn't told me in the video. They're utterly peculiar words. Notwithstanding that, the other contents enhanced me a lot. I thought that I knew the basic words. In fact, I had assimilated their meaning. I didn't know the correct pronunciation though. I look forward for more materials like that. Cheers, Emma.
Hola David: Entonces, leéte mi comentario. 😂
Me neither
As a native speaker myself, you might want to try go for more natural words in your writing to be more clear. Using more advanced words unnecessarily just feels off: a bit like a 14 year old writing one of their first essays and using a thesaurus and all the most complex words they can muster to seem smart, but ultimately becoming artificial, or worse, incomprehensible.
Actually worcestershire was a new word for me one of my aunt taught me this...
Ye you talk odd brev…
Hi Emma. It's really my first time of viewing your lessons online, but I really love it and I honestly think that you've become my English teacher, nothing less than it. Thanks ❤😊
I can't believe i pronounced all of them correctly, really I just can't believe it 14/14. To be honest i heard all of these words somewhere on the BBC news and alot British pronunciation channels, podcasts and movies. It's been 5 years since ive been learning alot of British accents. So thanks to them and also thanks you for taking this amazing test for boosting my confidence level. Cheers 👍👍
lol I am not even pursuing english accent, the school system in India just forces me to do so, I said all of em correct.
Hey Emma I'm from Bangladesh and English has been the language my family predominantly spoke at home even though my mother tongue is Bangla. I got all correct mostly because I have always been super conscious of my pronunciation as in school we do follow English as a first language not second. I love you made it clear that it's okay to pronounce things with an accent 💖
Really I am also from Bangladesh. Are you a student?
❤ I got all of them right even the place names and the saucer and I am not a native speaker _!!_ 🎉
I've been studying Endlish for over 15 years. After having learned the core vocabulary, I've focused on the pronunciation of Proper Names.
The books I have used and recommend are: *Longman Pronunciation Dictionay* and *Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionay*
Hugs from Hortolandia, BRAZIL🇧🇷
Hi Emma! It's been wonderful experience to go through a lesson of practice because your tips are great to help to pronounce the words correctly.
Thanks & regards.
I am a doing a major in my English and wanted make sure I could pronounce words properly and your video helped me a lot and I
got most of them right except two and the big boss was so tough that I paused to spilt the words to pronounce it
thank you alot
Thank you Emma.
I'm from Pakistan and nursing student ,l watch your video regularly and l love you very much, because you help me in English pronunciation.this pronunciation skill is very important to Pakistani,to learn and speak English frequently thanks ❤
Hey Emma! I have been practicing English for the last 2 years and I got 11/14. Really appreciate your videos.🙌🤗
i got 12/
14
Fantastic Lady 🌹 with SUPERB way of Teaching ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION. Myself is a Senior Educator in PATNA , INDIA.👍🏽
Nice job, Emma.Keep doing work like this and help some people pronounce better.
Very brief and comprehensive
Presentation
Amazing pronouciation tips Emma. Thank u so much for al that.
Hi teacher... 👏: )
In my country 🇲🇾,
I found a few words that people are normally mispronounced for instances : Almond, subtle, salmon, plumber, Leicester, without silent those letters... L, B, C... bla bla.. 😂
Something easier about our language (Bahasa Malaysia/Melayu) we'd just pronounce directly whatever the spelling words are written.😎
Hi Emma :)
Thanks the lesson! The most difficult word for me to pronounce is "sixth". I usually just say "six" in my speech.
And, of course, "worcestershire". I had no idea what it is to be honest. But now I know how to say it 😀
Hi I am Indian welcome 🙏🙏
I think this is quite useful to native speakers as well. Since here in the U.S. there are regional dialects and it's also interesting to see British pronunciations.
Not native myself, but I know mostly American pronunciation and I was so shocked hearing squErel
Wait how do Americans pronounce it?@@lightupskechers2915
What a relief to learn that I don´t have to pronounce the TH in sixth and months in spoken English! I´ve been struggling with that for about 50 years! Thank you so much! And I mispronounced 3, Worcestershire being one of them, of course. No so bad.
My score is 9
And the last one is harder to prounce but also you get rid of my prounciation of rural which is a problem for me since childhood.
Can you imagine after 22+ years I got the correct method to prounce it in a second with your teaching.Thanku for that mam.
Thank you for this video. It was a lot of fun to hear which words are hard for English learners. I have had a good number of students come through my classes who's first language is not English so this was most helpful. Here in the Southern part of the U.S., we pronounce rural and squirrel a little differently from UK English. Still, it is fun to hear the different pronunciations. Thank you again for the video and lesson. 😊💖🙏
Hi I am Indian welcome 🙏🙏
I'm also from the south and the way she said 'squirrel' was so funny to me! I didn't know British English speakers said it that way. I knew of many other words they pronounce differently than Americans but not this one.
I’m from Spain and I’m an English teacher at a high school. I’m so happy I’ve got every word correct! 😂 the last one was difficult tbh 😘
Hahaha well done 🤣
Y los alumnos también aciertan? Por Dios interlingua o esperanto. El inglés es una lengua imposible de dominar por su fonética. Necesitas media vida para entrenar el oído.
Same here, well done!
Same here, well done!
Hi I am Indian welcome 🙏🙏
👋🏽 Olá! Sou brasileira e estou aprendendo inglês!🎉 Gostei dos vídeos, principalmente quando você pronuncia sílaba por sílaba, esclarece muito, pois no Brasil não temos essa pronúncia forte nas letras. Obrigada🎉❤
What do you mean? We have "sílaba tônica". SÍ-la-ba TÔ-ni-ca.
falando abobrinha ai, moça
Hi I am Indian welcome 🙏🙏
I'm just 12, I am a Turkish person, I can't say that I passed this test because I got a wrong "Edinburgh" When you said how can we say ıt, I said "ohh right" so, I love you're videos. Thanks for the video!💫🌺
Btw- Worcestershire Sauce- um.. is a sweet-corn pan sauce! I'm British so I do know how to say those words- aubergine, biscuit, lorry etc!
Hi Emma, Thanks for making such a beautiful and helpful video lecture about the pronunciation of difficult levels. Waiting for next lectures. Thanks, and keep it up 💯
Hi I am Indian welcome 🙏🙏
OK, so... Me a guy from the USA, wacthing this with keen interest. We have basically the same words in American-lish as they do in English... but I detected about four words we would pronounce differently here in rural USA. Rural being one of the four. Now I know Edinburgh is in Scotland but I'd bet you all the tacos in Mexico that it is pronounced with a hard G at the end here in America, like we would pronounce Pittsburgh. Squirrel... Americans have a different pronunciation (hard to explain)... and the BIGGEST difference would be.... worcestershire sauce... I think most, or at least some would pronounce it... wish-kish-er sauce.... but I don't know if there is consensus on that... so yeah we differ.
Great video! Thank you very much. I got wrong many words 😅. The word "chaos" is very interesting. Usually English words with a "ch" pronounced as "k" come from Greek words where the "ch" was written with the letter χ and it was pronounced not as k but as German "ch". Other examples where this tricky ch can be found are words from Greek such as "stomach", "chemistry " or "chiropractor".
I'm a 15 y/o Turkish teenager n I'm so proud of talking English this well, still got many things to learn tho. (btw I love ur accent so much.)
Found this video very entertaining! I come from Poland and look forward to study English language at a university as soon as I finish school! Out of all these 14 words I managed to get 11 correct, thank you for doing those type of tests, they help a lot!!
Hi Emma, I had a good time learning from you. I was totally wrong on Edinburgh and Worchestershire - but I remember I was taught to pronounce it Wooster (in American accent). I don't know if that can be accepted? But, on a second thought, to pronounce a thing or a place in England, the British way is a way to go.😂 Just sharing you my idea. Love from Bali 🙏
Hi Emma:
Nice video.
As a man who was born in Argentina, but whose lifetime dream is to live in England (or the UK rather), I can say I got ALL them right.
Now, when it comes to SIXTH, I don't drop the TH, I change the X for a C, because I think it's better to say SICTH, than SIX,
Another thing is: SHIRE is difficult, but there are many cities with that name, and one that's also quite tricky is Gloucestershire, where "Gloces" is pronounced similar to "Glows".
Thanks & greets from Argentina (Hope it is from England someday).
Marcelo Miguel Bazan.
PS: When I visited London in 2017, I had the chance to "play" with a squirrel in Greenwich Park by throwing pieces of bread on different directions for it to go and get them. 😍
Gloucestershire :)
@@Feelisegood Edited. Thanks. I didn't see the red underline. 🤦♀😂
@@marcelomiguelbazan I live in Gloucestershire and work in Gloucester. Trust me I know the struggle x)
Worcestershire sauce knocked me down 😂 Rural also turned out to be a tricky word for me. I got 11/14. Thank you for such a great video ❤
Rural is so hard in sentences 😢 i cheat and say countryside 🤣
She's the 'definition of beauty with knowledge'. 🎉
Dear.emma it is an very important class and this class is very helpful for me. Thank you very much
Hi Emma
Thanks a bunch for your incredible teaching lessons.
I found it lovely and I believe it's gonna help me a lot I learned a lot of things from your lesson
I made 3mistakes with it but it was been so wonderful for me❤
Hi I am Indian welcome 🙏
We have always said 'Wuster sauce', leaving out the 'shire' completely, and that has been so wherever I've lived in the UK, although I have never lived in Worcestershire. The only exception was in the public bar of my local over 50 years ago, where it was usually pronounced Worcestersheershire sauce.
One English pronunciation that annoys me is that everyone now seems to put the stress on the second syllable of 'harrassment', whereas, like most English multi-syllable words, the stress was always on the first syllable. Regardless of how or why that happened, I will continue to pronounce as I always have.
I believe I got them all right ❤ Except for the 🐿that got Americanized as a result of Hadar's influence on me 😂The big boss got a slightly longer ending from me as well, but nothing that would make it incomprehensible I hope 🙈 So, I'd give myself 12,5/14 for my British pronunciation! 😂Thank you so much for this video, it was so much fun! I'd love to see more of these on your channel.
Hahaha!! I'm impressed you can do the American version of squirrel! That's so hard for me 🤣
Beautiful girl
I completed this test with 100% accuracy, even I pronunciated the word "Worcestershire" correctly. I couldn't believe myself but thank you because your videos also helped me to get this result.
I've got 12 of them correct! But I mispronounced Worcestershire sauce and Edinburgh
Hey there , Emma ! I am 13 from India . We mostly spoke Hindi ,Telugu etc.. but as per me it was little easy + hard . I got 12/14 , the only words a got wrong are "Edinburgh" and "rural". And yeah i discovered this video after 5 months 😅 .Thank you for your hardwork . Lots of love from India .....💜💜
Hi , Emma. I'm Ahmed from Egypt. Your video about pronunciation is so useful and interesting as well. In fact , I pronounce all words well except for 3 ones. They are: height , edinburgh and worcestershire.
Thank you so much got 3 wrong rural,worter sauce and squirrel your content is very helpful and i am japanese
I have a lot of problems with where to put stress in words, in English as well as in any other langugage. It would be cool to see a pronuncaition video focused on that! Here I got all the words right.) thanks for the vid ! you are such a joy to watch, so positive! :)
I have a video all about word stress! :)
You got me with RURAL indeed. I had never noticed people add an 'A' into it, ruA-ral, as you said. Nice video!
All correct. I'm Indian, living in holy city Nashik. I liked your video.
Native Russian speaker here. I mispronounced Edinburgh and Worcestershire and I'm happy that these are only 2 words 🤣 Thank you so much for your tips
I scored 100%. I am an Afrikaans native speaker, but was taught RP/SSB at school, and I received A's for both languages. I now suffer from aphasia after a dozen strokes, so I am humbly proud here. It does help that I had several relatives from Worcester in South Africa. I simply don't know why people struggle with Worcester.
You're amazing ❤️
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Your pronunciation tips are really splendid ❤ i did able to say all words with correct pronunciation but i got just two words wrong. I'm bangladeshi and i'm really surprised to have your RUclips channel cz it's really helpful for developed my pronunciation skill💙❤Thank you!
I'm half Italian and half Brazilian, I usually speak English with some friends and I understood all the words correctly except chaos... I was so confused! The Italian word 'caos' is so similar to the English one that I mispronounced it! Thanks for this challenging test!♥
Rural is the difficult word to pronounce, the word height I pronounce it hate like you showed us your video, the word squirrel I pronounce the /I/ /ai/. The last big boss I find it longer because I'm not native English speaker.
You're the most helpful
I fall in love your lessons and choose your videos for shadowing
Love your teaching style
Thanks for the Edinburgh and Worcestershire sauce.
They were very hard to pronounce but you made it quite easy for us.
Amazing video and I just got last one incorrect...
I pronounced 12 words correctly. The hardest was Edinburgh. Thank you very much.
Today i watched your video first time and i became fan of your detailed information that you are providing us for pronounciation 👏, i really appreciate your detailed explanation...👍
I am from Greece (17 years old here) and I knew them all already 🥰 Chaos is my favorite world
Hi! I'm an Indian, and I got all correct except Edinburgh though was quite near it. Love and Blessings from India 🇮🇳
Speak with northern English dialect so all correct, but still very well educated in English, history and Swedish These are quite easy words to learn through hard work and word rhyming techniques.
The only ones I disagreed with you about were rural for which we say "ROO-r'l" rather than the more awkward "ROO-uh-r'l" though it is heard in Australia but only when speaking slower, and secondly we prefer "WUS-ta-sheer" for Worcestershire and regard "WUS-ta-sha" as too toffee a deviation like when the British pronounce Wednesday as "WENZ-dee" yet of course we have no trouble understanding the British. Good job Emma!
I am upto level 4 thank you for improving my pronunciation skills 😊
I really like your pronunciation videos. I only got two words wrong like everyone else. But now I can pronounce a lot easier. Thank you. You are a great teacher 💝
Your videos are superb. Just love it. Only edinburgh and the Last one was quite difficult but thank you so much for guiding us. Love your accent❤
I love it!!! 🎉 I'm Mexican and it is the best language channel I have found on RUclips, new fan here 🖤 thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for good teaching.
I got 11correct .amazing video❤
the last one is difficult. luckily not much in use. Thank you so much Sister. Samba from India.
Love this amazing pronunciation tips. Appreciate that.
Living in the UK, I would have pronounced it as Wooster Sauce leaving out the shire. I don't know anyone here who would add the shire. There is the complication if you are pronouncing Worcestershire, is it woostesure or woostesheer? I have heard it pronounced both ways.
As a native American speaker, I would pronounce squirrel as one syllable, but I do come from rural Pennsylvania and the "R" and it was a shock to me that I had an accent even in America once I got to college.
Thanks for this. It was fun to watch. 😊
Great teaching! I love it.
Well.. the most difficult words for me to pronunce were rural. chaos and Worcestershire sauce. I pronunced correctly all the other ones. Have a nice day!
I have no trouble pronouncing english but this is a really nice way to practice IPA
Edinburgh was tricky for me
Loved the episode! ❤
I like the way you teach us.
Hey, Emma, and thank you for this video! I'm going to watch the next one too after a while. The only little mistake I've got was a schwa sound instead of that /ɔ/ in 'chaos'.
Thank you for this video, very useful test!
My mistakes were:
- missing the a sound in rural, I always said Ru- ral
- pronouncing wo- instead of wu- in worcestershire.
I'm from Italy and I've been studying English for all my life, just because!
So thank you!!!❤
Good job to anyone learning a second language your awesome!
I'm not a native speaker ,i live in india , but i have an accent of a native, my friends say that . Also i passed and did all of them correct. Thanks Emma 😄❤😊
Out of 14, I got 13 right. I mispronounced 'Edinburgh'. 😅
This video was really helpful. Thank you
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Same 😅
14/14. But I always struggle a little bit with squirral. I know how to say it but still often had difficulties to do so. Your pronounciation tips are very helpful.
A whole lotta thanks, dear Emma, for the test. I've nearly passed it. Chocolate is ChOklit flying out from my mouth. For me, TEMPORARILY - is the hardest word for a foreigner. I usually say "tEmprely" or even simply nonrhotic "tEmpely" with the stress on the first syllable. As well as NATURALLY - "nAchely". Wonder whether it's right. Apropos, Gilbert O'Sullivan so sang.
Surprisingly I got the word Edinburgh wrong . Never thought it sounds like “burough” !
Thanks again !!!
I speak Spanish, once I traveled in a koren fligth to Asia. The flight attendant used to correct my pronunciation. She had a British pronunciation and I learned american english. .. funnily, in the flight back, it was an American flight, and there i felt more comfortable, the flight attendant didn't care about my american English with Spanish accent....😂😂
By the way, I got an 10/14. Out of practice. Really good test.
Thank you so much, Emma! You are so generous. Your lessons are great.
Excellent presentation ❤💚❤ Thank you 😊
Hi! So, I actually am the 'Language head in my school and well, I did get all correct. The last one's trick is to say -woo-sest-i-sh-ai-uh- so I guess it should have been much more higher according to my standards! If by any chance you do PART 3, please please make it harder!! Regards
Will do!! 🫡
I think I'm lucky as I come from Australia. I was taught the correct pronunciation of many words before we became a (70s-80s) Multi-cultural Hotspot. As it happens scored 100% on my pronunciation :-)
This was the first time I'm seeing your video and i subscribed it at very first second i saw how you explained everything by the way i passed all of them but hardest was boss level . I'm from INDIA 🇮🇳 and I'm 13 but i can speak English really well and i promise I'm gonna see every video of yours , you're such a great teacher for me , thankuuu love you sooo much ❤
Its really fantastic to me..I have enjoyed it and learnt a few...I got some corrections to see your amazing videos...
The word "rural" was a tricky one, thank you for the help
Oh, I love that Gloucestershire, Worchestershire, Lewisham, Grosvenor and other toponyms You won't pronounce correctly, unless You already know them :) Messed up with Edinburgh a bit, but sorted out others correctly.
Sis thank you so much
I am in age 15. And I want to improve my English skill.... Thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
The word "Edinburgh" was the hardest however now easy to pronounce,thank you Emma ❤❤
Interesting that you included 'squirrel', as a non-native English speaker this to me is one of the most difficult words. I pronounce it: "SKWRL", which is more akin to the American pronunciation I guess.