36 English Words You Can't Say Correctly!!!
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- I asked you guys which words you find impossible to say correctly and these are the 36 words you chose! From 'crisps' to 'imperturbable' we look at the most difficult English words to pronounce.
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What we have to spell:
Loughborough
What we have to say:
Luf-bra
What we can hear:
Laugh bruh
amazing comment.
this is one of those words that I want to say it in LoUgHbOroUgH...
I heard ppl call it "Laughborough", so...^^
For American English, the differences are mostly just small variations from our accents. The only REAL differences I could see were with 'literature' and 'marvellous,' where you collapse the second syllable as if you're saying 'lit-rature' and 'marv-lous.' In American English, those words are pronounced with each syllable audibly pronounced: 'lit-er-a-ture' and 'mar-vel-ous.' (We also spell marvelous differently, as you can see.) For the other word that was different, 'squirrel,' it's the same dynamic but in reverse. You pronounce both syllables of the word audibly, while most speakers of American English collapse the word into a single syllable, as if we're saying 'squirl.'
"Loughborough" was also fun, because it highlights a funny quirk of American town names. 'Borough' at the end of a town name has MANY different pronunciations regionally, and even some towns very close to each other pronounce it differently. It can be pronounced 'bruh,' as you did, or 'bur-ruh.' Or it can be pronounced like 'burrow.' It's often pronounced like 'bar' or 'berry,' if you can believe it. These variations are usually from very old towns, where isolated populations had their own dialects. Centuries later, the dialects are gone, but they live on in some very unique and quirky pronunciations of town names!
Interesting. I think Americans would probably miss the ‘y’ sound in the last syllable of ‘literature’. We would say ‘litt-ruh-chuh’, whereas, I guess you probably have the last syllable as ‘duh’, wouldn’t you? Similar to how we say ‘myoo-sick’ and you say ‘moo-sick’? Though there are parts of the UK where the inhabitants would probably also leave out the ‘y’ in ‘music’ and ‘news’, which I would pronounce as ‘nyooze’ rather than ‘nooze’.
I think pronunciation is the most difficult step to become as fluent as a native speaker. There are no fixed rules and each word requires 1/2 minutes of practice. Thank you for spending your time and being so patient!
Tom, I love it when you repeat phrases in your videos because you make me memorise words easily.
I'm a Mexican native with a North American English accent and I mostly watch these videos for the differences in the accent, and I have to say that out of these words, "girl" and "world" are the ones I have most difficulty with pronouncing in a British accent. It's like there's something missing in the middle! Haha.
When I teach my students British English they are always in shock case in my country American pronunciation is common, so I put in my Examples, You’re one of the greatest teachers on RUclips I always ask my students to follow your lessons,
Thanks very much English Classes : )
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish Thanks to you bro for helping countless people to fine tune their English.Wish you all the best for your channel,keep it going 💗
I never knew how to pronounce crisps until you taught us...Thanks Tom!!! Love the lesson so much
Wow! This guy is amazing!!! I've been completely immersed in his videos for the last 4 or 5 hours, and I'm really loving each and every one of them. Does anyone know if he teaches private lessons of conversation over the Internet? Is definitely enroll for a couple of hours per week.
Hi Tom, for me as a French native speaker there a lot of difficult sounds: th, r, diphtongues and so on... so words like throat or through or although... very common words actually! I love your videos about how to pronounce (London tube station or city...)
All love and respect from an English teacher in Syria.
Awesome video, thank you!
It is interesting to have my mother tongue broken down in this way and it goes some way to explaining why non native speakers find it so difficult. I am also from the London area, the south east (I went to the same school as Emma Raducanu, but half a century ago!). I would always pronounce the middle ‘s’ sound in ‘sixth’. So I would say ‘sick-s-th’. And for ‘jewellery’, I would always pronounce it with three syllables, not two: ‘jew-öl-ree’. You seem to merge the first two syllables, but I think there is a definite change of vowel in there.
I’m pleased to see that the difficult pronunciation of crisps is included in this video.
I taught British English for 16 years in Spain and whilst crisp caused no problem the plural certainly did!
The pronunciation was usually crips!
I find many words with an s + consonant ending cause problems, in varying degrees, for most Spanish-speaking students.
Hi, Sheila
I am looking for an English-speaking partner to practise English with. If you are free, kindly tell me.
Good for you! I always find it very disappointing to find Europeans who sound American because they have learned their English from another continent when Britain is so much closer and the origin of the language. It’s good to find British teachers redressing the balance in Europe.
Thank you ..you deserve a lot more attention from English language learners around the world 💜💜
Thank you soo much Tom! Your videos really help me ❤
7 miserable aristocratic squirrels disliked this video.
LOL!
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Now there is 19 miserable aristocratic squirrels disliked xD
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As a native American English speaker, I can pronounce most of these words easily except for Loughborough. But thankfully, my text editor recognizes that word.
Tom, you remind me o f my phonetics teacher. She had the same beautiful British accent. You took me back to my student days. Thanks a lot and good luck!
Ah that's lovely to hear : )
"Do you live near squirrels?"
Them squirrels are EVERYWHERE!!
Imperturbable Tom your accent and teaching mode improve my English .Bless you!
Not usually interested in pronunciation lessons but... hey, this guy is brilliant! Thanks Tom!
Great, very useful. Regards.
Thanks Tom! It was amazing your video! Thanks for the tips :)
I have enjoyed this lesson and I have also learnt!! Keep up the good work.
Thank you for this video!!! very useful
For clothes, months etc, I looove one tonguetwister: The smiths wear thing clothes throughout the winter months. I'd love hearing you pronouncing it😀
"Tom's Reviews" looks good for me ! I really like these videos ! Great job Tom !
Tom, I'm an American and watching you has caused me to use Anglicised English and spelling frequently. I'm turning into a Brit by osmosis.
hi Tom. Thanks for your videos. Helps me a lot.
Hey 👋 Tom!
I love you videos and think you’re doing a great job. Helping me brush up on my English. ✌️
Awesome! Thanks for your kind comment : )
Being a Brit I never knew people found these words so difficult.imperterbable is the only one I’d never come across before.
Hello Tom, I find your videos very interesting in many terms for me. Thank you for making these videos.
Keep repeating! I LOVE IT
Hi Tom, I'm enjoying your lessons very much, thank you!
Thanks Mate I absolute love this video with us. Cheers
thank you Tom
your teaching is really good for me.
I just appreciate. you.
Hi Tom! Thank you for the video about the words of the 2018 year. I looked for the Oxford dictionary article and found more words like Cakeism (example of Brexit as an attempt to eat a cake and have it too) and Incel (involuntary celibate). You made me interested and motivated in study of English words origin. Keep going please! I would like to ask you to make a video about new words jokingly made novadays like Chairdrobe (issued from attempts of lazy people to hang their clothes on chair not in the wardrobe) and other tricks with words, That is extremely useful for us to remember words and increase our vocabulary, especially active one. Thank you in advance!
That's awesome Serzhan! I love how curious you are to learn new vocabulary : ) Hehehe and I'd like to add floordrobe to that list of invented words ; )
The good teacher who repeats words and phrases to facilitate pronouncition to their students , you shouldn't ask sorry really you are true . Thank you sir thank you indeed
Thanks Tom. All the pronunciations were handy.
I'm a British ex-teacher, and I have to admit I tuned in to this video to probably criticise - well, not this time, these examples were good. In fact I learnt a thing or two. Mainly that visitors and incomers find a lot of common words hard. Some of your other videos I've found rather London area specific, but not this one, as I have taught in Coventry, rural Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Surrey and Suffolk. I grew up in Cambridgeshire so I think I can vouch for there too, all of these pronounciations are universally Britsh. (Wouldn't swear to it being just so in Scotland, Wales or Ireland though.)
Love this video!! 😘 Thank you
Thank you for your kind words Virginia
I think "facetious" is a very difficult word since it looks nothing like how it is said, but it is also a very useful and intellectual one. I also love the way the word sounds.
As for a Q&A name suggestion, in keeping with the theme of learning: Extracurricular.
Hi Tom,I like the second part of your video, just carry on and thank you.
It should be “Tom talking cruise”. lol love your vids, thanks a lot!
Hehehe nice suggestion!
Ohhhh finally! thanks for this helpful video haha
What a great video!!! Thank you for helping us with the pronunciation of these words! 😊
Clothes and months were terrible for me! 😅 Now I think it is easier to say.
Thank you so much, Tom for the teaching us.
For the not native speakers I can add: air/ear /hair /here - pronunciation almost the same.
How about pronunciation of words that sound the same but are spelled different, hair : hare, air : heir, deer : dear, here : hear, or spelled the same but have different meanings in context, lead: a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable, bluish-gray metal and lead: I'm in front of the line.
An English learner from Taiwan, it’s been very helpful thank you so much
Hi Tom. I like the background of your video. 👍
Cheers Ra'ed, yeah it's cool, isn't it?
Something I like of your videos is that unlike other teachers and channels, you don't speak at slower speed but natural and that allows us to listen to aspects of conected speech, like elision, assimilation and weak-forms. Actually if you could remarks those aspects during your videos it would be nice
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish
Of course, it's cool. I like that kind of architecture. 😊
Saint Paul's, isn't it?
I think its London
👏👍💙 Many thanks Tom, I like this kind of video so much and I also really like your idea of creating an "interactive section" in your (our?) virtual community ..... and this is the name I suggest: "Talk to Tom! Welcome to ES Dreamers' special corner of English and cultural deepening".
Ah! I was forgetting! Words quite difficult to pronounce for me are "availability" and "advertisiment".
Last thing: do not stop repeating please, we need your repetitions 😃
Thanks for the suggestions Alice, they are ace!
Hello Alice 👋
Long time no see ! (I know, Slang !)...Your New picture is Beautiful 😀....Hope all is well with You.
36 words are quite a bit to swallow, all in one lesson❗
I like your ideas for Tom's,
"interactive section", I think he means it to be, "Ours". He seems to want to be all inclusive.
It just occurred to me, all your ideas were in English❗I can't imagine coming up with any original ideas in, Italian !..Excellent, Well Done 👏.
Before I forget, a little help ?
"availability"
a - vail - a - bil - a - tee
"advertisement".
(American accent),
ad - ver - tiez - ment.
(British accent),
ad - vert - is - mint
At least that's the way they sound to me !....I hope that helps, and isn't confusing 😱.
Let me apologize in advance if it is 🙄.
I Hope you're enjoying your Thursday 🙂... I'm guessing, it's about 3:00 PM in Italy now.
Also agree, repetition is good !
AND, hope you know what, ACE means 😏...In case you don't, it means, Great 😊 ❗
Till then Alice 👋
JaneLee ^_^
11/29/18
9:00 AM
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@@janeleekeller Hi JaneLee 🙋, my favorite American 🇺🇸 woman! It's always nice to find you in the comments section 😃. First of all, a million thanks for the compliments, for the support and for your precious help. Regarding these two words, my main difficulty is to correctly stress the right syllable and pronounce "naturally" consonants clusters so close and separated by the schwa sound (I suppose 🤔) as VLB (availability) and DVRTS (advertisement)...... I don't know if I could explain myself...... The photo that I replaced was taken more or less twenty days ago by a friend of mine (woman) visiting my house: thanks for the appreciation ... I don't know if it's really so pleasant 😒 (I'm not very photogenic) but it seems a little brighter and more colorful than the previous one. I'm a bit 'under the weather' since yesterday (I learned from YOU this Slang 😃👍) but today I feel much better, I hope that for you everything goes great. A big hug from Italy and thanks again JaneLee for your care and kindness 👋 Till then I wish you wonderful days.
Hi Tom! I'm brazilian guy and there are many difficult words for us. Thank you so much!
Hi Tom, I always enjoy to learn English with you. For the last part of your videos, I suggest to call it "Tom's Bonus" or to paraphrase an idiom "Tom's icing on the cake". Thank you for all you do. Take care.... greetings from France
Hehe that's a cool name, thanks William P
Good evening Mr.Tom my favourite English teacher on RUclips ,,I am Indonesian
Thank you so much Muhammad : )
Thanks. Even discounting the phenomenon of English vs. American accents, the pronunciation of many of these words is significantly different in American English. It was quite striking.
A few ideas for naming the new segment:
- Eat Sleep Dream Redux
- (From) Tom's Postbag
- Comment Corner
Ohhh I like those suggestions, thanks arjaygee : )
I have squirrels around my house. It’s good to know this word as I am not sure how to pronounce this word. BTW, I live in Thailand 😁 thank you so much. I love your video 🙏
i love how you say "imperturbable" so many times! lol so funny
Hahahaha ikr 😂😂😂😂😂
someones have a giraffe , lets think of some hard words
Hi Tom! Sure, "sixth" is difficult but "twelfth" is twice as difficult! 😁
Hi it's really excellent lesson .I loved a lesson on an accent of RP and cockney .It was reslly useful for me as an English teacher from Yemen .
Thanks mate, you are the master
enjoyed alot
We don’t have squirrels around our area but they’re in my daughter’s picture books😂So it’s important for me to pronounce cute little squirrels correctly 🐿!
I love the way to approach your viewers to get more interactive!
You’re always positive and inspiring😊
Your lessons are great too✨👍
Looking forward to your next video!
You are a wonderful person and a great teacher😊🙌
Wow Tom, being an American I can't help but notice what a big
difference there is in both our accent and the British accent! The only
word that threw me was Loughborough! lol
Hehe I know, right! Loughborough makes no sense!
hello Tom! I like a lot your videos, i think they are very useful ! Compliments!!!!
Hi Tom !! Nice see You again.
I really love this new added section~it makes me laugh and seems to be more closer with your daily life. (talk like a friend?）
Hehe thanks Maggie, yeah maybe you are right : )
I'd like "In conversation with Tom". Happy New Year.
Hi Tom, thanks for the video. It helps us, non-native English speakers, to know how to pronounce the words.
I have some ideas for your section. Maybe "Tom replies", "Talk with Tom", or "Talking Tom" Lol! 😂✌️
Awesome video Tom 😍
Awww thanks so much Marine : )
Amazing video ☺! Can you add for the next video the word therefore, thank you 😍
Thanks Sina : )
I love these pronunciation videos!
Thanks Adrian!
These
@@jamesmcinnis208 Yeah thanks
In quarantine i actually learn alot and these oldie but goodies videos still rock
You can omit "actually" from your sentence. It's superfluous here.
First! Ehehe Thank you Tom for the tour last weekend! (Anita, from Portugal :D )
Helloooooo Anita, did you have fun at the Winter Wonderland?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish Yes :) I went to Covent Garden and then I walked from there to Picadilly Circus, Carnaby Street, Mayfair and finally Hyde Park. I walked quite a lot! Ehehe It was a great day!
Thanks Tom, I really enjoy watching your videos. I got a question. Is 'itinerary' pronounced as the way you pronounce 'library', where you drop 'a' sound?
Watching this as an American and native English speaker and someone who’s never really attempted to learn another language and I realize how much Intake for granted all this. To me, this words are nothing, but other people might really struggle with these.
Great clip!!!!
Thanks!
Reflection Corner! Whatever, I do like all of your videos. You are the best ever forever.
Tom's Chat or Tom's Pronunciation Tips... Could be... Best regards from México... I love your videos... I find them so practical to understand and learn... Thanks Tom
Good job!
All the best for your RUclips channel...
I love your videos. U teach a lot of beginners also like me ;)
Thank you for your videos...
Great video Tom thanks!!😊
I wished to find another word I always had trouble with too, airer!!😣 I was host in a family they always used this for the clothes rack, but I never learned how to pronounce it..!🙈
Hi Tom! Thanks a lot for the work you're doing, I find your videos incredibly encouraging:) I've been learning English quite for a while, but still struggling with the articles' usage: in particular, I'm puzzled, if it's a mistake to use/omit "'the" before the name of organisation in the letter's signature. E.g. Sincerely yours, *My name* (The?) Graduate School "..."/(The?) University of...I've seen both variants and have no clue which is correct. Apart from that, would be interesting to know if it's necessary to use an article in front of single words, for instance, in a Power Point presentation. Since there is no "article concept" in my native language, it's hard to feel the difference. Best wishes!
I noticed a difference in the use of "the" preceding freeways just within the U.S. when I moved to SoCal (Southern California) for a decade. In L.A. they say, "Take the 10 to the 405." You would never say that back in the midwest. Instead, it's, "Take 94 to 894."
We wouldn’t say ’Sincerely yours’, but rather ‘Yours sincerely’, if we have prefaced the letter with ‘Dear [name]. If you don’t know the person’s name and use a generic opener such as ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear Madam’, you close with ‘Yours faithfully’ instead. As to the name of the university, I'm not sure there are any hard and fast rules, but I would probably leave the article out and just put ‘University of…’.
English speaker here, fascinated by your pronunciation of "sixth". I am a bit older, also from London, and I add an extra S sound in the middle, like "sicks-th". But I only just realised that your way, "sick-th", is a very common way to say it. It shows that I don't really listen to the exact way my own language is spoken, even though it is exactly what I try to do with other languages.
From my experience, Americans also usually leave the x sound in the middle of the word sixth, so it's interesting to hear the difference.
I pronounce squirrels like skwuws. 🤔 I'm Dutch, but my verbal English was taught to me by a North-East Englishman, a Scots girl and an Australian. My accents is a mess and switches a lot between sentences, but for the most part it seems to take a lot from Cockney, since it just makes it easier and faster to get through my sentences (I mash a lot of words together, I'm not easy to understand if you're not well fluent in English, but I mash words in Dutch too, so idk).
I took literature at the college. I've learned a lot about London's imagist poetry.
Hi Tom! Nice video! What about calling your new section ' Your voice matters'? And... keep on repeating phrases! It's A good opportunity for practising our listening and speaking skills😉
Ohhhh I like it Alberto!
love it!
Tom you should do a video on English surname pronunciations, ie. Featherstonehaugh, Menzies,Cholmondeley,Majoribanks, Brougham, Beauchamp to name but a few.
Feedback at the end of videos only. Thanks for the List of hard to pronounce words. I am learning Vietnamese, and my tutor and I exchange a word of the week. I will be using some of your words for my English contribution. Thanks again.
It is a leisure and a pleasure to watch and listen to your teachings. By the way, "leisure" can be used in this sentence? It was difficult for me to learn how to pronounce it.. and now I use it a lot, especially since it rhymes with pleasure!
The word "leisure" isn't usually used as a noun, as far as I am aware. Just for your information, in American English, "leisure" doesn't rhyme with "pleasure". In American English, it is pronounced "lee zhur" or "lee zher".
Great new section, Tom:) I reckon, it should be either 'Tom's puns' or 'Shooting the breeze' section
Hehe nice suggestions Sofia, thank you : )
For me, the most difficult English sound is the r in fact! (I'm German.) It is especially difficult when combined with a th, like in three or through. But even the relatively simple tongue twister "Red lorry, yellow lorry" is causing German students serious trouble. Another difficult thing are the diphthongs, like in yellow or most.
Put your tongue about a centimetre beyond your top front teeth and then scrape it back against those teeth, all the while forcing air through the narrow space. That should give you a ‘thr’. You can get the diphthong ‘o’ sound by saying a long ‘uh‘ (or ‘er’ with a silent ‘r’) and closing your jaw halfway through and keeping everything else the same. And I need a strong coffee before I can say the lorry tongue twister!
It would probably be easier for you to learn English from a Scottish person , than an English one, or for you to copy Scots accents. I'm thinking of words like 'Och and ACh'.
always a pleasure to keep on learning.... greetings from Peru
Ahhh that's super kind Carla, thank you : )
Peru Lima
finally someone has "to" me ( am i right? ) how to pronounce "monthS" the most difficult word for me. thx so much tom, u have no idea how much i appreciate.
Thank you for asking us what word makes us difficult to pronouce that is definitely "enthusiasm" for me. Help me please!
Hey Tom. I am a Chinese girl and I 'm gonna to study in the UK next year. I am preparing for IELTS recently（absolutely it's miserable..) I had to say I really enjoy your video! By the way, I think "genre" is difficult...
That’s great Yuan Yuan, where are you hoping to study?
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish I have accepted a conditional offer from Goldsmiths, did you know this university?
I enjoyed your lesson❤️
THANKS A LOT! Greetings from Poland !
I can 't thank you enough Teacher🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾