I think you mean squirrel is difficult for non-English speakers, right? The only way Americans say it differently is to drop the e and say it in one syllable. Everyone else pronounces the e and with 2 syllables.
I want to hear Americans pronouncing English words the way Brits do. Half of these "wrong" answers were closer to how I'd say them (from Scotland). It's not a "ree"noceros, so it's not an otoREEnolaryngologist. Also, that's basically a Latin word anyway.
@@andymcl92 In French, we learn english and pronuncing the way english people does. When i studied it in school, my teacher told us US pronunciation is almost the same than english, you just have to tell the words while imagining chewing a potatoe :)
I like to understand who Americans peoples prononce " anticonstituellement" 😂 or " gynécologue" or " bissextile" or " buraliste" or " potelet" or " copropriété " or " dyslexique" or " Ornithorynque"
Interesting you chose the word squirrel because that is the same word Germans choose as a challenging word to say for English speakers: Eichhörnchen, which I find fun to say lol. I tried pronouncing French words by site reading and NOPE, I'm terrible at it.
Vive la France 🟦⬜🟥💪🇫🇷👊🐓⚜️🥖🥐🍞🧀🍰🍾🍷🍲 Long live our Motherland France ! Most visited country in the World and probably the most influencial one Should do National Anthem reaction video
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Watch world friends a few months ago. FrencGirl with colonial heritage. Had a very critical attitude rudeness- In the comments everyone said she was "Very French"🤣
Most of the words presented here are actually of french/latin origin before even being transposed in English so in most of these cases, the french pronunciation would be way closer to the original version of the words than english pronunciation
You almost got them already. Most of these words were french words so every time they failed to pronounce was because of the original french pronounciation.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003Yeah, I was wondering why some of the words were stolen. Such as the words Mural, Connoisseur, Chauffeur, Entrepreneur, etc.
I don't believe anyone mispronounced the words. Jazz didn't take into account that everyone pronounces words differently even in the U.S. She just wanted them to speak like Where's she from.
She was being just really pedantic, which is frankly a European specialty, so no Europeans can complain without looking like hypocrites. But bonus points for the reddit r/mildlyinfuriating reference 💯
I think Jazz is extremely articulate and has the deep understanding of a native English speaker who paid attention in school, isn't lazy and likes to articulate words properly. I hate when people butcher English I think she should have swung that hammer HARD.
@@MichaelDespairs Except, she's not speaking English.. she's speaking "American". Which means most of her obtuse pronounciation.. is actually INCORRECT ! Talk about the kettle calling the pot black. 😗
@@goofygrandlouis6296 You can't even pronounce the word "No." Try it. Start small, try the word "No." Did you say "nauurrr" well sorry you're illiterate. America is the target audience of the world by the way, not the UK.
Just wanna say that all the French guests were very intelligible for me as an English speaker, like I can understand them 100%. And they're accents are so cute!! And just wanted to add to, so many people study English that it comes in so many accents, and for the most part, we pretty much understand most of it, and it's not really a big deal. So if you're feeling insecure about your accent, don't worry too much and just speak it to the best of your ability and most English speakers will try to understand you :)
And I want to remind you that you don’t have to be nice all the time. If they’re saying a word incorrectly then they should be hit, thats the game bruh. They don’t speak perfect English and thats ok, most ESL learners never will.
Now let’s have even more fun with English-speakers trying to pronounce these French words : - Vadrouiller (= to roam) - Serrurerie (= locksmithing) - Hiérarchie (really hard guess lol) - Écureuil (= squirrel) - Grenouille (= frog) - Quincaillerie (= hardware store) - Chirurgien (= surgeon) - Déverrouiller (= to unlock) - Bouilloire (= kettle) - Ornithorynque (= platypus)
Yeah, they specified to British English for that video, but they didn't specify to American English for this one. It seems like the people were told to try to pronounce the words with an American accent, but since the video didn't include that in the title it makes the American girl seem like she's being rude when I don't think she was.
It makes sense, as French schools teach British English, even if sometimes we learn about the American equivalent of some words. In general though, English prononciation remains very hard for French people (that's why we tend to avoid speaking unless it's necessary, we hate messing up and sounding ridiculous). Written English tend to be easier because of the large shared vocabulary with French.
@@Ivan-fm4eh I didn't see a single one. But it's unrelated anyway, I talked about a very specific cultural feature, it's really just about how you sound (personally) when you have a broken english, it doesn't apply to anything else.
To be perfectly honest it’s not uncommon for Americans to pronounce the same word in different ways depending on the situation or mood. Case in point the word literally. Usually it becomes a four syllable word when people want to add emphasis. Interest is another that can go multiple ways.
Ann Dee i was repairing in one detail that can help usonians and bahamians, belizeans to pronounce theses neolatines hard words, it's follow the eclesial latin and modern latin pronounciation cos modern english and middle, and hodiern english are neolatin idioms cos came from franc normand idiom, the brother of french parisian idiom that is spoken in all the world theses 2 idiom came from eclesial latin idiom the same base of hodiern english.
Many anglophones spellings are fake invents fakes spellings to neolatines words, it's unnecessary today and for the future. And the eclesial latin pronounciation in english its the same without fakes rotacisms of vowels or consonants, more educated more polited than usonian spelling, that's a minor difference in detail, in pratice not counts.🤭🤭🥂🥂🥂. Hugs.
J'ai l'impression qu'ils prononcent correctement les mots et que je ferais totalement pas mieux X). Mais quand elle dit le mot en anglais je vois pas de différence
I can say on good authority that the "rhino" part of "otorhinolaryngologist" is pronounced like the animal, not like the city in Nevada. We just say ENT though.
I was getting confused at first because some of them that sounded wrong to her actually sounded right to me but now I see what this is about it's not pronouncing difficult English words it's pronouncing difficult English words the way Americans pronounce them.
The judge was not doing it right -- if you ask people from Washington State, Southern California, Ohio, Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine to say "yacht" you'll hear 8 variations. It's very hard to find a word that all Americans pronounce in the same way because just like in other countries there is a wide range of dialects here. Pronouncing "theater" with a French accent is fine -- there is nobody in the USA who won't understand what you mean. 🙂 The judge was overly focused on dialect instead of pronunciation. Heck she even mispronounced mischievous -- dialect doesn't get to insert new syllables into the word. 🙂
@@princessdaya5781 If it were reversed, the Americans would have blood dripping from their heads lol No one (NO ONE) takes these pissing contests more seriously than Europeans, esp the French
Guys! Megan here again 🙃 I Hope that you all enjoyed our French prrrononciaaation! ☺️ Don’t be too harsh on our lovely Jazz, it was part of the game to get hit for the sake of fun! Happy to see that a lot of you think our prononciation is not terrible. 🤗 At least, talking for myself… we’ve got some very good English speakers in our team! 🥰
I fell like they should've had someone who teaches English to non-English speakers, because they were saying some of these words correctly and she still marked it as incorrect. . .
I think she was often arbitrary about what she would pass or reject. I would say she was being pedantic, but her explanations were often simply wrong and didn't even describe her own speech. Most of the contestants had rather thick French accents, but even when their pronunciation of the word was perfectly fine, she often rejected it. Trying to please her couldn't have been much fun for the contestants.
GH has like 5+ was you can say it in English. To be thorough enough for you do you say slough the body of water as slew or slau? not to be confused for the homonym slough said like sluff. Not to mention ghost or how the gh in Van Gogh the is like the ch in Loch
YALL picking on the American girl like she made it her mission to annoy you all 🙄 She JUST did her job...She clearly was there to judge their AMERICAN prononciation. It's the producers's fault for not being more specific in their title....
@@juliad368 wtf are you even talking about. We call it English, not American. Despite all of your ignorant stereotypes, we know exactly where our language comes from. Oh, and I hope you aren't one of those idiots that complain that Americans are constantly lumping all Europeans in together. You're claiming English is a *European* invention...
as an American I feel like they pronounced most of the words right. like if I can understand what they’re saying, they’re good !! should’ve titled it 'who can pronounce these words in the best American accent' because she was just getting everybody out when, again, they pronounced the words just fine. but even so, not everyone in America sounds the same anyways tho loll
The people were saying it correctly, why was the 🔨 hit? This word is Hellenic🇬🇷 It’s almost like a tongue twister😂 Ωτορινολαρυγγολόγος Oto-rino-laringo-lògos In ancient Hellenic oto means ears 👂🏻 Rino (rinikò) means nose 👃🏻 Làringas > larynx means throat And lògos goes at the end of many doctor professions. So, he’s a doctor for the ear-nose-throat system, cause they’re all connected. We are usually saying “orilà” using the first letter of each “part”
That's simply great because Greece is bloody awesome, I'm very glad our French language has kept thousands roots and derivations from Greek. Hail to the Greek language, culture, mythology and people !
As an English speaker who is learning French, she was literally bonking some people that pronounced the words the same exact way as some others. Like thorough. Someone said it a way and someone else said it the same exact way but the girl only bonked one person
english speakers will be like 'these words are so difficult i'm sure they will be confusing to these people who speak another language' and then the words come from latin and the other language is french
Some of this can differ depending on the region of the USA. I have heard some people from the Southeast say theater as thee ay ter. I think most Americans would say they are going to the movies and not use the word theater unless it’s a stage production type. We don’t tend to use cinema that much per se but we often say cinematography. Contrary to popular belief we also say film but it tends to be in certain contexts. For example I say film festival, feature film, film school. I wouldn’t ever refer to a documentary as a movie, but I would call a documentary a film.
"English words" or ?USA pronunciations"? This should be clarified. "Turtle" from the guy was very accurate. Imagine an Englishman pronouncing it this way and getting a bang on the head. 😕
Isn’t the premise of this video to pronounce English words…. not pronounce English words with an American accent? Many of the times, they were bopped on the head. They had pronounced the word fine, just with a French accent. A lot of them even pronounced it exactly the same, but were told only some were correct. Also a lot of the corrections felt a little patronizing. It’s giving silly American.
You have to remember that these things get official names often after they are filmed. Judging by the reactions of the people being hit, I'm willing to bet the directions were to guess how *she* pronounced them. She even says she doesn't want to hit them and they reassure her. It'd be a different reaction if the instructions were different.
I'm french but i've learned British English, so some of these pronunciations sound totally accurate for me. And don't forget that 40% of the English Language comes from Old French. For example American people say Eggplant, though the British use the French word Aubergine... ; )
Mischievous in American English is ONLY pronounced mis-cheh-vus.. Every other pronunciation is just common errors. It doesn’t mean it is an acceptable form of pronunciation, it’s just an often mispronounced word. Like for example some people say SAHL -MON with the L sound, but really the only correct way to say it is Sah-Mun
No it isn't babe... then why is the L there? Why do english speakers find words but don't pronounce some letters in it ... and english words originated from other languages too
the american girl is a good teacher but i feel the title should’ve been “who pronounces the words in the beast american accent” since almost all of them pronounced them fine. most time it looked like she wanted a reason to bonk the heads lol
That last girl definitely knows her English it’s spot on and I don’t blame them for having a hard time but it’s also accent that makes it sound different I think she discredited them a little too much but yeah I would definitely do worse learning French I probably wouldn’t be even close 😂
I love how it's difficult "English" words but they get an American to pronounce them 😭 like thorough in an American accent is totally different to English 😭
@@makadoodledoo I'm going on about the fact that it says difficult ENGLISH pronunciation e.g in the queen's English not a trashy ruined American version of the word. If they wanna learn real English it can't come from an American
It's not fair to compare them to a generic American accent. As an English person, I thought a lot of their pronunciations were fine and I also think they'll find it much easier to pronounce certain words the way we do in England than in America (like thorough or theatre).
Is Jaz taking in to account that even in the US. These words would be pounced different based on where someone lives. Like theater. Both pronunciation are correct
I used not to like that I have an accent. Especially since the German accent isn‘t considered beautiful or sexy or whatever. But today I think it‘s not necessary to speak perfect accent free English to communicate and it’s also beautiful to have an accent. My native language is the language of my family and most of my friends, it’s the language of my childhood and so many happy memories. It’s part of me and it’s okay, if that shows in my accent. 🤷🏽♀️☺️ I also loooove to hear other people‘s accent! 💖😄
"You certainly did a thuuuh-row job!" "You need me to be thu-roooow?" Doesn't need to be unstressed! You could stress one, both or neither syllable depending on context, stress is difficult to apply naturally.
It really frustrates me that some of the French people got the answers right but the host can't even understand English dialects herself apparently.....
The American actually doesn’t know how to say otorhinolaryngologist either. It’s oh-toe-rhino (like the animal) at the beginning. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like her and knowing the root words you can be certain she is incorrect.
Right!? I thought the exact same thing, and it has the same root word rhino- like in rhinoplasty (a nosejob) and nobody says reeno-plasty, it's RIE-no-plasty
Just a casual reminders to those who are annoyed, this is a silly game with a blow-up hammer toy. Their answers do not affect monetary gain or any real judgment, it was for fun. I did notice the American started off stricter but then got more lenient with the answers as the game went on, but like c'mon everyone. Chill.
When the woman from the US tells them that the English words have no stress this is inaccurate. All words in English have stress and it’s common that French speakers stress the wrong syllable as it’s often stressed on a different syllable. And otorhinolaryngologist is not really an English word.
From the first word on, they were pretty correct. Besides they all speak English. The French, in general, are very good with teaching languages. They did the same thing with a group of Americans who failed, for the most part, pronouncing French.
This is so typically American - judging others based on their own standards and wanting everyone to be the same as they. The title of this should be, "French trying Californian pronunciation of English words".
This comment is so typically European - not understanding that not everything is a pissing contest, and being unable to get loose and have fun. Way too many Euros have a stick rammed up their butts, esp whenever an American is somehow present.
Fun video, but any of them would be easily understood by English speakers, and they should all feel very confident about their ability to communicate. It's like the dude said at the end: the accent just adds a little spice.
@5:39 - There are regional variations in the pronunciation of "theater" and, where I grew up (in Mississippi), the way the French speakers pronounced it would be more right than the way the "American" pronounced it.
Our French language is also as spread out as the English language across the Globe. We have the most Time zones and secretly the 5th largest country in the World. Bigger than Brazil It's due to Overseas Territories (colonies)
@@ponyxaviors4491 Ah yeah, I phrased my initial comment too rigidly. Whether people pronounce it with the extras sound or not must be determined by their community. I know many people say it like it's "mischievious" but it never seemed like a common thing in my experience. I still think that the extra "i" isn't an absolute majority of speakers, but there must certainly be places where that is the case.
@@maybenaught Yeah, I can only speak to my own experience as well, but it could have been a limited region, I have no idea 🤷🏼♀️ I just know I personally had heard it often.
What a great video. Greek words are always difficult. In Greek, with latin characters is otorinolaringologos (ωτορινολαρυγγολόγος) and it sounds like auto-rheno-larenkologos. Almost like this. In short, we say it ΩΡΛ (Oh-ree-lah) from the letters Omega-Rho-Lamda. Also paradigm is from the word παράδειγμα (para-thee-gma with a soft g) and it means "example". Actually the French accent is more close to the original word. But words travel and that's the interesting part. Greetings from Greece. Bonjour de la Grèce!
Trully observation. I estimate and respect and consider greek culture, if greek adopt the latine alphabet and solresol musical alphabet, as 2nd and 3rd alphabets, greek can again reinfluence in a good energy the neolatine world. This word otorinolaringologist or otorinolaringologos ever is and was a hard word to spell no matter in greek version or latine version, ever difficult, the french accent wow, death level.
@@ReiKakariki it's quite difficult (and actually we don't want) to change into latin alphabet, that we are not familiar. Greek alphabet has evolved throughout history and represents (at least to the Greeks and those who study it) all these changes (ancient Greek, Koine, all the different dialects and idioms, medieval byzantine Greek, modern Hellenic) that made it what it is. Also I don't think that as you say "neolatin" world needs any modern influence from the Greek language. Both "languages", Latin and Ancient Greek influence the ancient world equally (at least western world, because Arabic, Chinese, and others influenced the east). It's time for other cultures to flourish or be recognized as equal. Every country, every culture has something good to offer.
As a native Californian I’ve heard people say we don’t pronounce our “T’s” and I can’t unhear it. When she(the American) said “Turtle” she pronounced it as Tur•Dul so in a way we’re not even annunciating the words correctly either.🤷🏻♀️
Ouate ze matteur wiv our accent ? There's a lot of words in which we struggle, such as this damn squirrel 😅 Courage les amis, vous vous en êtes bien sorti. Cheers from France 👍
I want to see Americans pronounce difficult French words. Like, squirrel is tricky for non-Americans. Ecureuil is hard for non francophones to say.
I think you mean squirrel is difficult for non-English speakers, right? The only way Americans say it differently is to drop the e and say it in one syllable. Everyone else pronounces the e and with 2 syllables.
I want to hear Americans pronouncing English words the way Brits do. Half of these "wrong" answers were closer to how I'd say them (from Scotland).
It's not a "ree"noceros, so it's not an otoREEnolaryngologist. Also, that's basically a Latin word anyway.
@@andymcl92 In French, we learn english and pronuncing the way english people does. When i studied it in school, my teacher told us US pronunciation is almost the same than english, you just have to tell the words while imagining chewing a potatoe :)
I like to understand who Americans peoples prononce " anticonstituellement" 😂 or " gynécologue" or " bissextile" or " buraliste" or " potelet" or " copropriété " or " dyslexique" or " Ornithorynque"
Interesting you chose the word squirrel because that is the same word Germans choose as a challenging word to say for English speakers: Eichhörnchen, which I find fun to say lol. I tried pronouncing French words by site reading and NOPE, I'm terrible at it.
I've never seen so many people from France on World Friends before , loved them , especially the guy
Vive la France 🟦⬜🟥💪🇫🇷👊🐓⚜️🥖🥐🍞🧀🍰🍾🍷🍲
Long live our Motherland France !
Most visited country in the World and probably the most influencial one
Should do National Anthem reaction video
@The Archiver Glad to hear you truly appreciate our culture and know about a little our French Anthem "La Marseillaise"
Where is that Arab French girl who looked so grumpy like a typical Parisian?
@@lissandrafreljord7913 What Arab Girl ?
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Watch world friends a few months ago. FrencGirl with colonial heritage. Had a very critical attitude rudeness- In the comments everyone said she was "Very French"🤣
It would have been interesting to hear both the full french pronounciation of these words, as well as their french equivalent.
Hopefully they will be our French pronunciation in the upcoming video
For Intel, we French don't really pronunce our words. No need to bother it
Most of the words presented here are actually of french/latin origin before even being transposed in English so in most of these cases, the french pronunciation would be way closer to the original version of the words than english pronunciation
You almost got them already. Most of these words were french words so every time they failed to pronounce was because of the original french pronounciation.
@@Guillean22The English Language came from our French language. 40% of it 🇬🇧➡️🇨🇵
@@christophermichaelclarence6003Yeah, I was wondering why some of the words were stolen. Such as the words Mural, Connoisseur, Chauffeur, Entrepreneur, etc.
I don't believe anyone mispronounced the words. Jazz didn't take into account that everyone pronounces words differently even in the U.S. She just wanted them to speak like Where's she from.
Yeah, especially the theatre one, I know people who pronounce it as “thee-uh-tuh” or “thee-eh-tuh”. It’s still the same word.
Let’s also have Americans pronounce some advanced French words.
I agree with you, we can see how this sort of concept is a terrible idea.
no
No it's fine alltheir doing is just trying to pronounce words in American 😊
I think that’s the point though, for them to replicate how she says it.
Watching her hit these people when they're pronouncing it right is r/mildly infuriating.
Agreed!
As an American I both disagreed with once’s she passed and agree with ones she didn’t
@@_LifeofDy She's not judging on pronunciation. She's judging on accent.
She was being just really pedantic, which is frankly a European specialty, so no Europeans can complain without looking like hypocrites.
But bonus points for the reddit r/mildlyinfuriating reference 💯
@@Ivan-fm4eh How tf is pedantic a european specialty ? How is any character trait any country or continent's specialty ? Lmfao
I think Jazz was way too harsh with this, at one point it was even difficult to watch. They pronounced the words just fine.
I think Jazz is extremely articulate and has the deep understanding of a native English speaker who paid attention in school, isn't lazy and likes to articulate words properly. I hate when people butcher English I think she should have swung that hammer HARD.
@@MichaelDespairs Except, she's not speaking English.. she's speaking "American".
Which means most of her obtuse pronounciation.. is actually INCORRECT !
Talk about the kettle calling the pot black. 😗
@@goofygrandlouis6296 "Naur"
thank you
I thought it was just me!
@@goofygrandlouis6296 You can't even pronounce the word "No." Try it. Start small, try the word "No." Did you say "nauurrr" well sorry you're illiterate. America is the target audience of the world by the way, not the UK.
Just wanna say that all the French guests were very intelligible for me as an English speaker, like I can understand them 100%. And they're accents are so cute!!
And just wanted to add to, so many people study English that it comes in so many accents, and for the most part, we pretty much understand most of it, and it's not really a big deal. So if you're feeling insecure about your accent, don't worry too much and just speak it to the best of your ability and most English speakers will try to understand you :)
Ça va alors, si ont prononce bien des mots français que les anglais ont emprunté et qu'ils y ont mis un nouvelle accent. xD
And I want to remind you that you don’t have to be nice all the time. If they’re saying a word incorrectly then they should be hit, thats the game bruh. They don’t speak perfect English and thats ok, most ESL learners never will.
Now let’s have even more fun with English-speakers trying to pronounce these French words :
- Vadrouiller (= to roam)
- Serrurerie (= locksmithing)
- Hiérarchie (really hard guess lol)
- Écureuil (= squirrel)
- Grenouille (= frog)
- Quincaillerie (= hardware store)
- Chirurgien (= surgeon)
- Déverrouiller (= to unlock)
- Bouilloire (= kettle)
- Ornithorynque (= platypus)
Avec un accent québécois! Mdr
Based.
@@rodrigomachado5291 Ok now try to say anticonstitutionnelement
This should be titled: "French People Try to Pronounce Difficult English Words in an American accent!". Some decent British pronunciations though.
Yeah, they specified to British English for that video, but they didn't specify to American English for this one. It seems like the people were told to try to pronounce the words with an American accent, but since the video didn't include that in the title it makes the American girl seem like she's being rude when I don't think she was.
It makes sense, as French schools teach British English, even if sometimes we learn about the American equivalent of some words.
In general though, English prononciation remains very hard for French people (that's why we tend to avoid speaking unless it's necessary, we hate messing up and sounding ridiculous). Written English tend to be easier because of the large shared vocabulary with French.
@@xenotypos Not wanting to look/sound ridiculous is why there are so many angry French people commenting here who should probably just be laughing
@@Ivan-fm4eh I didn't see a single one. But it's unrelated anyway, I talked about a very specific cultural feature, it's really just about how you sound (personally) when you have a broken english, it doesn't apply to anything else.
To be perfectly honest it’s not uncommon for Americans to pronounce the same word in different ways depending on the situation or mood. Case in point the word literally. Usually it becomes a four syllable word when people want to add emphasis. Interest is another that can go multiple ways.
Ann Dee i was repairing in one detail that can help usonians and bahamians, belizeans to pronounce theses neolatines hard words, it's follow the eclesial latin and modern latin pronounciation cos modern english and middle, and hodiern english are neolatin idioms cos came from franc normand idiom, the brother of french parisian idiom that is spoken in all the world theses 2 idiom came from eclesial latin idiom the same base of hodiern english.
Many anglophones spellings are fake invents fakes spellings to neolatines words, it's unnecessary today and for the future. And the eclesial latin pronounciation in english its the same without fakes rotacisms of vowels or consonants, more educated more polited than usonian spelling, that's a minor difference in detail, in pratice not counts.🤭🤭🥂🥂🥂. Hugs.
Me! Its Pee-can when Im talking about the nut or the tree and Pecan when its in the name of a dish.
They need to get a southerner on here to confuse them! It'd be funny to watch tbh.
J'ai l'impression qu'ils prononcent correctement les mots et que je ferais totalement pas mieux X). Mais quand elle dit le mot en anglais je vois pas de différence
je suis anglais et ils ont prononcé la plupart d'entre eux correctement. le juge était juste vraiment mauvais 🥲
T'a vu mois aussi je pensai ça je parle la langue aussi et ils ont dit presque toute le mots correctement
Yeah. I’m an American and she did a bad job judging.
I can say on good authority that the "rhino" part of "otorhinolaryngologist" is pronounced like the animal, not like the city in Nevada. We just say ENT though.
Thanks for clearing that up. I started thinking maybe I have been pronouncing it wrong. Nope, it's her.
Same in Ireland. I only know because my youngest was in hospital recently and they detected a Rhinovirus.
And in french we say ORL, this is straight up a latin word 😀
Haha, good to know I haven’t been saying it wrong for years. I work at an audiology clinic.
Jazz stumbled over that and still pronounced it wrong.
I was getting confused at first because some of them that sounded wrong to her actually sounded right to me but now I see what this is about it's not pronouncing difficult English words it's pronouncing difficult English words the way Americans pronounce them.
The judge was not doing it right -- if you ask people from Washington State, Southern California, Ohio, Alabama, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine to say "yacht" you'll hear 8 variations. It's very hard to find a word that all Americans pronounce in the same way because just like in other countries there is a wide range of dialects here. Pronouncing "theater" with a French accent is fine -- there is nobody in the USA who won't understand what you mean. 🙂
The judge was overly focused on dialect instead of pronunciation. Heck she even mispronounced mischievous -- dialect doesn't get to insert new syllables into the word. 🙂
Bruh she would hit people for no reason lol
We're gonna hit her back with our baguette 🇫🇷🥖
i feel like she didnt hit them sometimes when she shouldve
@@princessdaya5781 If it were reversed, the Americans would have blood dripping from their heads lol
No one (NO ONE) takes these pissing contests more seriously than Europeans, esp the French
@@Ivan-fm4ehYou're really obsses with us, making tons of francophobic comments. Did you girl left you for a french guy ?
Guys! Megan here again 🙃
I Hope that you all enjoyed our French prrrononciaaation! ☺️
Don’t be too harsh on our lovely Jazz, it was part of the game to get hit for the sake of fun! Happy to see that a lot of you think our prononciation is not terrible. 🤗
At least, talking for myself… we’ve got some very good English speakers in our team! 🥰
Trop forte bb 😌
nice
I fell like they should've had someone who teaches English to non-English speakers, because they were saying some of these words correctly and she still marked it as incorrect. . .
I think she was often arbitrary about what she would pass or reject. I would say she was being pedantic, but her explanations were often simply wrong and didn't even describe her own speech. Most of the contestants had rather thick French accents, but even when their pronunciation of the word was perfectly fine, she often rejected it. Trying to please her couldn't have been much fun for the contestants.
As an English person, everyone including the American said "thorough" incorrectly 😀
😂
Yes because it's Thuhrruuh
we know, we know, it's pronounced bo'ah o' wo' ah
GH has like 5+ was you can say it in English. To be thorough enough for you do you say slough the body of water as slew or slau? not to be confused for the homonym slough said like sluff. Not to mention ghost or how the gh in Van Gogh the is like the ch in Loch
Yeah, it can be pronounced in two ways lul
YALL picking on the American girl like she made it her mission to annoy you all 🙄 She JUST did her job...She clearly was there to judge their AMERICAN prononciation. It's the producers's fault for not being more specific in their title....
THANK you! That's exactly what I wanted to say!
Her mission was to entertain us and make us laugh. It worked on everyone who isn't a hypercompetitive European...
@@Ivan-fm4ehwe’re not competitive we just object to Americans thinking they own the English language when they in fact earned it from… Europe…
@@juliad368 wtf are you even talking about. We call it English, not American. Despite all of your ignorant stereotypes, we know exactly where our language comes from.
Oh, and I hope you aren't one of those idiots that complain that Americans are constantly lumping all Europeans in together. You're claiming English is a *European* invention...
as an American I feel like they pronounced most of the words right. like if I can understand what they’re saying, they’re good !! should’ve titled it 'who can pronounce these words in the best American accent' because she was just getting everybody out when, again, they pronounced the words just fine. but even so, not everyone in America sounds the same anyways tho loll
The people were saying it correctly, why was the 🔨 hit?
This word is Hellenic🇬🇷
It’s almost like a tongue twister😂
Ωτορινολαρυγγολόγος
Oto-rino-laringo-lògos
In ancient Hellenic oto means ears 👂🏻
Rino (rinikò) means nose 👃🏻
Làringas > larynx means throat
And lògos goes at the end of many doctor professions.
So, he’s a doctor for the ear-nose-throat system, cause they’re all connected.
We are usually saying “orilà” using the first letter of each “part”
That's so cool
Why did you randomly puke a random fact??
The word may have Greek roots but it's an English word in that form, so it follows English pronunciation rules.
Funny because in French it would be Otorhinolaryngologiste
That's simply great because Greece is bloody awesome, I'm very glad our French language has kept thousands roots and derivations from Greek. Hail to the Greek language, culture, mythology and people !
As an English speaker who is learning French, she was literally bonking some people that pronounced the words the same exact way as some others. Like thorough. Someone said it a way and someone else said it the same exact way but the girl only bonked one person
The guy is so french with the "boum let's go" and "baaah"
honestly the lady was looking for a very specific american accent and it’s very unfair
And she wasn’t even consistent with that.
english speakers will be like 'these words are so difficult i'm sure they will be confusing to these people who speak another language' and then the words come from latin and the other language is french
Some of this can differ depending on the region of the USA. I have heard some people from the Southeast say theater as thee ay ter. I think most Americans would say they are going to the movies and not use the word theater unless it’s a stage production type. We don’t tend to use cinema that much per se but we often say cinematography. Contrary to popular belief we also say film but it tends to be in certain contexts. For example I say film festival, feature film, film school. I wouldn’t ever refer to a documentary as a movie, but I would call a documentary a film.
"English words" or ?USA pronunciations"?
This should be clarified. "Turtle" from the guy was very accurate. Imagine an Englishman pronouncing it this way and getting a bang on the head. 😕
he'd deserve it lol
I’m British and have been corrected by Americans for saying aluminium and sledge 🤷♀️ the arrogance is real.
They'll get a shock when they come to Ireland and all the UK regions for the vast differences 😂 (even within individual countries).
Fo' su' mate
Brigitte slayed this and her skin is so clear so she wins
Isn’t the premise of this video to pronounce English words…. not pronounce English words with an American accent?
Many of the times, they were bopped on the head. They had pronounced the word fine, just with a French accent. A lot of them even pronounced it exactly the same, but were told only some were correct.
Also a lot of the corrections felt a little patronizing. It’s giving silly American.
You have to remember that these things get official names often after they are filmed.
Judging by the reactions of the people being hit, I'm willing to bet the directions were to guess how *she* pronounced them.
She even says she doesn't want to hit them and they reassure her.
It'd be a different reaction if the instructions were different.
I'm french but i've learned British English, so some of these pronunciations sound totally accurate for me. And don't forget that 40% of the English Language comes from Old French. For example American people say Eggplant, though the British use the French word Aubergine... ; )
Mischievous in American English is ONLY pronounced mis-cheh-vus.. Every other pronunciation is just common errors. It doesn’t mean it is an acceptable form of pronunciation, it’s just an often mispronounced word. Like for example some people say SAHL -MON with the L sound, but really the only correct way to say it is Sah-Mun
No it isn't babe... then why is the L there? Why do english speakers find words but don't pronounce some letters in it ... and english words originated from other languages too
@@Raven_stan L is silent there. French has even more silent letters
it is acceptable, deal with it
The way this girl was docking them for SAYING THE WORDS RIGHT! Miss girl maybe you need an English class cause they were fine.
How about the word:
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?😂
Bridgette is absolutely gorgeous! Her skin is flawless!
The quizmaster/hammer wielder is incompetent. She bonked several people on the head who pronounced the words correctly
@Chris Davis what??????
Each of them were understandable in their pronunciation. If they were in the US and used those words they would be understood. Good job!!
I went to school with Jazz!! She's an amazing person!!
the american girl is a good teacher but i feel the title should’ve been “who pronounces the words in the beast american accent” since almost all of them pronounced them fine. most time it looked like she wanted a reason to bonk the heads lol
yes, bonking their heads is literally the point of this video 🫠
That last girl definitely knows her English it’s spot on and I don’t blame them for having a hard time but it’s also accent that makes it sound different I think she discredited them a little too much but yeah I would definitely do worse learning French I probably wouldn’t be even close 😂
French accents are so beautiful 😻
no, i'm french and believe me, french accent is very very awful
Not to mention the genetics 🤭😍🥰 the guy was so freaking cute and hot at the same time!
The French are overrated.
@@emmanuelwood8702why are you hating ?
@@mkmc94 Not hatin .French is over valued in opion.They havent crontributed as much to humanity as alot of other cultures that are undervalued.
HUH
"You sound french"
YEAH YOU SOUND AMERICAN, JAZZ
7:54 I was shocked of Briggite first🤯
I can't pronounce this word😂😂I can't even write it correct "otorhinolaryngologist"😝
All French people just say like they said in the video: O.R.L (Oto-Rhino-Laryngologist)
they were literally saying them right and still got bonked? I’m upset at this
I love how it's difficult "English" words but they get an American to pronounce them 😭 like thorough in an American accent is totally different to English 😭
@@makadoodledoo I'm going on about the fact that it says difficult ENGLISH pronunciation e.g in the queen's English not a trashy ruined American version of the word. If they wanna learn real English it can't come from an American
8:32 I've never heard someone saying "paradigm" so elegantly
It's not fair to compare them to a generic American accent. As an English person, I thought a lot of their pronunciations were fine and I also think they'll find it much easier to pronounce certain words the way we do in England than in America (like thorough or theatre).
American English is a different language altogether, some of these pronounciations are interesting 😂
The blonde and black lady have very good French 👍🏻!
"there is no stress". You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means. E.g.: "tEmperature". The stress is clearly on the E.
American trying to tell French how to speak English.. using mainly French words..
"Wait, no American!"🤣
I pronounce mischievous differently depending on what i'm feeling so sometimes I'll say "mis-chee-vee-us" other times I'll pronounce it "mis-cha-vus"
Same
The black girl 🤌🤌😍😍😍
Is Jaz taking in to account that even in the US. These words would be pounced different based on where someone lives. Like theater. Both pronunciation are correct
I used not to like that I have an accent. Especially since the German accent isn‘t considered beautiful or sexy or whatever. But today I think it‘s not necessary to speak perfect accent free English to communicate and it’s also beautiful to have an accent. My native language is the language of my family and most of my friends, it’s the language of my childhood and so many happy memories. It’s part of me and it’s okay, if that shows in my accent. 🤷🏽♀️☺️ I also loooove to hear other people‘s accent! 💖😄
Mostly germans dont like the german accent. I had never problems with other nations 😂
People should worry less about their accent, and more about not trying to come off as an asshole, when speaking.
Everyone has an accent. There is no such thing as accentless speech.
Just for you to know, the German accent in French is veryyy sexy haha
"MISS chi vis" is the only correct pronunciation of that word.
The judge just wanted to hit people tf lol
Flavien has no business being this fine
She’s hitting people who are saying it fine
ikr
NAW SHE STOLE THE HAMMER FROM CHAPULIN COLORADO 😂
Hi Lucy and friends!! You did well in speaking English! French food is my favorite and Paris is such a beautiful city
hiii! :)
"You certainly did a thuuuh-row job!" "You need me to be thu-roooow?" Doesn't need to be unstressed! You could stress one, both or neither syllable depending on context, stress is difficult to apply naturally.
Vive la France !! 🇫🇷🗼🥖🍷
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It really frustrates me that some of the French people got the answers right but the host can't even understand English dialects herself apparently.....
Camille was a mood 😂
I think squirrel is one of the hardest for French speaker 😂
As "écureuil" is for them.
The girl with the hammer was pronouncing Thorough completely wrong. At least from a British viewpoint. It can also be pronounced like ‘Thour- Ugh’
The American actually doesn’t know how to say otorhinolaryngologist either. It’s oh-toe-rhino (like the animal) at the beginning. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like her and knowing the root words you can be certain she is incorrect.
Suck a long fucking word.
We French say ORL
Right!? I thought the exact same thing, and it has the same root word rhino- like in rhinoplasty (a nosejob) and nobody says reeno-plasty, it's RIE-no-plasty
Just a casual reminders to those who are annoyed, this is a silly game with a blow-up hammer toy. Their answers do not affect monetary gain or any real judgment, it was for fun. I did notice the American started off stricter but then got more lenient with the answers as the game went on, but like c'mon everyone. Chill.
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Europeans have a lot of trouble not seeing anything like this as a pissing contest against Americans. They are so uptight and competitive.
Brigitte was killing it
i think most of them did a good job in pronouncing the words right, its just the lady in the back wants to hear a perfect american accent.
Indian shorty was letting all her ancestors anger come out 😂😂😂 they not british relaxxx💀
Yacht is tricky but in Spanish it's yate so I was surprised I just had to get rid of the final e to pronounce it the right way in American English.
In french it's pronounced "yot" which is how the first girl pronounced it.
Some with portuguese.
When the woman from the US tells them that the English words have no stress this is inaccurate. All words in English have stress and it’s common that French speakers stress the wrong syllable as it’s often stressed on a different syllable. And otorhinolaryngologist is not really an English word.
I can imagine Jazz hazing people in a sorority
Well, actually mischievous is pronounced the second version in English. Like officially.
It might be a regional difference, but I hear “mischievous” more often as three syllables, not four.
We French say "Malicieux"
➡️"Mischievous"
Seems a bit tricky to proncunce
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 frro calme ta joie arrete de repondre a tous lzs comm
I have heard both in person and in tv/movies.
From the first word on, they were pretty correct. Besides they all speak English. The French, in general, are very good with teaching languages. They did the same thing with a group of Americans who failed, for the most part, pronouncing French.
This is so typically American - judging others based on their own standards and wanting everyone to be the same as they.
The title of this should be, "French trying Californian pronunciation of English words".
This comment is so typically European - not understanding that not everything is a pissing contest, and being unable to get loose and have fun. Way too many Euros have a stick rammed up their butts, esp whenever an American is somehow present.
6:24 the small "allez" for her to be bonked was so sad, she was doin great :,)
Fun video, but any of them would be easily understood by English speakers, and they should all feel very confident about their ability to communicate. It's like the dude said at the end: the accent just adds a little spice.
Ok glad I'm not the only one who felt like they were saying the words correctly. She was hitting most of them for no reason🙄
@5:39 - There are regional variations in the pronunciation of "theater" and, where I grew up (in Mississippi), the way the French speakers pronounced it would be more right than the way the "American" pronounced it.
France is such a country with a lot of diversity
Too much diversity
@@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz ??
@@bestofthevoice7286 france has the wrong type of diversity nowadays
France. French is the language and the nationality.
the diversity = foreigners.
They all need to say "Hamburger" like in pink panther!!!
French is being spoken in many other countries though
Our French language is also as spread out as the English language across the Globe.
We have the most Time zones and secretly the 5th largest country in the World. Bigger than Brazil
It's due to Overseas Territories (colonies)
Good god they never asked them to pronounce squirrel 😅 I would just have been planted into the floor with all the hitting 😂😂
Haha! Lots of mostly French loan words, mispronounced by English and Americans...
ahah exactly. The french way is the actual closest prononciation faithful to the source.
They should have got an English person to do this it’s like getting a creole person to do this for French. That is not how you pronounce thorough
Idk...pretty sure most people *don't* pronounce "mischievous" with an extra "i".
I've heard it pronounced with an extra "I" my entire life. I've also heard it the other way though.
@@ponyxaviors4491 Ah yeah, I phrased my initial comment too rigidly. Whether people pronounce it with the extras sound or not must be determined by their community. I know many people say it like it's "mischievious" but it never seemed like a common thing in my experience. I still think that the extra "i" isn't an absolute majority of speakers, but there must certainly be places where that is the case.
@@maybenaught Yeah, I can only speak to my own experience as well, but it could have been a limited region, I have no idea 🤷🏼♀️ I just know I personally had heard it often.
Cutos to all the french people. I absolutley love their accents
What a great video. Greek words are always difficult. In Greek, with latin characters is otorinolaringologos (ωτορινολαρυγγολόγος) and it sounds like auto-rheno-larenkologos. Almost like this. In short, we say it ΩΡΛ (Oh-ree-lah) from the letters Omega-Rho-Lamda. Also paradigm is from the word παράδειγμα (para-thee-gma with a soft g) and it means "example". Actually the French accent is more close to the original word. But words travel and that's the interesting part. Greetings from Greece. Bonjour de la Grèce!
Trully observation. I estimate and respect and consider greek culture, if greek adopt the latine alphabet and solresol musical alphabet, as 2nd and 3rd alphabets, greek can again reinfluence in a good energy the neolatine world.
This word otorinolaringologist or otorinolaringologos ever is and was a hard word to spell no matter in greek version or latine version, ever difficult, the french accent wow, death level.
Nice Saturday and nice March for Greek peolpe from Oceania. Hugs.
@@ReiKakariki it's quite difficult (and actually we don't want) to change into latin alphabet, that we are not familiar. Greek alphabet has evolved throughout history and represents (at least to the Greeks and those who study it) all these changes (ancient Greek, Koine, all the different dialects and idioms, medieval byzantine Greek, modern Hellenic) that made it what it is. Also I don't think that as you say "neolatin" world needs any modern influence from the Greek language. Both "languages", Latin and Ancient Greek influence the ancient world equally (at least western world, because Arabic, Chinese, and others influenced the east). It's time for other cultures to flourish or be recognized as equal. Every country, every culture has something good to offer.
She was way too harsh lol
that 2nd girl sounds very American to me, not gonna lie.
As a native Californian I’ve heard people say we don’t pronounce our “T’s” and I can’t unhear it. When she(the American) said “Turtle” she pronounced it as Tur•Dul so in a way we’re not even annunciating the words correctly either.🤷🏻♀️
Ouate ze matteur wiv our accent ?
There's a lot of words in which we struggle, such as this damn squirrel 😅
Courage les amis, vous vous en êtes bien sorti.
Cheers from France 👍
Ils se sont bien bien sorti.
Imagine c'est l'inverse. On verra qui rira le dernier 🟦⬜🟥🇫🇷
They’re literally getting all of them correct she’s being too harsh they just have accents
Nice to see Bridgit back
What! Squirrel: Denied? Nooooooooooooooooooo!