12 Brands YOU pronounce INCORRECTLY + (Free PDF and Quiz!)

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Hello everyone and welcome back to English with Lucy
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you've read the title.
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Today, I am going to tell you 10 faction designer the names
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that you, yes you, pronouncing incorrectly.
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And I bet, you come here like, oh yeah, let's see, let's see, what a British Girl!
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with missing finger nails is gonna accuse me of.
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Wow, you might surprise this sound
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because I surprise myself. What did we said in this video.
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I am by no means a faction expert
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I am, however, extremely interested in pronounciation.
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And I know a lot of, you guys, are as well sound like you know, like you're talking about.
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So A lot of you will be here, because you want to improve English speaking and pronounciation and sound that you want to be more professional .
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When talking about these brands. If you like take your English a step further,
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When I come to improving the pronounciation
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and sometimes reading just isn't enough, but listening audiobooks really shows you how each word is pronounced.
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I've got some recommendations in there for audiobooks, read with a British English Accent
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and also an American English Accent as well.
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You can choose whichever is more relevant for you.
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That've been said. Let's get started with this video.
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Now, the first one is this one, Hermés. Heyyy...
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What a Gorgeous brand, and I always always wanted one of their fancy belts.
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I've never been able to justify one those.
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This one, I used to pronounce that "HƠ-MEI-S".
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But upon doing my research, I found out that It should be pronounced, "E-MES", "E-MES".
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"E-MES"
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Not because it's a French designer and the "H" is silent.
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The next one,"ADIDAS" this one, oh my god, I've heard so many variations for the pronounciation.
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And this brand
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I'll give you a clue, the founder of the brand which is called "Adolph Dassler"
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"Adolph Dassler"
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And nick name was "A-DI"
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So brand is an fusion of his nick name and his surname.
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his nick name-ADI, and his surname is DAS => ADIDAS.
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I sometimes hear /a'dides/ or /adi'das/ or /a'di'das/
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But yeah, it should be /'adidas/.
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The next one, another French one, one I am likely to butcher
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It is what I would originally called "BALMAN".
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But it should actually be pronouced /Bou mân/, /Bou mân/
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The Frenchies don't like pronouncing the end the "N" of words.
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/Bou-ma/, /Bou-ma/. I think I need a France lesson.
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Then we have this one, "LOEWE".
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Like many of you, I imagine, I looked at this and I thought /LOU/
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I thought it was gonna be called /LOU/. But it's not
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It's the Spanish brand and that "W" is actually pronounced "V"
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So it is /LU-E-VI/ , /LU-'E-VI/, /LU-E-'VI/, /LU-E-VI/.
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That's a sexy word.
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The next one "MOCHINO". It is not /MƠ-SHI-NOU/
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It is not /MƠ-SHI-NOU/. It is actually pronounced /MÔ-SKI:-NOU/ , /MÔ-SKI:-NOU/.
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which is, because, it is an Italian brand and anything with "SCH", I say "SKI:", "SKI:", /MÔ-SKI:-NOU/.
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There are something on my floor, "VERSACE". It's /VỜ-SÁ-SI/
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Actually, it's not a /VỜ-SÁ-SI/.
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It is an Italian word and it should be /VỜ-SHÁ-SI/
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/VỜ-SHÁ-SI/
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The next one "NIKE".
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It's not /NAIK/. It is /NAI-KÌ/
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The next one is "THIERRY MUGLER".
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And it's more /THÌ-E-LÝ MU-G-LỜ/.
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We will so have "SAINT LAURENT". Instead of /SAN-LO-RONG/.../SA-LO/
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/SA-LOW-ONT/. Now the difficulty with this is the French "R"
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The French "R" sounds which is the /HƠ/,/HƠ/, from the back and I find very difficult to produce.
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We also have one that is a really really common limit pronounce in the UK.
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And the reason we know we mispronounce it, it's because the phrase word that is in French.
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And it should be "RALPH LAUREN"=> /ROU-'FLO-RANT/.
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But we for some reason pronounce it /ROU-'FLO-RENT/
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Another difficult one is "GIVENCHY".
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/GI-VONG-SHI/.
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Oh, that is a tongue twister.
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Now, the next one, it's not a fashion brand. But it is a luxury item.
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And it is "PORSCHE". We would call in the UK /'PO:-SH/
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But it is actually called with 2 syllable, it should be /'PU-SHO/.
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And I test with my boyfriend, who's really into cars and he said /'PO-SH/ as well.
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When it should be /'PO-SHO/. So yeah, really common mistake.
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But bear that on in mind. That's it for today video, I hope you like it and I hope you learn something.
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and I've got my Twitter an I see you soon for another lesson. Moahhhhhhh
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