Learn the Top 10 Hardest English Words to Pronounce

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Hi, everybody my name is Alisha and today we're going to be talking about ten of the
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hardest words to pronounce according to you guys. So we collected some
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information from you on facebook, thanks very much for sending in your ideas, and
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these are the top 10 most difficult words for you to pronounce. So let's get started!
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absolutely
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might be tough to pronounce. Absolutely means 100%.
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Absolutely is an agreement phrase. Are you going to that music event next week?
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Absolutely. Yes, 100%, definitely. Absolutely. "lute" like a lute, LUTE.
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begrime
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apparently means dirty, I've never heard nor use this word before, but
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perhaps it's difficult to pronounce. Begrime.
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The door to my apartment was begrimed in the storm last week.
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Breakfast, the next word is breakfast. Breakfast is hard to pronounce, but that
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is the meaning of breakfast. You're breaking the fast, so fast is a period of
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time without eating, and to break means to, well in this case, breaking something
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it doesn't refer to, like, crushing a think, but stopping something, to break
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the fast of the night, in other word. So you're fasting during the night, you're
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not eating, so you wake up in the morning you break the fast. But we don't say "break fast,"
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we say breakfast. In a sentence, this morning for breakfast I ate a bowl of
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cereal with grapes, and I had a coffee too.
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Colleague
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Yes, colleague, many
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of my students struggle with this, they say coLLEAgue, or they say calleaGUE
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or something because the spelling of this world is really really strange, there's that
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GUE at the end. Or more commonly I feel just co-worker, colleagues sounds slightly
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more formal to me than co-worker. Somebody who you work with, or somebody
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who you have a business relationship with, in some sense. Could be a person
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from another company, could be somebody from your own company.
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Anyone who you do business dealings with is your colleague, can be your colleague.
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In a sentence, I'm going
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to a networking event with my colleagues next week.
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Miscellaneous. That MISC, miscellaneous, so it's just the spelling I think
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maybe it's confusing for this word, miscellaneous. Miscellaneous just means
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other stuff, or just other uncategorized stuff. I keep a lot of miscellaneous
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items in a drawer in my house. Maybe they don't really fit into one
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category like it's not kitchen thing, it's not clothing, it's just sort of a mixture
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of things, miscellaneous things.
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Negotiation. The next word is negotiation.
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Negotiation. yeah there are two T's in this, but neither T is a hard T,
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they're both very soft that "sh-sh" sound, because they're followed by the "i" and another
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vowel, the TIA, negotiation. Negotiation refers to a compromise
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between two people, you're trying to make a decision and you negotiate. In this
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case, it's the noun form, negotiation.
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Business negotiations continued for more than a month with this important deal.
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Realm
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I see why this one's hard, because of that REALM
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part, the of EALM, it's a weird word isn't it did you talk about. Just like
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the kind of a fantasy world, a sort of the nuances of this phrase the realm.
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In a sentence,
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let us go to the realm where the elves live and eat their bread.
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Unfortunately
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The next word is unfortunately. Unfortunately. Unfortunately just means
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too bad. you can use this to to start bad news, for example, unfortunately I can't
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come to work today because I'm sick. Or unfortunately I broke my arm at the
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basketball game last week. Or unfortunately my haircut is bad.
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Vocabulary
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vocabulary just refers to the
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words in a language. My vocabulary in my second language is really really low.
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I need a bigger vocabulary so that I can express myself more clearly.
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World
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ah I see why this one's hard. World, world. Hard to pronounce that RLD, I think together is
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tough, plus that W at the beginning as well. Such a short word but you have to say so many weird
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things the same time. World, your tongue is going like this.
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In a sentence, I have traveled all over the world and the best food is in...
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my stomach.
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That's the end! So those are 10 hard to pronounce words. Give them a try slowly at first and just
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gonna try to work up to saying it at a more natural speed if you like. Thank you so much for
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