10 English Words You're (probably) Mispronouncing! | Difficult Pronunciation | Common Mistakes

As a native English speaker, I never really realised how hellish our language is for others to pronounce! Sorry rest of world!!

As a native English speaker I always have and always will pronounce the “l" in almond, even if it’s technically incorrect.

Some of these aren't so much mispronunciations, but rather colloquialisms. As in, over time the way people said certain words changed. Saying "com-FOR-table" or saying the L in almond are actually still technically correct speech, it's simply through colloquialization that the abbreviated pronunciations have been largely accepted as "correct."

Some of these, like "comfortable" and "almond," are alternate pronunciations, mostly based on regional variations. Notice Emma pronounces the letter "H" as "haych," but the US pronunciation is "aych." Neither is wrong, just different based on geographical origin.

I love Arabic in the sense that you pronounce words exactly as you write them, no hidden nonsense, no random pronunciations and no irregular verbs.

1:12 Vegetable 1:52 Comfortable 2:26 Almond 3:35 Etc. 4:21 Clothes 6:18 Jewellery 7:21 Architecture 8:33 Enthusiastic 10:31 Word World Work 11:46 Photograph

In the US almond is definitely pronounced with the L. Sounds like "all mend." I've never heard anyone in the US pronounce it without the L. Maybe it's pronounced differently in some countries. The L is also pronounced in palm, balm, napalm, qualm, calm but is not pronounced in salmon.

Embrace your accent ! The way you speak is beautiful and unique to you, your culture, and your background. Always feel free to work on your accent if it's something you're interested in, but never feel pressured to change the way you comfortably speak because you feel judged and outcasted. As someone who grew in socal and has a mom and grandma who speak English and Spanish, I know that the way I say things is completely different from a perspn from New York who grew up with Chinese speaking family member.

Interesting video! As a native speaker of American English, I do pronounce the l in almond. I'll also admit to pronouncing clothes as close. It's easier, and the difference is subtle.

As an Englishman, you are correct and also incorrect, it depends totally on where you live. The difference between the upper north and the south is night and day.

I like the way you speak. You are not fast and every words coming from your mouth is clear. I love that.

You could do a video on regional pronunciation in Australia. To foreigners we may all sound alike, but I've noticed Victorians say "salary" and "celery" the same, and South Australians pronounce "girls" like "gills" and say "dance", "chance" etc. like the Brits do. I've noticed regional variations with indigenous names too, like Bingara pronounced "Bing-Gra" in NSW, yet a Queenslander would pronounce it "Bing-Gahra". I think they pronounce "Yatala Vale" in SA like "Ya-Tahla", yet we pronounce the Gold Coast suburb "Yat-Lah".

Thank you Emma, you are my go to for proper pronunciation! You technic is perfect, I like the way you demonstrate the right and incorrect sounding of the words.

The "missing" syllable in "vegetable", "comfortable" and "jewellery" are not technically missing, snd many people actually do still correctly pronounce them. The shortened version has become more accepted over time basically due to "lazy speaking". It's just faster and easier to leave them out and it doesn't make the word unrecognisable, so people just let it go. It's like "Wednesday" or "Worcester".

In the US we pronounce the “l” in almond, but there are several words that Americans and Brits say differently.

I am a Korean, and I am really glad to have found the location of soft palate(한국어로 연구개) in mouth, which I had been trying to know for a few years and decided not to try to find for 40 years afterwards until I saw this mmmEnglish lesson lately. Thank the new dictionaries with kind images and mmmEnglish!!

Great job Emma! I love your videos. They're really helpful for my students. You explain things in a very informative, yet appealing way. Keep up the good work!

As someone with an accent, you can’t really tell the rest of the english speaking people that their pronunciations are wrong. It all depends on where you’re from. You still know what they’re saying regardless

As a Texan, I have never heard anyone here not pronounce the "L" in walk and talk. Matter of fact, I believe the only ones I've heard do that are usually from Boston or parts of NYC. But then again those people don't pronounce the "R" in car either.

Despite English being my first language (I'm Irish), you got me with two of the words here. Almond (I've always pronounced the "l") and jewellery (I've always pronounced the final "e"). It's going to take a lot of effort for me to break a lifetime of conditioning!