Learn the Top 10 Hardest English Words to Pronounce

Hi, everybody my name is Alisha and today
we’re going to be talking about ten of the

hardest words to pronounce according to
you guys. So we collected some

information from you on facebook, thanks
very much for sending in your ideas, and

these are the top 10 most difficult
words for you to pronounce. So let’s get started!

absolutely

might be tough to pronounce. Absolutely means 100%.

Absolutely is an agreement phrase.
Are you going to that music event next week?

Absolutely. Yes, 100%, definitely. Absolutely.
“lute” like a lute, LUTE.

begrime

apparently means dirty, I’ve never
heard nor use this word before, but

perhaps it’s difficult to pronounce. Begrime.

The door to my apartment was
begrimed in the storm last week.

Breakfast, the next word is breakfast.
Breakfast is hard to pronounce, but that

is the meaning of breakfast. You’re
breaking the fast, so fast is a period of

time without eating, and to break means
to, well in this case, breaking something

it doesn’t refer to, like, crushing a
think, but stopping something, to break

the fast of the night, in other word. So
you’re fasting during the night, you’re

not eating, so you wake up in the morning
you break the fast. But we don’t say “break fast,”

we say breakfast. In a sentence, this
morning for breakfast I ate a bowl of

cereal with grapes, and I had a coffee too.

Colleague

Yes, colleague, many

of my students struggle with this, they
say coLLEAgue, or they say calleaGUE

or something because the spelling of
this world is really really strange, there’s that

GUE at the end. Or more commonly I feel
just co-worker, colleagues sounds slightly

more formal to me than co-worker.
Somebody who you work with, or somebody

who you have a business relationship
with, in some sense. Could be a person

from another company, could be somebody
from your own company.

Anyone who you do business dealings with
is your colleague, can be your colleague.

In a sentence, I’m going

to a networking event with my colleagues
next week.

Miscellaneous. That MISC, miscellaneous,
so it’s just the spelling I think

maybe it’s confusing for this word,
miscellaneous. Miscellaneous just means

other stuff, or just other uncategorized
stuff. I keep a lot of miscellaneous

items in a drawer in my house. Maybe they
don’t really fit into one

category like it’s not kitchen thing, it’s
not clothing, it’s just sort of a mixture

of things, miscellaneous things.

Negotiation. The next word is negotiation.

Negotiation. yeah there are two T’s in
this, but neither T is a hard T,

they’re both very soft that “sh-sh” sound, because
they’re followed by the “i” and another

vowel, the TIA, negotiation.
Negotiation refers to a compromise

between two people, you’re trying to make
a decision and you negotiate. In this

case, it’s the noun form, negotiation.

Business negotiations continued for more
than a month with this important deal.

Realm

I see why this one’s hard, because of that REALM

part, the of EALM, it’s a weird word
isn’t it did you talk about. Just like

the kind of a fantasy world, a sort of
the nuances of this phrase the realm.

In a sentence,

let us go to the realm where the elves
live and eat their bread.

Unfortunately

The next word is unfortunately.
Unfortunately. Unfortunately just means

too bad. you can use this to to start bad
news, for example, unfortunately I can’t

come to work today because I’m sick. Or
unfortunately I broke my arm at the

basketball game last week. Or
unfortunately my haircut is bad.

Vocabulary

vocabulary just refers to the

words in a language. My vocabulary in my
second language is really really low.

I need a bigger vocabulary so that I can
express myself more clearly.

World

ah I see why this one’s hard. World, world. Hard to
pronounce that RLD, I think together is

tough, plus that W at the beginning as well.
Such a short word but you have to say so many weird

things the same time. World, your tongue is going like this.

In a sentence, I have traveled all over the world and the best food is in…

my stomach.

That’s the end! So those are 10 hard to pronounce words. Give them a try slowly at first and just

gonna try to work up to saying it at a more
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