10 car brand names YOU pronounce WRONG How to Pronounce Car Brands
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy I’ve got another
pronunciation video for you today and
it’s one that’s been highly requested I
made a video I made a video a couple of
months ago about commonly mispronounced
brand names and people seem to really
really want commonly mispronounced car
names now I’m not a car expert and I
only passed my driving test a year ago
but I take great interest in
pronunciation and I’ve done my research
and I’m here to help you guys out it
will help you with your speaking and
listening if you want to improve your
speaking and listening even further I
really recommend that you start using
audiobooks whilst reading so you can
find out the pronunciation of the words
that you read the platform I recommend
is audible.com you can get a 30-day free
trial which is a free audio book amazing
if you click on the link in the
description box and there are loads of
recommendations for different levels of
English down there as well right let’s
get started with the lesson okay so I’ve
got 10 car brands in total let’s start
with the Italian ones the first one this
one a lot of people call it Alfa Romeo
because it sounds like Romeo and Juliet
but it’s an Italian brand so it should
be Alfa Romeo so it’s not Alfa Romeo its
Alfa Romeo or Alfa Romeo the next one
not such a common brand but I have heard
it referred to as a Lancia and it should
be Lanta luncher now the next one number
three is a very expensive car brand and
we tend to pronounce it incorrectly
quite frequently a lot of people might
say Lamborghini or Lamborghini it should
be Lamborghini Lamborghini so it’s that
bore sound I don’t think we have to
worry too much about the road ours
because not everybody can do that but we
should at least
Bohr Lamborghini the next one is it
Maserati it shouldn’t be muscle addy I
think you’ll be forgiven if you say
that’s arathi ok the next one a German
car named a lot of people might say
Audie
but if we’re going to be like the
Germans we need to say LD LD the next
one another German car brand this one I
did mention in my brand video in the UK
we always call this Porsche but it
should have a schwa at the end it needs
to be Porsche Porsche the next one
another German one this one Volkswagen
in Germany they would say Volkswagen the
V makes a sound and the W makes a sound
Volkswagen Volkswagen ok the next one is
possibly the most complicated one we
have on this list today it’s a Swedish
car brand I don’t even know what I would
call this I would just give it a go
Koenigsegg Koenigsegg Koenigsegg sounds
beautiful it should be Koenigsegg
Koenigsegg now the next one we’ve got
this one a lot of people would call it
chevre let people get confused by that T
on the end but it’s not pronounced it is
Chevrolet Chevrolet and the final one
and this is the one I’m going to
struggle with most because it’s got that
French sound it is this one it often
gets mispronounced a Citroen citroën or
sit alone but it should be pronounced C
twin but you could just say Citroen C
throw in man I don’t know if I’ll ever
be able to master the French car brands
but um maybe I’ll just buy Italian ones
that being said I’ve got a Mini Cooper
anyway guys that’s it for today’s lesson
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