People Try To Pronounce The HARDEST Words in European Languages!!

World Friends Facebook

Today, American and 7 Europeans tried to pronounce the difficult words!

Do you think they did well?

Hope you enjoy the video

Also, please follow our panels!

🇩🇪 Marina @marina11070
🇨🇭 Mehtap @mehtapisme
🇳🇱 Karijn @karijnbos
🇪🇸 Julia @jujvlia
🇫🇷 Lily @leelyr0se
🇮🇹 Giulia @giuvember

[arktomorphos]

The swiss girl speaks a German dialect, everybody in Switzerland can speak proper German. its like asking a Scottish person to pronounce words in neutral English.

[Mia-sbbb]

As a Swiss person who lives in the French part and is desperately trying to learn Swiss German, I just knew Chuchihäschtli would be on there 😭

[idkbalvan]

For Dutch, they should've made them try to pronounce Would've been hilarious.

[Sayitlikitiz]

The Swedish word "trakasserier" comes as a courtesy of the French language. It comes from the word "tracasserie". Thank you French, for making things more difficult even in other languages. And thanks for "squirrel" from you own "écureuil". 😉
How kind! You give too much.

[olgahein]

I must say though, they all did surprisingly well on "Eichhörnchen". Especially native english speakers usually struggle with the double and tribble consonants in german and of course the 'ch' sound. I'd have loved to see everyone try 'Streichholzschächtelchen' though - or for the lulz something like

[Departure-yzok]

Oh my God, the "chiglia" one hits hard. My parents gave me the name Viglia, which is pronounced the same except with a V, and non-Italian and non-French people have been CONSTANTLY mispronouncing it my entire life

[_notfound_]

I am learning Dutch and the words here, were pretty easy. I remember my straggling when i was trying to pronounce "scheveningen" and chagrijnig

[LunatixPLays]

As a German speaker I’m offended the German girl didn’t even try and make the others say



Which is one of the longest German word with 79 letters 😂

[KeesKouwenberg]

Was funny, I loved this video. As a Dutch guy I expected the most difficult word in Dutch to be "verschrikkelijk", meaning terrible. But still, meteorologisch is a word many Dutch people have problems with too. Vliegtuig on the other hand is a word everyone can pronounce, But I can imagine it's very difficult for the rest of the people on the globe :)

[carpetano]

10:33. Spanish and Portuguese are just like that, many words...around 85% or more of our vocabulary is the same, or very similar...but the preonunciation are completely different

[livetefter]

The Swedish sj-sound is pronounced differently in different regions. I lay the sj-sound in the front of the mouth and use the tounge tip up to the top of the mouth.

[johnnorthtribe]

What makes Swedish hard is that we have around 20+ different vowel sounds written with 9 letters in total (a, e, i, o, u, y, å, ä, ö). Every vowel letter have at least 2 different sounds. Some sounds are also very unique to the Swedish language. Like the combination "sj" and "sk" in "sjuksköterska and also how we pronounce the letter "u". These two sounds are the easiest to spot if you are a native Swedish speaker or not.

[octavelapize]

As a frenchie we did not expect those words in there, i'm sure they were way harder ones

[u_w]

I would say the Italian girl is the most into languages in general.

[Tenseiken_]

Personally i think that the less a language is phonetic, the harder it is to learn, because you're essentially learning every word double if that makes sense. You have to learn the intricate pronunciation of single letters and their combinations all seperately and to get to the point in a language you're learning that you can make out the native pronunciation of a word you haven't heard yet is insanely difficult. This becomes even harder if the language has a couple inconsistent rules and/or exceptions out of the blue. Oh and of course if the language's alphabet is not your native alphabet, that includes simple things like having additional letters like ö, ä, ü but even more so if its a whole new alphabet like greek, russian or chinese.

Languages are really cool.

[bre_me]

Spanish is so straightforward compared to the other languages and how they’re spelled versus how they’re pronounced. It’s extremely phonetic and spelled exactly how it’s pronounced without exceptions really. Just know the rules and you’re good to go. Italian is similar but it has double consonants that add a layer of difficulty that Spanish doesn’t have.

[ida.Ida.s]

I love seeing both of my countries (Germany and Switzerland) in one video. It’s funny to me because the languages are so similar and I can speak both but then they are so different again.

[henri]

As Italian and Spanish are similar and i know some Spanish i pronounced the italian words more easily and but also i mispronounced the dutch words spoken by Karijn in german words 😂

[migteleco]

Hola! The french words actually have direct equivalents in spanish:
Mille feuille => Mil hojas : It is a dessert, and literally means "Thousand sheets", because it's made of various layers, (in similar way as "lasagna" as the girl said).
Caoutchouc => Caucho : It's the natural rubber, obtained from a tree, not from petroleum. (In fact, as far as I know, this word arrived at french from spanish).

[YKW]

They should have done "Scheveningen" and "Grootmoeder" for Dutch, that sounds soo aggressive.

Fun fact, in WW2 people had to say these words to confirm if they were Dutch or not.