50 City Names You Pronounce Wrong! | (How to say European cities in English)

How to pronounce 50 European city names in British and American English. Many people mispronounce the names of cities and other places when they speak English. It makes sense because place names often don't follow typical pronunciation rules and they often aren't of English origin. Plus it's not always clear how to anglicise foreign names.
In this video I give you the English pronunciations of 50 well-known European cities.
Cities:
1. Lisbon
2. Madrid
3. Barcelona
4. Seville
5. Paris
6. Marseille
7. Lyon
8. Nice
9. London
10. Birmingham
11. Manchester
12. Edinburgh
13. Glasgow
14. Cardiff
15. Belfast
16. Dublin
17. Brussels
18. Amsterdam
19. The Hague
20. Luxembourg
21. Berlin
22. Hamburg
23. Munich
24. Cologne
25. Zürich
26. Geneva
27. Rome
28. Milan
29. Naples
30. Florence
31. Venice
32. Vienna
33.Oslo
34. Stockholm
35. Copenhagen
36. Helsinki
37. Warsaw
38. Kraków, Cracow
39. Prague
40. Bratislava
41. Budapest
42. Zagreb
43. Sarajevo
44. Belgrade
45. Bucharest
46. Kyiv
47. Athens
48. Istanbul
49. Moscow
50. Saint Petersburg
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Пікірлер: 85

  • @EnglishwithMax
    @EnglishwithMax Жыл бұрын

    Are these cities pronounced very differently in your native language(s)?

  • @tshultrimdorji3441

    @tshultrimdorji3441

    Жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏 your English and you are beautiful 🥰🥰🥰

  • @chevaliermichel2219

    @chevaliermichel2219

    Жыл бұрын

    (good idea this fast (normal) english parenthesis in black and white even if the reason here wasn't really educational :) ) In french when it's differently written and/or when pronouciation is very different: Edinburgh is Édimbourg [edɛ̃buʁ] Brussels is Bruxelles BUT the "x" must (or should) be pronounced as "ss" (the last s is not prnounced as usual in french) Geneva is Genève [ʒənɛv] Venice is Venise [vəniz] Copenhagen is Copenhague [ Warsaw is Varsovie [vaʁ.sɔ.vi] Cracow is Cracovie [kʁa.kɔ.vi] Kyiv is Kiev [kjɛf] or [kjɛv] Moscow is Moscou [mɔsku] 😊😊 the english pronounciation of Naples is very troubling 😊 Hamburg isn't it where Kennedy said "i am a..."?

  • @songuranatomy9112

    @songuranatomy9112

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes absolitely different in Turkish.

  • @janein9144

    @janein9144

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you German?

  • Жыл бұрын

    In Spanish, you know the pronuntiations. Very well pronounced. Kind regards.

  • @aleks_321
    @aleks_321 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot, Max! Time with you is, as ever, educative! 👏👏👏

  • @ochibella9562
    @ochibella9562 Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant review 👍🏾

  • @zohaibhassan3270
    @zohaibhassan3270 Жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate your hard work, Stay Blessed. Keep it up

  • @dianaep.s.1929
    @dianaep.s.1929 Жыл бұрын

    Hello. Thanks for this lesson, it's very useful and also interesting! I would like to practise other cities of different countries, thanks!🌹😘

  • @raoufallani5142
    @raoufallani5142 Жыл бұрын

    great work - Thank you so much teacher

  • @sajjadadnan8283
    @sajjadadnan8283 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Max , You are always give the better .

  • @neeshwar
    @neeshwar Жыл бұрын

    Hi Max -- please put a pronounciation video on the city and state names of Australia as well as Asia

  • @emanmahmoud9439
    @emanmahmoud9439 Жыл бұрын

    You have a quiet and attractive way of teaching

  • @saidfarid6382
    @saidfarid6382 Жыл бұрын

    Hello professor Thank you so much for your priceless advice and interesting guidance. I really appreciate your job. I love your way of teaching and excellent explanation. I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity. Your Student from Algeria.

  • @ACESEnglishparaViajar
    @ACESEnglishparaViajar Жыл бұрын

    Great video! I'd like to do a version for my channel in Portuguese and give you the credit. Would you be okay with that?

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, sure! Thank you!

  • @user-nv2yn2yc7g
    @user-nv2yn2yc7gАй бұрын

    Thanks for these skills are improve some knowledge.

  • @kannanmithran5721
    @kannanmithran5721 Жыл бұрын

    Your lessons are interesting Teacher Max

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @kannanmithran5721

    @kannanmithran5721

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EnglishwithMax .. Thanks 🙏🙏🙏 my proud Teacher Max

  • @hameedsadr7123
    @hameedsadr7123 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you 🙏

  • @annachekmareva7872
    @annachekmareva7872 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks soooooooo much Max ❤️ 😘 😊

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure, Anna!

  • @evgeniysv7105
    @evgeniysv7105 Жыл бұрын

    We missed you and your beautiful earrings!)

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    😀😀

  • @abdenacerharouni9234
    @abdenacerharouni9234 Жыл бұрын

    The first video I'm watching today early. It's a pronouciation lesson from teacher Max. Pleasure to hear her again. Hope that she'll give me the the correct pronounciation of the capital city in english of my country Algeria.

  • @obidianudokem858
    @obidianudokem858 Жыл бұрын

    Do you video once a month?

  • @sanjibghosh9208
    @sanjibghosh9208 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice mam

  • @qdusen
    @qdusen8 күн бұрын

    I've always heard/pronounced British cities ending in "ham" with a hard h so ham rather than um.

  • @priya_morningstar2878
    @priya_morningstar2878 Жыл бұрын

    TQSM🥰🥰😀

  • @chevaliermichel2219
    @chevaliermichel2219 Жыл бұрын

    Congrat. You pronounce so well in French the "on" of Londres. ;)

  • @jazzdhaliwal3987
    @jazzdhaliwal3987 Жыл бұрын

    Ma'am What is the difference between find out know and Realize? Please

  • @TrungVu-ok8lr
    @TrungVu-ok8lr10 ай бұрын

    I love you Max!

  • @emanmahmoud9439
    @emanmahmoud9439 Жыл бұрын

    I wish you had been my teacher of English when I was at school.

  • @Mar2ku
    @Mar2ku Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for video. The pronunciation of Helsinki is almost same in Finnish language too. Kind Regards Markku from Finland.

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    Cool! I've heard that Finnish is quite difficult for foreigners to learn...

  • @Mar2ku

    @Mar2ku

    4 ай бұрын

    No it’s not difficult. Quite nice youtube teatcher ”KatChats Finnish” gives a taste of Finnish easily. Her English is strong too 👍🏼🇫🇮.

  • @user-ee2em4te8f
    @user-ee2em4te8f Жыл бұрын

    Your way looks pretty 😚 I love you teacher

  • @hayattalib7158
    @hayattalib7158 Жыл бұрын

    Please what is the difference between these words?

  • @markhandinsonn6968
    @markhandinsonn6968 Жыл бұрын

    good

  • @fernandomilicich8160
    @fernandomilicich8160 Жыл бұрын

    Many people cannot pronounce names like:. Sarajevo, Skopje, Warsaw, Hvar, Podgorica. By the way I love so much the Aussie accent, and British accent. Greetings from Argentina

  • @oneeyedphotographer

    @oneeyedphotographer

    Жыл бұрын

    Unless you learn another language, it can be difficult. Even then, learning French doesn't really prepare one for understanding that the letter J is most commonly very like Y or I. And then there's Spanish, and I guess Portuguese. I wonder about our pronunciation of Trojan. Can you really distinguish between Australian and English accents? A lot of poms can't.

  • @watchmakerful
    @watchmakerful9 ай бұрын

    I often hear "Luxembourg" with a voiced "x", like in "exam". Is this pronunciation considered correct?

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    9 ай бұрын

    I've never heard it pronounced that way...

  • @songuranatomy9112
    @songuranatomy9112 Жыл бұрын

    ENG: Thank you for sharing Max. I recommend a correction. The name "Turkey" has been officially changed to "Turkiye". TR: Paylaşımınız için teşekkür ediyorum Max. Bir düzeltme öneriyorum "Turkey" ismi resmi olarak "Turkiye" olarak değiştirilmiştir.

  • @gjholtrop
    @gjholtrop Жыл бұрын

    Yee... 6 o'clock in the morning, new video... 😂

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    😀

  • @Furber216
    @Furber216 Жыл бұрын

    Hey Max, I'm from Birmingham, Alabama, and we actually do pronounce the 'H' here. However, I am aware that the Birmingham in England does not have its H pronounced. I would imagine many Americans who are used to hearing/saying the name of the US city might miss pronounce the English city by including the H.

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing. That reminds of something similar in Australia. There is a town called Exmouth in the UK and in Australia. In the UK the "ou" is a schwa ("Ex-mehth"), but in Australia the "mouth" is pronounced like the part of the face :D ("Ex-mowth"). And you don't want to know what we've done to some French names 🤣 . E.g. Sans Souci -> San Suzy

  • @obidianudokem858
    @obidianudokem858 Жыл бұрын

    Nice, you do video once a month

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm trying to! :)

  • @Estonia2011
    @Estonia2011Ай бұрын

    3:07 i thought its pronounced as mar seal Is that just me orr 😬

  • @shreyamishra219
    @shreyamishra219 Жыл бұрын

    Mam mujhe english nahi aata mai kya karu kese siku kuchh kariye

  • @johnb6723
    @johnb67234 ай бұрын

    Helsinki stresses the first syllable, like any other place in Finland.

  • @vinni..jeanl...a..8168
    @vinni..jeanl...a..8168 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, every country have different pronunciation style. " Ex: they, the, thy,..etc. " but, very good information we got from you. " Acctually we are from India ☺️. " So we have some specific style to pronounce words 😘. Thnx 👍

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    👍👍 And thank you for watching!

  • @user-dm7bk5oc2n

    @user-dm7bk5oc2n

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EnglishwithMax thank you many difficult pronounciation i got from you , and i want to learn more from you

  • @MithunSwain278
    @MithunSwain278 Жыл бұрын

    Good evening madam I am India could you please explain what is the difference between clothes and dress please

  • @Formula-602
    @Formula-602 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot “Madchester” for Manchester….as they called it in the 90s!

  • @OKOK-wf8xz
    @OKOK-wf8xz Жыл бұрын

    Hello Max! Thank you very much for your video and for Kyiv. You pronounce it like a native Ukrainian speaker. It is very pleasant for us to hear not "Kiev", but "Kyiv".

  • @oneeyedphotographer

    @oneeyedphotographer

    Жыл бұрын

    It's much in the news recently. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has reporters "on the ground," so of course they get it right, and it's even been explained that Kiev is Russian..

  • @shreyamishra219
    @shreyamishra219 Жыл бұрын

    Mam online phadhati hai

  • @hayattalib7158
    @hayattalib7158 Жыл бұрын

    Garden Yard

  • @Templio74
    @Templio744 ай бұрын

    You don't say Napoli about naples but here is the correct pronunciation in Italy, NAPOLI is my city :)

  • @gangadaranramalingam5107
    @gangadaranramalingam5107 Жыл бұрын

    Im surprised u know many languages. What a brilliant and cute girl u are

  • @Formula-602
    @Formula-602 Жыл бұрын

    I llike the little twinkle you have in your eyes!

  • @aram5642
    @aram5642 Жыл бұрын

    I most likely pronounce any Welsh name, they should anglicize those ;) and don't forget to anglicize Polish Szczebrzeszyn?

  • @fma3852
    @fma3852 Жыл бұрын

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @luismiguelnunes5539
    @luismiguelnunes5539 Жыл бұрын

    💚💚💚

  • @flycorvus
    @flycorvus Жыл бұрын

    My city is called: Felsőtárkány Try to pronounce it. :-))

  • @gameboyplay

    @gameboyplay

    Жыл бұрын

    Fel'shyotarkan'

  • @ralphotero8532
    @ralphotero85329 ай бұрын

    Do You know why you could say that Ireland is the most prosperous country in the world? Because Its capital is always Dublin.

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    8 ай бұрын

    😅

  • @orudzhagamalyev8597
    @orudzhagamalyev859711 ай бұрын

    Hello Maximа! You are a very beautiful woman and a wonderful teacher. I respect your lessons, they are very useful! Your manner of speaking English and plus the expression of your face causes a unique pleasant feeling. That's exactly what sets you apart from other English teachers. Stay like this always! Oruj from Moscow.

  • @nathan1459
    @nathan1459 Жыл бұрын

    Funny that the American pronunciations of Scottish cities are actually closer to the Scots English than the British English!

  • @tonytsuihulk
    @tonytsuihulk Жыл бұрын

    😘😘😘

  • @shreyamishra219
    @shreyamishra219 Жыл бұрын

    Please help

  • @Gill12283
    @Gill1228310 ай бұрын

    The title of your video should read wrongly, not just wrong!

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    10 ай бұрын

    "Wrong" is also an adverb.

  • @oneeyedphotographer
    @oneeyedphotographer Жыл бұрын

    Of course, Paris is a Greek name. Perhaps the French mispronounce it?

  • @oneeyedphotographer
    @oneeyedphotographer Жыл бұрын

    ... wrongly.

  • @becksmecks
    @becksmecks Жыл бұрын

    This is an evergreen video ; I like so much , ı prepared a video about evergreen concepts about 7 months ago , this video is very suitable about evergreeen concept. Thanks

  • @EnglishwithMax

    @EnglishwithMax

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!