That's it!

And bolognese because its not bolonaise its bolongyese

​@@bunnytwono you have to pronunce gn like ñ

It was kinda funny though how Giulia didn't like the 'g' in poignant but it's typically pronounced how the 'gn' in 'gnocchi' or 'cognome' is pronounced in Italian haha

​@@donbon9539I am italian and I also got that wrong, because there's some latin-origin words where the G is pronounced (ex. recognize, incognito, ignite) but there's also some words that are pronounced in the "slightly more traditional kinda way" (like poignant). So i never know which one to use unless I know the word prior to reading it. Btw, now that i looked that word up, I actually did guess both the 2 of its meanings correctly, because it's similar to the Italian word "pungente", however it got "french-ized" before going into English.

Correct. 👍

It was like every girl spoke Greek for a moment 😅

I love Greece more and more every second

Exactly! ἐνθουσιαστικός (enthousiastikós), from ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós) or ἐνθουσιάζω (enthousiázō) + -τικός (-tikós)

I've met an Armenian girl named Hayastan.

@@pierreabbat6157 Does it stand for Armenia?

@@goufackkentsaleandrinlebel8826 It stands for Azerbaijan

πόντια είναι μάλλον

Yeah I was like wait what 😂

Normally RP British English is the variation taught and learnt in European countries.

Ed-i-dud ugh!!

@@BlackHoleSpain I know that as a Norwegian myself. I learned British in the 70s in school. We learn it from 8y/o. That's why I told them the Europeans has some of them "right" duet o British ENG.

@@KrisHughes I learned edi-ded. In school back in the 70s. I am an old Beech and have been in both BGR/UK and USA. I was made fun of because my pronounsiation was "wrong" according to the US ppl.

Is it? Because I’ve noticed a few Europeans on here speak English with an American accent?!?

I'm Italian, and I've been to Australia, I like your accent, it's more like the English one than the American one which I think is quite ugly.

@@corsarodoro7890 american is real english obe

It's just that Americans pronounce it not as 'enthusiastic' but as 'enthuziazstic'

@@pan_har404 Yeah I know. But if we have to pronounce the words correctly we have to follow the original pronunciation.

Also the word Enthusiastic is Greek so the Greek girl can't go wrong. 😉

Your so beautiful! ❤.

Wut?

It's not even an English word.

@@module79l28 It's from French, but it is in the English language. It's just rarely used.

@@TriSept - My point is: if there are hundreds of hard to pronounce English words to choose from, why did they choose one that 1) it's French (I know where it comes from, I didn't need you to tell me) and 2) not even the native English speaker could pronounce?

@@module79l28 Christina didn't know it, but other English speakers do. English without the French words wouldn't be modern English. How far back in time do you want to go? Should the 10% of English words from Norse language brought by Viking conquest also be excluded?

@@flinx Yeah the vast majority of English words are either 'French'/Latinate or Germanic, doesn't make them less English, and the pronunciation has typically evolved to something quite distinctive.

Was going to say! At least in British English(proper English) it is said. Poy-ne-ent/Poy-ne-ant.

Yeah, she didn't know the word for some reason. The gn is pronounced as it is in Italian, in this case. So it's more like poyn-yint.

Yeah i was going to say she pronounced it wrong

In french it's different

@@notfound9816 Old French, not modern French.

Blame the French? Gotcha.

Sembrava timidi e antipatica nei primi video, e invece no😂

@@corsarodoro7890 😅pues no, es una de las mas lindas.

It is but somehow our pronunciation sounds wrong to Americans, lol.

That's actually a good joke😂😂.

Indeed the sound of "nj" Is an effect of having G and N. N Is considered in the word "legno" and have and effect, unlike the useless G in poignant. Say legno and you can hear the G and the N

But it's not silent, Italians don't say bannio or guadanniare, gn is the digraph for the palatal nasal /ɲ/ and the rules of Italian ortography are most consistent than English, only few words are the exceptions (gnosi and gneiss)

@@michelefrau6072 I'm not Italian, but Polish. I was taught that Italian "legno" should be pronounced (using Polish ortography) like /leńnio/, not /lennio/, but also not just /lenio/ (common mistake of Poles speaking Italian). In Polish "ń" before consonants is equal to "ni" before vowels, equal to Spanish "ñ".

​@@michelefrau6072 It's not silentsilent in "poignant" either. I just looked it up on Google and various online dictionaries, and they pronounced it like "Poi-nyent", so literally the exact same as the "gn" in Italian. Keep in mind that Christina didn't know this word.

We don't have useless letters. The G can change the sound when it is near to L, N, H, R. We read Gn, Gl, Gh, Gr in different ways because there's the G.

Exactly, people are acting as if it’s rarely used. We use it a lot.

Enthusiastic is a greek word and she pronounced in almost full greek

👌😂🙏🤍

​@@elladast8why did you never mention youre from cyprus as a disclaimer?💀 the accent is obviously different

@@stamat1a Because my nationality is greek (the passport is also greek) but I live in cyprus for almost 20 years obviously I became cypriot 😅

@@stamat1a that's why I was representing Greece (I asked them to choose which country they want me to represent)

She was born in the Ukraine , that's why

The difference is that italian is consistent, instead of inventing a new letter for that sound we chose gli and it is always the same sound in every word it appears. Think to ough in english lol

“gli” in italian is pronounced differently than “li”, so the “g” makes sense.

You can wait that she come back to Milan. It's closer.

​@@grifter25 Ok thank you.That would be a good idea.They also put her ig in the description which I didn't know

Bruh you got this, no sweat. 😄

@@karllogan8809 Thank you.Wish me luck🙂

The g is silent in Italian words ‘gli’ and ‘magno’ and others.

No the g is never silent in italian, don't spread wrong information pls

@@marcellomiceli7031 it is not pronounced in gli and magno an d many other words

@@NeutralDice You're not the first person to say this, but let's put things in order. a silent letter means that the word reads the same whether or not that letter is there.... "gli" is not the same as "li" and "magno" is not the same as "mano". the letter g changes sound, it is not silent. I'm Italian, born in Italy and have always lived in Italy, so I know my language and its pronunciation well. To say that the g in Italian is silent you are certainly not Italian, but precisely because you seem to be a curious person about languages I correct you so you too learn something new, have a nice day🙂

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@NeutralDice”g” is NOT silent in italian words. In the words “gli” and “magno”, “gl” is pronounced more or less like “ll” in Spanish, and “gn” exactly like “ñ” in Spanish. If you write these words without “g”, so “li” and “mano”, we would read them in a different way, so the “g” is necessary.

It could be worse. You could be from OHIO

SpeciFICK. *FICK!* 😂

I agree. Any English speaker would know what word they were saying with the first two pronunciations.

Thank you a lot 😊

@@elladast8 my pleasure, it’s true

Siamo così ❤️🇮🇹

Cause you brithis are very POIGNANT

I live in uk and I barely heard this word

Why do they take french words if there is already an equivalent in English

@@AtomicZamurai because American English has words from many different countries as it is a melting pot. We also try to pronounce it the way the word comes from the original language.

@@AtomicZamurai The Norman Conquest in 1066 brought French to England and the new kings and elites spoke only or mostly French for a couple hundred years.

Idk the meaning I said it correctly 😹

It's French.

"whole life"

A "hole life"? it must be poignant and mostly empty... 🤣

Ikr I thought it was pronounced like potent but with “gnant” replacing “tent”

Tell me you only speak one language without telling me you only speak onr language.

Madrid is the capital city of Spain 🇪🇸.

Athens is the capital city of Greece 🇬🇷.

Berlin is the capital city of Germany 🇩🇪.

Amsterdam is the capital city of the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

Brussels is the capital city of Belgium 🇧🇪.

As a native Wisconsinite, we say Wuh scon sin instead of WIH SKON sin. If anything, I would have given Christina the hammer as well. It is the first and easiest thing to dectect to see if that person is a native or not. Also, I would add that Ria's pronounciation of the words would be closest to how native Wisconsinites pronounce them, especially drawer, or "jor".

she's from Boston or MA, thats why, some specifics

According to the oxford dictionary it's pronounced /drɔːr/ in both AmE and BrE, with the difference that you can take away the R sound in the British one. Some of the girls said it correctly as you mentioned and they got told they didn't, kinda weird

Correct in American English maybe, but most people speaking in British English would pronounce "edited" with a hard "t".