Hi everyone, it's Agnieszka Murdoch from 5-Minute Language. Welcome to my channel
in this video we're looking at 16 foreign words which are very often used in English and we're
going to look at how to pronounce them correctly in English are you ready let's get started so the
first phrase I want to look at is faux pas faux pas this phrase comes from French and it means
something that you do or something that you say that is a mistake and it causes embarrassment
or it offends somebody so for example somebody brought a present to my house and I opened it
but it wasn't for me so it was a faux pas it was such a faux pas so it's pronounced faux pas faux
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Ok, the next foreign word which is very common in English is karaoke. Karaoke comes from Japanese and
it's an activity where a group of people go to a place there is music playing in the background you
look at the lyrics and you sing the lyrics so that is karaoke karaoke the next word is French again
and it's pronounced ballet ballet so you can't actually hear the T at the end at all ballet the
next one is also French entrepreneur entrepreneur an entrepreneur is somebody who runs their own
business it's quite a long word but it's worth practicing because it's very common entrepreneur
genre genre another French word very common in English usually when you're talking about music or
film so it's a type of music a type of film or TV show so I watched a new show on Netflix last night
what genre was it it was a thriller so a genre is a type of something genre the next one is spiel
and this word comes from Yiddish - spiel is some kind of a story or a speech that is
quite elaborate and usually it's used when you're talking about somebody trying to sell something so
they give a spiel about something tsunami another word which comes from Japanese tsunami it's a big
wave that floods an area and destroys everything tsunami the next word comes from Swedish
moped moped and it's this vehicle here it's not a motorbike it's smaller and slower and you usually
use it within a city moped remember to stress the first syllable moped this one comes from Italian
cello. Metropolis, metropolis this one comes from Greek and it's a very large city usually including
the surrounding areas so metropolis it's quite a long word and it's the second syllable that
you need to stress so the second syllable is the loudest and the strongest metropolis, metropolis
vigilante, vigilante this word comes from Spanish and it means somebody who is trying to prevent
crime in an unofficial way so they're not a police officer but they're trying to do some
work to prevent crime vigilante. En masse - another French phrase and it means a lot of people doing
something at the same time. En masse, en masse - people have started selling their cars en masse. It means
everyone started doing the same thing at the same time pro bono this is a Latin phrase and it means
that you do something for free and it's usually used in legal context so a lawyer might take on
a case pro bono which means they won't charge a fee for it al dente this is another Italian phrase
which is very often used in English and it means that you cook pasta so that it's slightly hard so
it's not completely soft al dente a lot of words which come from Italian and French when they have
an e at the end it's pronounced a in English so al dente and the final one is doppelgänger
so this is a German word and it means somebody who looks exactly like somebody else
who's your doppelgänger. I hope you enjoyed this little video. Make sure you check out Lingvist.
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