hey guys welcome back to love English I'm Sabrah today I have a bit of a
different lesson for you because this lesson actually applies to native
speakers as well as non-native English speakers
it's celebrity names that we're all pronouncing incorrectly or most of us
including me I was pronouncing a lot of these names incorrectly before I did my
research for this video sorry guys
so celebrities love them or hate them but they are definitely a part of our
lives and we probably should be saying their names correctly I can really
relate to this because I have a difficult name to pronounce it's Sabrah
and most of my life I've either been called Sabra Sabre or this animal here
anyway enough about that let's get to correcting the pronunciation of some of
these celebrity names the first one is the beautiful English actress Keira
Knightley Keira Knightley not Kiara Knightley nothing like that I've heard
her name often said Kiara or Keira it's not that it's Keira so she was in films
like Pride and Prejudice and Love Actually beautiful English actress her
name is Keira Knightley so one of the films that Keira Knightley is probably
the most famous for is Pirates of the Caribbean oh hello I'm Elizabeth Swann
and I do flutter my eyelashes a lot but I can be tough when I need to be oh Will
Will, next one right it took me a while to get my head around this one the
actress is Charlize Theron now she actually says that she goes by so she
doesn't mind Charlize Theron but the actual correct pronunciation of her
second name is Thron I think it's perhaps because she's originally from
South Africa so perhaps this is the influence of an African language or
Netherlands perhaps something like that but yes really correct pronunciation
would be Thron but she does except Theron I go by Charlize Theron but it's
the real pronunciation pronunciation of my last name is Thron she's been in so
many films and it's always gorgeous she's on the adverts for Dior I have a
little bit of a girl crush on her in fact I mean just look at those
cheekbones so unfair okay the next one really makes
me laugh because she's famous for having complained about the mispronunciation of
her name and I can understand it is quite funny when people get it wrong so
this is beautiful American actress Amanda Seyfried, Seyfried not Sayfried
as it looks if you were reading the name phonetically you might say say fried
but in fact it is Seyfried, Amanda Seyfried what's the worst mispronunciation of
your name you've ever heard say fried or siegfried seigfried wow that's pretty bad
she was in films such as Mamma Mia and she's also been in Les Miserables
if you've seen that and Mean Girls very talented actor she's also a good singer
get her name right it is Seyfried right the next one love her hate her but
we can't escape her wow that rhymed number four is Kim Kardashian
it is Kardashian okay are da Shi what to say about Kim well she's famous for
being famous really and having a large bottom shall we leave it there? next one
thought we might as well do these two together her husband is called Kanye
West people often call him Kenya or Kane it's actually Kanye Kanye West number
six one of my personal heroines I absolutely love this fabulously talented
lady the author of Harry Potter which I love now her name is actually JK Rowling
not JK Rowling it looks like rowling but in fact it is 'rolling' JK Rowling
like rolling stones so rolling so you better get it right guys otherwise she
might put a nasty spell on you expelliarmus! Next one guys this famous lady needs
no introduction if it's raining you can stand under
Rihanna not Rihanna Rihanna so nice and simple that one number eight another
fabulous lady lots of ladies in this I'm so sorry should have had a few more
gentlemen this is gal gadot gal gadot and she is an Israeli actress and she
recently played Wonder Woman she's absolutely gorgeous as you can see and
her name is gal gadot not gal gadot or anything like that gal gadot gal
gadot here's girl hello my name is gal gadot and obviously israeli number 10
finally we've got to man so this actor performed in the Transformers favorite
film with boys all around the world he was in lots of arty films as well and
he's also famous for performance art now the pronunciation of his name is Shia
LaBeouf Shia LaBeouf not Shia LaBeouf I'm guessing that LaBeouf is a French
surname sounds very French to me I'm sure Labeouf means beef right which
is kind of fitting as he is quite beefy number nine fabulous lady love her
beautiful blue eyes Zooey Deschanel she was the star of new girl and she also
bears a striking resemblance to Katy Perry separated at Birth number eleven
Mila Kunis Mila Kunis originally she's from the Ukraine and she starred in
films like 'friends with benefits' with Justin Timberlake and more recently 'bad
mums' she's also married to gorgeous actor Ashton Kutcher who also has a
difficult name to pronounce hope I said that one correctly last one number 12
Rachel Weisz not wise not Weiss Rachel Weisz
which is a German surname and this must be because the actress has Austrian and
Hungarian roots even though she grew up in England and actually went to
Cambridge University so she's home grown from the South of England where I'm from
now she starred in films like the mummy and has since starred in many many films
and is currently expecting another baby right guys they were our twelve
celebrity names that we have been mispronouncing I hope you can pronounce
them correctly now try to practice them and try and get your tongue around some
of those more difficult sounds that can occur in the English language not all
those pronunciations were British we have some foreign names among them but
anything where you're practicing more tricky pronunciations and having to
improve the muscles in your tongue usually helps your pronunciation in
general so keep practicing those guys please leave a comment below go and tell
me about any difficulties you are having with pronunciation you can also leave me
the names of celebrity names that you're having a problem pronouncing don't
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love english what do you mean nobody mispronounces Angelina Jolie yeah they
do they say Angelina Jolie no but I wanted
to be Maleficent what am I gonna do with this then?