hi I'm Josh I'm Molly and this is
Charlie and today we are gonna be
finding out why English is so jolly hard
seriously English as all of you trying
to learn as a second language
already no he's so confusing
literally the BBC has a pronunciation
Department they get words and names and
they have a bunch of professors and they
just sit there like oh we should
standardize this yes I do have a
master's I'm extremely well educated but
I don't know how to read that way yeah
this is a massive waste of my
information you know i'm dyslexic right
so any of you watching you dyslexic big
love it's hard being dyslexic at school
and growing up I just felt like the
English language was trolling my memory
of school until about 15 I was the dumb
kid
hi who's the dumb one cuz it was like
how do you spell basically any word -
sighs my name what the hell English I'm
gonna convince you by end of this video
English is the dumbest most confusing
language already commenced on the planet
you don't need to show me any of your
research first reason hominins oh man oh
man oh man oh man oh man
the homonyms are words in English that
are spelt and pronounced the same I have
different meanings like tire and tire
could be a car tire or it could be all I
tire another one bat a bat fat deck deck
or deck of a ship so he dropped my deck
on the deck so I decked him
there you that's really not helpful Wow
hail all hail hey hey I thought you're
gonna be something else no no no no no
what are you doing well look well you're
not feeling very well maybe you should
go to the well yes I mean water those
who need water or you know sick Korean
must have homonyms three and mustard it
must do next up homophones so that's
things that sound same but start
differently different meanings
yes 2 2 or 2 2 2 or 2 right arrow common
but then a lot of homophones there's an
MVP why'd you use all the time through
and then there's technically
it could be used but it's a whether you
almost never use like team
yeah and team exactly to team you'd
never use that but team use all the time
very common one see and see yes that is
confusing sees one of the most common
verbs and see is one of the most common
bodies of water it's right up there with
ocean and Lake Oconee there are no rules
oh that's we're just doing things my
brain hah no rules I see what you did
there
no no no it's I see what you did there
not what do it right it's so weird you
have to read it slowly it's like you're
possessed by some horrific English
language demon moving on homographs is
when two words have the same spelling
yeah I have different sounds you read
them differently and this this this is
something you don't get in Korea and
that is why reading aloud in English you
really have to concentrate you might
choose the wrong word and then it
doesn't make any sense like Frodo said
to gandalf why don't you lead why don't
you leave yeah where are you exactly
tear or tear tear to point yeah yeah
there you go this is a meme about tear
and tear because tear and tear pronounce
the same yes tear and tear even though
it's about thing so that's a little bit
of graph although phone action oh we
mentioned briefly that spelling is an
absolute nightmare
because of these words I'm not bored at
yours really time on top of those words
being in it yeah we have insane
spellings in English yes we do for
instance the left is Oh ugh
hey could we pronounce that oh okay bye
tough tough that's true yeah
oh that dog who like through or if you
put a T on the end or I can come up
houses off as well as off cough okay it
just keeps going it's just a collection
of letters that's like we could do
basically any obey Strauss out
how do you even begin to learn that as
someone who doesn't speak English just
give up now you should just give up
take my tactic of learning languages but
very little effort and rely on someone
who already knows we also for some
reason in our English language have
silent letters yeah a little bit fun
there an extra letter no reason you know
I actually like to do this on the phone
you when they're like oh where do you
live
Preston and how you spell that p for
pterodactyl that's a good dog
G for Nome K for knife that has a bee in
it down the hole I dumped it to myself I
think we need a resistance of
pronouncing the silent letters we should
have tell us any of our friends and not
acknowledge it can I have a commissioner
cause they can if what did you say well
hat I'm speaking on my pad
what yeah you're making home psychotic
thank you there's a famous Amin
apparently from the 1800s yeah if a GH
sound in enough it's pronounced F the O
in women is pronounced I and that ti
sound in nation is proud SH in this word
it's pronounced fish well that's where
Welsh came from these are words which
apparently have double meanings chucked
chuffed which can mean delighted pleased
satisfied also means annoyed displeased
or disgruntled I was chopped
no it doesn't well the internet says it
says British M hormone I'm British and I
am currently informed that Chuck does
not mean wait is this word pronounced
egg egregious egregious egregious which
apparently means outstandingly bad
shocking but also remarkably good yes it
does if I say I'm feeling egregious
today no you well you wouldn't say that
that would be an egregious example of
how do
too bad I feel like there's a little
alien sitting in my brain being like
it's that one another word yeah
nonplussed nonplussed
yeah surprised and confused so much
they're unsure how to react yes also
means I'm perturbed but not surprised at
all but thing is emotionally it's it's
similar when you're surprised and
confused so much the unsure how to react
as a British person you're like this
right Yama meaning unperturbed same-same
your brightest your last yeah and this
probably my favorite meme being the flag
which will Will Smith Smith yes
Will Smith Will Smith it's not likely
sentence mr. bunny isn't enemies ah so
yeah that's about it
I feel hmm sorry I'm if it's gonna
become very exhaustive jolly season 5
that I'm just your there's you know
effect yeah yeah can I just take this
time to apologize I know that a lot of
people we watch these videos English
isn't your first language and on behalf
of my native tongue listen searly sorry
it doesn't make any sense it's totally
unfair there's nothing I can do about it
except insisting on pronouncing all of
the world hahahaah with their silent
levels now going mm it yeah I'm gonna be
tuck off on myself so yeah good luck to
all of you who English is not your first
language yeah hey if we can speak
English than anyone can yes seriously no
my dating some other end yogi
see you guys joy soon oh you guys prized
my brain
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