5 Commonly Mispronounced London Underground Tube Stations | Improve Your Accent

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  • Learn how to pronounce tricky stations like Borough and Theydon Bois!
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    Stations mentioned in the video
    1) South Quay /ˌsaʊθ ˈkiː/
    2) West Ruislip /ˌwɛst ˈrʌɪslɪp/
    3) Euston /ˈjuːstən/
    4) Theydon Bois /ˌθeɪdən ˈbɔɪz/
    5) Borough /ˈbʌrə/ (US /ˈbɜroʊ/)
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 40

  • @ImproveYourAccent
    @ImproveYourAccent  4 роки тому

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  • @danielag.1690
    @danielag.1690 6 років тому +7

    I can't even imagine how many bad impressions I've made during my last trip. Thank you!

  • @em.e4368
    @em.e4368 2 роки тому

    "like the key you use to open the door" hahaha. OMG my days back in London, how I miss it! Southwark deserves to be featured on this video! ;)

  • @nicolasd.467
    @nicolasd.467 6 років тому +17

    The most mispronounced one is definitely Leicester Square ! I'm French and it took me a while to get it right ;)

    • @nicolasd.467
      @nicolasd.467 6 років тому +2

      Interesting! I've never thought about splitting it like that. It makes much more sense now, thanks! :)

    • @lilygreen221
      @lilygreen221 6 років тому

      Leista sque isnt it? Haha

  • @everydayenglishaimanno4312
    @everydayenglishaimanno4312 6 років тому +12

    Thanks for your efforts.

  • @TheromaB
    @TheromaB 3 роки тому +1

    I was shocked the first time that i’ve heard “gloucester/gloucestershire/gloucester square, the same with leicester”, i was shocked, relly!

  • @saraliquefy
    @saraliquefy 3 роки тому

    Love the way you're looking at the camera after the right pronunciaton... it seems you can see our facial expressions 😂

  • @MrAcook1985
    @MrAcook1985 4 роки тому

    You are STUNNING

  • @L-mo
    @L-mo 6 років тому +5

    British people and even Londoners can’t seen to pronounce Holborn correctly anymore

  • @benchaalakehal1391
    @benchaalakehal1391 5 років тому

    Thank you

  • @nerysghemor5781
    @nerysghemor5781 4 роки тому +3

    Native English speaker (American) and I only got Euston and Borough right. Oh, and thanks for NOT calling out the American pronunciation of “borough” as wrong, but treating it as valid in its own right.

  • @demil3618
    @demil3618 3 роки тому

    Nice one but here is a challenge:
    /Piccadilly CIRCUS/ vs /PICCADILLY circus/ (a specific circus)
    /Hyde PARK/ vs /HYDE park/ (a specific park)
    /Queens PARK / vs /QUEENS park/ (another specific park, not Hyde Park e.g.).
    The latter version just sounds so much more logical and natural (1st specifying the 2nd), yet they are even mis-pronounced on the Underground tapes.

  • @MTRfundamentalist
    @MTRfundamentalist 4 роки тому +2

    South Quay is a DLR station.

  • @User-Seven-Teen
    @User-Seven-Teen 3 роки тому

    Hol up hol up hol up
    Theydon bois?

  • @yanarroyyan7329
    @yanarroyyan7329 5 років тому +5

    Euston = Houston??

  • @ADEBAL
    @ADEBAL 6 років тому

    Hello, it seems that you don't pronounce /ˌθeɪdən ˈbɔɪz/ but /ˌfeɪdən ˈbɔɪz/. Am I hearing right ?

    • @khadijafayyaz6184
      @khadijafayyaz6184 6 років тому

      A. DEBAL I've heard the th sound tho

    • @ADEBAL
      @ADEBAL 6 років тому

      Khadija, I listened to it once again but this time on my computer (not on my smartphone) and indeed, you're right, I've heard the th sound too. My smarphone is not that good for it is a cheap one, I think...

    • @khadijafayyaz6184
      @khadijafayyaz6184 6 років тому +1

      A. DEBAL oh I see, you have a good level of English ^^ wish you nothing but the best

    • @ADEBAL
      @ADEBAL 6 років тому +1

      It's very nice of you. Your english is good as well ! May the best reach you too.

    • @khadijafayyaz6184
      @khadijafayyaz6184 6 років тому

      A. DEBAL :)

  • @joosthamann2274
    @joosthamann2274 6 років тому

    yeahhhhh i knew the third one

  • @fatimej2483
    @fatimej2483 6 років тому +2

    What about Marylebone and Holborn xD

  • @llanfairpwllgwyngyll1559
    @llanfairpwllgwyngyll1559 3 роки тому

    I said all of them but i got south quay wrong

  • @adrianlodzermensch1828
    @adrianlodzermensch1828 5 років тому

    Looks like Islington but it's pronounced actually as Polish Island...

  • @barneyward9431
    @barneyward9431 5 років тому

    Okay, South Quay is not a Tube station, I think it's on the London Overground. Ruislip goes for any Ruislip station, there are much harder ones than these and they may look like what you say but no one pronounces them like that.

    • @deanl4575
      @deanl4575 4 роки тому

      Barney Ward
      FYI: Tube = Underground
      They generally mean the same thing.

  • @ryeofoatmeal
    @ryeofoatmeal 5 років тому +3

    they don boys?? 😂😂🤣🤣

  • @lmj9517
    @lmj9517 10 місяців тому

    it's Totten'ham! not tottinHAM!
    it's leicester (lester) Square!
    not liesester or lychester
    Square!
    it's trafalgar Square! not
    trafaulga Square!
    hotel? trivago Square?
    😅

  • @wishlist_12wishlist55
    @wishlist_12wishlist55 Рік тому

    The way you did this video made it way easier to retain the wrong pronunciation then the right one. Sad. The idea for the video was good, though.

  • @Zdzislawawa
    @Zdzislawawa 5 років тому

    How the heck I could know such out of blue pronunciation? I think lingua franca must deal with massive incorrect n missed usage of learners. No way to mend everyone way of speaking thus even if you know how to say everything correct, you will be misunderstand by wrong pattern educated guy who ur r speaking to.