What? You pronounced YouTube and App wrongly.

But do you know that foreigners don’t understand what you are talking about YouTube or APP?

Because what you read is different from what foreigners say.

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Let’s take a look at some of the social media words we often mispronounce:

1. Skype

Many people will unconsciously pronounce it as "Sky Pe sisigapi", but in fact it is a single word and does not need to be split into parts.

2. Don’t pronounce YouTube as “You Tu Be 优兔逼”

3. Instagram is not what you call "Ins Ta Grum"

4.Line Due to pronunciation habits, some people may directly say "赖".

5.APP Nowadays, people often mistakenly read the abbreviation of application as APP (read it letter by letter).

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In fact, there is also the commonly used PPT, which we often read as PPT, but in fact foreigners say Power Point.

Uber, people are often influenced by its Chinese name "优搏" (Youbu), and pronounce it as "优博儿" (Youboer). However, more foreigners, especially those from the United States and the United Kingdom, pronounce it as "乌博儿" (Wuber).

This word is derived from the German word über, which can be used in English to mean a higher level than super.

Editor! I want to protest! The above content is too abstract and I can’t understand it!

Don’t worry, the following video is about the TOP 5 social media English words that Taiwanese people often mispronounce. Click on the video to know the correct pronunciation of these software~~

(←_←In fact, some of our own mispronunciations are quite similar to theirs)