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0:00 hello everyone welcome back to get set parent with pallavi and today i thought we'll do something really fun so there are a lot of foreign food today which have entered our cuisine have entered our homes but are frequently mispronounced so today i thought let's look at 20 foreign foods that our children love eating but they could do with better pronunciations so before we get into that you know what to do like share and subscribe to my youtube

0:30 channel and also follow me on instagram and facebook for daily updates on parenting tips english learning tips and trivia about learning and bringing up children so let's get started so the first is a hot favorite frequently mispronounced as pizza or pinja it is supposed to be pizza pizza the second is a superfood right that we all enjoy having at breakfast these days

1:00 it's not quinoa it's not quinoa it's quinoa quinoa all right next a breakfast favorite again when we go out for a buffet uh it's not croissant it's not croissant it's croissant corsa the tea is silent the next food is a mexican food called frequently mispronounced as tortilla

1:31 you get it in the market to make it home these days with the filling yourself it's not tortilla it's tortilla tortilla tortilla the next again an appetizer in restaurants it's not bruschetta it is bruschetta bruschetta the next food again a breakfast favorite and a snack favorite with children it is not sandwich it is not sandwich it is sandwich

2:03 sandwich the d is silent sandwich the next is a fruit uh mispronounced as raspberry raspberry p be both silent and s takes the sound of z so it is raspberry raspberry it's a very easy sound then we come to you know a staple at home it is not vegetables it's vegetables vegetables the second e

2:34 is actually silent you skip it and you say vegetables our children love drinking it but it is not cocoa it's cocoa the a is silent again it's cocoa and a chinese hot favorite it is not called chaomin it's chow mein or chow mean right but it is not chow mein chow mean chow mean let's look at a few more words it's not break fast you don't have

3:05 break fast you have breakfast breakfast so you know you don't say break and fast breakfast right then you don't have almonds or almonds it is almond almond so the l is silent and it's more like an mund so it's almond a nutritious fish what is it it's not salmon or salmon it is salmon salmon right the l is

3:37 silent and it's a very you know flowy sound salmon and then you order it on your subways on your pizzas for the extra heat it is not jalapeno it is jalapeno so the j actually has a sound of ha which is jalapeno then we don't have a biscuit uh it is a biscuit biscuit it's more like a kit a biscuit

4:08 uh what you love having at uh coffee coffee bars and coffee places these days it's not an espresso coffee right it is espresso espresso so the x actually has a sound of so you say espresso coffee you don't give your kids chocolate or chocolate it's chocolate chocolate so the oh at choco is almost skipped and it is not late it's lit so it's

4:40 chocolate chocolate another italian favorite dish it's not called nochi or gennati or gnocchi it's naoki naoki right these are like pasta dumplings this is naoki uh you don't use uh mascarpone cheese it's not mascarpone it's mascarpone mascarpone you use this when you bake it's used in desserts

5:11 mascarpone and finally it is not asparagus right um it's the greens it's not asparagus it is asparagus asparagus so dear friends i hope this will help you and you know your children as well so next time you go out for dinner your children can confidently order their favorite meals but pronouncing it right so stay tuned for a lot more fun

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Summary

The video discusses common mispronunciations of popular foreign foods that children enjoy, aiming to help parents and kids pronounce them correctly. The host presents a fun list of 20 foods, highlighting the correct pronunciations to enhance children's confidence when ordering.

- Pizza is pronounced "pizza," not "pinja."
- Quinoa is pronounced "keen-wah," not "kwin-oah."
- Croissant is pronounced "kwah-sahn," with a silent 't.'
- Tortilla is pronounced "tor-tee-yah," not "tor-tilla."
- Bruschetta is pronounced "broo-skeh-tah," not "broo-shetta."
- Raspberry is pronounced "raz-beh-ree," with silent 'p' and 's.'
- Vegetables is pronounced "vej-tuh-buhls," with a silent 'e.'
- Salmon is pronounced "sam-uhn," with a silent 'l.'
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