LEARN ENGLISH | How to Pronounce Canadian Cities, Provinces, and Landmarks

[Music] my name is Dana and I'm your Canadian English teacher I have a question for you are you pronouncing all of Canada's province cities and landmarks correctly not sure well in this lesson I'm going to teach you how to pronounce some of the most difficult places in Canada Tuesday we're gonna start off in the province of British Columbia or BC as many Canadians say this is sorry now there's a lot of difficult cities in British Columbia to pronounce you have Kelowna Abbotsford Burnaby and Kok Whitlam this one's really hard come quickly we're next moving to the province of Alberta to hear how I say Alberta I don't say Alberta here you take the teeth and you replace it with a deep Alberta now listen to this blogger how he pronounces this is Jasper Alberta Alberta's capital city Edmonton is also often mispronounced it's not pronounced how it's spelled a lot of people say Edmonton pronouncing the O and putting the stress in the center of the word but it's actually Edmonton Edmonton take a listen the Edmonton Oilers Edwin Taylor Evenson though now moving on to the most difficult province in Canada to say and to spell Saskatchewan Saskatchewan now Saskatchewan has two major cities they are Saskatoon and Regina now here the I in Regina is pronounced it's not Regina it's Regina now we're going to skip over Manitoba and move on to the most populated province in Canada Ontario now a lot of people they say Ontario but it's actually on Theriot take a look at it broken down on Theriot now the largest city in Canada and Ontario's capital is often mispronounced here we say Toronto so if you want to pronounce Toronto like a Canadian you need to pronounce it like this Toronto not Toronto Toronto take a listen to some Canadian saying this Toronto Rado Toronto now Toronto has a greater toronto area this is the GTA and this is an area of cities and suburbs of toronto some of them are very difficult to pronounce I think this one is the most difficult can you say it Etobicoke Etobicoke another difficult one is Mississauga Mississauga now if you plan on moving to Toronto it's pretty likely that you might end up in the GTA here the housing is a little more affordable but you also have access to downtown Toronto so it's definitely a place a lot of people choose to live now we'll move on to one of Canada's most famous landmarks do you know how to say this place it's Niagara Falls Niagara Falls now we're heading up north to the capital of Canada you probably said Ottawa but Canadians actually pronounce this Ottawa again like Alberta we take the t's and turn them to DS Ottawa take a listen in Ottawa we're going to Ottawa tonight and finally we'll talk about the french-speaking province of Quebec so you can either say Quebec or Quebec I prefer Quebec so this is how I say it and the major city in Quebec is Montreal so if you want to pronounce this with the English accent its montreal montreal and there you have it guys this is your mini list of the most difficult places in Canada to pronounce if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel until next time goodbye [Music]

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Length: 5min 0sec (300 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 29 2017