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#317 Lacoste? Xerox? How to Pronounce These 16 Brand Names in English CORRECTLY

RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English

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How Do You Say These Letters in Portuguese?

The letter X for us sounds she's. We say she's the letter S, the letter X, excuse me. So if you go to diners here in Brazil or, you know, bars, probably you're going to see not cheese burger, but she's like the X,. The word is cheeseburger, right? Cheese burger. But in Brazil, what we did was we, I think we adapted the sound, yeah? Because it's at the beginning of the word. There are a couple of words that start with an X, but have a Z sound like xylophone. And when he says xylophone, he wants to go x-x. It's

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