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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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The Last Syllable in Portuguese Is D-A, Right?

Hilfiger is the one that gets stressed in Portuguese, right? If it's a two syllable, it would be the last one usually. We say Allah, yeah, we don't say the schwa, we say Allah, right? The T is not this soft T, like T, T. It sounds more like a CH in English, you know, like a cha. And we also add this E sound at the end, right? Mm, is it the combination of the T and E that gives you the cha? Yeah, I believe so. So let me try that. I say the English version and you say the Portuguese version, okay? Sure.

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