Picture this. You walk into a bakery knowing that a certain dish on their menu is absolutely to die for. You’ve been reading all about it on all the secret foodie groups on Facebook and you can’t wait to try it yourself. There’s just one problem – you don’t know how to say it.

There are many wonderful foreign words with fancy spellings that we come across all the time. But many a times we refrain from saying them out loud for the fear of getting it wrong and looking stupid. This list, is for such times, and all other times you’ve wanted to use a word so badly, only to realise you don’t know how to say it right. Read on and up your ante!

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Did you make it till the end to realise you got them all right anyway? Well, kudos to you!