Lol what? she did go to school in Italy till she was 12, so she should've known this.Kaesae wrote:Really Laura, you had to ask your nonna what deciliter means? I know that people use cups and ounces etc. in the US, but come on! It's one of the most basic things in cooking and at least you could have found your answer from google.
Nope. She never addresses it. I feel bad for her. A young girl needs her mother. She was also seperated from her brother. Why split them up? How could a mother let her daughter be taken/sent away from her? You would think the son would be sent to live with the dad. Laura must have been heartbroken to leave her nonna. She cries to this day. I know people say Joe is an ass to her family, but maybe they deserve it. Maybe he harbors resentment for the way they've treated her? He's not rude to her Nonna, only her brother and Mom and was straight out mocking her stepdad.doggymayday wrote:I'm too late to edit but I need to say one more thing, since I mentioned school.
I know Laura won't talk about what happened between her parents, but whatever it was I think their solution was extremely selfish and heartless. They took Laura out of school, didn't let her finish at least primary school in Italy, and pretty much ripped her away from all her family, her known environment, and sent her off with her dad.
If the whole family moved because of a crisis, I would understand that, but they didn't. I'm pretty sure Laura could've finished school normally and then moved, if her moving was their arrangement.
(Has she ever addressed any of this and I just missed it?)
I personally didn't find it to be that bad. I think she is just so used to speaking fast in Italian and tries to do the same with English that she often gets tongue-tied more than she mispronounces words.doggymayday wrote:Did anyone see her shoes video?
OMG how she butchered the words, FFS, what's up with that? I think it's by far the worst video, or it at least felt like it. Some of it was hard to understand.
I think I'm the only one who doesn't see a big deal with her not pronouncing things properly. Everyone is different. I know people who have been in Canada for 35+ years and they still a faint accent and don't say some words "properly". And then others who have been here for 10 years, speak English with a Canadian accent, and you would think that English is their mother tongue. It all depends on the person.doggymayday wrote:Well, her mumbling was hard to understand to me, but I'm not a native speaker and so I love clear English above everything else (especially because I don't live in the States and hardly have an accent, so if I can do it, why can't she?). With her slight accent, she really should focus on speaking clearly not mushing words together.
But hey, I'm glad the video was fine to you.
Yeah, and I think if she would make more of a point to enunciate in her everyday life, she'd become more natural at it and not sound like such a robot when she is asked to do it.HoardganizedJen wrote:They'll probably make her speak very slowly and clearly like she did in those Splenda videos. Because she isn't used to enunciating, when she does slow it down she sounds kind of... dim. Dimmer than usual at least
StaceFace wrote:She has a speech impediment. It's like making fun of someone who stutters. It's just how they speak. I was in speech class for 10 years! My impediment was being unable to pronounce the R sound and I also speak too fast. As a kid, my family practically had to translate for me because people couldn't understand me. It's better, but people still have to ask me to repeat myself all the time. I guess that's why her speech doesn't bother me at all. I met all kinds of people in speech class. It sucks to be constantly told to speak slowly, pronounce your words. It's like I'm trying! My tongue muscles don't move the same way as everyone else's.
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Agreed. I am a native English speaker, born and raised in the United States. However, I speak two other languages at home and they were the first ones I had learned until I enrolled in school (my parents didn't know English at the time). Although I've spoken the languages at home and with family friends on a daily basis for 20+ years, I still find myself getting tongue tied and messing up some words even though I know how to properly pronounce them. I guess this is why I can empathize with Laura. I'm not a huge Laura Vitale fan by any means, I just began watching her videos aside from her cooking ones. I think if it bothered people so much, she wouldn't have the huge following that she does now.peachesnoranges wrote:I think I'm the only one who doesn't see a big deal with her not pronouncing things properly. Everyone is different. I know people who have been in Canada for 35+ years and they still a faint accent and don't say some words "properly". And then others who have been here for 10 years, speak English with a Canadian accent, and you would think that English is their mother tongue. It all depends on the person.doggymayday wrote:Well, her mumbling was hard to understand to me, but I'm not a native speaker and so I love clear English above everything else (especially because I don't live in the States and hardly have an accent, so if I can do it, why can't she?). With her slight accent, she really should focus on speaking clearly not mushing words together.
But hey, I'm glad the video was fine to you.
YES! On her beauty vids it always bothers me when she says bbbbbbbronzer LOLIndygrl wrote:I want to scream every time she says "sure" because she pronounces it "shore". Someone really needs to tell her the proper way of pronouncing it.
Also, I hate the way she says most words starting with a "b" because it's as though her upper lip is vibrating the B sound or she has no control over her upper lip. Either way, the vibrating b annoys the hell outta me.
Exactly! I can't watch her beauty or vlog channels because they make me hate her, and I really want to still enjoy her cooking channel, but the way she pronounces certain words like bbbbbbbronzer and "shore" (instead of sure) makes me cringe!blondeambition wrote:YES! On her beauty vids it always bothers me when she says bbbbbbbronzer LOLIndygrl wrote:I want to scream every time she says "sure" because she pronounces it "shore". Someone really needs to tell her the proper way of pronouncing it.
Also, I hate the way she says most words starting with a "b" because it's as though her upper lip is vibrating the B sound or she has no control over her upper lip. Either way, the vibrating b annoys the hell outta me.
