📌One big vocabulary and pronunciation problem in English is knowing how to pronounce the English names of countries, nationalities, and languages. In today’s lesson, I’ve organized the words into categories that can help you remember them better.
✅ You can also practice your pronunciation of the country and nationality words.
-IAN / -EAN
| Country | Nationality | Language |
| Argentina | Argentine/Argentinean | Spanish |
| Australia | Australian | English |
| Bolivia | Bolivian | Spanish |
| Brazil | Brazilian | Portuguese |
| Cambodia | Cambodian | Cambodian |
| Cameroon | Cameroonian | French/English |
| Canada | Canadian | English/French |
| Chile | Chilean | Spanish |
| Colombia | Colombian | Spanish |
| Ecuador | Ecuadorian | Spanish |
| Egypt | Egyptian | Arabic |
| El Salvador | Salvadorian | Spanish |
| Estonia | Estonian | Estonian |
| Ethiopia | Ethiopian | Amharic |
| Ghana | Ghanaian | English |
| India | Indian | Various |
| Indonesia | Indonesian | Indonesian |
| Iran | Iranian | Persian |
| Italy | Italian | Italian |
| Jordan | Jordanian | Arabic |
| Korea | Korean | Korean |
| Lithuania | Lithuanian | Lithuanian |
| Nigeria | Nigerian | Ibo, Hausa etc. |
| Panama | Panamanian | Spanish |
| Peru | Peruvian | Spanish |
| Romania | Romanian | Romanian |
| Syria | Syrian | Arabic |
| Ukraine | Ukrainian | Ukrainian |
| Country | Nationality | Language |
| Afghanistan | Afghan | Persian-Pashto |
| Belgium | Belgian | French/Flemish |
| Costa Rica | Costa Rican | Spanish |
| Cuba | Cuban | Spanish |
| Dominican Republic | Dominican | Spanish |
| Germany | German | German |
| Guatemala | Guatemalan | Spanish |
| Haiti | Haitian | French/Creole |
| Honduras | Honduran | Spanish |
| Kenya | Kenyan | Swahili |
| Malaysia | Malaysian | Malay/Malaysian |
| Mexico | Mexican | Spanish |
| Morocco | Moroccan | Arabic/French |
| Nicaragua | Nicaraguan | Spanish |
| Norway | Norwegian | Norwegian |
| Paraguay* | Paraguayan* | Spanish |
| Puerto Rico | Puerto Rican | Spanish |
| Russia | Russian | Russian |
| South Africa | South African | Afrikaans, English, etc. |
| United States | American** | English |
| Uruguay* | Uruguayan* | Spanish |
| Venezuela | Venezuelan | Spanish |
-ISH / -CH
| Country | Nationality | Language |
| England | English | English |
| Finland | Finnish | Finnish |
| Denmark | Danish | Danish |
| Netherlands/Holland | Dutch | Dutch |
| France | French | French |
| Ireland | Irish | Irish/English |
| Spain | Spanish | Spanish |
| Sweden | Swedish | Swedish |
| Poland | Polish | Polish |
| Turkey | Turkish | Turkish |
| Wales | Welsh | Welsh/English |
-ESE
| Country | Nationality | Language |
| China | Chinese | Chinese |
| Japan | Japanese | Japanese |
| Portugal | Portuguese | Portuguese |
| Taiwan | Taiwanese | Chinese |
| Vietnam | Vietnamese | Vietnamese |
OTHER
| Country | Nationality | Language |
| Czech Republic | Czech | Czech |
| Greece | Greek | Greek |
| Iceland | Icelander | Icelandic |
| Iraq | Iraqi | Arabic |
| Israel | Israeli | Hebrew |
| New Zealand | New Zealander | English/Maori |
| Pakistan | Pakistani | Urdo |
| Philippines | Filipino | Tagalog/Filipino |
| Qatar | Qatari | Arabic |
| Saudi Arabia | Saudi | Arabic |
| Switzerland | Swiss | Swiss |
| Tajikistan | Tajik | Tajik (Persian) |
| Thailand | Thai | Thai |
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