In this video. Let's improve your pronunciation so you can speak English,
clearly and confidently will review the 12, most confusing,
English word pairs. So you understand the difference in pronunciation. Let's get started.
Here's our first word pair. I want you to say these two words out loud.
Now, listen to me and notice the difference Lack.
Luck. Notice the difference in my mouth position, lack
act Luck, Chuck. Notice with lack, we have a longer sound a more open mouth position and
luck. My mouth is closed, because this is more of a schwa sound in my throat.
She doesn't lack luck in her life. Our next confusing word, pair say, these two words,
Out loud.
Now, listen to me Dawn.
Down. There are very similar because they both have open
mouth positions. On Dawn a bow down. Let's meet down by the water. At dawn,
I hear mistakes with this word pair all the time. Say it out loud.
Cup.
Cop. Which one is the shorter sound cup up a cop off my mouth opens wider for cop. I gave
the cop a cup of water. It's really important that you get feedback on your pronunciation. So
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Wary.
Ah, it noticed the mistake. I made my V sounded like a w. listen to the difference.
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Right now, our next word, pair, I want you to say this out loud.
Now, listen to me, advise advice eyes ice. Notice the difference in that z
sound. Advise advice, I advise you to seek advice.
I bet you're going to make mistakes with this word pair. Try it out loud.
Suit Soot. Notice the spelling does not match the pronunciation suit suit suit suit soot but
it's that schwa sound uh soot. Now what is soot? It's the ash from a burnt fire.
So I could say, I have soot on my suit. Spanish speakers, pay close attention. Say it out loud.
This these notice again, we have a short sound and a long sound. If this these ees.
I don't want this shirt but I want these shoes. We have our singular and plural. Try it out loud.
Man men.
Man, men.
So, we have a long sound on the singular, and a short sound on the plural. I hired one, man, and
fired two men. Now let's see if you can get this word, pair singular and plural. Try it out loud.
The difference is at the beginning of the sound woman.
Women.
Whoop, with woman women. I hired one woman and fired,
two women Eastern European students. This one's for you. Try it out loud.
Say says my vowel changes in the third person singular say, a but
says, as as we have a longer sound and a shorter sound, I won't say what she always says. Here,
we have two abbreviations that we use with women, try it out loud.
Loud.
Miss Ms. So here it's the the unvoiced and the voiced sound. I helped Miss Smith and
Ms Brown. Now generally we use Miss for younger women and we use Ms for
older but unmarried women all students pay attention to this one. Try it out loud.
Work walk
her ignore the spelling. It's not an o sound. It's a herb or were work. Work, walk awk awk.
I walk to work. Can you get this word pair? Say it out loud.
Daughter laughter. So notice in the first one auditor daughter, but in the second one laughs
laughter laughter.
My daughter is filled with laughter. How about this tricky word pair say it out loud.
Tomb bomb. So there's two things to notice the bees are silent in both,
you don't pronounce it but the vowel is different. Umm tomb,
bom, bom they found a bomb in the Tomb and finally try it out loud.
Ensure insure.
Ensure, insure this one is about syllable stress. Ensure the syllable
is on the second sound ensure its louder ensure, but the second one is insure.
Insure the stress is on the first syllable. We need to ensure we ensure the car now. Improving
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