okay I have a few questions for you tell me about your fault my facts my what
you know Mom Dad no my mom's not dead
such a problem do you have a doctor do I have a doctor well I think everybody has a doctor no not
everybody has a doctor me I would love to have a beautiful doctor but I don't but not your problem
and your ankles are your ankles fat are my ankles fat well maybe just one angle
is one of my ankles fat not your problem and what about your cuisine
my my Cuisine no no I don't cook but everybody has cuisine don't worry last one you're nice I'm
nice no you're nice no I'm not nice don't worry oh boy oh hello hello everybody my name is Steve
Ford welcome to your English lesson today we're going to be talking about English pronunciation
now I have a question for you and that's when you're speaking English sometimes you feel
like you have to reach for words you're about to say some word and much like a video game [Music]
it's game over so today I'm going to help you with words that we pronounce that are related
to the family and this might come as a surprise to a lot of you something that maybe you didn't
pay attention to and we have this one this one this one this one this one and of course this one
the first two we have Dad and then we have bed now I know those two they sound
very similar and a lot of people they mix them up I'm here to help you we have Dad
and then dead in case you want to see the IPA symbols dad Dead one more time Dad
dead so this sound is much more open and it's also longer it's a short a sound dad
compare that with dead close your mouth and it's much shorter dead can you hear the difference so
I'm gonna say three words you try to tell me which word is different is it one two or three
dad dead
if you thought that the second one was different high five that is correct let's move on to the
next set of words hey everybody are you enjoying this lesson please give it a like subscribe and
share it with your friends so that you can help me on YouTube now we have uncle and Ankle um so
with Uncle that's like the past participle of sing sung it's like a UNG sound Uncle compare that with
ankle ankle that's like the past of Sing sang and we say ankle so I think those two words are easier
to distinguish between so let's play that game again I'm going to give you
three words and one of them is different you tell me if it is one two or three uncle uncle
if you thought that it was the second word that is correct we had two
questions where the second word was the answer I made this too easy the next two are cousin
and Cuisine we have cousin like that that's a short u sound and compare that to cuisine
oh let's play that game once again present cousin cuisine which one do you think it is
and if you thought that the third one was different high five that's right so cousin
cousin Cuisine by the way I give private lessons and you can contact me at the link below for your
first free trial lesson well I included this one this is more for intermediate speakers
his daughter and doctor so there are a few things going on here that differentiate the two first is
that with daughter although it's spelled with a t here A T sound we actually in American English we
flap that t say daughter compare that to doctor doctor in this case because the C recedes the T
there's no way around that t we pronounce that t and we would say doctor so because those are
so easy to tell the difference daughter and doctor I'm not going to do that little test
with you because I think it's too easy peasy now we have nice nice how do we pronounce these well
with nice that's a long e sound nice compare that to nice so it's an ah is sound nice let's
move on to the next one now a lot of people will be surprised that in American English
Standard American English that this word and this word are pronounced the same way
so aunt aunt there's no difference and we like to make jokes about it my aunt you know is my
aunt an insect is my anti-human but yeah they have the same pronunciation so most
people in North America will pronounce it this way you will hear some people say aunt but it's
not that common in North America but British people will pronounce Aunt okay so I'm going
to play some example sentences which you can listen to and repeat to really train all of
the pronunciation that I taught you here today well let's go my uncles are fat my ankles are fat
it could be dad it could be dead I really like your cousin
I really like your cuisine do you have a daughter
do you have a doctor