Hi, it's me Gabby your American English teacher from gonaturalenglish.com
Imagine that you're just getting to know someone you're in a conversation in English
Maybe with a native speaker and they ask you. What do you?
Do and when you tell them what your job is you pronounce it wrong and they don't
Understand you or worse
They understand you
But they don't really take you seriously anymore because you can't even pronounce your own job title
That's a problem and we're going to fix it today in this free English pronunciation
Lesson, I've noticed that a lot of English learners even
advanced-level have problems pronouncing
Careers and this is a very important part of our lives. We spend most of our waking hours at our jobs working
So we should definitely be comfortable talking about our careers. So I'm going to help us out with
25 of the most common and difficult to pronounce career titles and I'm gonna say them at least twice
So I invite you to repeat after me and I'm going to add some notes about how to pronounce them correctly
I'm not going to talk about what the careers mean or what is involved in the role and
Responsibility of that career. That's something that you could look up if you're not sure. So let's jump into this English pronunciation
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Pre-reg I'll see you there. If you're serious about improving your English. The first career for us to practice is
accountant
accountants, the important thing here to note is that the second syllable is stressed and that means that the other parts of the
word are weak a
Countenance
Accountant also note that the tea in the middle of the word is almost
Silent that's because it comes after an N
It's very common for North American English speakers to mute a tea when it comes after an N
We'll see another example of this. So keep watching
administrator
Administrator again, let's focus on the stress here
Administrator we actually have a big stress on min and a secondary stress later in the word
administrator
professions often end in an a
sound even though they're spelled O R it sounds like
ER and this can be a difficult sound to make make sure that you're rounding your lips
sticking them out and your tongue is in the middle of your mouth when you make this sound or
Administrator but be careful that you're not stressing this sound at the end of the word because it is never stressed
Administrator not administrator. Now a lot of Medical Specialties are really hard to pronounce
So I'm only going to include a few of them here, but one that I think is really fun to practice for
pronunciation is
Anesthesiologist
Anesthesiologist is not pronounced with the typical th sound of or mmm
we actually have a tea sound here even though it's th
Anesthesiologist there are many professions that end in G ist and not as pronounced just for example
Archaeologists moving on someone who designs buildings is an architect
Architect is also an interesting spelling because we have the CH but it's not
Architect, although that's an easy way to remember how to spell this career
Architect we have to stress the first syllable
next one of my favorite professions because they make good food is a chef be careful because people often
Spell this as chief but chief is very different than chef
Notice that with chefs the CH sounds like an SH it's a soft sound
chef and with chief we have a hard CH sound I
Suppose you could be the chief chef, but that would be really hard to pronounce
next
consultants
Consultants, it's not such a difficult one, but we need to stress the second syllable
consultants
customer service remember to put the stress in the right place here customer service customer service is a
department not necessarily a career so we would say I work in customer service or I'm a
customer service representative
now representative is a more difficult word and we often blend sounds together when we speak quickly and say
Representative, do you hear the difference slowly?
Representative and quickly
Representative. Do you remember what I said about a tea that follows an N in the word?
Representative we have that spelling and so many
fast-talking North American English speakers will cut that tea out and it sounds like
Representative
representative
Another example of a tea becoming muted after an N is a dentist. Some people will say the tea
Dentist, but some people like many North Americans when we speak quickly. We really mute that first tea that comes after the N
Dentist next designer this one is not too difficult
But we have to remember that the G is silent
Designer
next doctor or physician
This is not such a difficult one to pronounce. I don't think but this stress again is very important doctor is easier
Physician is a little more difficult for xin
shun
I used to teach English as a Second Language to a wonderful group of students who came to the United States to study to be
Engineers they were going to be either
chemical engineers or mechanical
engineers
Engineer the stress is on the last syllable here, which is rare for English
But engineer as a word actually has roots in French, which often has the stress on the last syllable
engineer another career that has roots in the French language is
entrepreneur entrepreneur
I think this is a beautiful word. What do you think?
Do you think that there are certain career titles that sound more beautiful than others tell me in the comments if one of these
Sounds especially beautiful to you. Which career do you aspire to have or which career?
Are you already working in tell me in the comments?
financial planner or
financial advisor
An advisor is like a consultant and they have the stress both on the second syllable
lawyer
Do you notice that I don't say?
la
Your if we just have the word la la W
That's how you pronounce it la but when we talk about the career, it's lower
Low, you're not la year
Which is a big mistake that a lot of non-native English speakers make because looking at the word you would think that it sounds like
La you're but English is funny like that. Isn't it? A lawyer is also called an attorney
attorney
next for short we might say ite but if you need to
Say it all the way out. You would say I work in
information
technology information technology
Now the word information is interesting because it's actually not in
Formation. It's
information
information and another quick tip about the word technology is to avoid
pronouncing all the vowels the same English words can be difficult to pronounce because even though you have the same vowel like an O in
Technology, we pronounce it a little bit differently. We don't say technology
we say
Technology, so we have ah, and uh, both O's
Technology technology and let's compare that to the O's in
information we don't say in for may shown we say
infer may tion so we have her and uh both spelled with O's
information technology
next nurse
Nurse, it's not Norse. It's nurse almost like an ER sound nurse
Manager you might add
Manager to many of these titles you could be a nurse manager or you could be an accountant manager
So it would be a manager of just about any kind of departments
Be careful to pronounce the G correctly in manager jus it's not
your it's a
Harder G not hard as in good but a little bit harder than many of you are saying this
manager math magician
Mathematician is a beautiful word
But it sounds like a very difficult career to me math magician a better career in my opinion is a teacher
Teacher be sure to say the CH correctly many of you say it - softly t-shirt. It's not t-shirt
That sounds like a t-shirt. I am a teacher not a t-shirt
teacher teacher
real estate agents real estate real is stressed and
Estate is not as stressed real estate agents
psychologist
Psychologist is a very interesting word to spell because it looks like you would pronounce that precise
although just
So it's not like that at all is it?
psychologist
software
develop for
software developer
statistician
statistician a statistician works with
Statistics remember the stress and it'll help you out
statistician
surgeon
Orthodontist or if we're speaking quickly
Orthodontist remember how those T's can disappear after ends now, sometimes you don't want to say your job title
But you want to say the field that you work in
So remember you can always say I work in and in the field I work in marketing. I work in education
I work in sales. I work in human resources
I work in construction. I work in health care and so on. So tell me what field do you work in?
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