All right, welcome to 19 words you must pronounce correctly on the TOEFL Speaking. And without
further ado, let me just tell you what those 19 words are right now so you don't have to
stick around and wait. Here they are, all 19 words you have to pronounce correctly for
the TOEFL Speaking. There it is, but, of course, you probably know there's more to it than that.
the problem is that you don't know why these words are important, you don't know when to include these
words in your response and you might not know how to practice these words and how to pronounce them
correctly. So that's what we're gonna do together, so you know exactly why these words are important,
when to use them in your response, and how to pronounce them correctly. So, let's do it
together. My name is Josh MacPherson, I'm the head instructor of TST Prep, an online TOEFL school
where our mission is simple, to help you get the TOEFL score you need as quickly and easily as
possible. Now, let's look at 19 words you must get, you must pronounce correctly on the TOEFL Speaking.
So, you might be wondering at this point how do I know that these words are important? Well,
first of all, how do I know that pronunciation is important? Well, ETS the TOEFL the company
that makes the TOEFL, has a product and I'm going to share my screen right now, it's called TOEFL
Practice Online and they grade your speaking with something called Speech Rater. When they
grade your speaking, they use a human grader right now, but they also have the tool called Speech
Rater, and you can hear your own response, you can get feedback on your own speaking based on their
own speech rater. I did this about a month ago, this is just a quick little copy of my results. And one
of the grading criteria was vowel pronunciation, and I'm going to read this, this is to the right.
Vowels which is a, e, i, o, u is a measure of how you pronounce vowels compared with the pronunciation
of a native speaker. Specifically, it is a measure of your vowel length. Stronger speakers tend to
pronounce the English vowels more like a native speaker. So, you have to pronounce vowels correctly.
And this happens students have trouble with this, with longer words, and there are a lot of longer
words that you're going to use in your responses. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you,
we're gonna go through each question type. There are four question types, and I'm going to show you
which words you might have trouble pronouncing, but you will probably have to say when you speak.
So, this is a template to question one, and this is available in our guide, TOEFL Speaking 26+
You can find it a link to it in the description below. And there are some words, some phrases
that you're gonna have to say on test day that are part of the template, that are part of the
question types. So, for question one there are only two words that really are probably going to show
up, and one of those words is really like I just said and the other one is remember. So, let's look
at examples, and that's what we're going to do for each of these questions. I'm going to explain when
to use it and I'm going to show you an example of how to use it. So, here's an example from TST
Prep test ten. I remember when I was a child. So, for your independent speaking, you are probably gonna give
a personal example to help explain your opinion, and a popular phrase is I remember when. And you might
have some trouble saying remember. Some students, I've heard say the rememba. So, remember. Or, another
example is really. Is really a great way to build fluency, you might say really to show emphasis of
what you believe, and some students have trouble with the R and L pronunciation. So, this is a
template for speaking question number two. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about this, I have
different videos that go into detail about how to respond to questions one, two, three, and four, and
I'll put a link in the description below for those as well, but so for question two there are some
words that are going to come up, like university, according to, however, disagrees, woman, clearly. So,
I'm not going to go through each of these and show you all of these examples and explain it,
but one example that I'll do together is the first one from TST Prep test four. And this is according
to an university. According to the announcement, the university. So, for question two it's going to be an
announcement from a university. So, you'll probably have to say according to and you'll probably have
to say university, university. All right, so that's an example. Another example from question two are
words that like however. So, this is from TST Prep test number ten. However, the woman points out that.
So, we usually say however for question two because the reading passage announces a change, and the
person in the conversation probably doesn't like the change, so they'll probably say however, you
will probably say however, and that they disagree. Disagree, disagree, another word that you have to
pronounce correctly. Also, from TST Prep test number three, almost immediately the woman... So, a woman is
one of those words that actually students have a lot of trouble with. I hear students say woman,
woman, or women. So, there's a lot of different problems with the vowel sound in the middle,
depending on your accent and your native language, it'll be different. Woman, woman, woman. All
right, and then the other one is clearly. This is to kind of wrap things up to finish. Clearly, the
woman thinks the school is making a mistake with this new rule, clearly. You don't have to say this,
but it's one of the templates that we teach, one of the words that we teach students. If you need
more help with pronunciation, I strongly recommend you check out YouGlish. You can just type in any
word, and I did an example here, for example battery, and then you could find a lot of videos right at
the moment where the word is being pronounced. So, if any of these words you need more help besides
this video, definitely check out YouGlish, type in the word and listen to some other examples of the
pronunciation. Alright, let's move along question 3. This is an example of our template for question 3.
Again, I'm not going to go into too much detail, there are other videos that talk about this a
lot, but there are some words that you will have to say, for example, passage, example, professor, reading,
listening. Let's look at the reasons why. So, the first sentence from test number 1. The reading
passage goes into detail. So, you're gonna have to say passage for questions 2, 3, and 4 because you're
talking about the reading passage or the listening passage. I've heard some people say passage or
passage. So, you have to work on your vowels in their, passage. Another example here is example, I hear
some students say example, example, or example. So there's a lot of different pronunciations I've
heard. Example, example, example, you want it to sound like that, there's a sound in the middle. Professor,
is something you'll have to say for questions 3 and 4. I've heard profesor, you know,
and so on. Professor, professor. You'll also have to say reading. Reading passage, reading passage.
You will also have to say listening. Listening passage, listening passage. So, make sure that your
pronunciation of these words is strong because you're gonna have to say them on test day and
you're going to have to say them. A lot of these words you'll have to say for more than one question.
Passage, reading, listening, professor. So, you want your pronunciation of these words to be really
good. Alright, also, if you need help with trying to figure out if your pronunciation is okay or
not, I strongly recommend practicing with voice typing software, for example, talking to Siri,
talking to your iPhone, if Siri can understand you, if your iPhone can understand you, I like to use
voice typing in Google Docs. If voice typing can understand you, then your pronunciation is pretty
good. If it's having trouble understanding you, then you need a little bit more work. I recommend
doing this with words, or sentences, or phrases. I wouldn't do a whole TOEFL Speaking passage with
voice typing because it's too long, just a sentence or two. All right, so that's another
way to kind of practice your pronunciation and check if you're doing it well or if you're not.
Of course, we also have teachers at TST Prep if you need more help with that. Okay, question
number four. This is again the template, I talked about this in a lot of detail in another video,
just to show you what it looks like, and again, by the way, you can download this in the link
in the description below, the TOEFL Speaking 26+ guide. Okay, that's that. Now, these last words
lecture, topic, explains, discusses, interesting, secondly. So, let's look at some examples from
test 11. The lecturer mentions that, so that's another way to say professor. You can't just keep
saying professor, professor, professor, over and over and over again. So, lecturer, we would say
instead. Another example is topic. Some people would say topic, topic. Topic, topic, not topic. So,
the reading passage to, I'm sorry, the listening passage talks about an interesting topic. Some
other words there, explained. So, the professor is going to explain something and he's also going
to discuss or she is going to discuss, explain something. Another example interesting. You don't
have to say this, but it might be a nice way to sound more casual is to say that the topic is really
interesting from question four. And not interesting, interesting, interesting, not interesting. Secondly
is another way to say also or on top of that to add information which is important for question
number four. But that's about it. So again, these are the 19 words you must pronounce correctly
for the TOEFL Speaking. Hopefully, by now you know why they're important and how you can use them
and also how to pronounce them well. Let me know in the comments below which words you have the most
trouble pronouncing and also if you have any tips for other students who are trying to figure out
how to pronounce these words. Thank you guys for watching. Please click the subscribe button, leave
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