hi guys and welcome back to love English I'm Leila and I'm Sabrah and today
hopefully we've got a rather well exciting but slightly rude last night oh
yeah today's lesson does come up with a parental advisory warning meaning that
if you are under 18 years of age you might want to check you can still watch
but you might want to check with parents and you should be aware that there is
going to be some language that's correct so probably we recommend to watch the
video quietly not loudly in a public place (headphones) there will be some
rather rude words now that being said we're not teaching them to know we're
absolutely not this is not a video about how to swear no sorry to disappoint it's
really not but this video is focusing on ten words that are commonly
mispronounced but we don't want you to ever never please mispronounce words
okay guys number one very simple error this one but again very embarrassing
(1) okay this is the difference between the number six and sex! Yes, so that is a very
very easy mistake to make
so this is the pronunciation mistake looking at two vowel sounds it it kind
of tight on your lips there. It comes from here, yeah comes from here.. and look at the pronunciation.
Look at the mouth /I/ and /e/ so open your mouth opens..they both come from here actually
there both voiced, and they both come from here. but /e/ as Leila was saying, is much
more air open. /I/ quite closed mouth. Your lips are quite tight around your
teeth. So the difference is between /I/ six and /e/ sex. Look at the pronunciation look
at my mouth how... the shapes that I'm making /I/ six /e/ sex . okay
you still giggling? yeah..I am. it's funny... very childish. So next one guys number two
this is such a common mistake I've heard this so many times and this is actually..
a... quite a difficult sound to understand the difference they are quite difficult to
understand the differences. This is the difference between /I/ and /I:/ so the long /I:/
and the short /I/ which we just taught you the /I/ sound. So this is sheet as
in my bedsheets, the thing that you sleep on, on your bed... sheet of paper! yes that's
right you can't shit you definitely do not want to say I
need a sheet of paper you definitely don't want to say I need it or I need
the shit on the bed no that would be terrible
so definitely guys do not make this mistake it is sheet sheet and then it
I'm not gonna say the word again sheet or say it with a shit yeah I said it can
rely on layer to say those words alright guys number three is a pronunciation
mistake but I will often I will teach them before they make them a stir
because I've had a student make this mistake once yeah she went to a pub she
said this word wrong so embarrassed and the bar man was very entertained I bet
he was yeah so is coca-cola if in doubt say Cola or say coca-cola
yeah but this is sometimes shortened to coke oh oh
coat o as in phone tone exactly so it's an O it's a diphthong yeah so your mouth
has to move to make the sound phone exactly now if you don't move your mouth
with this sound and if you make an O ah sound okay like clock then you are
going to say who's saying it meal yeah I can't say this word I can't far too
innocent okay cop I am I'm teaching you it's
pronunciation yeah now it does mean the male anatomy the
part yeah and it's also quite it's not a very nice way it's a rude word it is
rude really it says do not use it better don't use it yeah neato you don't need
to use this word but you definitely do not want to say hello can I have a pint
of cock what happened it's really my student said this hey can I have a cock
to the barman when she was at pub and he said large or small oh my goodness
that's so funny
so I teach this to make sure they don't make this mistake what did she say that
you want hardly small things she realised after okay guys number four
this is again the difference between the ear and the ear which you talk we taught
you in number two so the difference between saying an F sound and an e sound
now the same is later I have heard a student make a really funny mistake with
this so we live in Bournemouth and there are lots of lovely beaches here you know
where I know my students said to me say but I really love the bitches here I
love this just so many hot bitches here and I was like excuse me bitches
oh you mean hot beaches I was like I haven't seen any cock bitches which
areas are you going to Wow he was very very embarrassed when I
explained to him the mistake so it's Beach or fish now bitch is a swear word
it means not a nice woman it doesn't mean the same as whore yeah no it does
which a lot of people make that mistake they think that bitch means like a a
loose woman yes the prostitute but it doesn't yeah actually just means a not
very nice woman if you say somebody is a bitch yeah it's not a nice person
so you don't want to use this word it's not a good word to confuse it has got
another meaning as well female dog yeah okay so you might hear this word being
used and actually in that case it's quite a set yeah you would say she's a
bitch as in like it's a female dog guys type in the comments below how I've been
did are you at this point are you staying with us it's gonna get worse I'm
afraid it's not getting better but it please bear in mind it's very helpful
yeah we're not teaching you just we're we're teaching how to avoid swearing
actually right guys the next word number five is focus focus
okay hasn't pay attention focus on the lesson focus on us now the sound at the
beginning the vowel sound is an oh oh like phone so the problem that you have
is if you shorten this sound and if you make it more of an AH like up yeah this
can actually really sound quite bad and it's at the same focus you could say
focus or worse if it's really clear at fuck us yes what so just be careful it
can sound like you're almost saying the f-word yeah I have heard students say
yeah say all we need to focus I need to focus on my homework and it does sound a
little bit like a swear word it does not quite exactly know
not as bad as maybe shit and she yeah so it's Oh Oh which is kind of almost like
a kissing oh it's an up I think AHA yeah yeah
so again correct pronunciation focus focus make sure it's a long answer and
not focus okay guys this one I haven't heard this many times but I think it's a
really good thing to talk about so the word importance and the word impotence
which means however sailors say a gentleman who not easily excited isn't
able to perform in certain ways or in certain areas just know it means a lack
of power does it mean yeah I'll say can it can also mean that impotence oh yeah
if it is impotent yeah ability power so not a good thing to say is definitely
related to men not to women okay I can say something is impotent in the sense
that it hasn't got any ability now is it more generally yeah so the word
importance importance is an or importance the stress is on the second
syllable if you say it without saying the or and you say schwa so you say in a
very lazy way you will say importance like this and this book will sound like
impotence impotence impotence the stress is on the first syllable and it's not an
or it's an earth so you've got to make sure that you say importance and say
that all sound or like thoughts like horse importance
okay stress on the second syllable if you want to know more guys about stress
you can watch my recent video to explain all about the rules of stress which is
very very helpful so say importance not input right guys number seven Sabra just
pointed this word out and she's absolutely right it is a common error
now in English when we're talking informally you might say that you're
having a chat yep ah ah okay
like cat chant what you don't want to do is change that to a Shh yeah and say you
can say this would chat did the past tense of shit you didn't know that guys
okay yeah okay so I had a lovely chat I had a lovely chat I'm sure nobody would
say I shot no I had a lovely shot I had a lovely chat of course yeah yeah yeah a
lovely chat with sabra we could chat together if I heard this is why I told
Leila I had a Brazilian student say that she was chatting with her boyfriend I
was like excuse me I beg your pardon in the continuous form Wow and the
boyfriend was like why you okay commit fornication okay rather than yeah okay
so that you're kind of shorter sound chart like chocolate or chocolate yes
okay chocolate choose cheese cheese okay not like shower yeah so chat chat okay
guys this is a more I suppose less common one in some ways but it but it
could happen so this is the difference between quiche quiche so the quiche guys
it's a kind of pie it's a French pastry which then you'll have a savory dish so
it's often with cheese and onion and vegetables and things like that
egg with egg yeah so very common in the UK to eat quiche as I suppose isn't
quite a lot of Europe and normally this is served as a piece and you might say
something like yes I thought I'd like a slice of quiche please quiche quiche
which is said actually in this case as a shirt the chair is a shirt for this one
guys don't blame English blame the French because this is actually a thing
from the French language is that a CH sound is said as shut like as in
champagne for example so quiche we don't say the CH yeah we say quiche so we say
it as a shot but what a lot of learners tend to do is they try to say the CH as
a cup and they try to also pronounce the e and
if they do this they might actually say I want a quickie because they're trying
to say quiche phonetically really really bad idea
because it could well if you say I fancy a quick so if they say this guy's if
they try and say quiche phonetically they could say a quickie because they're
saying CH as cut and they're pronouncing the e the 20 plus e at the end you
really don't want to say that you fancy a quickie because a quickie means Leila
you want to explain it means to have a broiler brief encounter with the
opposite sex yeah but not necessarily opposites yeah
it could be a screw yeah yeah that's true but basically quickie is another
word for sex and if you do want to learn more about these kind of expressions we
do have a very funny funny home video for you yeah right guys number nine
we're nearly at that big scary word that Sabre is not looking forward to
explaining but number nine is relatively simple it's again another problem with
that and the e okay yeah very common problem in this case again
that you want to make sure that you say the long e beach sheet and piece yeah
piece piece of paper piece of cake piece of quiche hmm you do not want to say the
ear yeah if they taught you already guys so you want to say a piece of paper not
a piece of paper this means you want to describe it Leila to go for a wee but
it's very very rude I personally wouldn't ever say this no we say yeah I
think but it's very common is common to hear it and also if you this is a little
aside but if you say this word it's the most common usage is to be pissed off
yeah pissed off which means to be angry and I do say that personal history out
we went there and going for a piss and like a guy in a pub drinking beer with
your friends yeah okay guys last one now I really don't want to say this word we
have to tell you that this is the worst word
the English language and that it's really not a nice word to say and can
cause a lot of offense but we just wanted to teach you so you never make
this mistake and never say this potentially offensive word more
offensive to women and women often fine I'm sure many men do is wobble it refers
to the ladies area yes okay but in the most kind of vulgar rude
way so it is a disastrous mistake never mispronounce this word yeah definitely
and the problem is it's probably one a very common and easy mistake to make
because the vowel difference is so small actually so it's the difference between
can't British pronunciation is can't American pronunciation you can also make
this mistake because they say it can't I can't
so guys in can't it's that long ah can't far farther on so you do not want to say
the earth sound ah the earth as in cut as in up don't want to say that sound
because then you will say the worst word which is alright guys thank you so much
for joining us for this lesson we do hope it was helpful please do share any
funny mistakes that you've made with us in the comments below and actually guys
if you want to see some funny mistakes that I made in Spanish what I said some
bad words and you can watch that video here but yes please do leave us a
comment we love to hear from you and we would like a good laugh we'd like to
hear some of your funny mistakes but do not say these words never say them never
yeah