hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
American English pronunciation are you ready let's begin consonant blends now
in the last few videos that's what we've been talking about and this is the last
video lesson on consonant blends so we started out talking about 20 different
consonant blends two consonants that blend their sound together SP is a cut
art art to consonants and this is a consonant pair right they blend together
makes a sound not a new sound just a sound push together SP s sounds like P
sounds like so we have L DL sounds like L spell spell perhaps you know how to
spell many words in English the word spell can you spell spell SP e ll spell
okay also we could say that a witch like on Halloween a witch riding a broom
put a spell she cast this spell on everyone in the town she's evil spell
okay but I don't want to get off-topic these are the last five pairs we're
going to cover in the next video we'll be on to something else with
pronunciation okay continuing with SP spa.i door long I sound D er er er er
there's that birth sound deep der spider a spider it's a bug has eight legs on it
many people don't like them they're afraid of them but they do eat a lot of
other insects so they're pretty nice to have around really unless of course you
get bitten SP spa spa and take away SP and you have the word and take off the D
you'd have en sound like n n put on the D duh and spend spend money when you go
shopping you spend money or maybe you spend some time with your family on the
weekends st best East we have statue statue step ah-choo stat - now this
sounds like Q - right but we don't say stat q it comes out something like stat
true it ends up with sort of a CH sound right typically that's how you're going
to hear it what is a statue well a statue is
usually of a person and someone who's famous they chisel out a statue out of
marble out of some sort of stone normally and they'll put them maybe
alongside a street st stuff ruff ruff e e sounds like he stood stood reap street
put alongside of the street what's the street someplace where people
drive you drive down the street you may look off to the side as you go by a park
or a government building and you'll see a statue of a famous person maybe
someone who founded the town a hero who grew up in the town maybe it's here in
the Washington DC and you see a statue of
past presidents Senators Congressmen our founding fathers of our Constitution our
country step SP step the word air air we breathe air we want fresh air step heirs
stairs when you walk up the steps to go to the next floor above you those are
called stairs many steps stairs SW eat
w-what what together they blend together they sound like
soo-eee sound like e teeth sweet sweet you know what sugar is pour
a little sugar in your coffee to make your coffee taste sweet sweet maybe you
think that a little baby next door is such a sweet little girl oh what a sweet
name sweet SW Swiss four sisters yeah yeah short I am him him swim swimmy
you go in the water and you start going to Milan and you're swimming swim past
tennis swam past participial swum do you like to go swimming
el e el sounds like L like spell well we have swell so well now if you were to
bump your elbow hard on something woo maybe you would hurt it and it would
swell up get bigger not good maybe your knees hurt and your knees swell up when
you walk too much let's do many things swell
right okay TR too rough truck truck @ @ ml e l sounds like L the the V sound buh
buh buh bell travel travel comes out something like travel you go from one
place to another you travel to get there or perhaps you take a trip and you go
from wherever you are now to someplace else we would say you took a trip maybe
you take a trip from your home to a vacation island right a trip you can say
you traveled there you took the trip there right TR truck
yeah short I and the P sound it trip also you can be walking along and you
stumble on something we would say you tripped tripped and fell down did you
get hurt oh my gosh I hope your leg doesn't swell
up TR truck Ain a I sounds like a and sound in aim
train train so perhaps when you travel you go on a trip maybe you take a train
right woo and you're steaming along not really
steaming diesel engines electric trains going down the tracks right inefficient
and relatively cheap way to travel most times a train also you might take a
class someplace and you have someone who trains you how to repair a car they
train you on how to type fast they could train teach you train you
TW - what what l ll and then we have that V sound
but 1212 now I have the word 20 over here because many people who speak
English as a second language get confused and they mix up 12 which is 1 2
12 10 11 12 13 12 they confuse it with 22 0 19 20 21
yes common mistake 12:20 p.m. mt2 2 20 t sounds like an e to e or just the T
itself en and 2012 now when we say the word 20 really we pronounce the T like a
D so it's gonna it's going this like 20 or we don't even really say the T I
shouldn't say we make it sound like a deep we really don't say it we say 20 -
Annie - Annie like the end goes to a sound 20 20 20 English okay 12 12 what
Tim's what can you see that I am I am TW I and s now we have I am all right TW 12
in with the S twins - of something that are the same perhaps you know someone
who is uh twin they have a twin brother or a twin sister
it means they were born at the same time basically right there are identical
twins there are what they call paternal twins so twin is two of something
alright that concludes this lesson thank you for
watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson good
bye for now