good afternoon good morning good evening
not good night though um i'm
really gonna tell you something really
i am terrible at
spelling are you really really terrible
at spelling in english too
i am um the reason why
is because our
pronunciation is completely different
from how we write things
and this makes a terrible
problem especially if you're studying
for very important tests
like ielts or any other written
tests that you need for your school it
is terrible but
i have a method that i want to share
with you and it's helped me
pass the spelling tests it's helped me
graduate university and it's helped me
become
your number one english teacher i'm
ronnie
and i'm going to teach you how to spell
these
terrible awful words that i always spell
wrong but
let's start with these um i was looking
on the internet
you know that place the internet and
there's a list 25 50
100 words that native
english speakers spell wrong all the
time so don't
don't be discouraged if you think your
spelling's terrible
because you're learning a language
because guess what native speakers can't
even spell it correctly so
you're good but watch my tips so this is
what i do
um and i'll tell you how i got this
method
i look for words inside the words
that help me remember to spell the words
let me show you what i mean we have this
word unfortunately
now even the pronunciation is weird it
looks like unfortunate
unfortunately and then we
just come and say unfortunately
and then you have the job of trying to
remember
how to spell this word so let's look at
it what words can you see
inside the word okay first of all
i see the prefix on so in english this
means not
okay then i see four
okay i almost see
i almost see fortune
but there's no e so that will really
mess me up but then
i see the past tense
of the verb to eat eight so i can
remember
unfour t-u-n
eight li
so i've got words inside and this is the
problem
with native speak with native speakers
when we try and write things
is we mix these up we usually omit the e
oh we could put another vowel here
instead of you
so always look for words inside words
i had this problem in grade two and i
had a wonderful grade two teacher mrs
zettle
i don't ever know what happened to her
hi if you're watching
thank you um and when i was eight years
old i could not spell the word about
properly i probably spelt it
a boat
because that's how it sounds i remember
my grade 2 teacher
sitting me down in a little desk and
saying ronnie
you are going to write this word about a
hundred times
and for an eight-year-old that's a lot
even for
a not eight-year-old it's a lot so i sat
there with my pencil
and i probably spelt it wrong a hundred
times and she said
it's wrong you gotta do it again
so i realized that there is
you why is there you why don't you say
the you
so it's about so in my little
seven-year-old brain i thought oh no no
but there's an
out so i can remember it's a b
c d e f out ab out
wow then i proudly wrote it a hundred
times and i
showed my teacher and i was like haha i
got it i will always remember how to
spell this word
because i realized this pattern
at aj know i was a genius
now i use it okay so what word do you
see in this or or
combinations of word i see again oh
there's a double
m here but this is a prefix so we're
gonna look at the beginning of the word
and see these prefixes
then we have mead
okay oh i get to eat something again
so immediate there's the eye watch out
for the eye
okay so prefix mead
i ately okay this is getting fun
can you see a word in this word a
problem we have in english is the double
letters right
but most of the time when you have a
double letter it's because
it is a prefix okay so when i look at
this word i see two p's
and i say apparent oh i see a parent in
here
okay so we have to remember that
paren is in the word but we also have to
add an extra p before it
that'll nail the double p there
apparently i can spell this word now
there's e's there's i e's there's
c's there's lots of n's oh this one's
crazy
convenience con okay gone
good no conv vane
no i don't know this one's hard vinyance
yeah just memorize this one because i
don't have a technique
convenience there's a little
rhyme we like to say we say i
before e except after c
but there's so many exceptions to that
rule that
really doesn't work like that but you
can
remember i before e except after c but
that means because there's a c
and then it would be like this so watch
out for that one
ignore the c there so i what about this
one i always spell this like this
separate s e see i can't even do that
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s-e-p-e-r-a-t-e
separate no
no no apparently it's
right so we go excuse me could you
please sub-par
write this for me so
in this word i can see the word par this
is our problem area so i remember
sep par and then if you wanted to you
could hit
another eight here but as long as you
get the ar not the er
you're okay oh this word
so many vowels what are you guys doing
down here and there's c's and s's
what's this i remember this guy like psi
like science
so i conscious conscious
ah that's how you should spell it
conscious and then
no there's a c i remember
the beginning of khan and then the
science and then
us con science thus conscious good
this one's fun i can see this in two
ways first of all
i can see city spelt with an s
instead of a c and i also see
rio which is the portuguese and
spanish word for river so i see a rio in
here there's a river
i see curio which could be a fun word
too as well but
so i think oh riosity and
the problem lies within here getting the
i and the o in there
this one oh god it's another it's
another one with the
e and the l y sometimes we put the e
in sometimes we don't so i would look at
this and go
defin oh no oh look look look
there is the wonderful
slang american spelling of the word
night so
def in and then eight li definitely
if you say it like that you remember it
like that to spell it but don't say it
like that on the exam
definitely just remember there's a
knight in there
these are shining armor this one look at
this
so many of these guys have double
consonants double letters oh how are you
gonna do this
this one we have two r's because
again this is a prefix look it oh my
sister's here to help me
so i am resist
sister tibble uh oh this is when we hit
another mistake
sometimes we have able
sometimes we have ibl so to help you
with this one
i would make a chart of the words
like this i would make words that end in
able and where does it end in ibl
if your pronunciation is up to speed
which means it's very good
you could even hear the difference in it
but if you don't know how to say
it the spelling's harder because we say
irresistible
but we say avail able so that actually
makes sense but you got to make sure
your pronunciation's okay
this one wow wow wow wow there's
there's more vowels so main
oh 10 main 10 and then
ants maintenance but we say maintenance
so i think of a main
and then number 10 and then i just
remember the ants part here
this word i know why do we have the a
something's a veil apple sometimes
they're
end in table which is fun but this one
doesn't have a table
inside so you're going to just
break this here avail a bowl available
is a really good
punk band too if you ever knew that one
so double consonants just remember
double double double c double s and i
like the way that
that some people um have learned the the
double consonants because
i have learned to say a c c e s s
i b l e but some people say
a double c dot e double s i'm like wow i
like that you can make a song
like i got the next one i got a c and i
got a double
m and i got a double what t and i get a
double
e damn we're doubling up on these so if
you can make little rhymes
double m double t double e it's gonna
help you
because i would write this committee
committee he
had like this committee
so if something is irresistible
means you cannot resist it it means you
need it
like chocolate if someone put hey ronnie
would you like some chocolate like
yeah i do i i do i've eaten 100 kilos of
chocolate already but
i cannot resist the chocolate i need it
i need it
maintenance we do this in a car um
if your car's old it's not broken but
the mechanic likes you to bring it to
them
so they can charge you money to maintain
your car that means charge you extra
money
to keep your car in good running order
you maintain something maintenance
available means that you have free time
or you can do something
accessible we have the word in it access
but you got to remember the doubles okay
if something is accessible it means it's
easy to get to or easy to
achieve committee is a group of people
who like to give their opinion about
things
oh this one look at the double letters
in this one
embarrassing and again
oh there's a bar yay i get to go to the
bar with another r
so you can think of this like in b
okay the doubles are liking this this is
um
two more examples these are two more
examples of
remember the double l don't remember the
double l it's your choice i always put
them in
um when we spell things like cancel or
jewelry
with a double l it's british spelling
um apparently in america
they only put one l in canada we
definitely put two
but if you're writing your test and you
only put one r or sorry one l
fight it because that is normal in
american english
which i kind of think is cool because
why do you need two
because of the the rule here but
it's cancelled no just one go um
this is a fun rule that doesn't make
sense but i always say it
because it's been nailed into my head
since i was a little ronnie
achieve achieve means you win
your goal basically um if you achieve
something
we always say okay i
before e so this is the
the you always put the i before thee
okay i before he
okay believe i before e good so that's
how we figure out that but
then they have exceptions they say
accept
after a c letter so if you see
it's c e i
but but but there's a c here
but it has to be directly after the sea
and then
we have so many exceptions to this rule
that
when i was a kid it was a good rule but
now i'm like that was terrible
but i still say it and it might help you
just be careful of those
i would make um a little chart
and i would put all the guys that fit
into this
and expect that's wrong
see i can't even spell this except
see ronnie you're terrible at spelling
okay except after c so i would make a
chart all the ones that are nice and
follow the rules
and the rebels the guys are like i'm not
following this i before e rule so put
them in a different category
get them out of there leave it achieve
believe these guys follow the rule
this one disease i always
kind of try and type it
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this i know there's an s somewhere
this is the seas
this is but then when you look at it you
see the word
ease
hey that's easy like ease
don't diss my easeness so disease
you can think of it like this and then
ease like easy
this is not easy okay this this took a
lot of effort
and you really really have to focus on
your spelling
when you're doing ielts tests um
i am here to help you
with your ielts if you pop onto my
website
englishwithroni.com i have ielts courses
for you
to take private lessons to help you with
this test
if you're taking toefl or toeic you
have to be careful of your spelling i'll
help you with anything you need
but especially the spelling so
i want you to take these words that you
hate and you always get wrong
and to think of the little words inside
hey even if maybe it's in your language
it'll help you whatever language you
want to do it in
please try and remember this with my
grade 7 method
thanks ms settle grade 2 teacher i hope
you're doing well