Hi guys and welcome back to love English with Leila and Sabrah. Today I'm going to
go through 25 words that students commonly mispronounced. So pay attention
and copy along with me to make sure you improve your pronunciation. Don't forget to
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The first word fruit, fruit. Lots of people say frooit - frooit, it but it is
fruit. As in ooo fruit. Similarly, number 2 suit , suit and again this is a strange
spelling but the pronunciation is with another oooo sound, suit. Now, number 3
suite, suite. Now this is a homophone. normally suite is spelt S-W-E-E_T as in
the adjective sweet, something sweet and sugary to eat. Suite- S_U_I_T_E means bathroom suite.
Suite. Number 4, a really commonly mispronounced word.
biscuit biscuit or biscuits, plural. It is not biskwit! Although, I think that
sounds kind of cute, I do like it. Biskwit, but it's biscuit biscuit. Number 5
not 'risip' but recipe, recipe listen to the number of syllables count along with
me re-ci-pe sometimes the pronunciation of words is incorrect because you add or
remove of syllables. Number six a silent letter here. What is the
silent letter? Listen carefully, receipt receipt
Not receiPt BUT receipt the piece of paper you get to show you have purchased
or bought something from a shop. the silent letter is P. Receipt. Another
silent letter which one is it? Sword, sword, that's right
silence W not sWord, but sword. Right guys, number eight....Knife? No, knife.
K before N is always a silent letter so know, knew, knowledge ,knife not KN BUT N
Number nine, more silent letters come on! comb, comb often when we have B
after M the B is silent. Again it's so confusing, I do realize that comb, bomb
plumb, all silent Bs at the end. Right, now these three words are really
commonly mispronounced not because of the sounds that use that because you
often add an extra syllable. So, the first word can you guess? Comfortable
comfortable. Now how many syllables? Let's count count. COMF -TA- BLE It's not
COM_FOR_TA_BLE - COM-FOR-TA-BLE it's COMF-TA-BLE We have omitted the 'O-R' sound.
There is no 'OR' comfortable. Tt's not VEG-E-TA-BLE, VER-E-TA-BLE it's VEG-TA-BLE
VEG_TA_BLE there we go. Sometimes you can just count along
the syllables to hear the sound that we omit. (remove)
So, we have omitted the second 'E' in vegetable. Vegetable. The final word, one of
my favorite words! Chocolate, chocolate it's not CHOC-O-LATE, CHOC-O-LATE but
CHOC-LATE, CHOC-LATE How many syllables? Listen again.
chocolate, chocolate. 2!! Fantastic! Number fifteen, often mispronounced by every
nationality! Clothes, clothes now it is not CLOTH-ES and there are some rules to
help you with the pronunciation of plural nouns and third person S and would
you believe it? We have a lesson on love English with Leila and Sabrah. Have a look and
you will find the rules for pronouncing those words. Number sixteen, this word is
open mispronounced by Italians. Hungry, hungry. It's not hangry
or angry or ungry. The H sound doesn't exist in Italian and so it's difficult
for you to pronounce. Just practice again hungry, hungry. Number 17
would you believe it another silent letter, island, island, not IS-LAND or
Iceland, Iceland is a country guy. Island. Eighteen, now this is more of a problem
than you don't clearly pronounce the ending because it can change the meaning
in a sentence. can't, can't if you speak with an American accent then it would be
exactly the same. But can't. AH with an AH. Quite hard for me to do because I'm British.
Again even more important if you speak with an American accent because can
can't, sound very similar. The sound doesn't change whereas can/ can't are quite
different vowel sounds. Number nineteen. I'm actually giving you two words here
because they are often confused. Won't won't, oh and want want, want. Now this is
difficult because the sound is very similar it's simply a long sound and a
short sound. Won't like don't Oh. Won't like font OH. One more time together
with me. won't - want. Number twenty days of the week. Tuesday compare that with
the day before Friday- Thursday, Thursday. So they look a little bit
similar because they both start with T but the first we have a T-YOO
Tuesday and the second we have TH-UR Thursday. Practice one more time
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
What was that I just said? Wednesday number 21 Oh spellings in English do not
look the way they should sound. It is not WED-NES-DAY although that
will help you spell the word but it's WENS-DAY. 22 Another funny spelling which
means the pronunciation can sometimes go a bit wrong. It's not FEB-RU-AIR-REE, FEB-RU-AIR-REE but
FEB-YOU-AIR-REE February. There's actually a 'Y' sound. February, February, February
Number 23 a homophone, quay. Quay.
Now QUAY normally spelt K-E-Y meaning keys for the door. But Q-U-A-Y meaning like a
small port area where we keep boats, smaller and not so industrial. Quay.
Number 24 another QU word. Not Q-WEE or Q -Y-OO-EE it's
Queue, what the British love to do, get in line if you're American. So we queue for
the bus, we queue for our cinema tickets. And finally, number 25. Crisps
Not CR-I-PIS or CRIPS, CRISPS. There's a nice SPS sound at the end. Practice with me one more time.
CRISPS. I hope those words were helpful and you're able to improve your
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