welcome back to learn academic English where I teach intermediate and advanced level English
lessons for English learners around the world especially those who want to be successful in
school and work today I have another pronunciation lesson but this one is actually a lot more common
and useful than we might expect it's about abbreviations something that we use all the
time so basically for abbreviations there's just one pronunciation rule that you need to know
and that is that we stress the last letter of the abbreviation for example the USA we don't say USA
we don't say USA we say USA so if you listen carefully you can hear that the last letter
is pronounced a little bit more strongly there's more stress on it USA
so let's look at quite a few examples and I will say them you can repeat after me and maybe you'll
even learn some new abbreviations today but before we get started I'm going to ask you to please
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let's get to those abbreviations the EU the EU the EU is the european union the EU
the UK the UK is the United Kingdom and we say UK we don't say UK we say UK ESL
ESL stands for English as a Second Language ESL CV CV is one way that we can talk about a
resume usually in the United States we use the word resume but CV is used in many other countries
BBC the BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation and it's a very common and popular
tv channel the BBC ETA ETA stands for estimated time of arrival ETA now these are actually
acronyms because acronyms are abbreviations that contain the first letter of each word so if you
want to know about that you might want to know that these abbreviations are actually acronyms
ASAP ASAP so in this one it's a longer one so you might hear a little bit of stress on the first one
ASAP ASAP stands for as soon as possible and sometimes you can even hear people say ASAP
ASAP is the same thing as ASAP DIY DIY is do it yourself FYI FYI is for your information
FYI how about a few abbreviations for school B.A. a B.A. is a bachelor of arts degree it's a
four-year degree B.A. B.S. a B.S. is a bachelor of science degree M.A. m.a is a master of arts
M.S. master of science so this a master's degree is one step higher than a bachelor's degree
usually students go to school for four years for a bachelor's degree and then an additional two years
for a master's degree Ph.D. Ph.D. is the highest level of education it's after a master's degree
Ph.D. and a few abbreviations for work VP VP is vice president CEO CEO is chief executive officer
so this is a good one to practice the linking between the vowels CEO CEO
we don't pause between them we don't say CEO we say CEO we link that yes sound between the vowels
CFO CFO CFO is chief financial officer
and PA pa is personal assistant I'm sure that there are many other acronyms that
you can think of and go ahead and leave some of those in the comments below but remember
that when you use these types of abbreviations you're going to put stress on the last letter
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