Hello, everyone and welcome back to Learn British English Free, the YouTube channel.
My name is Chris. This lesson is about some confusing words in terms of
pronunciation in English. I want to help you pronounce five similar words. The
first one - what's this on my chin? It's a beard. A beard. 'Beard' the
sound - there are two sounds we will talk about in this lesson - this one, like 'ear',
,beard, and be careful - although there is 'r' in the word British people often don't
pronounce the 'r' clearly - 'ear' - no real 'r' sound. Beard. Second word - the same sound -
we're using 'beer' to drink 'beer' yes. 'Beer' - very popular with British people.
Beard and beer - different spellings though - 'ear' for 'beard'; 'eer' for 'beer'.
Number three - now we use the second sound, the sound like 'air' in the air around us.
The word is the big scary animal - a bear. 'Bear'. Bear. Next word: 'bare' -
the same sound and the same pronunciation as the third word bare, 'bare',
means something similar to empty; for example, my arm - there are no clothes
on there - the sleeve is not there, it's bare. And the last word, number five, an
adverb: barely. 'Barely'. Again the 'air' sound, barely. It can be used as
an adverb of frequency like 'hardly ever'. 'Barely'. Here are some example sentences
so we can practise these words together to get even better at them. The bear
drank beer and grew a beard. I'll say each one twice, the second time more
quickly to help you practice. Here we go: the bear drank beer and grew a beard.
Second example: my chin is bare without the beard.
My chin is bare without the beard. And the last example: the bear barely drinks
beer. The bear barely drinks beer. Please check the notes for the spelling, the
phonetic transcriptions and the example sentences; you can watch again read those -
whatever you like to practise. The main thing here though is the different
sounds, 'ear' and 'air', and be careful because the spellings are confusing. We
don't know in English when we read the word from the spelling how to pronounce
it; it's impossible. I'm very sorry about that. We have to learn English even more
carefully to get the pronunciation correct. Good luck. Ok, that's it for this
lesson, thank you for watching. My name is Chris; you can find me on Learn British
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