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1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to this course. Well, what is this course about? This course is for beginner English speakers who want to learn proper North American pronunciation. So if you are in Canada or United States or if you're coming into these two countries, this is the course that helps you to improve your accent and make you sound like a native speaker. And what you're going to learn in this course is basically the basics of pronunciation. There is the science of sounds. We're going to learn the phonetic symbols specifically. These are basically a language of its own that helps you understand how to pronounce words in the English language. So there are four sections in this course. We're going to start off with the vowels. Vowels are AEIOU. There are 16 different ways to pronounce these vowels. We're going to learn all of those. In the second section, we're learning about our controlled vowels. These are basically vowels that are accompanied by the R leather. In the third section, we're going to learn about consonants, water consonants, consonants, or any of the alphabets that are nots, the vowels, anything other than a, E, I, O, and U. So these are going to be pretty easy, but there's gonna be some tricky ones in there. And in the last section we're going to learn some tricky pronunciation of some words, some difficult ones out there that are not very obvious. Great. So what are my recommendations before getting started? First of all, you wanna make sure that you listen very carefully along the process. You want to make sure that you pay attention to also how native speakers speak. You want to make sure how they are moving their mouth, okay? Third, you wanna make sure that you repeat sounds that you learn. It's not enough that you actually just listen to how sounds are made, but you also wanna make sure that you repeat what you learned. You want to practice that and practice makes perfect, right? The fourth is that there is not a common law for all the pronunciations in English language. As with any language, there's always exception. So don't be confused if you see something that doesn't make any sense, there's a lot of those scenarios in the English language. Last point is all about having fun and relaxing. So grab a cup of coffee, grab your tea, grab your wine glass, sit back and relax. We're gonna learn some fun stuff together.
2. Long Vowel Sounds: First section we're going to be learning about long vowel sounds. What are long vowel sounds? These are sounds in the English language that have the same pronunciation as how the litter is pronounced. Okay, so for the a, E, I, O, and U, the pronunciation is exactly a E, I, O and U. So let's look at some words along with their phonetic symbols to see how they are pronounced. We're gonna look at a. So the first word is say. So you can see that it is written as S a Y, but the phonetic symbol reads, say as EY, right? So this is what we are going to be learning along the whole course. So learn how to pronounce words using the phonetic symbols. So the next word is, hey, rate, skate, fate, and cake, right? So pretty similar. In the pattern. X1 is a pronunciation of E. The first word is C, second word is me. Come pay attention. The k n0 is silence. That's why in the phonetic symbols you do not see K and I, but you just see a n, which is pronounced Ni. Then we have sweep, sleep, need, and fleet. And bear in mind that every time you see a word that you don't know the meaning of, I encourage you to actually pick up the dictionary, look up the meaning of the word. If you don't know the meaning of fleet, look it up in a dictionary right now. And I want you to pay attention to the phonetic symbols inside the dictionary. All these phonetic symbols are available inside any dictionary that you see and also on Google now bear in mind this is the American version of the phonetic symbols and there's also a British version. And the next section we're going to look at the pronunciation of I. Mean words like cry and fry have the eye pronunciation. We also have height and bike. Both have a pattern where there is an i k0 and are pronounced as i. And similar to mine, it has an i followed by the letter and then a, e. And same as di1, d i and e is pronounced as Dine. Next is the pronunciation of o. So we have an awards like old bold, home, mall, col, and soul. This what's really interesting about coal and soul, one is PR now one is spelled as CoA L, whereas the other one is S, O UL. And they are both pronounced with o, coal and Seoul. Last one is a pronunciation of u, which is in a word like cute. Cute. You can see it's written with C, U, T, but it is pronounced as cute. Next one is a bit odd because we have F, E, UD, but then we pronounce it as feud, feud. Next we have Argue, continue. They both finished with the US, and then we have the union and then future, future. So a lot of fun stuff so far. These are the long vowel sounds. Long vowel sounds are sounds or vowels that are pronounced exactly as how the litter is pronounced. So a, E, I, O, and U.
3. Short Vowel Sounds: And the second section we're going to learn about shorter vowel sounds, OK, short vowel sounds doesn't necessarily mean that the sound is short. It's just a label. So it's not similar to long vowel sounds. It doesn't mean that it's long wear shorts, it's just the name. Okay. So we're going to look at the pronunciation of a as in HA, E as an air, i as in E, o as an R, and U as in K. So two different ofs. One is a longer and the other is a shortstop. We're gonna get to those just about now. So we're going to have the pronunciation of D as in cat, right? So you can see CAT, CAT pronunciation or for the phonetic symbol is cat. So we have cat had Bragg, flag, clap, trap, Classic and standard. Standard. You can see the first a in standard has that pronunciation. Next we have a as in end, add Men, Han, protect. Next, heavy. Now bear in mind, heavy is h, e a b. We, why, but the pronunciation is heavy and health. Alright. So next we have the E pronunciation. Now this is the short sound. So if we say, we want to make sure it's kinda short, we don't say, we say sit. Similarly, we have the word knit, decay and knit his silent, we do not pronounce the K, right? If you pay attention to the phonetic symbol is just knit. Benefit, liquid, clinging, building, expect and report. Right, so short ESA. Next we have the long o sound, which is in words that have in them. Okay? So we have top rights with top would kinda thing where we're taking our time with the top. Say top. We say top. Mob, blocks, honest, calm, and Paul. Okay, so the L in calm and the l in Palm are not pronounced. We do not pronounce the L. You just say calm or Paul. Next we're looking at the pronunciation of short sound and awards that have all. So top was along AS how now we're looking at money. Money. So it's quick, we don't spend too much time on the os han money. Love, front. Come none, and done, right? So you can see the pronunciation symbol for the two is very different. One is the longest common one is the shortlist on. For the short Assam, we also have it in words that have the vowel, right? So we have some fun. Uncle, under, understand, undermined. So quick, short sounds. Okay, so let's do a little bit of a practice. How do we pronounce the two words below? The first one is Rob. So Rob and its longest down, whereas the second one is the short sound rub, rub. So notice the difference between the 21 is Rob and Rob. Mixing the two can lead to completely different meanings. So you want to be careful about that. Second question. How do we pronounce the two words with the sun? And the other is sun. So the first son, the longest sound sun, whereas the second one is the short Assam sun. Sun and son. Now, in the context of a sentence, when you say Sam cannons, always, it will not lose its meaning if you're mispronouncing it. But generally, it's good to know the difference between the pronunciation of it to the last but not least, is breath, which is the noun, and breathe, which is the verb. So my breath smells good because I just brush my teeth. That's the noun. I am breathing. Fresh air is the verb. So breathing and breath, two different pronunciations. So in conclusion, we have the short vowel sounds. For a, we had the, our pronounciation as in Cat. We add e as in end, i as in sit. This is the short sound, sit. And then we have the long sound as in top. And then we had the short sound as in sun. Sun. Okay, great. See you guys in the next section.
4. Other Vowel Sounds: In this section, we're going to go over the other vowel sounds. So we learned about the short vowel sounds and along well sounds. There are five other ones that we're going to learn today. So this is how the symbols look like. We're gonna go through them one by one and you'll see how they sound like. So the first one is the short oo sound. So we'll hear it in a word like put, put, or push or foot. We also have the word look good. And would a patient in all of these phonetic symbol kinase shaped like a U? Now this is different and then the long o sound, which is in a word like soon, soon or groom, broom, bloom, or school. So two different sounds. A lot of people I notice make this mistake when they pronounce the word poets, they say put, which is, that's not how you want to pronounce it. You want to pronounce it with a short oo sound, put for as soon. You gotta take your time. Soon grew, right? So the next one is the ah, sound. This is pretty simple in the sense that you kinda round your mouth, the wars, the ant. So when you say the word rah, rah, kinda round your mouth, we have the word law, dog, frog, costs, and lost. So it doesn't, this sound doesn't just appear in wars that have AN W. It's even in wars that have owing them dog, frog, costs lost. They have that OS down in there. And next one is the boy sound. This is pretty simple. A lot of languages out there have this sound. We have the word boy, toy, coin, point, choice, and voice. Okay, pretty simple. The next time we have is the owl sounds. So this is the one that you hear when people are in pain or you, if you hurt yourself, if you bump into a wall, you say, wow, right, so same idea. The words down, crown, frown, drown, have the sound. Also, there are words that have RUN them as opposed to o w, like the word mouth, South, amount, account, right? So you notice we have that sound there in wars that have O and U in them. So here's some questions for you. Is there a difference in the pronunciation of the following words? Would, would? No. Even though there are written differently, one is with tools, whereas the other one is, oh you, and a silent L. The pronunciation is pretty much the same. Wood. Wood. There's some wood over there. Would you like to go out and have some tea? So pronunciation is pretty much the same. What about the ward routes and routes? So you can see root has that long O sound root. Whereas routes is oh you. Although in American English, routes can be pronounced as roots as well, so they can actually be sounding the same depending on how you like to pronounce it. There is no preference when it comes to pronouncing the second word. You can pronounce it as route or root. It doesn't make it less American lists Canadian or less North American if you go any other way. So today or in this section, these are the sounds I, we learned. We learned that ooh sound, the short ozone inputs, the long o sound and soon the oh sound in the word ra, the oh sound in the word boy or toy, the Al sound and the ward down or south. Okay. See you guys in the next section.
5. The Schwa Sound: We're going to learn about the schwa sound. So this is the last vowel sound out. We're going to learn. That is kind of the most common sound in English language also tends to be one of the more difficult ones. So we're going to look at some wards where we have the vowels AEIOU and they sure sound in there. Do schwa sound, sounds something like this. So an award like about it starts with the schwa sound. So what does that sound? It's that short about or we haven't in a word like, again, what it is is the ah, sound, but you make a lot shorter. Maybe like 2.5th shorter, not even, maybe less than that. So what you want to do is take that sound cutted by half and say it instead of saying about, you just say about. So make it a little bit quick and make it sound like it. Ah, again, again, a wage away and another across a broad, amazing, right? So all of these words start with the schwa sound. Let's look at the next set of words. We have the word marine. So this is the schwa sound right after the M marine or the ward parade. It starts with the schwa sound right after the PEA. Fanatic. Fatigue, paranoids. So paranoid. This second a InParanoid has the schwa sound parallel. The first a is the acid and the second is the schwa sound power level. Neutral ends with the schwa sound, neural ends with the schwa sound as well. Or the ward lasagna. Lasagna actually has the schwa sound twice in it. One at the beginning, on the first a and on the last day, law and not NEA lasagna. Alright, so next let's look at some words that have the email and then we have the word petite, petition, hyper, sniper, and so on. So you can go on and actually download these words that I've prepared for you. So you can actually practice the pronunciation of these words. Or alternatively, you can just look at any words that have 0s in them and check it on a dictionary to see how they are pronounced, whether they have the schwa sound in there or not. We also have words that have AI in them. The word presidents, Presidents. The I am president is a schwa sound. The E and president is also a schwa son, press. Done. Presidents, duplicate, duplicate. So the I in duplicate is a schwa sound family, family IN there or the word fertility. Fertility, right? The second, I believe, is the one that has the schwa sound fertility. And so on. Some words that have o in them and are pronounced with the schwa sound, the word parrot, the parrot, like the bird, right there word complain, complain. That low-income plane as the schwa sound contain, contain this food contains different spices, contain communicate. Communicate. This kind of a tough board for a lot of people. But bear in mind, you have true or yes, you have to schwa sounds in here. The oing communicate. And as well as the AI in communicating. Mu. Kate communicates, right? And so on. We also have words that have the Yuval in there and are pronounced with the schwa sound. The word absurd. Absurd. I usually say absurd, but the correct is absurd. Album, album, Campus, Campus. So the you in all of these words are pronounced with the schwa sound. So in other word actually kinda difficult is the first one on the right side circumstance. Circumstance. So you have the eye and then you have the, you were, both are pronounced as the schwa sound, circum, stance, circumstance, movie on. These are the schwa sounds in different wars that have different balance. So this is the most common sound in the English language. Once you actually get this down, the chances are your pronunciation is going to improve immensely, just because you're pronouncing the schwa sound properly. This is a game changer.
6. Pronouncing R: We need to learn how to pronounce are in order to move on to the next sections because the B are going to learn about or control the vowels. So pronouncing r in English is quite different compared to a lot of languages, even compressed to Spanish, Italian, or anywhere in Europe or even east or, or South America. The are in most of the language is flaked where you kinda get that flicking sound. When you say, for example, if I say the word three, there's a little bit of a flake in there. Or when you say the word, your tongue, your tongue that Are, you wanna make sure that are kinda. Or the tongue is sticking to the roof of your mouth and in the middle. So are you kinda wanna do it like that? So that's kinda like how the North American native speaker would go about pronouncing r. Do not flick your tongue when you actually pronounce art. Let's practice some of these wars that have RAN them along with the the vowel sounds that we learned previously. So the word, crazy, crazy, the word read, the word fries, Rome, and Rouen, right? So the r is sticking to the roof of your mouth. Next set of wars, the short vowel sounds. Remember we learned a, e and short aw sound. So the word Mary, Mary, referee, referee reboots, reboots. And the word sorry, this is a very Canadian thing. Sorry. And the ward r1, r1. And the other vowel sounds, the word uranium. Uranium is kinda cutoff. The phonetic symbols there, the US up there and rendering up uranium down. Then we have the word rude. This is the long ooo sound than the ward, raw, Royal, and rowdy. Rowdy. If you don't know what that word means, look it up in the dictionary. It's going to be a good one for you.
7. R Controlled Vowels: The AR control the bowels. So there are generally five categories of our controlled val, vowels. We have the r sound that or the air, the ear and your sound. Okay, let's see how they look like in different words. The r sound in a word like car, bar so far, or scar. There is also the word Bizarre. Bizarre means weird. Are you sure? Are you sure this is a good one? And you want to just practice your conversational tactics as well. Scenario narcissism. Narcissism, that's kind of a difficult word. So we have the r sound, then we have the or sound. Ford for Board store. I'm going to let you guys go ahead and practice. Practice these words on your own. There is the PDF files attached, so make sure to take a look at those and practice pronunciation. We also have the word air, air, fare, care, hair, stare, very American and heritage. Heritage. So you can see heritage or heritage. We're going to learn a little bit more later on. Then we have the ear sound. For example, the word dear, fear, near, Clear, the word spirit, mirror, right? So these are some other words that have the ear sound in their. Next we have the your sound, your, the word you're tour. Poor, Vermont, Tor, and your have o, u in them, whereas poor, it's just double o. So pronunciation does not correlates to how words are spelled. So again, there is no rule to encompass all the words and how they're how they're spelled. The word guru has only a u in it or sure is u r e. And so whereas cure is u r e as well, but completely different pronunciation, right? So these are some of the words. So what's the difference in the pronunciation of the falling? Where's the first word is deer and the second word is dear. There is no difference between the two. So dear is the first one is the one where you use it in a letter or an email maybe, or as a second-year is the animal, the deer. There's a lot of years in Canada. Anything into unit in the US. The second one, that word here, I hear something, whereas here I'm right here, I'm standing right here. So they are pronounced exactly the same. Sometimes they might ask you that. You ask yourself the question, how do I know which 01:00 AM I pronouncing? While in the context of a sentence, you will know which one you're talking about. I hear something. Obviously I'm using the first one. I'm standing right here. I'm using the second-order. Alright? So these are the are controlled vowels that are pretty important because the kind of help you really sound like a native speaker. See you guys in the next section.
8. Schwa + R: So we learn about our controlled males into previous section now we're going to learn about our controlled vowels with the schwa sound. Okay, so we're gonna see how they look like and we're going to learn a little bit more stuff in this section. So we have the schwa sound plus R. So we haven't an award like center, center. So you can see it's T-R-I-E, but it's pronounced Center or the word fiber. Similar to that, we have also a word that ends with a ER, like consider, consider, it ends with the schwa sound instead, or sound at the end, or we have it in a word like offer, offer. So you can see how this can make you sound a lot like a native speaker when you speak English, I let you guys go ahead and practice the rest of these sounds into PDF files that are attached. And if you don't know the meaning, definitely make sure to look up the words in a dictionary as well. So let's look at some words that have you are in them and are pronounced with a Shaw and the r sound the word burn, burn, or the word burst, burst, church, curve, purpose. So you can see all of these words have the UR under, But they have that are sound or curve, purpose. All right, great. And we're not, we're looking at some wars that have T and U in there. So in the English language, there's a tendency when there is a T and a u, the T gets the sound like the C-H and CH is written like that. We're just like what you see that T with that squiggly line after it, that's the sound. So if I say the word Centauri, I don't say like centering, I say Century. So the sound takes over the t sound. So century, fortune, habitual, actually, right? So you can see most of the time where we have TEU sometimes or you know, some, some of the time you kinda have to look it up in the dictionary to see if it has a t sound or the chess. And there is a high chance that it's going to take on the chess on. Let's look at some more words that have the chit sound and are followed by YOU RE the word culture, culture, feature, creature, future, nature, picture, structure, and miniature. Miniature, right? So all of these words have you, Ari with t prior to the URI and they all take on the chips on. So how do we pronounce the words below? Let's do a little bit of a quiz. So the first word is amateur. Amateur, right? Even though it's T, E, U, R is still takes on a chip sound. The second one should be easy. You can see it's T followed by u r, e at the end of the word. So we pronounce it as adventure, adventure, it print, it starts with the schwa sound and then venture, which is the TOR a that takes on the Shiza lecture, similar to adventure, fracture, similar to lecture. The last one is a bit of a tricky one, even though we have t, you RE, It doesn't take on this sounds so we don't say couture, say put tour couture. Qatar is the fabric that is used in expensive fashion items. So couture, couture call. So these are the, are controlled vowels with the schwa sound. We also learned what when t and you are stuck together, it takes the t takes on the chest. So pay attention to all the words that have T U or T U, R, E in them, and make sure to pronounce them correctly.
9. Voiced Consonants Easy Phonetics: Welcome to this new section. We're going to be learning voiced consonants, voice consonants. So while we're consonants, Consonants Were any of the alphabet that were not the vowels. Anything other than AEIOU is the voice concepts. So we're gonna go through all of these consonants and see how they sound like in the English language. Well, don't get bored because the easy phonetics are super, super easy and we're not going to spend too much time on them. So the ones that are B, D, GLM, and an RV, why are actually pronounce as you know them? And the phonetic symbols are exactly like the letter itself, right? So you can see BD, GLM. These are the easy ones. However, there is some exceptions that I want to go through with you, so we know what they look like for these letters. First one is the silence B. There is a lot of words in the English language where the b is silent. For example, the word bomb, climb, that, doubt, subtle, and lamb, where you do not pronounce the b in any of those words. Next, we're looking at words that have a silence gene. And so the word champagne, champagne, we do not pronounce the G and the one or the word design, design. The gene Design is not pronounced. Or the word sine, sine the g is in sign is not pronounced foreign, foreign, foreign students. So the G in foreign is not pronounced Cool. So there are some, or a lot of words that have silent G-H in them. The word ate the number eight, lights night straight through way and wait. Okay. So we do not pronounce the G-H in any of these words. There's a lot of more words out there that have G, H, and M. This is just a sample. So pay attention. When you learn a new word where it has GH, You want to make sure the pronunciation, you know, you want to check out the phonetics and boast to see how it's exactly pronounced. There's also a words that have a silent and in it's autumn column, him. Okay, so none of these words are pronounced the n at the end. Next we want to look at the why sounds. The reason I'm considering this, this one a little bit tricky is because there are some words where you don't even see the alphabet, the alphabet in the Word, the spelling in there, but the pronunciation includes the why, for example, the word Cuba doesn't have the y, you know, consonant in its, in its spelling. But in the pronunciation we have the US on Cuba. The word nephew, Matthew, distribute, distribute the u and distributes. This is where the y comes in, or the word stimulate. Stimulate.
10. Voiced Consonants Other Phonetics: In the previous section, we learned about voiced consonants. We went through a bunch of the easy ones. Now we're gonna go through the rest of them that we didn't go through in the next and the last section. So we're going to look at the pronunciation of j. The phonetic symbol looks like that thing with the D and the squiggly, squiggly line after it. Then we're going to look at the nasal N-G sound. And then we're going to look at th, I know that some people's favorites. And we were looking at the pronunciation of w in the English language. These are some of the harder ones. So this is, this is actually kind of easy, just the J sound. So the 4d or the name Joe is a prime example. I just wanted to show you guys how the phonetic symbol of this one is different just so it kinda might throw you off if you didn't know. So the word banjo, you can see the b, N and then the sound. Then the, we have the word gentle, judge, and just pretty easy. Now let's talk about the nasal sounds. So every time a verb in the English language is finished with I-N-G, which is in the present continuous format. It takes on the nasal sounds. So if I say the word creating, I don't pronounce the g at the end and I kinda goes inside my nose creating, creating, or the word finding, finding. So a kinda goes in inside your nose towards the end. In like that, spending, spending building, building, right? So the G is not fully pronounced and it kinda goes inside your nose. So pay attention to this vowel. Let's look at some of the words in the English language of where we take on the sound followed by G. So every time you have an adjective that you want to talk about is derivative. For example, the first one is young, young. So you don't pronounce the G young and then younger. You really pronounce that G and the younger. Whereas in young, you don't really pronounce the G. There were long, belong, longer, long, and longer. Strong, strong, and stronger. Alright, so the G is not necessarily pronounced in the adjective but ended its derivative. You really pronounce the g in there. So let's talk about the th pronunciation. This is kind of a difficult one. Now, this th is not the one that we're we're, we're talking about an award like thin and it doesn't sound like D. I know a lot of people make the mistake of thinking this sounds like a D, But when I pronounce the word lattes, it's somewhere between the th of thin and the D in dinner. So when I say that, I'm putting my tongue behind my teeth and I'm making I'm trying to make the diesel. That's the that there there there's those though rather weather or other feather leather with them. So you can see this is not the th thin and it's not D and dinner, so it's somewhere in-between. Make sure to download the PDF and practice these words as much as he can. So let's see what is the difference in their pronunciation of these words. I'm going to say them there, there, and there. There is no difference in the pronunciation of these three. Whereas this is a very common mistake I see in ESL students where they just know when they say there and the last one they say they are, You do not pronounce. They are like that. So there, there, there. So let me give you an example of a scenario. Two people are having a conversation. The first one says Josh and Marcy are standing over there. The second person says where? A says they're there, and b says where they are there with their bags. So you can see there, there, there all sound the same, but you understand what they mean in a context of a sentence. Let's talk about W in the English language. Not w is the phonetic symbol, is w itself. So pretty easy to remember. The only thing is a lot of people make the mistake of pronouncing v instead of w. So would, would say rude. We say wood would. So what you want to do is kinda round your mouth when you say W. When I say the word where, I'm kinda starting with my mouth closed and round it. Where, where, why? When whine, right? So this is a very important distinction to make. New V and W do not sound the same, not at all. There are some words in English language where the W silent, for example, write and who write, who writes. We do not pronounce the w.
11. Unvoiced Consonant S, SH, CH: Previously we learned about voiced consonants, envoys consonants. Basically we don't use our vocal cords when we make these sounds. Ok, so that's the only difference between voiced and unvoiced. We don't use our vocal chords. So the first three that we're going to learn are the shit sound and then the chess. And we previously learned about the sound when we were learning about TU ARE If you remember, for example, the word culture. But we're gonna go through some new words in this lesson. So the first one is the easy sound of S. Sam Sachs, stop and serious. All have the S sound pretty easy. Most of the languages out there have this sound, the word silent. Sorry. So there's a couple of words in the English language where that S is silence. Okay. So the word aisle, we, they're not pronounced as the word Island. We do not pronounce the house. There is a lot of words out there where the S is silence. So make sure you check the pronunciation are the phonetic symbol of words that have s And then sometimes they can be silent. So this shit sound is also really simple. The squiggly line that you see there, that's the phonetic symbol in the red color. That's why you want to pay attention to. So the word sharp, shell, eyelash, and share if all have the shit, sound. Really easy to remember, really easy to work with. Sometimes in English language wars that have two S's take on the shit sound. So for example, the word commission. The two S's sound like depression, discussion, expression, Impression, professional. So this is very, very common with words that 2SLS they take on their shit sounds. So pay attention to that. Next, there are some words that have T, I and O in them. And they take on dishes on for example, the word action. We don't say Actaeon and we say action, write T, i, o is this shit sound, assumption, condition, variation, variation. Sometimes there are words that have t, i and a in there and they take on dishes sound. So essential, initial initiative, partial, substantial and potential. Potential. So you can see, let's start from the beginning. There, wars that have two S's and take on the ship sound. There are words that have TIN oh, and began to take on their ships and their words that have TIAA and take on its shit sounds so pretty easy to remember. These now looks like this. Talk about the sound. The word Charlie, choose cheesy, chilling and cheerful, have the chips now. So pretty easy to remember because CH, you know, it shuts up. Previously, we talked about this, but I'm going to talk about it again. Every time you have a T and AU, the chances are it's going to take on those chips sound. So the word culture adventure, feature, fortunate that furniture all have that sound in there.
12. Unvoiced Consonants F, K, P, T: In the previous section, we learned about unvoiced consonants. We learn about S, share and share some. In this section we're going to learn about FK p t, f is pretty simple because the pronunciation or the phonetic symbol of F is F. So 550 frogs and fish, I'll have the f in it. Sometimes an English-language GH is pronounced as F, for example, and award. Cough. Cough. The GH is pronounced as f. Enough. Laugh, laughter. Laughter is the noun. Laugh is the verb. I laugh. My laughter is loud. I laugh loudly. Laughter is loud, right? So those are the connection between those two words. The word ruff, ruff, GH is f, and the word tough, tough. Cuz sometimes ph is pronounced as f in the English language, for example, the word atmosphere. Atmosphere, that pH is F Fei's philosophy, phonetics, phonetic symbols, right? Photographer, sorry, photograph, phrase, physical, telephone, right? All of these PAH is pronounced as f. Let's talk about the k sound. The phonetic symbol is exactly like the alphabet itself or the letter, the word Keith, kabob and keep have the k sound. So the words that have seen them, ICC, cup, coffee and copper. So pretty easy to remember this one as you look at the phonetic symbols, there are a lot or in English language where the k is silence, the word Ni, knife and no, we do not pronounce the K. Anytime you have a k followed by an N, chances are, it's going to be a silent one. Ok, so just keep that in mind. Next, we're gonna talk about CH, pronounce as K, The word like stomach ache. Aid has the case and we don't say, we say, I have a stomach ache, archive, chaos, chemical, psychology, stomach, stomach itself. Actually the CH is pronounced as the sound. Core. P and T are super easy. That's why I didn't add any boards in there. So every time you see a p is going to be pronounced as P. And every time you see a t, chances are it's gonna be parenthesis t. However, there are scenarios where the t is silence in the English language, the word castle. We don't pronounce the T. Listen, listen and often, often. Although I've heard people say the word often as often. And that is a correct pronunciation. So often is kind of a 50-50 one. You can say often or you can say often. Both are correct.
13. Unvoiced Consnants TH: So previously we talked about unvoiced consonants. We learned about the pronunciation of s, And we also went through f, k, PT. There were pretty simple. There were a silent there were a lot of silent sounds in those ones. Now we're going to learn about the pronunciation of th, as in and thin. Ok, so this sound is kind of hard to pronounce for a lot of people. And the reason for that is because it's hard to get your tongue in the right position. So what you want to do is when you want to put your tongue behind your teeth, your upper and lower teeth and in-between them as well. So behind an in-between. So when I say the word theme that my tongue goes in-between, my upper and lower teeth. Theme, theme. There is the word theory, therapy, 13 thousand Thursday, breath, death. This is quite different than the other one that we learned, which was rather or brother. This one is a lot softer, theme, theory, therapy 13. So I encourage you to download the PDF and work on these words. I have a lot of more of these ores available for you to practice. But take your time with them. And remember it takes a little bit of time to actually mastered this sound. The last word in this page is mathematics. Mathematics. This is a good word to practice. If you want to kind of get under harder level of things, mathematics, mathematics.
14. Other Consonants: We want to talk about other continents. There's three more than we need to learn. What is the h sound. The other is the sound. We're going to get into it. And then the last one is the sound k. So h is pretty simple. The phonetic symbol is exactly like the letter itself. Honey, hello, whole, hefty and horrible. All have the pronunciation. There's a lot of words that have silent h in them. The word honor, rhythm, time. When an white, all have a silent h in there. We don't pronounce the h. Next, we want to talk about that difficult T pronounciation. Okay? So this one, it sounds like you're flicking your tongue when you're pronouncing it. The for example, the word city. It sounds like I'm saying city, city. So there are if you, if you if you pronounce R and you flick your tongue, city, you have the city in there. And now we want to add the sound in there, but don't make the R sound, make the sound city, city. So your tongue flicks When you say the T In these words. Next word is witty, Woody, water, water, writer, writer. Title, title, bottom, Liddle, metal, butter, better, bitter batter. Okay, so the last four words, they were intentionally put in there like that and butter better bitter batter. The reason is, I want you guys to practice a tongue twister, which is Betty butters butter. Ok, so this tongue twister helped me Master the sound in English language while you want to do is practice this poem. I guess you can call it a poem or song, and get better at pronouncing the sound. So let's go through it together. Betty butter, but some butter. But she said the butter's bidder, if I put it in my batter and will make my batter bidder, but a bit, a bit of butter will make my batter better. Okay, that part, it was a bit fast because a bit of, a bit of if you connect a bit off together, it takes on the sound, a bit of it off. And then better butter, the obviously sound pretty similar together, so, but a bit of a better butter will make my batter better. Okay, and finishing. So she bought some better butter, better than the bidder butter and she put it in her batter. Okay, so first of all, make sure you completely understand what this actually means and then go ahead with practicing it's pronunciation. Otherwise, they can get a little harder because while you want to do is actually memorize this and just practice it, I don't know when you're making teach. And you have your own batter and you're putting butter and your batter. So do it then. Next we want to talk about the pronunciation of the sound. This one is common in a lot of languages. I think it's kinda easy, it's summer between Zed and sound. So when I say the word measure, measure, it sounds like I'm singing, but I'm adding SH2. It another word, pleasure, pleasure, usual, visual, conclusion, confusion, decision, occasion, massage, massage, massage. So all of these words have the sound. There is a lot more words that have this sound. So make sure it's nala, my PDF, and take a look at the words.
15. Tricky Pronunciations OUGH: You have learned pretty much all you need to know when it comes to phonetics and bows and pronunciation in English language. Now I wanna go through some of the tricky or difficult pronunciations or the last section of this course. So I'm going to go through some of the words that have all UGA in them or their pronunciation changes for every of those wars where or U GH is in there. So we're gonna look at a bunch of these. Let's start with the one that has the sound. So the word thoughts, huge, eeh, we do not pronounce the G or the age. Or you sounds like our thoughts. Bots. Swot. Swot is the past tense of C. Are two fights, past denser fight. Not right. So that's O, U, G, H with our sounds or huge. H also has the pronunciation, tough enough, rough status, the short sound followed by the f sound. Next we have the owl sounds. So droughts, droughts. Plow, plow. I think in American English is PL o w, whereas in British English is PL OUT H. Canadians have a tendency to go with the British way of writing, but American way of pronouncing the last one is bao. Bao. We also have mgh pronounced as o. So the first word is that all though is basically although, which is a preposition, DO, DO NOT thorough borrow, right? So these are all UGA is pronounced with oh, we don't pronounce the GH. Look at, let's look at them next OUT H is off sound, cough, trough. Ok. KF went I'm coughing. It's we don't pronounce. We pronounce the GH with the f sound. I think we learn about this in your previous sections where we learned GH can be pronounced as F, same as pH. Trough is a kind of a basket that they use in farms to feed animals. In a farm, for example, sheep or a cow. They put their head in the trough to eat their food or drink their water. We also have our UGA is pronounced as buh sounds, So the word through, through is pronounce like that.
16. Tricky Pronunciations T: We're gonna do a little bit of a recap of the different pronunciations of T in the English language. The reason I'm doing this is because this is kind of a tough one. That is sometimes not easy for everybody. You can skip it if you wanted to. But along the way, there is a new thing that we're going to learn. And that's the glottal stop when it comes to T. Let's get started and see how it looks like. So t generally by itself is a really easy pronunciation. Ok, so the word attach, talk, technology maritime has the normal pronunciation of t. So the word better, little, letter, letter, matter, pattern, all have this Sound. Now remember when you are saying this sound, you're flicking your tongue almost like you're pronouncing and are better. Better, right? Brittle computer and daughter. Okay, so all of these have this brittle sound in there. Okay? Next, we learned that T sometimes can take on the chip sound. That's if it's accompanied by u or e or just new. Okay, so the word adventure, fortunate, furniture, creature, future, picture and natural and situation. Take on the chip sound. They don't sound like t can take on the chip sound. So if you see t followed by you, chances are it's pronounced like chess. Next we're gonna talk about the glottal stops. So this is the thing that is kind of new here that I never talked about. It's kind of advanced, but let's see what it, how it works. So glottal stop is basically stopping when you get to t and then continuing on. Okay. When I say the word partner, I don't pronounce the C and a T, So pay attention, partner, part, stomp NOR the word fitness, fit, ness fitness. Certain sir. And certain. Apartment. Apart meant apartments assortment. The ward button, button, cotton or kitten, right? So this is very advanced and you do not have to pronounce these words with the glottal stop if you don't want to, if it's too hard for you, you can just say partner, partner, that's not a problem. But if you want to sound a lot more like native speakers, this is the, this is the thing that's kind of differentiate you from everybody else. Partner fitness, right? So this is a difficult and advanced one. Don't push yourself too hard for this one, but make sure to practice it. I'm sure you're going to be able to get it once you practice it slow and then speed up. After. Next, we wanted to talk about the pronunciation of th. So this is weather. Together, mother, Netherlands, either or breathe. So these are the words that have THE nm and this th, th dot sounds like th in sin and D and dinner. Okay. Next we're gonna talk about TH, like the FE, insane, so threat throughout faith, Earth, truth, wealth, depth, and breath. Right? So this one and the tongue is positioned in the middle of your mouth between your upper and lower teeth. So fan threat throughout faith. Earth, right? So it tried to practice different wars where th is in different positions inside the word. Because I've either beginning in the middle or at the end. And that will kind of help you to master the sound.
17. Bonus Lecture: We're at the end of the line here. I want to thank you for being here. I think you did an amazing job because you'll learn a lot of new things when he came to pronunciation in English language. So make sure to keep practicing your pronunciation is something that takes time and it doesn't happen overnight. So I want to, I want you to keep that in mind. Also, since we've finished this course, I, to, until you know that your feedback is important, if I did a great job, you should let me know so I can keep improving. And if I didn't do a good job, I won't be offended. Just let me know what I can specifically improve in order to give you better material and better methods of teaching. So you can also improve as well. Next, I want to tell you about my Instagram channel. I have a tendency to post every couple of days and I'll be teaching, you know, I'll, I'll be posting mini lessons basically on Instagram. So if you want to follow me and follow me, Pat, speak, dot canadian. And last but not least, make sure to check out my other courses on skill share. I have another course which is called North American accents made easy Canadian English pronunciation. This course goes very much in depth about pronunciation of the English language. We components of this course that we learned together, but that one is about four hours long and it goes very much in depth. So if you wanna take it to the next level, my next course is for kind of advanced to Intermediate English speakers. So I hope you guys enjoy it.
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