每日口說挑戰什麼樣的朋友才算得上是真心好友？10 個特徵幫你判斷！（Are Your Friends Real? - 10 Signs Of A True Friend）

Hi, everyone, this is Susan; welcome to today’s Pronunciation Challenge. When you hear the words "a real friend", who comes to mind? What characteristics or personality traits do they have? How can you tell if a friend is genuine or not? This video gives you ten tips to help you find out who your true friends are. Before you watch the video, though, let's take a look at today's sentence and its pronunciation tips.

Sentence
It takes time and nurturing for real friendships to develop, and there are certain habits and characteristics that genuine friends possess, which makes them more like family.

Pronunciation Tips
1. nurturing (the pronunciation of ur and word stress)
2. characteristics (word stress)
3. genuine (the vowels and the pronunciation of ine)
4. possess (the pronunciation of ss)

Vocabulary
1. develop (v) 發展 KK [dɪˋvɛləp] IPA /dɪˈvel.əp/
to cause something to grow or change into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form
Eg. As time went by, their friendship developed into a romantic relationship.
隨著時間推移，他們的友情發展成為了愛情。

I’m sure we all want to make sure that we befriend people who are considered true friends. After all, we only have so much time to maintain friendships, we wouldn’t want to waste time on worthless people, do we? Watch the video for a simple guideline to ensure your time is well spent. But don't forget to record the sentence first, and I'll see you in the next episode!

It takes time and nurturing for real friendships to develop, and there are certain habits and characteristics that genuine friends possess, which makes them more like family.

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