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In this lesson, we're going to look at some common words, such as foreign purpose and recipe that I often hear mispronounced by my students regardless off their native language.

This is because English spelling is highly irregular.

You cannot rely on the spelling of the word to tell you how it's pronounced.

So let's make sure you're not mispronouncing these 40 common words.

40 common pronunciation mistakes.

The reason that words like foreign and recipe get mispronounced is related to their vow.

Lettuce.

Unlike most other languages, the same English vowel letter does not always carry the same sound.

Let's look at some examples.

The letter You can be pronounced in the following ways.

Ah, but oh put, uh, tone.

Um, June, You you in it?

Well, quick, it can be silent guide.

Or it can be pronounced as the very small sound which recalled the Schwab nature.

The letter A can be pronounced in the following ways.

Uh, cat a late Oh, Park A Okay.

Oh, all this one woman.

The letter e can be pronounced in the following ways.

Hey, set e theme.

Uh, term ear here E repeat on the show Mother.

And finally, the cluster E A can be pronounced in the following ways.

E speak here, Clear a great a pay Ah loan and it bread.

Okay, now let's look at 40 common words and see how you think they're pronounced.

If you find that you have mispronounced these ones until now, make sure you repeat them several times to correct their pregnancies.

Let's look at some words containing the letter U How do you pronounce these Watts Number one Study Study Number two Purpose Purpose Number three Purchase Purchase number four.

First day, first day number five Circuit Circuit number six Suit suit Number seven Sweet Sweet number eight Argue Argue Number nine.

Failure, Failure and number 10 Saturday Saturday Okay, let's look at some What's containing the letter?

A.

How do you pronounce these?

Watts Number 11.

Danger.

Danger Number 12.

Famous Famous.

13 off, huh?

14.

Come com 15 in stone in stone 16.

Climate climate 17.

Private private 18 Carrier carrier 19.

Korea Korea, 20 area area.

Okay, let's look at some words containing the letter e.

How do you pronounce thes Watts 21.

Experience Experience 22.

Experiment experiment 23 Event event.

24 Women Women 25.

Desert Desert 26.

Dessert.

These that 27 recipe recipe 28 Key Key 29 Legal, Legal 30 Power Power and finally, what's containing the clusters ee?

Aye ee Aye or I e How do you pronounce thes Watts, 31.

Colleague Colleague, 72 Steak Steak 33 Instead Instead 34 Measure Measure 35.

Ben Bear, 36.

Beard, be it 37 idea idea.

38.

Neighbor Neighbor 39.

Foreign, foreign and finally number 40 Friend.

Friend Well, that's the end of this pronunciation lesson.

I hope you've enjoyed it.

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