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Hello everyone Anna English here and
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Little Baby English and today we are discussing five very simple
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very common English words that many of you
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mispronounce.
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so
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Let's have a look at those
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mispronounced words. Number one
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the or
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thee
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This is the most common word in the English language
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and even the most advanced English speakers will make the mistake of when to use the and when to use
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thee. now bear in mind it is a TH so both versions have to be pronounced with the tongue between the teeth
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always when you see a TH stick that tongue out
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With this word we have THE or
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the alternative THEE
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We use THE when the following word begins with a consonant
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sound, the
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post-office, the television, the teacher,
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the student, and
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we use THEE when the following word begins with a vowel sound for example, the
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orange, the astronaut, the engineer.
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Okay, so try to bear that rule in mind and make sure you're using the correct version of this word.
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Number two
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Sure
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Sure
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It's pronounced exactly the same as this word
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Shore
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you have that SH beginning Shh and we have this O R sound in the middle or
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or
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Anna are you sure it's pronounced like that? I'm
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Absolutely Sure
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It's pronounced like that. So
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practice making that big round vowel sound or
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Not curling into the R and giving me a nice SH fricative at the beginning
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Sure
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Number three is the word of
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of
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what I often hear is this Vvvv
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This voiced fricative sound
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being reduced into an
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unvoiced fricative sound, a fff
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Sound so I hear off off
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instead of of of
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always make it nice and strong so a cup of tea
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a cup of tea please, not a cup off tea
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Piece off cake would be wrong. We'd have a piece of cake, a piece of cake
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It doesn't have to be long and it doesn't have to be stressed. It just has to be voiced
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vvvv, okay, so not breathy
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Vvv and for those of you who struggle with that V sound make sure that your bottom lip is clearly touching your top
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teeth
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It was a day of adventure
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She was a teacher of English, it was a piece of cake
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Number four some
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some
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This has a brighter vowel sound than many of you use. I often hear some
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Som it's a very subtle difference but to a native ear we will hear it
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So a and o, this is the difference. We're looking for. We want a nice bright. A, o
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It sounds very close to a, but don't go that far. Oh, it's like you're about to say up
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Up. Um
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some
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That's the vowel sound we're looking for so you might use the same vowel sound in mum
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some
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mum
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Mum gave me some. mum gave me some yummy food.
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Mum some yum. mum gave me some yummy food
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number five a very common word work
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work
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Now this sound is problematic for so many of my students at least
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90% of my students struggle with this sound and this particular vowel sound
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Appears in many words that we often see like her girl
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shirt world word
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The trick to this long vowel sound is a relaxed tongue and almost a relaxed jaw as well
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It's a very flat
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relaxed vowel
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Look how my mouth is doing nothing
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My tongue stays completely relaxed I
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Don't pronounce the letter R. I just make the sound
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Worked
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work
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Okay, so try this sentence for me. I'll do some of the work
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Sure
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I'll do some of the work
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Sure
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So there you go five commonly mispronounced words which you will no longer
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