Name: 學習英語。17個HOMOPHONES和過去分詞(過去分詞) (Learn English: 17 HOMOPHONES & Past Participles)
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I want to teach you something that I think
is fucking amazing: they're homophones.

If you speak any of the Latin languages, so
Portuguese, or Italian, French, or Spanish

- you probably can figure out by the name
"homo" means same; and "phones" or "phono"

So, "homo" means same, and "phono" means sound.

So, "homophones" are words that have the exact
same sound or the exact same pronunciation,

So, in your brain it's going to be difficult
because you're going to say: "Oh my god, Ronnie,

How can this word be the same as this word?"

This is why English is so crazy, but I'm here to help you.

So, the cool thing about homophones and why
I love them so much is it's like you're getting

So, you are learning one pronunciation, but
you get two words.

So, it's two words for the price of one in
your brain, but you have to remember:

Trust me when I tell you the sounds are exactly
the same.

The definitions are going to be different,
but the sounds are the same.

So, you get to learn one pronunciation and
two meanings.

The other thing that we have a huge problem
with are these crazy things called "past participles".

So, "past participles" are the third thing
or the third part of a verb.

So, irregular verbs usually have a simple
past and a past participle.

I've kind of made this easy because most of
these words here...

Most of these verbs here, the simple past
and the past participle - they're the same.

You're going to learn more past participles.

So, learning past participles are difficult.

But if you look back on lessons on www.engvid.com,
you will see I've given you easy ways to remember

And this is an even easier way to actually
say them correctly because your brain and

English pronunciation plays tricks on you.

The present tense of this verb is "win", and
the past tense is "won".

"Won" is exactly the same sound as the number "one".

So, we have "win", the past participle of
"win" is "won", and it's pronounced like the

So, the past participle of "win" is the exact
same pronunciation as number "one".

The next one is the verb "hear", and the past
tense, we would like to say: "hear-d", but

A mistake that I've heard a lot of people
saying is they say: "hearded".

It's not "hearded"; it's actually "heard".

Now, past participle: "herd", this is how
we actually say the word.

So, for example: A group of cows or a group
or horses we call a "herd".

[Laughs] Another crazy thing about homophones
is they're used in a lot of advertising and

But "herd" is a group of cattle; cows or horses.

The next one is the past tense of the word "teach".

So, in the present tense we say: "I teach",
and in the past tense, if you go back, we

But if you look at this, it looks like: "ta-u-g-h-t".

We're actually just going to say it like:
"tot".

The past participle of "teach" is the pronunciation:
"tot; t-o-t".

A "tot" is slang or informal for a child.

So, a little child, maybe two or three years
old, we call a "tot".

"Toddler" is a child who's about two or three years old.

But to make it even shorter, a "tot" is a
young child.

So, you'll see this a lot in advertising for
children.