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Today we're going to go over a bunch of words relating to the car a year.

This is a vocabulary builder video.

You're going to learn the English words for lots of things in the car, and you're also going to learn the pronunciation.

You'll see the frenetic symbol on screen for each word.

Practice the words out loud with me.

If there's anything unusual or especially difficult about the pronunciation, we'll talk about it.

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The steering wheel steering wheel steering his two syllables.

The I N G ending is always Unstrung EST.

It has an or in it, which can be a tricky sound.

Make sure you hold it out.

Steer ring If you can't stating that, uh, then you're making it with the wrong part of the tongue steering wheel steering wheel.

The tongue tip should be pulled back.

End up a little bit, so it's not touching anything.

Well, W h words like wheel can be pronounced, or what without the before, I think it's easier just to use the w sound wheel well steering wheel.

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Steering wheel steering, wheel, the steering wheel This is the gear shift.

We have a P for park R for reverse and for neutral and D for drive gear shift gear shift Year year.

That's the same combination as steer year gear shift.

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Gear shift gear shift This is the gear shift.

We have a P for Park Park O.

R.

All that'll plus are lots of my students.

Say something like Park without dropping the jaw.

Do drop your jaw, Get it clear all vowel before the r You are Park.

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Park Park.

We have a P for park R for reverse reverse tooth Val's and the first syllable is really short.

But right, right, Reverse.

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Reverse reverse R for reverse and for neutral neutral.

Many Americans make the TR cluster sound like ch are neutral.

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Neutral, neutral and for neutral and D for drive drive.

Some people, especially Japanese speakers, have a problem with our NL.

Remember, it's not live with the tongue tipped forward, but Dr Stir with the tongue tip pulled back and up a little bit.

Uh, so it's not touching anything.

Try that with me Dr Drives and D for drive.

We have the emergency brake or parking brake, emergency brake or parking brake.

Emergency stresses on that second syllable.

The emergency emergency.

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Emergency Emergency brake Parking brake.

Remember the I N G ending is Unstrung est parking brake.

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Parking, Parking brake.

We have the emergency brake or parking brake.

This is the dashboard dashboard stress on the first syllable dash.

Morning.

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Dash board Dashboard dashboard This is the dashboard.

Here's the rear view mirror.

Rear view mirror.

Two words with two R sounds.

This is so hard.

Rear and near have the same sound combination.

Except for the first constant year year.

This is just like steer in steering wheel the tongue tip.

It's forward touching the back, the bottom front teeth and then just lifts and pulls back a little bit.

E.

You're so it's not touching anything.

Rear near rear view mirror reemphasize.

The are for the second syllable of mirror.

Near were nearer.

Let's try the whole thing together, slowed down.

Say it out loud with me rear view near rear view nearer, and now it regular pace rear view mirror, rear view mirror.

Here's the rear view mirror.

Who that suns bright.

Let's pull down the visor visor Even though the letter O is in the second syllable.

Don't try to make a vowel vise are just the are sound Visor advisor Try that with me Visor.

Who That suns bright?

Let's pull down the visor.

I've been driving a long time time First news.

Good thing I have this head rest head rest compound Words like this have stress on the first word.

Head rest.

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Head rest head Rest, head rest.

Good thing I have this head rest.

This area is the consul Consul This word ends with a dark elf soul Oh, tongue tip stays down on the back of the tongue.

Pushes down and back a little bit 00 Consul, Try that with me.

Console Consul, This area is the consul.

Always buckle up.

This is the seat belt Seatbelt.

Another compound word.

Stress on the first word.

Seatbelt notice.

I'm making both teas.

Stop Ty's C belt.

I'm not releasing them like a true t sea belt.

Seatbelt.

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Seatbelt.

Seatbelt.

This is the seat belt If you're having emergency and need to pull over, turn on your hazards.

Also called Four Ways Hazards.

Even though you see the letter A in the second syllable has runs, you can leave out the vowel.

Just R D s months on Sprint's hazards.

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Hazards.

Hazards.

If you're having emergency and need to pull over, turn on your hazards.

Also called Four Ways.

We've got our driver's seat passenger seat and a back seat.

The driver's seat, the passenger's seat.

The back seat noticed that we have the apostrophe s, but you can't really hear it because the next one begins with an S.

The two esses blend together into one sound toe.

Link the words driver's seat passenger's seat.

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Driver's seat passenger seat.

We've got our driver's seat passenger seat and a back seat back seat.

We have a couple of interesting ways that we use this term in English.

Ah, backseat driver is one who gives too much input on driving when they're not driving.

It could also mean of less importance, and we often use it in the negative.

I won't take a back seat to him that means I won't let him or his ideas beam or important or prominent than mine.

I won't take a backseat to him and backseat.

Now, if you're gonna be writing in the car and you want to make sure you get this seat, you'll want to yell shotgun dealing, shotgun yelling or calling shotgun.

I don't know how this phrase got started, but you say it when you want to sit in the front seat of the car.

Shotgun stop T they're shot gun.

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Shotgun.

Shotgun.

Now, if you're gonna be writing in the car and you want to make sure you get this seat, you'll want to yell Shotgun.

Here's the floor mat.

Slower, Matt Floor.

Phonetically.

This would be written with the all as in law vowel.

But before are the spell is much more closed.

The lips round more and the back of the tongue pulls back more slow.

Whole floor, floor format.

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Floor mat, floor mat.

Here's the floor mat and we have the gas pedal and the brake gas pedal.

Yeah, we have the vowel gas gas pedal.

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Gas pedal, gas pedal and we have the gas pedal and the brake break.

This is a homophone, and it's pronounced just like this other word.

Break.

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Break break.

And we have the gas pedal and the brake side mirror.

Side mirror.

Okay.

We already went over the tricky word mirror.

Here it is again.

The word before it side ends in a d.

Just make a little sound with the vocal cords side before the next word.

You don't need to release the d side side, side mirror.

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Side mirror, side mirror, side mirror.

And here is the car seat.

Car seat.

Just like park.

You need to drop your jaw to get a good all vowel before the r car car car seat.

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Car seat, car seat.

And here is the car seat.

Drunk trunk.

Remember, the TR cluster can be pronounced ch r drunk or trunk.

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Trunk trunk.

This is the same word that's used for the trunk of a tree drunk license plate, license plate.

Both the letter C and letter s make the s sound here Lie.

Since license plate say that with me license plate, license plate, license plate and tires tires.

Remember, for the are the tip of the tongue is pulled back and up.

Tie your tire tires.

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Tires, tires, tires.

Here's the antenna antenna.

Stress on the middle syllable antenna.

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Antenna antenna.

Here's the antenna, and this is where you can get to the gas tank.

Gas tank.

Both of these words were written phonetically with the ab vowel.

But this valuable is told by the N G sound here.

And it's not really an add vowel anymore.

Yeah, gas but Tank hang, huh?

It's more like the A diff thong gas, huh?

Tang?

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Gas tank, gas tank.

And this is where you can get to the gas tank windshield wiper windshield wiper.

It's common to drop the D between two other constants, and we definitely do that here windshield when she lled no d windshield wiper windshield wiper windshield wiper.

Try that with me windshield wiper, windshield wiper, windshield wiper and the hood.

I actually have no idea how to open this thing.

Hood Double o making the sound like an look cook and foot hood say that with me, Hood, hood and the hood.

I actually have no idea how to open this thing.

Headlights, headlights, compound word stress on the first word.

Head lights say that with me headlights, head, lakes, headlights.

And in here you would find the engine and all that other good stuff that I don't know anything about engine stress on the first syllable.

The second syllable should be said very quickly.

Jen Jen, Jen Engine.

I say that with me engine engine headlights.

And in here you would find the engine and all that other good stuff that I don't know anything about.

I had to come over to our trusty VW for this one, where we have a manual transmission that's different from the automatic transmission in the other car manual versus automatic look.

Both of these words have the stressed Advil in the stressed syllable.

But the val isn't pure before a nasal constant here is before the end, so it relaxes in tow.

Man, man, you will manual manual.

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Manual manual automatic has a pure off the mad notice.

Both of those teas are flap tease, not true.

Tease that a automatic automatic.

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Automatic automatic.

I had to come over to our trusty VW for this one where we have a manual transmission that's different from the automatic transmission in the other car.

Another common word for manual in the U.

S is stick shift.

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Stick shift, stick shift.

Now we have 1/3 pedal the clutch clutch.

This word is also used.

Idiomatic Lee, I go over that use of it in a podcast I recently did on Slaying.

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Clutch.

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Clutch Clutch!

Now we have 1/3 pedal the clutch.

Don't forget the horn.

He horn just like floor in floor mat.

We have the all vowel followed by our the all Val is a little bit more closed.

Whole horn horn.

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Horn, horn.

Don't forget the horn ee airbag.

You have an airbag in the steering wheel Here airbag.

Another compound word so stresses on the first word.

Airbag airbag.