hello and welcome back to english with
lucy i've got a pronunciation video for
you today
and it's all about 10 words that you
might be
pronouncing incorrectly so let's get
started
okay so the first word is
this one how would you say it
it's not fruit there are not two
syllables there
we actually pronounce this word fruit
fruit so many students make the mistake
of saying
fruit or fruit or fruit
but no it's just fruit and fruit is my
favorite food
the next word we have is this one
so many students actually pronounce this
how they would pronounce it
in their own language probably the
italians and the and the spanish more
than anything
um but we pronounce this not not
cows but chaos
we almost had a yeah sound chaos it was
an absolute
chaos the same with the adjective form
it was chaotic
okay number three we have
now i remember learning to spell this
word when i was at school
and thinking wow that's a crazy spelling
because it's so different to the
pronunciation
now i've heard all different
pronunciations with this word
i've had queer where i've heard q u but
really we just say
q q one syllable
and everyone knows that british people
love cueing
q to q there is a q the verb and the
noun as well now on to number four and
this one always makes me laugh when
people say this because it is really
difficult to say it is
this one now i hear people say crips
i used to work in a cafe with a lot of
foreign workers and they would always
say where are the crips and i'm like
crips are you talking about crepes
we say crisps this
sound is very difficult for some people
to say so you need to practice this
in the mirror before you brush your
teeth every night crisps
okay number five is this one
if you like cooking then you should have
seen this word before
and most people say recipes
or recipes but it should be recipe
so it's very irregular this word
normally when an e is on the end
we don't pronounce it but in this case
we do recipe
three syllables okay number six
this one okay so many people
pronounce this incorrectly they want to
say every syllable
so they say comfortable but really it's
comfortable comfortable so it's not
comfortable it's just comfortable
okay so we actually lose a syllable
there
the same goes for number seven which is
not vegetable vegetable
vegetable similarly we have
number eight okay very important word if
you don't know this word then you're
crazy because it's a big part of my life
i hear many people saying chocolate or
chocolate
choco but we say
chocolate chocolate so it's just two
syllables and i understand it's quite
hard for many people to pronounce
but if you want to speak english well
you've got to practice so
chocolate chocolate
okay and my last two are days of the
week so number nine
this one not not one of my favorite days
of the week but it's very important
to pronounce it correctly i always hear
chu este tu este
in reality it's tuesday choose like i
want to choose
what i'm having for breakfast this
morning tuesday not
tuesday tuesday and then the last one
another day of the week not wednesday
wednesday not wednesday
wednesday so that's it for this
pronunciation lesson i really hope it
helped you
and hopefully you can now pronounce
these words more confidently
you will need to repeat and practice
again and again and again
but that's part of learning a language
so get started now
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