Hi this is Ceema and I'm back with a new lesson on tips to pronounce correctly. Now for all
of you who are learning to speak English and read English, I can understand your frustration.
Sometimes you may get upset because certain words in English don't sound like the way
they are spelt, correct? So that's where pronunciation comes into the picture. So I'm going to give
you a few tips to pronounce very often used words correctly, okay. So I'm sure this is
gonna help you. So take a quick look, okay?
The first one is words spelt or words ending with 'ous'. Now words ending with 'ous' won't
be pronounced as ous. It will be pronounced as is, okay. I repeat words ending with ous
as the spelling, the pronunciation becomes is. Okay this is the pronunciation. So, you
say famous, various, serious, okay? Is and you say nervous, nervous, okay? Now words
ending with the word tion, the letters tion are pronounced as shin. You don't say tion
or tion. You say shin, okay. Definition, spelling is a little wrong here, it's definition, okay.
Tion... shin, relation, promotion, tion always becomes a shin. Now this is very interesting,
okay because coz a lot of people make mistakes over here. Words ending with ate, ate as in
you ate something. Okay but that's not all the words that are there. So ate can be pronounced
in two different ways. Okay either you can pronounce it as the number 8. So you say ate,
okay because the number 8 is pronounced as 8, right? So words ending with ate can be
called 8 or it could be pronounced as et or it. Now the question is when do you pronounce
words ending with ate as in or in et or it? Quite confusing, right? Okay here's how you
will know when to pronounce it the right way, okay. Listen to this very carefully, if your
word ending with the ate is a verb, then the pronunciation will always be 8. Here me very
carefully we've got some words down here, okay. Let's consider them as verbs, okay.
Verbs are action, action words are verbs. Associate, so if I tell you do not associate
with Tim, he is a very bad boy. Associate in this case becomes my verb, do not associate.
I'm telling you not to do something, not to associate. But here the ate is pronounced
as, the number because it's a verb, right? So it's associate. But if this verb became
a noun or an adjective, so I can say I'm a bank associate, does that become a noun? Yes,
I don't say I'm a bank associate. I'm a bank associate, because now this word becomes a
noun and therefore in that case, I will pronounce it as an et or an it. Do not associate with
Tim because it's a verb and now when it becomes a noun, I say I am a bank associate. So it
becomes an et or an it. Let's look at some more examples. We have a word called, graduate
or graduate. But the pronunciation will depend on whether it is a verb or a noun or an adjective.
Okay so I can say that, I will graduate this fall. I will graduate, I say graduate because
now graduate is a verb. So it is something I'm going to do. So therefore the ate in this
word becomes an ate. But if I say I’m a science graduate, it becomes a noun doesn't
it? So when it becomes a noun, the ate becomes an it. I am a science graduate. I will graduate
this fall, see the difference? Okay, let’s move on the next one. The word alternate or
alternate, depending on whether it is a verb or a noun again. So if it is a verb, I will
say let us all alternate, okay. But if it is a noun I will say that three and five are
alternate numbers. I will not say they are alternate numbers. They are alternate numbers
and let us alternate timings every month, that's a verb. So it's alternate and alternate
in case of a noun or an adjective. Okay the next example and the last example proving
this point is estimate or estimate. I estimate that it is going to rain today, right because
it is a verb, so I say estimate. But if it becomes an adjective or a noun I will say
that 9 o' clock is a good estimate of time to be made. So estimate in this case becomes
a noun and therefor the pronunciation of the ate is not 8 but an it. Alright, let's move
on to the next and a more simpler way, is pronouncing words ending with a ance or a
ence. Now this is quite simple because over here, the spelling or the pronunciation and
the spelling coincide. So words ending with an ance and an ence are also pronounced as
an ence. Okay so you will say attendance, absence, evidence, importance. But there are
exceptions to this rule, okay. So the exceptions to this rule would be a word like finance.
You don't say finance, you say finance. Advance, do you wanna advance in life. Advance, you
don't say advance. Okay dance, let's go for a quick dance. So you don't say dence, you
say dance, okay. So that's it on this lesson on tips to pronounce correctly. I am sure
you found them very useful and the next time you read or try to practise saying something,
you might wanna keep this in mind, so that you always pronounce correctly. Well I'll
see you back with some more lessons, until then this is me saying good bye.