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Hello and welcome, everyone. This is Chris from England with a new, free British English
accent training lesson on Youtube.
Last week, I invited everyone to join me for this, it is my second pronunciation party.
So thanks to those of you who have made it, and also I welcome students on the Learn English
as easy as pie Facebook page.
Thanks especially to Mojtaba Yaghoubi for sharing it with everyone.
The point of this lesson is for me to practise the pronunciation of a long list of words.
What happened wass last week on the British English Facebook resources, I posted a request
that people could write words which they have trouble pronouncing and I could go through
them today, which is what I'm going to do.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
Before we get started, some points to make you aware of:
British accents differ, as does pronunciation. So when I pronounce these words, I will do
it in the way that I've learned, but other native speakers might sound different.
You don't have to pronounce the words like I do.
I have written many of the words in phonetics using the International Phonetic Alphabet
in English, but I am not that familiar with it -- I taught myself -- so they may not be
perfect, although hopefully they will help.
In terms of the phonetics and the pronunciation, I'm trying to focus on how we speak when we
are talking naturally rather than the perfect pronunciation.
And for those of you that responded -- I've taken the words but some people wrote longer
questions. Sorry, that wasn't the point of this lesson. Only the words.
Please enjoy this lesson. I hope it's useful. It took me lots of work so I hope you like
it, and please share it if you want to, I will appreciate that.
In the Youtube description and on Facebook we have the list of words with the phonetics
next to them, so please read those by the video if you need to.
Let's start then with the list of words in this "Pronunciation Party #2":
First off, an important difference:
verb: pronounce
noun: pronunciation
Different vowel sound, the second vowel sound:
pronounce
pronunciation
beautiful - /'bju:tɪfʊl/
discrete / discreet - /dɪs'kri:t/
discretion - /dɪs'kreʃʌn/
dessert vs desert - /dəzərt/ vs /'dezərt/
series vs serious - /sɪəri:s/ vs /sɪəri:'jʌs/
addition vs edition - /ə'dɪʃən/ vs /'edɪʃən/
knee -- /ni:/ (ignore the silent "k")
toenail
taught - /tɔ:t/
caught
entrepreneurship - /ɒntrəprə'nɔ:rʃɪp/
entrepreneurial - /ɒntrəprə'nɔ:ri:jʊl/
towards - /tə'wɔ:ds/
kettle
biscuit - /'bɪskɪt/ (ignore the "u")
imponderable - /ɪm'pɒndərəbʊl/
laugh
irrefutable - /ɪrə'fju:təbʊl/
mischievous
people vs pupil - /'pi:pɔ:l/ vs /'pju:pʊl/
guerrilla vs gorilla
schedule - /'skeʤʊl/
availability
Floor
flower / flour - /flaʊwə(r)/
aim
thought
thoughtlessness
through
Throughout
encouraging - /ɪn'kʌrʌʤɪŋ/
engineer - /enʤə'nɪə(r)/
straightforward
agriculture - /ægrɪ'kəlʧə(r)/
vocabulary - /vəʊ'kæbju:leri:/
can vs can't - /kæn/ vs /ka:nt/
pleasure - /'pleʒə(r)/ ("pleasureness" is incorrect)
Feeling vs filling
Vehicle - /'vɪəkʊl/
Really
Question - /'kwesʧʌn/
Laboratory
Withdraw
Work
Word
World
Daughter - /'dɔ:tə(r)/
Forecasting
Popular - /'pɒpju:lə/
There
virus
harmoniously - /hær'məʊni:sli:/
sustainable
myriad - /'mɪri:jæd/
contemporary - /kɒn'tempəreri:/
Hilarious - /hɪ'lɪəri:jʌs/
solid
superior
internship
attaining - /ə'teɪnɪŋ/
accelerate - /æk'seləreɪt/
Sex vs six
Ocean - /'əʊʃən/
Debt vs doubt
"Wuthering Heights" - /'wʌðərɪŋ/ /haɪts/
Appropriate - /ə'prəʊpri:jət/
Shopaholic
Farther vs further
Cloth vs clothes - /klɒθ/ vs /kləʊðs/
bloody - /'blʌdi:/
lay vs lie
Coherent - /kəʊ'hɪərənt/
Courteous - /'kərtɪjʌs/
Eternity
(I love you, Yumi) air - /er/
pear
mare
buoyant - /'bɔɪjʌnt/
walk vs work - /wɔ:k/ vs /wɜ:k/
ward vs word - /wɔ:d/ vs /wɜ:d/
parallelogram - /pærə'leləgræm/
a view of an alley : Downtrodden scriveners hurtling by like demisemiquavers in a Beethovian
allegro
Thank you very much for joining my pronunciation party and I hope it was useful.
You'll probably find it better to re-watch the video and please check the phonetics there
to help you get the pronunciation a bit more accurately.
I was using the British Council Phonemic Chart also, for the vowel sounds you'll want to
have a look at that.
Thanks again to Mojtaba Yaghoubi, admin on the Learn English as easy as pie Facebook
page. Really appreciate your support and I recommend everyone, as always, to like that
page because they're posting useful material every day.
Similarly, my own stuff. Please join me, if you haven't already, by subscribing on Youtube,
and if you check the channel now you are going to find 100 free lessons on there already.
There are many subjects that you can learn English with on there.
We have the links in the description to the English Language Group and the British English
Page on Facebook. Material is posted most days.
Twitter, Skype, Tumblr, and the main website is:
http://www.learnbritishenglish.co.uk/
Please join us using those websites, share with your friends, everyone is welcome. And
we will be learning English on a daily basis, for free, on the Internet, so please do get
in touch.
One last time then: thanks again to everyone for attending my pronunciation party. As always,
I appreciate your support and I hope that you liked it too.
More lessons to come, videos in the next couple of weeks: I will do one on contractions and
then a special one on British English swear words (rude / bad words), to help you understand
more about those, so please keep in touch.
To everyone once more -- a big thank you, my best wishes to you from the UK. Good luck
with your English studies
and with everything else in your life.
I will see you next time.