hello lovely students welcome back to
English with Lucy I have taken all of my
best pronunciation tips and hacks and
compiled them all into one lesson for
you this is your ultimate pronunciation
lesson today I'm going to help you
tackle tricky sounds improve your
British English
pronunciation and spot key differences
between British English and American
English from challenging tongue twisters
to silent letters that trip everyone up
it's all here you can think of this as
your crash course in beautiful clear
English pronunciation and if you're
truly serious about leveling up your
pronunciation you can take my free
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first video and get you sounding
polished and confident is your
pronunciation British or American let's
see read these words number one if you
said vitamin you're
British vitamin American what about this
one if you said aluminium you're British
aluminum American this one
then Herb in British English herb
American English Okay this one's the
decider basil British basil American and
finally tomato British
tomato American can you understand fast
British English you're right with that
are you all right with that what's up
with that what is up with that are you
having me on are you having me on do I
know about
that I don't know about that where did
you say it
was where did you say it was can you
understand far British English what do
you mean what do you mean who's
that who is that the hell you do that
for what the hell did you do that for
how' you find my
house how did you find my house I got to
go I have got to go Americans never say
this sound yep most Americans don't use
the o vowel sound knowledge in British
English knowledge American English lobby
lobby rock rock isn't that curious can
you pronounce these super hard words in
English we'll start
easy
squirrel
squirrel
next
archipelago archipelago
next
flabbergasted flabbergasted isn't that
one great and gorgeous
word
soporific
soporific stop pronouncing the r sound
in British English trust me yes you can
pronounce it after consonants and at the
beginning of words like rest crooked
recycle grasp but we don't pronounce our
sounds after a vowel sound this includes
at the end of words year girl her world
t one exception if the word ends in an r
and the next word begins with a vowel
sound here is there are don't pronounce
the p in these three words
psychology
psychology
pneumonia pneumonia and one of my most
used words pterodactyl pterodactyl do
not pronounce the letter B in these
words
de
climb
comb
Tom
Thumb doubt crumb don't say it don't
pronounce the T in these words
listen Castle
Buffet
soften
ballet C no T do not pronounce the d in
these words words with n d sometimes
when we have n d together the D is
silent for example handsome sandwich
when you see d g e in word it typically
becomes the J sound
Edge badge can you pronounce these
difficult words in English they all end
with
Lee
literally
literally
particularly
particularly
usually usually usually you will hear
some people saying usually but more
commonly
usually
rarely rarely we don't pronounce that
second R sound
rarely
popularly
popularly
temporarily
temporarly five syllables
and regularly
regularly how many did you pronounce
correctly let me know can you pronounce
these English city names we'll start
easy but trust me it gets really
difficult number
one
London London
two
Oxford Oxford 3
Birmingham Birmingham
for
leester leester number five like the
source wer wer number
six
mariban mariban number
seven
lra lra eight
gluster gluster can you pronounce these
super hard words duet this and see how
you do number one this
word
genuine genuine what about this
one
thoroughly thoroughly let's try number
three this
one
adjective adjective how about this
word
Brewery
Brewery
Brewer number five this
word
wom womb the B is silent repeat after me
and keep practicing until you perfect
the pronunciation
though
thought
tough
through
thorough let's practice your British
English pronunciation we have the E long
sound and I short sound leave live
seen sin
seat sit kill kill
reap rip and
Beach when you speak do you sound
American or do you sound British doet
this video to find out first up how do
you pronounce this
word did you say herb or did you say
herb
next one we've borrowed this from the
Italians how do you say this
word did you say pasta or did you say
pasta what about this
word did you say
raspberry or did you say raspberry and
finally how would you say this
one did you say progress or did you say
progress okay let's find out if you
speak English the American way or the
British way doet this to find out how
would you say this
word did you say yogurt or did you say
yogurt what about this one this
letter did you say Zed or did you say Z
A to Z or A to Z let's try this one how
would you say
it did you say root or did you say route
and the last one how would you say this
word did you say bold or did you say
bald do you sound British or American
duet this and see how you sound how do
you say this
word did you say either or did you say
either what about this
word did you say Leisure or did you say
Leisure let's try this one how would you
say this
word did you say mobile or did you say
mobile and finally how do you say this
one did you say Niche or did you say
nich when you speak do you sound
American or do you sound British do at
this and find out how do you say this
word did you say V or did you say vas
what about this word
word do you say schedule or do you say
schedule how do you say this
word did you say missile or did you say
missile okay this one is the deci what
do you say for this
word do you say tomato or do you say
tomato
can you pronounce these difficult words
in English I'll show you the word you
say it and then I'll tell you how it's
pronounced first
up
kernel kernel
next
squirrel squirrel then we have this
one
turtle turtle what about this one
rural rural how about
this
yach yach ignore that CH and finally we
have this
one
CH chir same spelling different
pronunciation nouns versus verbs
attribute attribute
conduct conduct contract contract
contest contest
decrease decrease escort escort words
that you might be pronounce it
incorrectly so many people pronounce
this incorrectly they want to say every
syllable they say comfortable but really
it's comfortable the next word we have
is not vegetable vegetable okay number
three I hear many people saying
chocolate but we say chocolate 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 now on to number
four not one of my favorite days of the
week but it's very important to
pronounce it correctly I always
hear when in reality it's choose day
choose like I want to choose what I'm
having for breakfast this morning choose
day not Tuesday and then the last one
not wedness day Wednesday
congratulations you've just tackled some
of the hardest words and learned some
important pronunciation tricks in
English really amazing work remember
practice makes progress so don't
hesitate to revisit any sections to
fine-tune your skills and for those of
you who are serious about taking your
pronunciation to the next level remember
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