Practice With Me To Avoid These Pronunciation Mistakes!

Practice With Me To Avoid These Pronunciation Mistakes!

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Hi everyone! I’ve heard a lot of students’ speaking samples, and in today’s lesson I’d like to address a few of the pronunciation mistakes that I’ve been correcting.

First of all, don’t feel bad if you make a pronunciation mistake! It’s really easy to do this in English, especially because we have so many similar sounds and so many words that are pronounced differently from the way they’re written.

So if you mess up a word – don’t be embarrassed, it’s not the end of the world. I can usually understand what you were trying to say.

WORDS THAT SHOULD HAVE A LONG “I”, BUT ARE MISPRONOUNCED WITH A SHORT “I” OR “EE” SOUND

All these words should have a “long I” as in the words like, white, ride, and ice.

Sometimes, learners pronounce them with a “short i” (hit, sick, if) or with an “ee” sound (we, see, eat).

• climate
• finance
• isolated
• migrant
  Note: different from immigrant, where both “i”s are short
• priority

WORDS THAT NATIVE SPEAKERS USUALLY PRONOUNCE “SHORTER”

There are certain words which you may be pronouncing very carefully, making sure to say each syllable clearly – but native English speakers will often “drop” one syllable in the word when speaking fast:

several	SEV-ral                    (not SE-ve-ral)
interesting	IN-tres-ting            (not IN-ter-es-ting)
different	DIFF-rent                (not DIF-fer-ent)
every	EV-ry                        (not E-ver-y)
favorite	FAV-rite                   (not FAV-o-rite)
vegetable	VEG-ta-ble               (not VEG-e-ta-ble)
camera	CAM-ra                     (not CA-me-ra)
desperate	DES-prit                 (not DES-per-ate)
chocolate	CHOC-lit                 (not CHOC-o-late)

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