Pronunciation ChallengePotato Chips Around the World

Intro:

G’day Voicetubers, welcome back. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries have closed their borders and since then, most of us have been stuck here unable to travel. A lot of my friends said that once we are allowed to travel again, they’d wanna go to Japan first to eat lots of yummy foods. Where would be the first place that you want to go? For those of you who have had the travel bug for some time now, our video today will take us on a culinary trip around the world with all the different flavours of potato chips! In Canada, you’ll find roast chicken or fries and gravy flavoured chips. In South Korea, you might encounter honey-butter chips which sound strange, but apparently, it’s very popular. The Japanese are also very creative with their flavoured snacks and there’s even a Calbee (Potato chip brand) store in Harajuku that serves fresh potato chips! Mmm….their dark chocolate potato chips sound absolutely heavenly! If you haven’t watched the video yet, feel free to head on over there first to learn about all the amazing flavours and then come back for the pronunciation challenge.

Alright, here’s today’s pronunciation challenge:

Sentence:

The peeled potato is skewered and cut into a spiral, which gives it an accordion look.


Pronunciation Tips:
peeled
skewer (rhymes with the word fewer, derives from ‘skew’)
is skewered (link the s sound between the two words)
spiral (has two syllables: ‘spai-ruhl’ )
gives it (try practicing these linking words)
accordion (has four syllables: ‘uh-kaw-dee-uhn’)

(The video introduced a type of potato chips you could buy from the street vendors in Thailand where the peeled potato is skewered and cut into a spiral, which gives it an accordion look)


Vocabulary:

1. skewer KK[skjuɚ] IPA//ˈskjuː.ɚ/

v. to put pieces of food, especially meat, on a skewer

It can also be used as a noun, for example:

We are preparing the chicken skewers for the BBQ tonight.


2. spiral KK[ˋspaɪrəl] IPA//ˈspaɪr.əl/

n. a shape made up of curves, each one above or wider than the one before

After descending down 8 spirals to reach the bottom floor of the car park, I felt nauseous!


3. accordion KK[əˋkɔrdɪən] IPA//əˈkɔːr.di.ən/

n. a box-shaped musical instrument consisting of a folded central part with a keyboard, played by pushing the two ends towards each other

There are two general kinds of accordions, button accordions and piano accordions.


Outro

My all-time favourite has to be sour cream and onion chips! Taiwan has recently developed some of our own unique flavoured potato chips as well – some of these include hua diao chicken, oyster omelette, beef noodle soup, scallion pancake, garlic prawns, and so on. Have you tried any of these? To be honest, I am not too adventurous when it comes to trying out weird and wacky flavours so I tend to just stick with the very basic ones. Maybe you can leave a comment below my transcript and tell me which flavour is worth trying? Thanks for listening guys and whenever you’re ready, hit that record button and give the sentence a try! See you around next time and until then, have a great week!

The peeled potato is skewered and cut into a spiral, which gives it an accordion look.

The peeled potato is skewered and cut into a spiral, which gives it an accordion look.

The peeled potato is skewered and cut into a spiral, which gives it an accordion look.