There are often multiple correct ways to pronounce a word based on accent or sociolect.

So, it's just 2 syllables, and I understand it's quite hard for many people to pronounce, but, you wanna speak English well you got to practice.

what is up guys welcome back to my channel I hope you are having a great week this video is how to speak in the Indian accent part four a lot of you guys have been waiting for this video initially I was just going to do the one Indian accent the main one that I made a few months ago and but I decided to do part 2 part 3 part 4 because you guys have been requesting it so I thought why not let's make some more to help you guys out I actually got a video suggestion from Zhang Zhang and this was to read a paragraph out in the Indian accent and by doing so um you guys can learn how to pronounce different words in the Indian accent in a different fun way so what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the paragraph that I'm going to read on the screen and I want you to pause the video and think about how you would pronounce the words yourself and then we will proceed with the video with me speaking in the Indian accent this paragraph that I'm going to read is from one of my favorite books it is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix okay this book is one of my favorite books but let's just open up to a random page okay you it is best to know what the enemy is saying said Hermione darkly as she unfurled the newspaper and disappeared behind it not emerging until Harry and Ron finished eating nothing she said simply rolling up the newspaper and laying it down by her plate nothing about you or Dumbledore or anything Professor McGonagall was now moving along the table handing out timetables look at today grown-brown history of magic double potions divination and double defense against the dark arts Vince Snape Trelawney and that Umbridge woman all in one day I wish Fred and Joe did hurry up and get those skiving snack boxes sorted so let me read that paragraph in the British accent for you it is best to know what the enemy is saying said Hermione darkly as she unfurled the newspaper and disappeared behind it not emerging until Harry and Ron had finished eating nothing she said simply rolling up the newspaper and laying it down by her plate nothing about you or Dumbledore or anything Professor McGonagall was now moving along the table handing out timetables look at today grown-brown history of magic double potions divination and double defense against the dark arts Vince Snape Trelawney and that Umbridge woman all in one day I wish Fred and Joe did hurry up and get those skiving snack boxes sorted okay so let's examine some of these words here in more detail so one of the words I want to just want to kind of like talk about in more detail is timetable and the Indian accent will be timetable so the word the sounds that you want to look out for in this word is the T in the timetable so obviously it's not T it's a T sound so time not time time and table table and the L sound if you remember I talked about in my first video nothing so in the British accent will be nothing nothing but in the Indian accent will be nothing hmm ground you've got the R sound in ground the rolling R so ground and run ground run and the OA sound here is or groaned not groaned is how you would say in the British accent but the OA here makes it or sound so groaned divination so notice out for the D sound in divination it's not divination it's divination divination D D D so you're basically rolling your tongue when you're saying the D sound so replay this video so you can use this video to practice your Indian accent so that was just a little quick video just to help you guys out and thank you again Zheng Cheng for recommending this idea to me and I hope it helps you guys out oh yeah and I just realized looking at this it's the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter so that worked out quite nicely reading reading a paragraph from the fifth book Order of the Phoenix that was my little tribute to J.C.

It's fine to pronounce this as "often" or to drop the T and say "often." Both versions are acceptable.

Some words are funny like this; you have to hear them before you know how to pronounce them.

Now, some of these words might be tricky to pronounce, especially certain sounds, so if you'd like to improve your pronunciation, you will most definitely be interested in the ELSA Speak app.

We talk about different sounds and how to pronounce them, like where to put your tongue and how to open your mouth.

And at the end of the video you will be able to pronounce them correctly.

At www.engvid.com in the comments section, she mentioned that it's very difficult for her to understand how to pronounce words with the letter A.

First of all, the American way to pronounce the word party is party.