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  • Hello and welcome everyone.

  • This is Meenu at wrangling.

  • In this lesson, we're going to look at some common words, such as foreign purpose and recipe that I often hear mispronounced by my students regardless off their native language.

  • This is because English spelling is highly irregular.

  • You cannot rely on the spelling of the word to tell you how it's pronounced.

  • So let's make sure you're not mispronouncing these 40 common words.

  • 40 common pronunciation mistakes.

  • The reason that words like foreign and recipe get mispronounced is related to their vow.

  • Lettuce.

  • Unlike most other languages, the same English vowel letter does not always carry the same sound.

  • Let's look at some examples.

  • The letter You can be pronounced in the following ways.

  • Ah, but oh put, uh, tone.

  • Um, June, You you in it?

  • Well, quick, it can be silent guide.

  • Or it can be pronounced as the very small sound which recalled the Schwab nature.

  • The letter A can be pronounced in the following ways.

  • Uh, cat a late Oh, Park A Okay.

  • Oh, all this one woman.

  • The letter e can be pronounced in the following ways.

  • Hey, set e theme.

  • Uh, term ear here E repeat on the show Mother.

  • And finally, the cluster E A can be pronounced in the following ways.

  • E speak here, Clear a great a pay Ah loan and it bread.

  • Okay, now let's look at 40 common words and see how you think they're pronounced.

  • If you find that you have mispronounced these ones until now, make sure you repeat them several times to correct their pregnancies.

  • Let's look at some words containing the letter U How do you pronounce these Watts Number one Study Study Number two Purpose Purpose Number three Purchase Purchase number four.

  • First day, first day number five Circuit Circuit number six Suit suit Number seven Sweet Sweet number eight Argue Argue Number nine.

  • Failure, Failure and number 10 Saturday Saturday Okay, let's look at some What's containing the letter?

  • A.

  • How do you pronounce these?

  • Watts Number 11.

  • Danger.

  • Danger Number 12.

  • Famous Famous.

  • 13 off, huh?

  • 14.

  • Come com 15 in stone in stone 16.

  • Climate climate 17.

  • Private private 18 Carrier carrier 19.

  • Korea Korea, 20 area area.

  • Okay, let's look at some words containing the letter e.

  • How do you pronounce thes Watts 21.

  • Experience Experience 22.

  • Experiment experiment 23 Event event.

  • 24 Women Women 25.

  • Desert Desert 26.

  • Dessert.

  • These that 27 recipe recipe 28 Key Key 29 Legal, Legal 30 Power Power and finally, what's containing the clusters ee?

  • Aye ee Aye or I e How do you pronounce thes Watts, 31.

  • Colleague Colleague, 72 Steak Steak 33 Instead Instead 34 Measure Measure 35.

  • Ben Bear, 36.

  • Beard, be it 37 idea idea.

  • 38.

  • Neighbor Neighbor 39.

  • Foreign, foreign and finally number 40 Friend.

  • Friend Well, that's the end of this pronunciation lesson.

  • I hope you've enjoyed it.

  • If you would like more pronunciation practice to improve your spoken fluency, you are very welcome to join my complete online course at Angle Inc dot com.

Hello and welcome everyone.

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