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  • Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

  • Today we're going to talk about how to pronounce the 100 most important words in English.

  • Let's get started.

  • Before we get started I wanna let you know that these are not the top 100 most used words

  • in English.

  • These are the most important words.

  • There is a man named IA Richards, he was a rhetorician, which means it was his job to

  • be a speaker, be eloquent.

  • He is a professor of words we could say.

  • He decided that these 100 words were the most important in the English language for two

  • reasons.

  • Let's talk about the first one.

  • The first reason is because they cover topics that we often talk about.

  • They're probably the most used topics.

  • A lot of these words are nouns or verbs.

  • They're descriptive.

  • They're not prepositions.

  • If you are interested in the most common words in the English language, those are going to

  • be more prepositions or articles like the, have, an, but these are important words, so

  • they're going to be descriptive.

  • We talk about these topics often.

  • The second reason is because we need to use these words when we're describing other concepts,

  • so if you don't know a word in English and you're trying to describe what that word is,

  • you're going to need to use these words to describe other concepts.

  • As you can see, they're really valuable.

  • They're invaluable, in fact.

  • Take today to pronounce them correctly.

  • Follow my speaking.

  • Follow my pronunciation.

  • I'm an American, so I'm going to use American English pronunciation.

  • I hope it will be useful to you.

  • Are you ready to get started?

  • Use those muscles.

  • I'm going to pronounce them first clearly, and then second, I'm going to say a short

  • sentence which is going to use them pretty fast.

  • You're going to hear the version that you would hear in a conversation, so maybe some

  • letters are reduced or linked or cut out.

  • You might hear a difference between the two, but I want to make sure that you can hear

  • the clear pronunciation and also the sentence, daily conversation style, pronunciation.

  • Use both of them.

  • Practice today.

  • Let's get started.

  • Amount.

  • What's the amount?

  • Argument.

  • We had an argument.

  • Art.

  • He likes art.

  • Be.

  • Be Yourself.

  • Beautiful.

  • It's a beautiful day.

  • Belief.

  • That's my belief.

  • Cause.

  • What's the cause?

  • Certain.

  • I'm not certain.

  • Chance.

  • Take the chance.

  • Change.

  • It's hard to change.

  • Clear.

  • It's a clear day.

  • Common.

  • He has a common cold.

  • Comparison.

  • Don't make a comparison.

  • Condition.

  • It's in bad condition.

  • Connection.

  • Make a connection.

  • Copy.

  • I have a copy.

  • Decision.

  • That's a hard decision Degree.

  • I have a degree in English.

  • Desire.

  • It's a strong desire.

  • Development.

  • We made a development.

  • Different.

  • Which one is different?

  • Do.

  • You should do what's right.

  • Education.

  • Education is important.

  • End.

  • It's the end of the world.

  • Event.

  • It was a boring event.

  • Examples.

  • Do you have any examples?

  • Existence.

  • Our existence is short.

  • Experience.

  • Do you have any experience?

  • Fact.

  • I have the fact.

  • Fear.

  • He has a fear of spiders.

  • Feeling.

  • I have a strange feeling about him.

  • Fiction.

  • Do you like to read fiction?

  • Force.

  • He pushed her with force.

  • Form.

  • You have to form the bread.

  • Free.

  • Are you really free?

  • Get.

  • I have to get some tea.

  • Give.

  • Will you give me a cat?

  • Good.

  • Please give me a good cat.

  • Government.

  • Is any government good?

  • Happy.

  • He's a happy baby.

  • Have.

  • Have you seen her?

  • History.

  • We never learn from history.

  • Idea.

  • What an interesting idea.

  • Important.

  • These are important words.

  • Interest.

  • I have an interest in traveling.

  • Knowledge.

  • Do you have knowledge about politics?

  • Law.

  • The law is complicated.

  • Let.

  • Please let me eat more cake.

  • Level.

  • He's on the second level.

  • Living.

  • Where are you living?

  • Love.

  • I love you.

  • Make.

  • You make me happy.

  • Material.

  • What kind of material is this?

  • Measure.

  • You need to measure the room.

  • Mind.

  • Do you mind?

  • Motion.

  • That was a fast motion.

  • Name.

  • What's your name?

  • Nation.

  • What's a nation?

  • Natural.

  • He's in his natural habitat.

  • Necessary.

  • Is it necessary?

  • Normal.

  • No one is normal.

  • Number.

  • The number is five.

  • Observation.

  • That's a good observation.

  • Opposite.

  • He's the opposite of his brother.

  • Order.

  • Put your books in order.

  • Organization.

  • It's a big organization.

  • Part.

  • I ate part of the cake.

  • Place.

  • What's your favorite place?

  • Pleasure.

  • Pleasure is hard to define.

  • Possible.

  • Is it possible?

  • Power.

  • Is power always bad?

  • Probable.

  • It's probable that it will rain today.

  • Property.

  • There's a bear on my property.

  • Purpose.

  • What's the purpose of this video?

  • To help you pronounce these words.

  • Quality.

  • That was a good quality movie.

  • Question.

  • I have a question.

  • Reason.

  • What's your reason for learning English?

  • Relation.

  • What's the relation between those two topics?

  • Representative.

  • He's my representative.

  • Respect.

  • Who do you respect?

  • Responsible.

  • Are you responsible?

  • Right.

  • Turn left ... no turn right.

  • Same.

  • We have the same interests.

  • Say.

  • I want to say something.

  • Science.

  • Science is all around us.

  • See.

  • Did you see the moon last night?

  • Seem.

  • You seem to be tired today.

  • Sense.

  • Common sense is important in life.

  • Sign.

  • It was a sign from the heavens.

  • Simple.

  • Is English a simple language to learn?

  • Society.

  • Society is a complex thing.

  • Sort.

  • I have to sort through those papers.

  • Special.

  • You have a special place in my heart.

  • Substance.

  • What's that sticky substance?

  • Thing.

  • It's a strange thing.

  • Thought.

  • I thought I could do it.

  • True.

  • Is that true?

  • Use.

  • Can you use a computer?

  • Way.

  • That's the first way.

  • Wise.

  • She's a wise woman.

  • Word.

  • What's that word?

  • Work.

  • It's time to go to work.

  • Thanks for pronouncing these words with me.

  • I hope that it was useful to you and you said them out loud.

  • If there's any of these words that you don't know, you don't know what they mean, you've

  • never heard them before, take some time to look them up.

  • Write them in a vocabulary notebook.

  • Take some time to learn them.

  • This is a great introduction to some important words in English.

  • You might have noticed that there are 103 words on this list, not 100, and I thought

  • it was an interesting point because IA Richards, the man who made this list, he said that he

  • wants readers to decide which words are not important.

  • Which three words should we cut out from this list?

  • There's not an exact 100 words, but it's always changing and evolving.

  • It's just an interesting point that he made, so I hope that you could practice your pronunciation

  • today.

  • Let me know in the comments which words are new to you.

  • Can you make sentences using these words?

  • This is a good starting point to learning new vocabulary.

  • Hearing it first, then pronouncing it.

  • Making a sentence with it.

  • Trying to repeat it and use it as much as you can.

  • Thanks so much for pronouncing with me today and have a wonderful day.

  • I'll see you the next time.

  • Bye.

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  • Thanks so much for learning with me.

  • Bye.

Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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