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  • Hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech. I have  a word today that is a heteronym, actually two  

  • words. Heteronyms are spelled the same but they  have different meanings and pronunciations.  

  • I ask humbly for forgiveness from all Japanese  speakers and all of my Japanese students . I'm  

  • going to teach this the American way. It is  not the Japanese way of pronouncing this word.  

  • um But my point in the lesson is  to teach the difference. So we have  

  • sake which is how we pronounce it in  America. I'm gonna try the Japanese way:  

  • sake. Um and that is the drink and then  we have sake which means a purpose.

  • The big difference here is that there are two  syllables in sake and one syllable in sake.

  • So we have sake sake sake sake and sake sake sake sake sake sake sake

  • And now for a sentence for goodness sakelet's just do another round of sake!

  • Give it a try I know people are going to notice  the difference. If you found this helpful,  

  • please give us a like, and a shareand again asking for forgiveness  

  • from all of my students for mispronouncing  that Japanese word. I'm just teaching the  

  • American pronunciation. And if you need more  help you can check us out at Tarle speech.

  • Thanks so much everyone have an amazing weekend!

Hi everyone Jennifer from Tarle speech. I have  a word today that is a heteronym, actually two  

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