Name: Difficult English Words - pronunciation lesson - dropped syllables | Accurate English
Uploaded: 2018-06-08T03:55:35.000Z
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Let's learn another important rule about English pronunciation that will help you to pronounce

This one has to do with disappearing syllables.

This first word exists in many languages.

In fact, maybe in your native language it's very similar sounding.

But probably in your language you pronounce every vowel sound.

So, it may sound something like this: "cho - co - la - te" or in French "sho co lat"and

there are some words where the vowel completely disappears.

So in English, this word has only two syllables.

In fact, we also don't say "cho-co-late" which I've heard some of my students say.

We reduce it to two syllables and we say, "chok - late".

The "late" becomes lut" and the "o" completely disappears.

I know that's strange, but that's just the way English works sometimes.

And what you have to do is memorize a list of words that I will give that have these

And therefore one syllable gets eliminated.

This also happens with another word that's very very common.

The common mistake that I hear my students say is something like this: "veg -e - ta - ble".

If the "e" disappears it's gonna sound like this: veg-tu-bl: Faster it sounds like this"veg-tubl".

I'd like some to order some vegetables please.

Let's look at another word that's also a very common word.

I have heard it pronounced many different ways by my students, and in other languages

So, it might sound like: "Ka-TO- leek" or "ka - to -lik" or "Ka -to leek - o".

But the "o" is always pronounced in those languages.

In English the "o"disappears and it's only two syllables, and it sounds like this:"cath

So, let's repeat these three words again: "cho - late", veg - table, cath - lik" Let's

look at some more words that you'll have to memorize.

Fortunately there aren't too many of them, but they are very very common words that we

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Difficult English Words - pronunciation lesson - dropped syllables | Accurate English

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