Name: Pronunciation of English words with an ON ending
Uploaded: 2018-11-20T06:21:18.000Z
Duration: 21 min 10 s
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I'm going to teach you some
very important pronunciation.

And the point of me teaching you this is-magic-how
to sound more natural when you speak English.

So, you understand; you know that pronunciation
in English, I think is the most difficult

You see a word written, but the way that
it's actually said is completely different.

We have silent letters; we have letters that
make a whole new word, a whole new sound.

So, let me teach you something that will help
you, and it's all about one of my favourite

Food is essential for living, so
this lesson is essential for you.

I hope you're not hungry;
maybe you will be after this.

All of these words that I've written on the
board actually end in "ion" or "on", but we

So, we don't say: "bacon"-unless you're
a French Canadian-we say: "bay-kin".

So, if I was to write this phonetically, which
means how it sounds, I would write: "bay-kin".

It's got a lot of fat, a lot of calories
- that's what makes it so tasty.

It comes from a pig, and
it's the tummy of a pig.

This is a crazy one as well because we have a
silent "l", and as our lesson will follow,

So, this word-it's a fish and the inside of
the fish is orange or pink-is called not:

So, it looks like "salmon",
but it's "samin".

So, so far we have:
"bacon" and "salmon".

It smells bad; it makes
you cry, if you cut it.

And this is not: "onion";
it's actually: "un-yin".

So you want to say: "onion",
but we're like: "No.

I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen,
we're going to say: 'un-yin'."

The next one is: "lemin",
not: "lemon"; "lemin".

Now, the other thing that you guys have to
be aware of is "lemon" is yellow, and it's

In a lot of your countries, you say: "leemon",
and "leemon" actually in English we call "lime".

So, a lemon is big and yellow; and a lime-which
is actually the spelling; it's pretty cool-is

So, in your language,
maybe you mix those up.

And in the world we have many different kinds
of melon; we have watermelon that has nothing

to do with water, and we have muskmelon, dew
melon, honeydew melon, queen melon, king melon

- so many melons; we're not
going to get into them.

But the pronunciation is:
"melin", not "melon".

Another thing that we have that you probably
maybe have never seen this word before, it's

So, maybe you have heard
of the word "lamb".

"Oh, Ronnie, you forgot
the 'b': 'lamb'."

So, basically: "lamb" and "mutton" are
the same thing; they're both sheep.

The difference is a lamb is a baby sheep,
and a mutton is an older sheep; a teenager.

So, you're eating the teenager
or you're eating the baby.

I think they're beautiful,
but I would eat them.

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