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  • Today we're going to go over a bunch of words relating to the car a year.

  • This is a vocabulary builder video.

  • You're going to learn the English words for lots of things in the car, and you're also going to learn the pronunciation.

  • You'll see the frenetic symbol on screen for each word.

  • Practice the words out loud with me.

  • If there's anything unusual or especially difficult about the pronunciation, we'll talk about it.

  • Let's get started.

  • The steering wheel steering wheel steering his two syllables.

  • The I N G ending is always Unstrung EST.

  • It has an or in it, which can be a tricky sound.

  • Make sure you hold it out.

  • Steer ring If you can't stating that, uh, then you're making it with the wrong part of the tongue steering wheel steering wheel.

  • The tongue tip should be pulled back.

  • End up a little bit, so it's not touching anything.

  • Well, W h words like wheel can be pronounced, or what without the before, I think it's easier just to use the w sound wheel well steering wheel.

  • Say that with me.

  • Steering wheel steering, wheel, the steering wheel This is the gear shift.

  • We have a P for park R for reverse and for neutral and D for drive gear shift gear shift Year year.

  • That's the same combination as steer year gear shift.

  • Say that with me.

  • Gear shift gear shift This is the gear shift.

  • We have a P for Park Park O.

  • R.

  • All that'll plus are lots of my students.

  • Say something like Park without dropping the jaw.

  • Do drop your jaw, Get it clear all vowel before the r You are Park.

  • Say that with me.

  • Park Park.

  • We have a P for park R for reverse reverse tooth Val's and the first syllable is really short.

  • But right, right, Reverse.

  • I say that with me.

  • Reverse reverse R for reverse and for neutral neutral.

  • Many Americans make the TR cluster sound like ch are neutral.

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  • Neutral, neutral and for neutral and D for drive drive.

  • Some people, especially Japanese speakers, have a problem with our NL.

  • Remember, it's not live with the tongue tipped forward, but Dr Stir with the tongue tip pulled back and up a little bit.

  • Uh, so it's not touching anything.

  • Try that with me Dr Drives and D for drive.

  • We have the emergency brake or parking brake, emergency brake or parking brake.

  • Emergency stresses on that second syllable.

  • The emergency emergency.

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  • Emergency Emergency brake Parking brake.

  • Remember the I N G ending is Unstrung est parking brake.

  • Say that with me.

  • Parking, Parking brake.

  • We have the emergency brake or parking brake.

  • This is the dashboard dashboard stress on the first syllable dash.

  • Morning.

  • Try that with me.

  • Dash board Dashboard dashboard This is the dashboard.

  • Here's the rear view mirror.

  • Rear view mirror.

  • Two words with two R sounds.

  • This is so hard.

  • Rear and near have the same sound combination.

  • Except for the first constant year year.

  • This is just like steer in steering wheel the tongue tip.

  • It's forward touching the back, the bottom front teeth and then just lifts and pulls back a little bit.

  • E.

  • You're so it's not touching anything.

  • Rear near rear view mirror reemphasize.

  • The are for the second syllable of mirror.

  • Near were nearer.

  • Let's try the whole thing together, slowed down.

  • Say it out loud with me rear view near rear view nearer, and now it regular pace rear view mirror, rear view mirror.

  • Here's the rear view mirror.

  • Who that suns bright.

  • Let's pull down the visor visor Even though the letter O is in the second syllable.

  • Don't try to make a vowel vise are just the are sound Visor advisor Try that with me Visor.

  • Who That suns bright?

  • Let's pull down the visor.

  • I've been driving a long time time First news.

  • Good thing I have this head rest head rest compound Words like this have stress on the first word.

  • Head rest.

  • Try that with me.

  • Head rest head Rest, head rest.

  • Good thing I have this head rest.

  • This area is the consul Consul This word ends with a dark elf soul Oh, tongue tip stays down on the back of the tongue.

  • Pushes down and back a little bit 00 Consul, Try that with me.

  • Console Consul, This area is the consul.

  • Always buckle up.

  • This is the seat belt Seatbelt.

  • Another compound word.

  • Stress on the first word.

  • Seatbelt notice.

  • I'm making both teas.

  • Stop Ty's C belt.

  • I'm not releasing them like a true t sea belt.

  • Seatbelt.

  • Say that with me.

  • Seatbelt.

  • Seatbelt.

  • This is the seat belt If you're having emergency and need to pull over, turn on your hazards.

  • Also called Four Ways Hazards.

  • Even though you see the letter A in the second syllable has runs, you can leave out the vowel.

  • Just R D s months on Sprint's hazards.

  • Try that with me.

  • Hazards.

  • Hazards.

  • If you're having emergency and need to pull over, turn on your hazards.

  • Also called Four Ways.

  • We've got our driver's seat passenger seat and a back seat.

  • The driver's seat, the passenger's seat.

  • The back seat noticed that we have the apostrophe s, but you can't really hear it because the next one begins with an S.

  • The two esses blend together into one sound toe.

  • Link the words driver's seat passenger's seat.

  • Try that with me.

  • Driver's seat passenger seat.

  • We've got our driver's seat passenger seat and a back seat back seat.

  • We have a couple of interesting ways that we use this term in English.

  • Ah, backseat driver is one who gives too much input on driving when they're not driving.

  • It could also mean of less importance, and we often use it in the negative.

  • I won't take a back seat to him that means I won't let him or his ideas beam or important or prominent than mine.

  • I won't take a backseat to him and backseat.

  • Now, if you're gonna be writing in the car and you want to make sure you get this seat, you'll want to yell shotgun dealing, shotgun yelling or calling shotgun.

  • I don't know how this phrase got started, but you say it when you want to sit in the front seat of the car.

  • Shotgun stop T they're shot gun.

  • Say that with me.

  • Shotgun.

  • Shotgun.

  • Now, if you're gonna be writing in the car and you want to make sure you get this seat, you'll want to yell Shotgun.

  • Here's the floor mat.

  • Slower, Matt Floor.

  • Phonetically.

  • This would be written with the all as in law vowel.

  • But before are the spell is much more closed.

  • The lips round more and the back of the tongue pulls back more slow.

  • Whole floor, floor format.

  • Say that with me.

  • Floor mat, floor mat.

  • Here's the floor mat and we have the gas pedal and the brake gas pedal.

  • Yeah, we have the vowel gas gas pedal.

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  • Gas pedal, gas pedal and we have the gas pedal and the brake break.

  • This is a homophone, and it's pronounced just like this other word.

  • Break.

  • Say that with me.

  • Break break.

  • And we have the gas pedal and the brake side mirror.

  • Side mirror.

  • Okay.

  • We already went over the tricky word mirror.

  • Here it is again.

  • The word before it side ends in a d.

  • Just make a little sound with the vocal cords side before the next word.

  • You don't need to release the d side side, side mirror.

  • Say that with me.

  • Side mirror, side mirror, side mirror.

  • And here is the car seat.

  • Car seat.

  • Just like park.

  • You need to drop your jaw to get a good all vowel before the r car car car seat.

  • Say that with me.

  • Car seat, car seat.

  • And here is the car seat.

  • Drunk trunk.

  • Remember, the TR cluster can be pronounced ch r drunk or trunk.

  • Try that with me.

  • Trunk trunk.

  • This is the same word that's used for the trunk of a tree drunk license plate, license plate.

  • Both the letter C and letter s make the s sound here Lie.

  • Since license plate say that with me license plate, license plate, license plate and tires tires.

  • Remember, for the are the tip of the tongue is pulled back and up.

  • Tie your tire tires.

  • Try that with me.

  • Tires, tires, tires.

  • Here's the antenna antenna.

  • Stress on the middle syllable antenna.

  • Try that with me.

  • Antenna antenna.

  • Here's the antenna, and this is where you can get to the gas tank.

  • Gas tank.

  • Both of these words were written phonetically with the ab vowel.

  • But this valuable is told by the N G sound here.

  • And it's not really an add vowel anymore.

  • Yeah, gas but Tank hang, huh?

  • It's more like the A diff thong gas, huh?

  • Tang?

  • And try that with me.

  • Gas tank, gas tank.

  • And this is where you can get to the gas tank windshield wiper windshield wiper.

  • It's common to drop the D between two other constants, and we definitely do that here windshield when she lled no d windshield wiper windshield wiper windshield wiper.

  • Try that with me windshield wiper, windshield wiper, windshield wiper and the hood.

  • I actually have no idea how to open this thing.

  • Hood Double o making the sound like an look cook and foot hood say that with me, Hood, hood and the hood.

  • I actually have no idea how to open this thing.

  • Headlights, headlights, compound word stress on the first word.

  • Head lights say that with me headlights, head, lakes, headlights.

  • And in here you would find the engine and all that other good stuff that I don't know anything about engine stress on the first syllable.

  • The second syllable should be said very quickly.

  • Jen Jen, Jen Engine.

  • I say that with me engine engine headlights.

  • And in here you would find the engine and all that other good stuff that I don't know anything about.

  • I had to come over to our trusty VW for this one, where we have a manual transmission that's different from the automatic transmission in the other car manual versus automatic look.

  • Both of these words have the stressed Advil in the stressed syllable.

  • But the val isn't pure before a nasal constant here is before the end, so it relaxes in tow.

  • Man, man, you will manual manual.

  • Try that with me.

  • Manual manual automatic has a pure off the mad notice.

  • Both of those teas are flap tease, not true.

  • Tease that a automatic automatic.

  • Say that with me.

  • Automatic automatic.

  • I had to come over to our trusty VW for this one where we have a manual transmission that's different from the automatic transmission in the other car.

  • Another common word for manual in the U.

  • S is stick shift.

  • Try that with me.

  • Stick shift, stick shift.

  • Now we have 1/3 pedal the clutch clutch.

  • This word is also used.

  • Idiomatic Lee, I go over that use of it in a podcast I recently did on Slaying.

  • Click here to check it out.

  • Also put a link in the description.

  • Clutch.

  • Try that with me.

  • Clutch Clutch!

  • Now we have 1/3 pedal the clutch.

  • Don't forget the horn.

  • He horn just like floor in floor mat.

  • We have the all vowel followed by our the all Val is a little bit more closed.

  • Whole horn horn.

  • Try that with me.

  • Horn, horn.

  • Don't forget the horn ee airbag.

  • You have an airbag in the steering wheel Here airbag.

  • Another compound word so stresses on the first word.

  • Airbag airbag.

  • Drop your job before that are air airbag.

  • Try that with me.

  • Airbag, airbag, airbag!

  • You have an airbag in the steering wheel here on the manual we have reverse and then five different years.

  • 1st 2nd 3rd 4th and fifth.

  • 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th gears.

  • These air, all orginal numbers different from 1234 I know they can be tricky to pronounce, and I made a whole video on these words.

  • Click here or in the description, practice them with me first, second, third forth, sis.

  • On the manual we have reverse and then five different years.

  • 1st 2nd 3rd 4th and fifth.

  • Here we have events, events, compound word.

  • Even though there's a space stress on the first word air vents.

  • Try that with me.

  • Air events, air vents.

  • Here we have events, climate control, climate control, even though this second syllable looks like it might be what some people call a long A makes climb.

  • Eight.

  • It's not.

  • It's really short.

  • MIT, MIT climate, climate control.

  • Try that with me.

  • Climate control, climate control, climate control, the radio radio three syllables Stress on the 1st 1 Ray d'oh radio.

  • Try that with me.

  • Radio, radio, the radio odometer, speedometer, odometer speedometer For both of these, the stresses on this little just before the Suffolk ce Mitter Odometer Speedometer.

  • Notice the tea's Here are flats.

  • Try these words with me.

  • Odometer, speedometer, odometer Speedometer.

  • This is called the grill of the car Grill.

  • Dark L grill.

  • Keep the tongue tipped down and pull the back part of the tongue back a little bit.

  • Ole Ole Grill Grill.

  • I don't mention it, but the part under the grill is the bumper.

  • My bumper really helps me when I'm parallel parking bumper.

  • Say that with me.

  • Bumper bumper, Gas gauge.

  • Gas gauge.

  • The word gauge is funny because the first G is pronounced and the second G is pronounced gas gauge.

  • Try that with me.

  • Gas gauge.

  • Gas gauge.

  • Gas gauge.

  • Here we have the cruise control.

  • Cruise Control.

  • You know what?

  • We went over climate control.

  • I didn't really talk about control.

  • Did I keep the first syllable really short.

  • Don't even try to put a vowel in there.

  • Control Control.

  • Cruise control.

  • Try that with me.

  • Cruise control Cruise control.

  • Here we have the cruise control.

  • Here we have the glove compartment.

  • What kinds of interesting things do you have in yours?

  • 12 compartment to stop teas in comm.

  • Part men wealth compartment.

  • Try that with me glove compartment glove compartment.

  • Who?

  • That's a lot of terms.

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