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Are YOU Mispronouncing These Common English Words? (Pronunciation for English Learners)
Are YOU Mispronouncing These Common English Words? (Pronunciation for English Learners)
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8:01 · Mar 28, 2025
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do you think your English pronunciation
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is perfect well think again
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even native speakers get these words wrong all the time
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in this video I'll reveal
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10 commonly mispronounced words by native English speakers
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to test and see if you can pronounce them correctly
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and trust me you're going to be shocked by some of these
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let's see how many you get correct
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there'll be 10 words in total
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let's start with the first one and come here come here
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watch out for traps
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number one the of this word
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is easy the pronunciation
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of this word is easy
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nunciation don't get confused
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with the verb the verb is to
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pronounce but the noun is
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pronounce pronunciation I cannot tell you the amount of times when native English speakers
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teachers have come up to me at conferences
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meetups and so on and said
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you're pronunciation with Emma
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and I have to say
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yes I'm pronunciation with Emma and try and
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subtly correct them it happens way more than you probably think
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number two we have a small
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in our vinard this is two very short
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vowels Vineyard now of course this word is a combination
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of Vine Vine and
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yard so what many native speakers do is they just combine these two together
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and say Vineyard or
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vineard I've even heard but the correct pronunciation
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is vineard Vineyard if you're not sure what a Vineyard
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is is the place where they grow grapes
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to make wine number three
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he says he says hello
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every morning a mispronunciation
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is he says so of course the verb is to say
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I say you say he she it
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says it changes so again the correct
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pronunciation he says hello
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every morning number four
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the Cat broke my
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mischievous mischievous the mischievous
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Cat broke my vase
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now if you're a US speaker
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you may hear vase
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so just be aware of that
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however that key word
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mischievous is quite commonly mispronounced
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as mischievous mischievous so be careful
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the correct pronunciation is
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mischievous number five I
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drink tea this is a little trick for you a little trap
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question you can say
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I often drink tea
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or I often often drink tea
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you can pronounce it with the tea
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or without the tea
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both ways are correct
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so you can say
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I often drink tea
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or I often drink tea
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both are completely fine and correct to use
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if you ever have someone tell you no no no
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often is the correct way or no no no
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often is the correct way
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then send this video to them because I think they
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it number six I need a
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from my doctor prescription
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pre with that R
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in there prescription I need a prescription
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from my doctor a common mispronunciation
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is actually to remove
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the r at the start
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and instead of saying
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prescription many native speakers say
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prescription I'm guilty of this as well I used to say this all the
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time and then one day I actually tried to spell it
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and I was like huh hold on there's an r in there
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check the dictionary and of course the r is pronounced
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so I had to correct myself
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so yeah don't do what I did
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prescription is the correct
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pronunciation number seven I'd like an
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please it's not espresso
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I don't know why
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native English speakers and I'm guilty of this as well I've done it a
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few times a cheeky
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espresso has slipped out when I've ordered
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I don't know why we do that I think as native
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we sometimes confuse Express
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like express delivery for example
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and so our brains just think ah espresso
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espresso and we get a bit confused
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so be careful there's no C Sound it's just
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espresso espresso so in the sentence
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I'd like an espresso
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please number eight I need bread
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milk cheese Etc Etc
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there's no e it's not
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etc etc again I'm guilty as well of saying Etc
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sometimes it still slips out
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now so in the sentence
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I need bread milk
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cheese Etc and we also never read this as Etc
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so we never say I need bread milk cheese Etc
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no we write it as Etc
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but we always say
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Etc you can also pronounce it as ET
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ET ET so you can remove the syllable
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or not Etc or
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Etc cetra is a bit more common
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but you choose which way you prefer
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and number 10 a final sentence
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hopefully you're doing well so far with this test
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polar bears live in
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Arctic Arctic it's quite common for native speakers
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especially when we're talking quite quickly
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to remove that first C
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sound so instead of saying
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Arctic it's quite common for them to remove it and say
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Arctic Arctic so one final time
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polar bears live in the Arctic
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polar bears live in the
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Arctic and that's it for today's British English pronunciation
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lesson how many did you get correct out of 10
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let me know down in the comments
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a quick disclaimer before we finish today's lesson
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this video was made entirely
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for educational and entertainment
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purposes I'm in no way promoting
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a single correct form and that the other forms are wrong or bad in
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any way when I say the correct form I'm talking about what is shown
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in the dictionary but of course
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thousands if not millions of people mispronounce
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these words every day and they live life being understood
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by many other people
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but what I'm showing you as an English learner with this video is that
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native speakers mispronounce words
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all the time and they survive
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they live life and
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okay and of course it's important that you hear the correct pronunciation
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of the words but you should also be aware of How It's commonly mispronounced
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so if you hear it you can
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understand people better thank you for watching today's lesson I hope you've enjoyed it
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if you're interested in improving your English pronunciation
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but you don't know where to start
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then why not download my free English pronunciation
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pack it will give you everything you need to start improving your English pronunciation
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today thank you very much for watching watching remember to tell me your score
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how many did you get correct out of 10
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down below in the comments I will be checking and seeing who got
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10 enjoy and I will see you in the next lesson byebye
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