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Say These 100 DAILY WORDS in a British Accent! (MODERN RP)
Say These 100 DAILY WORDS in a British Accent! (MODERN RP)
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hello lovely students and welcome to your pronunciation
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training session today I am very excited
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to help you pronounce
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100 everyday words in my modern
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received pronunciation accent now I'm not just going to read
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a list of words to you to make this really
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fun productive and efficient
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for you I've divided the words
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into 10 categories each focusing
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on a specific specific
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feature of my accent
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or British everyday vocabulary
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I promise you that by the end of this pronunciation
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training session you will notice
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a marked difference in your
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pronunciation here is the
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plan step one I'll model
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each word for you
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first slowly and then faster
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repeat after me to practice
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and then step two
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we'll practice the words
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together in full sentences
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when I say together
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I mean that I'd like you to speak along
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with me at the same time
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why well this technique
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often called shadowing will help you to build
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fluency practice your English Rhythm
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and gain confidence in your beautifully
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accurate pronunciation it's a winwin
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win it'll also help you to notice how someone
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words change slightly when they're connected
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to other words I also want to remind you that you do not have
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to copy my accent to speak beautiful
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clear English the modern RP accent is just one example
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of British pronunciation this lesson is going to help you
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understand its key features
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while refining your own style
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and finding your own
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unique voice it is no secret
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that English pronunciation can be
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hard it can be really difficult to know where your strengths
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and weaknesses are and what steps you need to take to improve
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for this exact reason
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I have created an
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indepth free emphasis on free
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pronunciation level test it's totally online
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totally free it includes
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45 questions which will take you through from beginner
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to Advanced once you complete the test I will send your result to you
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via EMA email it's a fantastic
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way for you to discover just how clear and accurate your pronunciation
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is and identify any areas
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that would benefit from a bit of work
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how can I take this test
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I hear you ask
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well I've put the link in the description
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box and you can also scan
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that QR code there once you've completed the test
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you'll get an email with your results
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okay let's get started
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we're going to focus first on one
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key feature of my
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and many other British
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accents I don't pronounce
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the letter r at the end of a word or
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before consonant sounds so the letters
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e at the end of words
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usually sound like uh
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uh this sound is called the schah
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sound and it's the most common
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sound in English in most American
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accents these letters would sound more like
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er can you hear the
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uh let's practice with 10 common words
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with uh or e
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at the end remember to repeat after me I'll go slow first
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then fast one weather
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weather two three shoer
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eight whisper deliver and
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offer offer how did you find that here's something interesting
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I do usually pronounce
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the letter R when it comes before a vowel sound
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listen and compare the weather
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was awful the weather
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is awful did you hear the difference there let's practice some of these words
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in full sentences Shadow
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me I'll mark where I pronounced
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the r sound to help you the weather was awful
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so the Shopper asked the taxi driver
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to take her to the pub for a logger
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while she was having a n on the phone
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the room suddenly grew quieter
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and some people began to whisper
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about the heavy snow shower
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that was forecast pause
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and Replay that if you want to practice again the next sound we will
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focus on is in the final word
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of our last list
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offer offer o o
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so pull your tongue to the back of your mouth
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open the jaw slightly
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and round the lips
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o o in many North American
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accents this short o
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sounds more like a long
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o or a or o
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r so if you want to speak with modern RP
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keep this sound as a short burst
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o o offer here are 10 everyday
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words with this sound
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repeat after me often
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often remember you can also say
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opportunity what stop stop
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impossible and apology apology
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let's practice practice the sound in some full
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sentences Shadow me now
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in October she had the opportunity
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to fix the broken
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clock but said it was
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impossible without the right
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knowledge instead she stopped
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and offered her apologies
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rewind and Replay that if you'd like to practice again
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if not let's move on to our next sound
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which is super super
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British can you get guess
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what it is it's
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the glottal stop we make this sound
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by quickly closing the
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throat and then releasing
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the air it's like a tiny
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light cough it often replaces
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the T sound in the middle and at the end of a word
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but it can also appear in place of some other consonant
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sounds too we can represent
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this sound with this
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symbol now the use of the glottal stop
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is really irregular I don't tend to use it in the middle of words
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this is more a feature
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of other accents but there are a few
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where I do use it
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let's practice 10 glottal
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words repeat these words after
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but but about football
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hot hot backpack seat
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belt seat unfortunately flight
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flight and might now
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in most of these words
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I would only use the glossal stop
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in fast informal speech
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let's practice with a short text
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now Shadow me unfortunately
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the flight was hot
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but I might make it to the football
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game I actually inserted
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another glottal stop there in it
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I might make it
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again I just just want to reiterate
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this is very relaxed
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casual speech with my friends
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there is so much more to say about the glottal stop and when we
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use it in modern RP
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let me know if you'd like another video on that I could go into
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a lot of detail
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now let's look at
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y as in yes
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in British English we often insert
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a soft Y sound
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before the ooh vowel sound
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in words like newu
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many speakers from North America
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and other British dialects
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drop this yes sound
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so mu sounds more like
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new we can hear another important
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difference when the sounds
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T and Y appear
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together as they can combine
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to make a CH
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sound so Tuesday becomes
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Tuesday Tuesday similarly when
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D and Y combine
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they can become J
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as in junee let's practice some daily words
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with u CH and
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repeat after me the
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tube the Je juty
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costume and attitude and now
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Shadow me as I say some of these words in full
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sentence the enthusiastic student
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waited for the next
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tube feeling a bit
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stupid in his costume
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he'd heard on the news
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of possible delays due to upgrade
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works but felt a duty
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to keep a positive
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attitude now let's look at another sound which changes
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a lot depending on the region
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you're from it's it's
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O as in home
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if you want to pronounce
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this sound like I do
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start with the schah
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sound uh uh the one we practiced
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at the beginning of the lesson
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then smoothly Glide to an uh sound
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as in good uh
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o o when I make the o
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sound I often round
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my lip slightly at the end
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o o home let's practice
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o in 10 common
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words we have photo
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photo two there alone
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suppose Shad Shadow borrow
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and although Shadow me now
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although she usually enjoyed
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working remotely I suppose
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the winter shadows and snow
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made her feel more
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alone okay we're halfway through our
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100 Words and next we're going to practice the a
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sound as in car
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now I use this sound
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a lot but it's less common
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in the north of England
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and North America and that's because many words which have the r sound and
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aren't spelled with the letter R
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can be pronounced with a short
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a as in apple
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instead for example plant
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plant do you know which one you tend to use
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let's practice 10 words that I pronounce
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with the long a sound
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but you might often hear with the short
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a sound we have
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nasty charm contrast ready to Shadow me
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it was not by chance
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that they mastered the task
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quickly she laughed in contrast
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it was mastered after
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carefully examining answers and examples
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let's move on to the next section
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shortening a word by dropping a syllable
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is common in many accents
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but here are 10 words that the Brits
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would tend to shorten
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which many North Americans
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might not repeat after
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ordinary ordinary PRS cemetry
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cemetry category category now note
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I'm not saying that we always
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shorten these words I'm saying that we
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sometimes do especially in fast speech
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call the police call the police
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I could say either now because it's more common to drop syllables
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in full sentences when speaking
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very fast I'm going to read the next text a little bit faster to
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practice see if you can Shadow me you might need to rewind
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and try a couple of times
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the library is between the secondary
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school and the police station
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opposite the Indian restaurant
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perhaps they'll have a section on ordinary
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medicine okay our next section gets really tricky
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we're going to focus on some of the most commonly
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mispronounced words again I'm going to model these in my modern RP
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accent first we have
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receipt receipt q q
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Village and draw draw
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just one syllable there let's practice in a mini text
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Shadow me now I found the receipt for the suit
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biscuits and crisps I bought in the village
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in a drawer in the kitchen
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I went with a colleague to return them all on Wednesday
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but we had to wait in a massive
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queue for half an hour
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okay for our penultimate
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category let's have a go at some words which we often shorten
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when chatting to friends and family
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we copper copper Lou
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Lou prey prey Telly
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Telly yi Agro Agro
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and defo Deo now they are pretty slang
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do you want to try in some full
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sentences Shadow me I love watching the footy on the Telly with a copper
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my uni mates think I'm boring
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but they defo love it too
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and we're going to finish today's lesson
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with 10 words that can sound
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very different in my British accent
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and North American English
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for this final category
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I've enlisted the help of one of my fabulous
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teachers Joel who speaks English with a general
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American accent he speaks
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beautifully I always try to get Joel to record things for our courses
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so I'll say the word first
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and then you'll hear
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Joel's very different pronunciation
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we have rout route
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vase V privacy privacy
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data data vitamin vitamin
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Leisure Leisure yogurt yogurt
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Premier Premiere hostile hostile
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and inquiry okay Shad me now on route to the film Premiere
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we discovered that our data
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had been shared and our privacy
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intruded upon the inquiry
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concluded it was a hostile
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act shall we hear Joel
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route to the film Premiere
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we discovered that our data had been shared
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and our privacy intruded
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upon the inquiry concluded
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it was a hostile
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act fantastic okay that brings us to the end of today's lesson
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were there any big surprises
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for you which were your favorite and least favorite words to pronounce
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let me know in the comments
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also if you're really interested
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in improving your pronunciation
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and want to know
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where you are with your current level
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don't forget about my new
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free online pronunciation level test
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the link is in the description
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box and you can scan the QR code there I really hope you enjoyed
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today's lesson I'll see you in the next one
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