English Words You’re Probably Mispronouncing ❌Difficult English Pronunciation | Rachel’s English

I guarantee you that you are not saying these

words

correctly in American English. We have a set of common

words

and native speakers tend to pronounce them one way and non-native speakers pronounce them another way. Today I am going to tell you what these words are. and how Americans pronounce them. I have been teaching English for 20 years. Yes, I am that age. I see my students make mistakes like these almost every day. We'll start with an example, then we'll go over the rules and a bunch more examples, okay, let's start with this word, you might be thinking, wait, that's a really easy word, there's no way I'm pronouncing it wrong, you know what , let's do some more examples here from the beginning, this word, this word and also. this word look all these words have something in common the mistake that students make is the same all these words have more than one

pronunciation

native speakers almost always make the short

pronunciation

and non-native speakers almost always make the long pronunciation and that sounds less natural we have family or family interesting or interesting comfortable or comfortable vegetable or vegetable by making the pronunciation shorter yourself you will sound more natural speaking English and also good news the shorter pronunciation is easier so it's not fam oh read but it's fam read alone two syllables family family you say it with three syllables family pronounce it with two you will sound more natural we are going to listen to ten Americans saying this word part of the story of how my family ended up in California to have to balance work and family, all a tremendous social cost for your children, for your family and for your peers, so it turns out that in the average single-family home in the US, oxytocin makes you crave physical contact with your friends and family, fellow residents, family nurses, volunteers, i loved growing up in a big family his family in bangladesh begged him to come home many of my family and friends think what i do every last interest in your personal life and your family life be the most wonderful family two syllable family family fam read say that with me family forget the prayers let's just listen to the word family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family family that's a lot of family you hear it so many times and you you realize wow, this is what native speakers usually do two syllable family simple family what about vegetables? with vegetable first syllable accent, well, let's go to Euglish to see and hear many examples, it could be vegetable oils, it could be a really controversial ingredient called brominated vegetable oil, to summarize, 1 8 of water per pound of vegetable produced, for what are things like vegetable peelers or spatulas my students made a garden for the town is that she worked at a vegetable stand you know sometimes you want that meat and sometimes you just want vegetables sometimes you want both beautiful flowers a small garden in the corner and half of what you eat should be a fruit or vegetable one in four meals contains an unprocessed vegetable vegetable three-syllable vegetable vegetable say that with me vegetable now again let's just listen to the word, not the whole sentence you'll really feel that rhythm three syllables vegetable vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables vegetables three syllables simple this word I hear my students pronounce it interesting interesting four syllables now there are a couple of ways Native speakers pronounce this word in American English, but the most common by far is intra sting interesting, so by doing this they remove the vowel between t and r, so now we have a group tr which is often pronounced chr, so You may hear a ch sound. in this word intra sting let's go to Euglish and listen to Americans pronounce this word as expansive and interesting.

I thought it would be interesting to start something that is really interesting to me, but instead of traveling to far away and interesting places. It was interesting because when we analyze the data, when I work with other people, I think a lot of new and interesting things come out of that. What I find interesting, Moby, is that there is some very interesting work and I looked around and interesting, so I think the things that I find most interesting interesting or intra sting, you might hear a real t instead of the ch, Although ch is more common interesting or interesting now, from time to time you will hear a native speaker make these four syllables and in that case there is a good chance that you will not hear that tea, it is interesting, it is common to drop a t after n, so that's what happens here.

I noticed Rick Steves doing this while he was listening to examples, but it's actually pretty interesting. He is in Gibraltar. quite interesting quite interesting but what I want you to learn from this is to just go with the most common pronunciation change your habit not interesting but interesting interesting let's just listen to this word many times interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting interesting say that with me interesting interesting well comfortable I hear my students say comfortable four syllables how native speakers say it uh it's safe and comfortable and common and it's not genuine or or comfortable so I think it's time for us to be comfortable with the uncomfortable conversation you go ahead and sit in your comfortable chair but we are not that comfortable either assertive confident and comfortable I hope it is that we all feel more comfortable because if they are comfortable they can receive your message, it was

difficult

to find a comfortable job and just find out what you're comfortable with, but comfortable, three syllables, first syllable stress, comforter, you may hear t as well as d, both are common, d is

probably

more common every Occasionally you'll hear a speaker native pronounce this in four syllables, but you don't always simplify it to three syllables. comfortable, let's hear just this word many times. comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable, comfortable.

Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Comfortable Say that with me Comfortable Comfortable Well, then how are you supposed to know which words you can drop a syllable in? Is it chocolate or do most Americans say chocolate? Buy some. popcorn, chocolate on your shoes, you know, if you like chocolate, beautiful gourmet chocolate, let's say the chocolate tastes like chocolate milk, it's totally delicious within three days, I'll gorge on ice cream or chocolate cake, okay , so it's two syllables, chocolate, good. Is it a favorite or favorite? I'll share with you my favorite poem, Chief Tecumseh, but my favorite effect on the body is actually on the heart.

They're evenly matched and this is my favorite example of superstar dentists saying their favorite song. outside of your repertoire my favorite way to reveal I speak the language through one of my favorite writers and okay, so it's the two favorite syllables, there's no absolute rule because there are very few absolute rules in American English pronunciation, but There are some guidelines that can help you know when to drop a syllable when we drop a sound or a syllable like this, it's called syncope, the example given here is

probably

this word is pronounced often, probably two syllables, I probably have a video specifically on that word. link to it in the video description but that doesn't actually follow the rule, like I said it's not a perfect rule it's more of a guide and the guide is that an unstressed vowel can be removed if the next sound is r l or a nasal consonant m n ng let's see the words that we already studied family that was an unstressed vowel followed by m yes it follows that vegetable pattern here the deleted vowel was not followed by r l or a nasal consonant so that one does not follow the interesting patterns that one Was the unstressed vowel followed by r comfortable, also followed by r favorite, followed by r chocolate followed by l?

Follow the guideline. Now I'm going to go over some more common words here that have two different pronunciations, one of which is shortened and the other. a more common one, we will not look for them in English, but I invite you to do so. It's a great way to research how Americans pronounce different words and phrases. Two different syllables, not different, but different. Say that with me a different camera should. be camera say that with me camera catholic we say that catholic two syllables say that with me catholic interest again we say this is two syllables interest this is like shorten interesting interest say that with me interest listen is listen often listen say that with me listening note the t is silent there that is not part of syncope that is just the pronunciation even in the complete pronunciation of the word that is silence memory is often mem re memory says that with me memory travel ling often travels two syllables says that with me it travels natural is often natural only two syllables try that with me natural actually often pronounced ak li three syllables instead of four actually rest wandering is often restaurant two syllables and sometimes you'll hear a ch because of that group tr restaurant restaurant try that with me restaurant sep uh rit is usually two separate syllables says that with me is separated several is often several says that with me several temperatures is often temperature temperature says that with me temperature now here is a word that is not a syncope but it is a word that is often mispronounced by non-native speakers because they put an extra syllable in it biz nes, it looks like it should have an extra syllable in the middle but that's not the actual pronunciation, it's a two syllable word business business, both syllables have the if owl although one is written with the letter u and the other is written with the letter e business, let's say with me, business, this is also true for everyone, the actual pronunciation is not three syllables, that is not what you will see in a dictionary, but I Yeah.

I hear my students say that sometimes the pronunciation is two syllables, every time I try it with me, every time, okay, now the guidelines I gave you remind me that some of the syncope we studied did not follow these guidelines. Well there are a lot of words that have an unstressed vowel followed by one of these consonants where we don't remove it, that's why I didn't really want to call it a rule, for example someone asked me about the word lottery, there is an unstressed vowel, the schwa followed of the r, but we wouldn't drop that syllable making it a two-syllable word, much.

This is still a three-syllable word lottery, so this is something you have to learn as you go as you learn new words and figure out how Americans pronounce things if you're ever unsure about going to Youglish. and listen to 25 different people pronouncing the word. They may not all be exactly the same, but you can see which pronunciation is the most common. Can you think of a syncope that wasn't mentioned in this video? Put it in the comments below now I'm going to play the video spin the wheel the next video I think you should watch is this one YouTube suggests I don't even know what it is it will be different for everyone and I think it's funny don't do it .

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