hey what's up Stefanie the English coach here from EnglishFullTime.com
in this video I'm going to pronounce some difficult words for you to help
with your pronunciation so the first one is clothes as in I'm wearing clothes ok
good thing oh man ok so yeah I'm wearing clothes now the thing about this word is
it sounds exactly like close the door some people will say no it's not it
sounds completely different or there there is a difference but I've noticed
that like in British English or in Australian English there might be a
little bit of a difference but in American English there is not we say
clothes like put on some clothes take off your clothes whatever oh my gosh
this is so inappropriate the same way we say close the door ok next honestly
honestly that T is silent we say hones-ly we don't say honest ly ok honestly
next important important that one is difficult because you're stopping sounds
in the back of your throat you're not saying important or important
okay you're saying import import import important important ok
you can emphasize the end a little bit more if you want you can say important
important or you can say important I think it sounds the same the way I said
in the beginning honestly ok just important that's how we say it important
important opportunity opportunity oppor opportunity tunity opportunity
opportunity opportunity this video is a great opportunity for you to practice
your pronunciation oh yeah I'm embarrassing myself ok antibiotic
antibiotic that cream is an antibiotic Anna Anna Anna biotic that's crazy
because it looks like antibiotic or antibiotic or something like that but we
don't even say it like that we say Anna biotic it's an antibiotic overwhelmed I
bet you feel overwhelmed right now with this video over whelmed overwhelmed over
over overwhelmed am i are you getting do you get it you
get it okay let's move on over whelmed wait let me think about why
this would be difficult for people over whelmed I think it's because of the R
and the D at the end probably overwhelmed over whelmed overwhelmed are
you overwhelmed I hope not I hope this video is not making you overwhelmed
irresistible irre irre irre sistible so ear uh uh sista uh uh bowl oh oh
okay I'm emphasizing some of these sounds for you because when we say it
quickly it's hard for people to pick them up but there's an uh-uh in there and
an oh-oh okay and one day I'm gonna make a video about this dark L because
it's strange it's how do I say this I don't know if people ever really
explained to you how to make this correctly okay
next squirrel squirrel all all squirrel squirrel congratulations
shins shins congratulations congrat congrat congratulate
congratulations congratulations and you know what if that's too hard just say
congrats congrats alright you don't need to say congratulations
mm-hmm extraordinary extraordinary this looks like Extra Ordinary okay but that
is not what we say we say wow that's extraordinary okay so I'm saying it
extraordinary extraordinary Denari Denari duh duh nari
extraordinary vocabulary vocabulary believe it or not I've heard a lot of
even English teachers mispronouncing this word so vocabulary b-yuh b-yuh b-yuh
bulary vocabulary bulary vocabulary bulary b-yuh-lary graduation graduation
graduation graduate he is a graduate grad jyou grad jyou jyou jyou grad jyou it he's
a graduate we just went to his graduation graduation unemployed
unemployed un im unemployed ploid unemployed I hope you're not unemployed
a so wait mmm how do I say this Association Association Association shinshin Association cia shin
associate so cia so cia shin Association Association Association artist artist
think about ar and then dist with a D dist artist artist he is an excellent
wait he is an extraordinary artist there that way we can you know incorporate
what we learned earlier in the lesson he is an extraordinary artist
congratulations he is a graduate as an never mind never
mind okay moving on if you see that I keep looking down it's because I'm
looking at my phone cuz this is where my words are so little explanation
serendipity seren seren serendipity un dipity un dipity serendipity dipity
dipity that's actually pretty fun to say serendipity serendipity battery battery
batter batter battery I just had to stick a new battery in my microphone cuz
the other one died battery unbelievable on unbeliev believe able able
unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable you know what the when we
say it quickly the N and the M it's it's kind it's not really an unbelievable
like an N it almost turns into an M I realize that's unbelievable um
believable that's unbelievable that's unbelievable unbelievable anyways
as long as it sounds right I guess it doesn't really matter how you're making
this out because I can say that's unbelievable
or I can say that's unbelievable and it actually sounds exactly the same but I
am making the sounds a little bit differently okay so as long as it sounds
how it's supposed to sound who cares how you make it
sixth sixth the sixth I don't know this is the sixth something six-th that is an awkward one the
sixth day the sixth homework assignment the sixth attempt at making this video
oh just kidding okay the word just I want you guys to know that when I say
this word in connected speech I usually don't say just I say just that's just
weird that's just weird I guess that example is good enough I was trying to
think of others but anyways I use this word all the time I should be able to
think of this pretty easily anyways so just instead of saying just just say
just that's just weird just just just that's just weird okay so
that's it I hope this video was helpful go ahead and check out the links in the
description because I always have extra resources there for you as well as this
list of words for you to look at and you know read that's all I'll see you in the
this is something that though I'm recording I know you said pictures oh my
gosh that's so inappropriate anyways this is my oh I can't even make this
video my god it's pretty it looks great okay this is what I was trying to say in
the other video that this is one of the things excuse me Renzo I am trying
to make a video okay it's 48 degrees Fahrenheit right now what is that in
Celsius Ren I don't know freaking cold that's what it is not that cold but it's cold it's like 10*C
I'm bundled this is Renzo's sweater cuz I'm so cold and let's take a look at Ren
Renzo are you cold over there huh apparently he's not cold he's wearing
shorts and a sweater I don't believe him so if he gets pneumonia tomorrow is a shirt not a sweater we
will I said sweater oops I meant shirt we will all know why let the record state
that I warned him he would get sick do you guys think he's gonna get sick
that you can use that pattern for lots of different types of sentences