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English is known for its difficult

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pronunciations but you don't need to

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worry after watching this video you can

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be confident in your English

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pronunciation hi everyone and welcome

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back to lingoni English my name is Emily

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and in this video I'll teach you the

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most common pronunciation difficulties

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in English to make you sound like a

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native speaker let's get

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started the th sound the th sound is the

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first sound we are going to look at

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because a lot of people have trouble

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with it but I promise it's not that bad

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let's start with the word

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think think to make the th sound you

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just stick your tongue slightly out from

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your teeth and almost bite down on it a

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little

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think

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think

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th

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th practice doing that with me a few

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times think think let's try it with

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another word three three

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three

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three can you practice think

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three

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think

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three very good here's a few more words

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third third the the then

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then they

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they now as you prac practice you don't

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have to be as dramatic with your tongue

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poking out of your teeth when you're

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speaking regularly it doesn't do it so

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much but it's a good place to start

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practicing a little bit more dramatic in

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practice will help you when you're

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speaking naturally because it doesn't

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come out as dramatic as when you

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practice so for example watch me say

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this sentence the three teachers think

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about things on

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Thursdays the three teachers think about

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things on

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Thursdays as you can see for the most

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part my tongue isn't the whole time it's

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just slightly touching my teeth like

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this but when you're practicing it's

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always a little bit better to be more

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dramatic so why don't we say this

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sentence together the three teachers

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think think about things on

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Thursdays the three teachers think about

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things on

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Thursdays keep saying that to practice

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that movement with your mouth okay

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moving on to the r sound this is another

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tricky pronunciation problem for English

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Learners let's practice with the word

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red red

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red the beginning of the sound is

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R it's quite difficult to make in the

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beginning but just like with the th

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practice making it over

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dramatic okay let's continue adding it

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to more words

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red

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red

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rain

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rain

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rain

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run

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run

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rock

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rock

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rice

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rice

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rose

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rose okay here's a tough sentence for

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you the Red Rabbit ran rapidly down the

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rocky

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road the Red Rabbit ran rapidly down the

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rocky

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road the Red Rabbit ran

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rapidly down the rocky

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road practice saying that sentence a few

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more times too I know in the beginning

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it's really difficult but but practice

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will make it easier but wait what about

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write like I'm writing a book write well

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that brings us to our next Point silent

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letters in English we also have silent

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letters which makes pronunciation very

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difficult for new English speakers but

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I'm here to give you some hints on when

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you see them and how to pronounce them

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or not let's look at write write I write

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in my book I write you write he writes

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she

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writes the W in right is silent so it's

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just that R sound we just learned

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another one is knock

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knock did you hear someone knocking

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on the door knock it is not KN knock no

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almost always K N is a silent k knock

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knee etc for example ouch I hurt my knee

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I hurt my knee there's also hour I don't

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mean hour hour I mean hour with an H

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I'll be home in 2 hours I'll be home in

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2

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hours

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comb

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comb this time the silent letter is at

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the end of the word I'm combing my hair

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comb

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half

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half this one's tricky because the

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silent letter is in the middle there is

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a silent l in half so it's not half it's

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half half I'm so full I ate half the

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pizza I ate half the

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pizza another middle silent letter

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listen

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listen it's not listen it's

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listen so did you listen to my

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pronunciation

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of the word

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listen

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listen that one has a silent T right in

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the middle of the word now before I wrap

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this video up let's talk about one more

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pronunciation problem in English and

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that's the V and W sounds these can be

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confusing because for some listeners

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they sound quite similar listen up to

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see if you can hear a difference very

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very

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very

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wet

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wet

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wet now when you hear them next to each

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other it's a lot more obvious now let's

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look at the V sound one more time

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very your teeth go on top of your bottom

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lip and you make a v v v you vibrate it

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feels kind of funny when you do it like

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that v v v so

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very very he was very happy to see his

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sister now let's look at the W again

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w

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w

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wet W you make your lips in kind of a

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little pinched o w w and open them w w

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wet wet so please remove your wet shoes

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before entering my home W so v v v w w w

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water wet

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white okay great so that's it for this

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lesson I hope you learned a lot about

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pronunciation and just remember practice

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makes perfect so keep practicing what

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you've learned and in no time this will

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be easy for you I promise if you need a

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little bit more practice check us out at

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ling.com there we have interactive

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exercises and worksheets for this lesson

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and all the other lessons we teach we

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also offer vocab training and podcasts

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to help you improve your English we

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can't wait to see you there and we'll

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see you in our next video bye