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hi everyone welcome back to lingoni

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English my name is Haley and today we're

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focusing on improving one of the hardest

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skills for English

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Learners

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pronunciation whether you're struggling

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with certain sounds stress patterns or

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just want to sound more fluent this

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video is for

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you first let's tackle the tricky th

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sound in English we have two types of th

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sounds first the voiced Z as in this and

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that and two the voiceless th as in

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think and

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thanks to practice place your tongue

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between your teeth and either vibrate

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your vocal cords for the voiced version

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Z or just blow air out for the voice

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list next let's talk about vowels

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English has many vowel sounds that just

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don't exist in other

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languages one common problem is

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confusing the the sounds of ship and

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sheep you know ship has a short I short

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I I sound and sheep has a long e e sound

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so make sure you hold the e sound longer

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to avoid confusion ship

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sheep English is a stress timed language

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which means that some syllables are

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stressed more than others for example

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contract the noun versus contract the

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verb it's pretty important to know where

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to place the stress because it can

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completely change the meaning of the

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word intonation is all about the rise

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and fall of your voice in questions for

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example you your pitch often Rises at

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the end like are you coming to the

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party but in statements it usually

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Falls I'm going to the

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party pay attention to these patterns

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when you're

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speaking those are five essential

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pronunciation tips to help you sound

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more natural in English but if you want

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to keep improving the lingoni English

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app has tons of exercises and a

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pronunciation tool to help you work on

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those tricky sounds thanks for watching