006: Pig vs. Pick, How to Understand People from all over the World, and more
Conversation & Pronunciation: Learn English with The Rachel's English Podcast
Rachel's English
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
I answer your pressing questions on English pronunciation, how to understand people from all over the world, the Flap T, and more, with the help of my amazing sidekick (and husband!) David.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Rachel's English podcast, made especially for non-native speakers, |
| 0:09.4 | where we study the way Americans really speak. My goal is for you to listen to this podcast every week |
| 0:15.8 | and sound more natural when speaking English and improve your listening comprehension. |
| 0:20.8 | In today's episode, my husband David and I are answering questions about pronunciation. more natural when speaking English and improve your listening comprehension. |
| 0:21.3 | In today's episode, my husband David and I are answering questions about pronunciation that |
| 0:26.0 | have been posted to my YouTube channel. |
| 0:28.5 | All right guys, welcome to another question and answer, a Q&A podcast from Rachel's English. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm here with my husband David, who is so generously given his time for this. Hey everybody. |
| 0:38.3 | And let's just jump right in. |
| 0:40.3 | These questions are all coming in from YouTube. |
| 0:43.3 | YouTube comments. All right, David, fire away. |
| 0:46.3 | Okay. So, Kubaro has a question. |
| 0:49.3 | Can you help me on pronouncing pig and pick? |
| 0:53.3 | Okay, so we have P-I-G, the animal pig, and we have P-I-C-K, the verb, pick. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, so I'm just, I'm putting David on the spot here, but as someone who is a native speaker but never needs to think about pronunciation, |
| 1:13.5 | what do you think? How would you describe the difference between those two? Well, first of all, |
| 1:17.8 | I was like, wait, what do you mean? Those are completely different words because I was looking at |
| 1:22.5 | them. But now when I'm thinking about the sound, I can see it. |
| 1:28.0 | So you're saying how would I describe the difference? |
| 1:31.1 | Yeah, if you had to answer this person's question, what would you say? |
| 1:34.1 | Pig and pick. |
| 1:35.6 | Pig, pick. |
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