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Speak English Now Podcast: Learn English | Speak English without grammar.

#159 English pronunciation practice - Difficult words

Speak English Now Podcast: Learn English | Speak English without grammar.

Georgiana

Education, Language Learning

4.6536 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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  • Today, we will practice some of the most difficult words to pronounce in English.
  • Words that start with "th" as in this or that and words that end in "ly" as in constantly or definitely." And with a mini-story, you will improve your fluency.

English pronunciation can be a big problem for some English students. And their native language determines, for the most part, what types of difficulties students will have. 

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Georgiana, and I'm back with a new episode. I'm here to help you speak English fluently.

0:11.0

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0:20.6

Before we start, get the transcript.

0:24.4

Visit speakenglishpodcast.com slash podcast.

0:31.7

Okay, let's start.

0:35.8

Today we will practice some of the most difficult words to pronounce in English.

0:42.6

Words that start with TH as in this or that, and words that in in Lee, as in constantly or definitely.

0:51.5

And with a mini-story, you will improve your fluency English

0:56.0

pronunciation can be a big problem for some English students and their native

1:02.4

language determines for the most part what types of difficulties students

1:08.4

will have however most English students worldwide find it difficult to pronounce

1:15.1

words that start with TH. TH H is one of the hardest sounds to pronounce, and we pronounce it in three

1:25.1

different ways, as z, as in this, that, these, those, they, or them.

1:35.7

We also pronounce it as the voiceless, as in three. thing, thought.

1:46.6

Some students often say that, instead of that.

1:51.8

But we also pronounce it as a T, as in Thai.

1:56.8

I've asked my students what words they found difficult and many of them were words beginning with

2:04.6

TH. The words were thought, through, three, threatened, throughout, and theft. I will give an example for each word.

2:20.3

But first, let's pronounce them one by one.

2:25.8

Listen and repeat.

2:28.2

Thought.

2:30.0

Through.

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