Hi everyone and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy and this is our 194th episode.

Sorry this episode is late, I've been very sick for a number of weeks now. With any luck, I am now

past. This year's cold and this year's flu. My voice has returned, and I'm back.

I was talking to my friend Steve from Pro-E-SL last week, and he was kind enough to share a list of lone words that he practices

with his pronunciation students.

Lone words are words from other languages that have made their way into everyday English.

They often keep a spelling that reflects their pronunciation in their first language, but their pronunciation

is also somewhat anglicized according to the rules and patterns and sounds of English.

The fact that they're both foreign and English can make the pronunciation of loan words

very uncertain to non-native English speakers.

To begin with, let's take some words that come from French,

the language that has one of the largest numbers of loan words into English.

I'm going to say the word as it's pronounced in English,

but to make it easier for you, I'm also going to say the word as it's pronounced in English, but to make it easier for you,

I'm also going to add the international phonetic spelling to the transcript for this show.

You can find the transcripts by going to www.org.com slash podcast, then click Episode 194.

I'll use a transcription based on what's in the second edition of the Longman

pronunciation dictionary.

Here are 15 loanwords from French and some pronunciation tips for each word to help you with its English pronunciation.

Number 1. Amateur. Amat-E-U-R.

Stress the first syllable and notice that there's a C-H sound in the middle of this word,

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