485. Difficult Words to Pronounce in English (with Paul Taylor) Part 1

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Listen to Paul Taylor and me discussing the tricky relationship between spelling and pronunciation. There are lots of jokes, impressions, funny accents and useful comments about this important area of the English language. Use this episode to avoid some very common mistakes in English pronunciation, and try not to laugh on the bus while you're listening!

Check the episode page for word lists, transcriptions and my video of 40+ difficult words to pronounce in English.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome to the podcast. I'd just like to let you know here at the beginning
0:04.4	that I'm doing another teacher talk at the British Council in Paris on October the 19th, that's
0:11.5	Thursday October the 19th at 7 p.m. and I'll be talking about British
0:16.8	humour. I did that talk earlier this year and I'm doing it again. So the aim of the
0:22.1	talk is to try and explain British humour
0:24.8	and I'll be giving examples of what British humour is and also talking about how that relates
0:30.6	to our communication style in English.
0:33.7	Everybody's welcome to come.
0:35.0	If you're not in Paris, then don't worry.
0:37.0	You can still watch the talk
0:39.3	because it's going to be live streamed
0:41.5	on the British Council France Facebook page.
0:45.0	Now if you're in Paris and you'd like to come, all you need to do is register your name
0:50.0	on the British Council's website. It's completely free and you can bring a friend if you want.
0:55.8	You just need to make sure that that friend is going to be able to understand me.
0:59.6	The link to register your name is British Council dot F.R slash EN slash events.
1:08.0	Just go there and find my talk and then register your name.
1:11.5	But as I said if you can't, it will be live streamed on Facebook.
1:15.4	How do you see that? How are you going to see that? Well, you just need to go to British Council France on Facebook.
1:22.1	And then on the 19th of October at 7 p.m. Paris time that Central European
1:29.2	time the live stream should begin and then you'll be able to basically get a front row seat at
1:36.1	this talk. Those are the details of my talk which is called What Is This British
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