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Let's shadow real-life English situations while practicing the words that are difficult to pronounce.
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Now, let's start.
The day I missed my bus in Mountain Town.
I woke up at 6.30 in a small mountain town.
I looked outside and saw an eagle flying above the mountains.
The view was literally incredible.
I thought to myself, I think This is one of the coolest places in the world.
All right?
If you had trouble pronouncing Think versus this.
Remember, think you blow.
And you put your tongue in between your teeth.
Think.
Now for this, we blow and vibrate the same position of our tongue.
This.
Feel your throat and say, think.
No vibrations.
Now vibrate.
This.
Perfect.
Another good word to practice is mountain.
Because we don't always pronounce mountain. as mountain.
When we're speaking quickly, we can say mountain, mountain, mountain, mountain.
It's like you're cutting out the T. Mountain.
That's a beautiful mountain over there.
I live in mountain town.
Last one.
L-i-t-e-r-a-ly.
The T sounds more like a D. L-i-t-e-r-a-ly.
Literally. literally.
And the A is literally.
All right.
Next part.
I walked through the town and stopped at a small coffee.
The woman working there smiled and said Good morning.
Are you visiting these mountains for the first time?
I said, yes.
I thought.
I would stay for two days, but now I think I might stay longer.
She laughed and said, those are usually the first words visitors say.
All right?
Let's practice some words here.
Visiting.
Visiting sounds like a Z, not an S. Not visiting.
Visiting.
Now we have another word there, laughed.
Laughed has two things I want to mention.
G-H in English makes the f sound.
Laugh, cough, rough, tough.
And in this particular ED ending we pronounce it t.
Any ending of a verb with the th sound sounds like t when we add ED.
So laugh, present, laughed in the past.
When we add ed, it can either make the t, d, or ed sound.
In this case, it's t. And let's practice one more.
Visitors.
Visitors.
Visitors.
Not visitors.
Visitors.
Even though it looks like it would sound like or.
It's er.
Alright, next part.
A few minutes later, an older man sat next to me.
He started showing me the yarn he uses to knit.
He explained for so long that I started to yawn.
When someone talks about yarn I yawn.
All right, let's go through these two words.
Yarn versus yawn.
Yarn.
Er, er. yawn, yarn.
So we roll the tongue, yarn, and yawn.
It's like saying aww, yarn.
And remember, the K silent in knit.
Just like no.
Alright, next page.
After we finished talking, I walked through the town again.
I passed a bookstore and saw a sign that said, One word can change your life.
I stopped and read it twice.
One word can change your world.
I really liked that.
All right, we have some big ones here, starting with town.
Town.
Ow.
Town.
Word.
Word.
Like nerd.
Heard.
Word.
Not ward.
Word.
And world.
World.
Like twirl, curl, world.
One word can change your world.
Practice this one.
It's important.
All right, next page.
Later that afternoon, I climbed a nearby mountain trail.
At the top I saw another eagle flying across the sky.
I literally stood there. for 10 minutes watching it.
The air was cool.
Everything was quiet.
And for a moment, I forgot about work, deadlines, and my phone.
All right?
So.
Trail.
Trail.
It's difficult to pronounce the T. To rail.
So say trail.
It sounds more natural. trail.
Now next one, eagle.
It's not the same as ego.
E-gle.
E-gle.
And literally.
Also, something someone mentioned on Instagram.
Cool.
Maybe you're pronouncing it cool.
If you want to sound more natural, you could say cool.
It's like adding a wo at the end.
Cool.
Cool.
It sounds more like a native would say cool.
But I think that it doesn't matter.
I think an accent is what makes you unique and it's what connects you to your native language.
It doesn't matter if you have an accent.
Accents are beautiful, in my opinion.
But if you want to sound native, that's how you can say cool.
All right, our last page.
As the sun started to set, I sat on a bench and thought about something.
Would I rather live in a place like this or leave and continue traveling?
I wasn't sure but I knew one thing.
This was a day I would remember for a very long time.
Alright, we have actually three big ones here.
I wanted to mention one I didn't say.
Live.
So there's live and live.
The same spelling, different pronunciation.
Live I live in Mexico.
I am going live on YouTube.
I will leave tomorrow. live live leave leave All right.
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