The Most Mispronounced Words in Tech [part 1]

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Accent's Way English with Hadar


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Hey guys! It's Hadar. And this is the Accent's Way.
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And today I have a list for you of the
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top ten words for tech professionals.
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What are tech professionals? Let me tell you.
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We have IT professionals and developers.
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And software engineers; and I have a list
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cause I asked my friend, because I have no idea. We have big data developers,
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devop, full staff team leaders, automation
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engineers, infrastructure administrators, product managers,
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project managers, scientists, senior algorithm developers.
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Senior algorithm developers.
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[exhales]
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So let's get started.
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Algorithm.
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Al-g'ri-th'm notice it's not al-go-ri-th'm.
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There is no O. /a/ as in cat.
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Primary stress on the first syllable. Al-g'
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-ri-th'm. And don't forget to stick the tongue
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out for the TH.
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Developer. Primary stress
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is on the second syllable. D-ve-l'. There is no O.
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D'-ve-l'-p'r. No E either.
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D'-ve-l'-p'r.
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Editor. Here the T is a
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flat T. and the flat T sounds just
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like a D in the middle of the word between two vowels.
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So actually you have two sounds here that sound exactly the same. Listen..
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E-d'-d'r. The I is a schwa, the O is a schwa.
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So both of them are reduced and they sound the same. Listen...
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E-d'-d'r. Not e-di-tor.
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Editor. Primary stress on the first syllable. This is where
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you go high in pitch. Editor
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Automation.
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Aa-d'-may-sh'n. I think the most important
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feature here is the flat T cause there is no
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D. It actually sounds like a D.
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Aa-d'-. Not aa-to-may-sh'n, but
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aa-d'-may. Primary stress
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aa-d'may-sh'n. Sh'n at the end.
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Automation.
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Architecture.
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Primary stress is on the first syllable /ar/, as in car.
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Then we have the /k/ sound. Ar-ki
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like kid. Tek. Technology.
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Ar-ki-tek. Ch as in chips.
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Ch'r. Ch'r. Ch'r. Bring the tongue up immediately for the R.
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Ch'r.
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Firewall.
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Ugh, who invented this word? It is so difficult. Start with fai-y
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you have a ya sound there. Fai-y- r
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and then the trick here is to
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shift from the R to the W. What's the difference?
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For the R the tongue is up fay-y'r
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and for the "waal" your lips are rounded but the tongue is down.
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If you keep the tongue up because
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it's very comfortable then it's going to sound weird
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and muffled. Fai-y'r-wol.l
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Round your lips for the R, bring the tongue up
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fai-y'r and then bring it down
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wa. Open your mouth for the /aa/ as in father.
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Waal and then bring the tongue up again
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for the dark L.
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Fai-y'r-waal.
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Waal. Aal, aal. Waal.
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Hardware.
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Software. Two things you wanna remember about this one.
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It's a set phrase, so the first word
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is going to be a little higher in pitch and slower.
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Hard-wer.
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Saa-ft-wer. The second part is
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not reduced. It's not hard-were
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like "we were working", but where.
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As in "where are you?" Hard-wer.
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So you need to slow it down here a little bit.
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Again, not hard-were and saaft-wer.
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Take your time, stretch the words, open your mouth.
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Framework. Lots of r's.
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Start with the nice strong R, round your lips:
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fray, /ei/ as in day, fraym-w'rk.
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Here you have no O
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so it's not w'ork. Work. Round your lips for the W and then pull the
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tongue in immediately for an R. W'rk.
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It's a set phrase - like high school. Frame is
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going to be a little higher in pitch. Fraym-w'rk. Framework.
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Server.
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It is not "ser-ver".
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"s'r-v'r". So here
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both vowels are the same. S'r as in "yes sir".
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No S sound in the middle. Shift from the S to the R directly. S'r
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and then from the V to the R directly. They rhyme.
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S'r-v'r. Primary stress on the first syllable.
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S'r-v'r. V'r, v'r. Server.
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It's a pleasure to server you.
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Infrastructure.
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Infrastructure.
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So before saying this word just take a deep breath.
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Infrastructure. Primary stress is on the first
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syllable and then a lot of reduced syllables.
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In-fr'-struk-ch'r.
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In-fr'-struk-ch'r.
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That's it guys. Thank you for watching.
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Now, how should you remember all that? For that I prepared a
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pronunciation cheat-sheet and audio recording.
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So go to my website and download those two.
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So you can practice it every day until you say these words perfectly.
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Also, I have another video of top ten words
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for tech professionals. So subscribe to my channel
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to get notified when I release this video.
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Thank you for watching. Have a great week and I'll see you
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next week in the next video.
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Bye.
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