10 TV shows you’re (probably) mispronouncing

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Accent's Way English with Hadar


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Hey there!
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It's Hadar and this is the Accent's Way.
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Today we're going to talk about the most complicated names of TV shows out there
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- complicated for non-native speakers - and how to pronounce them correctly.
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This is a list that you actually came up with after I posted about it on Facebook.
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So, let's get started.
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Stranger Things.
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STREIN-j'r thin[g]z.
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Three syllables.
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The first syllable is STREIN.
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You start with S and then you move on to the TR.
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The TR sounds sort of like a CH sound - STRAY.
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Then it's the A as in 'day'.
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So it's not stre-, stre-.
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STREIN-, and then you close it with an N.
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STREIN.
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The next syllable is -GER /ʤər/.
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You start with a G sound and you move directly to the R.
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-ʤər, ʤər.
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There is no vowel in between.
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STRAIN-ger.
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And then, the last word is THINGS.
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Stick the tongue up for the TH, relaxed 'I', THINGS, and end it with a Z,
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because the S is pronounced as a Z.
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THINGS, Stranger Things.
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They should have never given us uniforms if they didn't want us to be an army.
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The Handmaid's Tale.
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Like any good complicated word, we start with a TH.
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th', th'.
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Make sure that the vowel after is very reduced.
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So it's not 'the' - 'th'.
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Then you move on to the H.
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HAND.
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If you tend to not pronounce the H, be sure to pronounce it.
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You need to release air from your throat.
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It's like a whisper - /h/, the H-h-and.
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Then you move on to the A sound that is slightly modified.
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Drop your jaw, listen: heah, heah.
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You hear this transition?
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Do it!
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'The hand'.
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Then it's an N and a D.
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But because there is an M right after - 'The Hand- maids', right - th-'HAN-meidz.
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So the D is swallowed.
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You don't say 'The HanDmade', you don't have fully pronounce the D.
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Sometimes you can even drop it and no one will notice, if you say it's super fast.
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The HaNmaid's, The HaNmaid's.
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The hannnnmaids , right?
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And if you wanna pronounce it properly - the handddd, the D is the
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held D, you don't release it - the handdd -- you move on to the N:
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th-'HAN-meidz - Z, not an S, TALE.
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An aspirated T, a long A as in 'day' and a dark L: te-y'l.
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Sounds like you're adding a y-sound right before the L.
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te-y'l .The Handmaid's Tale.
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Pretty Little Liars.
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A lot of flap T's here.
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So, we start with PR - round your lips a little bit for the R, bring
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it back the tongue - PRI, and then it's a relaxed 'I' sound.
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Not PRE-ty, but pri, pri.
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Then a flap T and a high E: pri-dee, pri-dee, priiii-dee.
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Then we have the word 'little'.
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I have a full video just about the word 'little'.
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So go check it out.
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'Pretty li-', an L-sound and a relaxed 'I'.
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pri-dee li-d'l - flap T and a dark L.
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So imagine like there is an O in between: pri-dee li-d'l laɪ-ərz.
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And then you move on to the L.
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And then laɪ-ərz.
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You add a y-sound, a schwa, and an R.
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laɪ-ərz.
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Okay? pri-dee li-d'l laɪ-ərz, pri-dee li-d'l laɪ-ərz.
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That's such a tongue twister.
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Pretty Little Liars, Pretty...
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Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Little Liars.
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Big Little Lies.
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Almost the same, but different.
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The only difference is that we have the word BIG.
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It starts with a B and a relaxed 'I'.
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Not BEEG, but BIG.
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Big.
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Move on to the word LITTLE, you already know how to pronounce it.
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Big Little, and then another L, LIES.
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Close it with a Z.
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Big Little Lies.
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“Have you watched Pretty Little Liars last night?
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Oh no, I watched Big Little Lies.
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"Oh, god, I can't watch this.”
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Black Mirror.
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You start with a B-sound and then the L, BL -make the L a little heavier.
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Then open it to the A as in 'cat' - 'blak'.
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Close it with a K - 'blak'.
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Move on to the M of 'mirror: black mi- relaxed 'I' and then don't get all
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confused with the R and the O and the R.
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Just make it like a long R - mirr, mirr.
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I kid you not!
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Just pronounce it like one long R.
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mir'r, blak mir'r.
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It'll make your life a lot easier and the name is going to sound a lot clearer.
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mirror.
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Black mirror.
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“Have you seen the new season of Black Mirror?
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Oh, it's so black!”
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Game of Thrones.
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So, the word GAME is rather easy.
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Make sure you bring your lips together for the M at the end - game.
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Then you move on to a reduced word and that is the word 'of'.
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So, actually you wanna connect those two together - geɪm əv, geɪm əv, məv, məv.
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Then stick the tongue out for the word THRONES.
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You start with a TH then an R - THR, THR, pull the tongue in for the
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R, so it doesn't hit anything on the way up - 'Thrrrones', right.
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'Thro-o-o' so you can also prolong it for a little bit until you make sure
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that you pronounce the R sound correctly.
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Throw - 'O' as in 'go'.
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Make sure you add a W at the end - 'throne' and add a Z - 'thrones'.
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Game of Thrones.
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Game of Thrones.
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Game of Thrones.
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Orange is the New Black.
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Orange is the New Black.
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Orange is the New Black.
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I guess the hardest part here 'is the', 'is the', 'is the'.
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You need to train your tongue to go through this transition between
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the Z sound of 'is' and the TH.
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'z'th, 'z'th, 'z'th, 'z'th.
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So let's do this for half an hour so.
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[30 minutes later] See?
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A lot easier.
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Is the.
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Orange is the, o-r'nj'z'th.
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And then we have the first word to add.
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o-r'nj'z'th.
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Now, the first syllable is OR: round your lips for the 'O', make sure that
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you don't bring the tongue up too soon, so it's not 'ərange', but OR, OR.
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And from here you move to -range/rənʤ.
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So it's kind like you have two R's here: ɔR-Rənʤ.
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An R, a schwa, and the nʤ-sound.
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ɔrənʤ.
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You bring the tongue up for the N and then you close it with -ʤ.
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So, technically, you're doing something like this
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- nʤ-nʤ - with your tongue.
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o-r'nj', o-r'nj'z'th.
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Okay?
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And then you move on to this transition that you've already
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mastered - o-r'nj'z'th nuw.
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An N-sound, and then the long U sound as in 'food', and you
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don't have to say it as 'nyuw'.
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You don't have to add the y-sound, right, before the 'u'.
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nuw - you can just do it like this, 'nuw', cuz you're chill
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and you're hip and your cool.
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'o-r'nj'z'th nuw blak'.
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A B and an L, BL, and then an A as in 'cat'.
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Bla-.
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Drop your jaw, so it doesn't sound like 'blek' or 'bluk'.
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'blæk' - push your tongue forward, the lips pulled to the sides
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a bit, and close it with a K.
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Orange's the New Black, Orange's the New Black.
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"I'm in a dream.
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- You're in my dream."
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Westworld.
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I mean, WORLD alone is a challenging word.
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Right?
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So, let's first learn how to pronounce that.
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You start with the W and then you move on to the R immediately - 'were'.
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There is no 'O' in the middle, so don't say something like 'wOrld', okay?
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Just switch from the W to the R, and be chill, be chill.
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'were'.
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Then the L is long, is deep, it's a back dark open L sound.
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A lot of times people drop the L, and then they say something
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like 'word', 'Westword'.
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That's a different name.
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'Westworld 'o-o-l'.
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You want to make sure that you hear that dark deep L sound.
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And only then you bring the tongue up for the D, and it has to be light.
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'were-lld, were-lld'.
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Once you hear the D, that's it, the word is over.
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So, it shouldn't be too dominant.
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Now, the WEST starts with a W, and then it's the 'ɛ' as in red.
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'Wɛ-', so you want to drop your jaw here.
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And then the S is pronounced until it is stopped abruptly,
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and that is technically the T.
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'Wɛs, wɛs.' So I don't really pronounce the T, it's not 'west'.
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'wes[t]'.
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Moving on to the next word - 'world'.
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Westworld, okay?
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'westworld'.
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So all these consonants are kind of squeezed in together.
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So in order to pronounce it clearly, follow my guidelines and then
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do it over and over and over and over again, like 20-30 times until
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you get your tongue around it.
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Westworld.
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Queer as Folk.
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Here the 'as' is a function word, but we're going to pronounce it fully.
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'Queer' has a high E sound, and then you shift to the R - kwee-r.
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Make sure you don't bring the tongue up too soon cuz then it's
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gonna sound like 'were', 'kwee-r'.
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So give some space for the high E to be pronounced - kwee-r.
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Then open your mouth for the A in 'cat' and close it with the Z, not an S.
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kwee-raz.
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And then we have the word FOLK /fowk/.
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It is not /folk/.
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There is no L and the O is a long O as in 'go'.
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Folk.
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Queer as Folk.
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Connect it all together.
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'kwee-raz-fowk'
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"I can't accept your proposal."
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"I'm scared."
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"What just happened?"
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The Bachelor.
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Classy.
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BATSH-l'r.
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You start with a B and then it's the A as in 'cat'.
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Batch- close it with a CH sound, the first syllable - Batch-.
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And then the most important thing here is that you don't pronounce the O.
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It's not '-lore', but it's 'l'r'.
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BATSH-l'r, BATSH-l'r.
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And on the contrary, we have bachelorette.
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bache-lo-rette/batsh-luh-RET.
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So, we start the same: batsh-luh-RET.
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Here we do pronounce an /ɛ/ sound at the end, and that's where
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the stress lies: bacheloRET.
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BATCHelor, the BATCHelor - the bacheloRET.
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Okay, that's it.
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Thank you so much for watching!
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Let me know in the comments below what is your favorite TV show, and
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if there are any other shows that I've forgotten to mention that are
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difficult for you to pronounce.
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Also, if you want to grab the list of the shows and the phonetic
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transcription, come on over to my website - it's on my blog post.
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And I will see you next week in the next video.
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Bye.
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