Learn How to Pronounce "reach / rich" and "peach / pitch"

In this English lesson, I wanted to talk about

the difference in pronunciation between reach and rich.

This is actually from a question that's from

a viewer that I'm going to read later,

but I'm going to answer the question first.

At the beginning of the video, when you reach

for something, you reach for something with your hand.

It's kind of a longer e sound.

You reach for something, I

can reach towards the camera.

Hopefully that didn't scare you too much. So reach.

When you have a lot of money, you are rich.

So a rich person has worked really hard in their

life, or maybe their parents just gave them all their

money and they are just really, really rich.

So you can reach for something or you can

have lots of money and be really, really rich.

The other two words I wanted to

talk about are peach and pitch.

And I'm not going to talk about beach and the

other word because it's not really a good word.

But you can eat a peach.

Right now it is peach season here in Ontario, Canada.

I have been eating a peach every day.

They are really, really yummy.

We buy them at market.

We leave them on the counter so they ripen.

And then I eat one peach every day.

If you don't eat your peaches when they're ripe, sometimes

they go bad and then you have to pitch them.

When you watch a baseball game, the pitcher will

throw the ball and we call it pitching.

They will pitch the ball.

You can also pitch a tent, by the way, so you

can eat a peach and you can also pitch it if

it's not very good, if it has gone bad.

So to review reach and rich, I'll say them slowly.

You can reach for something or if

you have lots of money, you're rich.

And then you can eat a peach

and you can pitch a baseball.

But hey, let's look at that

comment from a previous video.

I have it right here in my

pocket and it is from Ladepla.

Hi Bob, can you explain to us the difference in

pronunciation of the words reach and rich. In this video

you often say reach and it sounds quite short, so I

couldn't tell it from rich if not for the context.

And my response, I'll make a point of talking about

this in the next video, which I already did.

So thanks for that comment, Lidepla.

I hope I answered your question.

And if you need to, you can go back and

listen to those parts of the video over and over

again until you get a sense of the right pronunciation

and then do some shadowing as well.

Shadowing is when you hit pause and

you say what I just said.

And then you rewind and play it again and listen.

And then you say what I just said.

It's a great way to practice your English speaking

when you don't have an English speaking partner.

Well, hey, I'm just kind of walking down here.

We had a fire the other day and there

are still some remnants here of the fire.

I did want to say, I'm happy to let you know

that I did put some new screws in the picnic table.

So I think I mentioned this last year a few times.

You can't see where I'm pointing, but I

actually finally put some new screws in.

And so our old picnic table that was kind of falling

apart is now usable again, but it's a little bit dirty.

I feel like I need to refinish the seats.

Let me show you those.

The seats are quite mossy.

When it's dry, you can sit here

and your shorts don't get stained.

But when it's wet outside, it's

not the nicest place to sit.

So reach, rich, peach, pitch.

And then there's also beach.

You go to the beach and there's lots of sand.

And then there's another b word, which

is actually not a very nice word.

So I'm not going to say it out loud,

but it does rhyme with rich and pitch.

So we'll just go from there.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I hope you're having a good week.

I'm going to be a little bit busy for a couple

of days, but you'll still be seeing this video on Friday.

Thanks to those of you that came out

for the live stream this Thursday morning.

I'm making this video on a Thursday, by the

way, and hope you have a good weekend.

I'll see you next Tuesday on my

bigger channel with a new video.

And I'll see you next Wednesday on

this channel with another short lesson. Bye.