How to pronounce Cappuccino, Latte and Espresso in English

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Eat Sleep Dream English


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Eat Sleep Dreamers, welcome to another pronunciation lesson with Tom.
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Today we're going to be looking at different types of coffee and how to say it.
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Now let's start off with the word 'Coffee'.
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Two sounds, Coffee.
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You blend them together, you get the word.
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Ok, so let's try it 'Coffee' and the stress is on the first syllable 'Coffee'.
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Now obviously many of these words we use for coffee are from Italian, they are Italian
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words so we don't say it as maybe the Italians would say it, we say it in a British English
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way.
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So this is a 'Cappuccino'.
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Now there are, let's see how many syllables we've got.
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We've got Cappuccino, ok?
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So four syllables 'Cappuccino'.
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The stress is on the third 'Cappuccino'.
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Ok, another popular type of coffee is a 'Latte'.
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Now a latte is different from a cappuccino.
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A cappuccino has half milk and half foam whereas a latte has more milk and a little less foam.
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Let's say that word together 'Latte'.
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A very popular one at the moment, in England certainly, is 'Flat White' so the stress is
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on the white there 'Flat White'.
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I think that's from Australia, I think it's sort of been imported.
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It's delicious, frankly.
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And then if you just have a little shot of coffee it's called an 'Espresso'.
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Ok, let's try one more time 'Espresso'.
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Well, what could be better Eat Sleep Dreamers than the sunshine and a cup of coffee and
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I'm pretty happy right now.
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Tell me in the comments below what type of coffee is your favourite, ok?
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I'm sure you've got one, whether it's a flat white, americano, a cappuccino or whatever
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it might be.
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Until next time guys, this is Tom the English Hipster saying goodbye.
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