Spelling & Pronunciation - Words with Silent Letters

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Hello.
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How are you?
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Excellent
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Welcome to the lesson
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of words with silent letters.
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A silent letter is a letter we Shh.. don't say.
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Um...
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this is one of the reason why spelling
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I myself hate
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spelling in English.
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for this reason
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and also pronunciation in English is soo
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difficult
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a lot of the times
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in these words
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you will have letters
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and most of the times your brain says
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I have to say all of the letters
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but
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Mm Mm
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Oh no, not these ones
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these words all contain a secret silent letter
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broken into down into categories for you
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so the first one
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the first three
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the silent letters are the beginning of the word
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and then the next four they are in middle of the word
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once you learn to do this
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it become's easier, your pronunciation improves
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And may be your spelling get better
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But there's always that beautiful thing called spell check
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they will help you they even know this
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so lets go dive right in here
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to the first one
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the first letter is "K"
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If you look at this word you would spell it kuh-no-wuh
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however
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we don't say kuh-no we reduce this to "no", not only is the beginning letter 'K' silent, but the 'W' is also silent.
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The beit
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And if you use a debt card to much
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in that means ... you do not have money
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And have to give people money
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so its no deebt
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next one
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when you doubt something ...
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it's means ... you do not think
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it's true or real ...
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so i can say
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i doubts ... your debt card will work
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got it ..?
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The next and the last one are beautiful list of silent letters
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is the letter 'T'
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most popular letters in the English language
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