Pronunciation - Words starting with B (bird, beard, bear, bare...)

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English with Ronnie


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Hi, there. I'm back again, and my name is Ronnie, and I'm going to teach you English
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this is
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my name
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Run now today. I'm going to teach you a visit
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pronunciation and
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I know that everyone has a little bit of difficulty and
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speaking and also listening to
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Native English pronunciation, so we're going to dive right into this right away there. I have picked four words
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They all begin with the letter
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B okay and the first word?
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Is Bird does anyone know what a bird is?
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It's not like chicken
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This is a chicken [a] bird is a small animal or a large animal that flies around, okay?
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so
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when we say this word
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We go bird
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In Canada it's very cold [booth]
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When we say that we're called Eagle
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Everyone try pretend you're in Canada right now outside. It's
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minus
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13 degrees
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All right, so what you're going to do is imagine you [have] very very cold eagle
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and
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then d
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Bird
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Okay
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In Toronto we have a very famous baseball team called the Toronto blue Jays a blue [Jay]
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is a kind of bird
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So you can remember?
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Toronto blue Jays very Cold Bird
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got it perfect [the]
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[second] word that begins with a b
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I talked a little bit about last lesson that's awesome. We [did] and parts of your face and facial hair
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This word for the men, please [is]
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When you have facial hair all over the bottom of your face
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Anyone Remember what that word is called
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Sounds like one of my favorite drinks
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Beard pick up the spelling on this one. This is weird [b]. E a
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or
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D okay we spell?
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Very popular Canadian drinking beer these words sound the same
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Except for the facial hair we put a d. Okay the spelling as you can see it's very different
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But the sound the way, we say it is the same
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Just to help you remember. [I] want to draw you a picture
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this is a man and he has a
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Beard this man's Hobby is drinking beer
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so
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You can remember bearded man likes to drink beer?
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Perfect okay, so you've got to be words. I told you we're going to do for the next word that we have to do is
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Bear [or] a bear is another kind of animal?
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Do you have bears in your country?
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We have bears in Canada
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I've never seen a real live bear except at the Zoo
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Have you been to the Zoo?
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They're like animals and cages
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anyways
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The way we say this animal is bear
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We have another word that sounds exactly like this word, but we spell it differently
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If we say something's [bare] it means there are [no]
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[clothes] on it or [it's] [oh] naked HmM. So these two words
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Notice the spelling is different. They are said
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Exactly the same
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We have a lots of these in English don't worry. I'll teach you them. Can't teach you all of them, but [I'll] teach you something
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bear and [bare]
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[okay], so the way [that] you're going to remember a bear
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I'll leave that up to you, but you can remember that in Canada. We have polar Bears which are white and
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Grizzly bears which are brown and you might not want to have a cuddle with them [running] off. That's up to you, so I?
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Want you to pronounce these words one more time?
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we have the animal which is really big which is [a] bear if
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You have no clothes on you are also bear
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The other word that we learn today is
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Bird
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Remember Toronto in Canada is very cold and we say Brr
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we have a baseball team called the Toronto blue Jays the blue Jays are a
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kind of Bird
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to [the] to
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The next word [that] we learned is the facial hair for men called a beard
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I explained that a man with the beard his favorite drink is beer
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This is the hard part [what] I'd like you to do to practice this at home
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Is to save all of these words one at a time?
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we have bear
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Bird
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Beard
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beer, [so]
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Please give that a try at your house, and if you'd like to you [can] visit us at
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Wwe
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NG [pid]
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Calm or you can have a nice little quiz on this you can test yourself
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Until next time I'll see you later
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