Again, Mountain, Pain - How to Say 3 Difficult Words in American English Pronunciation
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Hello! Hello!
What's up, my awesome English-learning friend?
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I have a quick English tip for you about three
words that are commonly mispronounced by English
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language learners.
Why? Because they're confusing.
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So, I want to clarify this common challenge.
So, the three words are "again", "mountain",
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and "pain."
What do they have in common?
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They all have "a-i" as vowels that are back
to back.
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So, you're tempted to pronounce each vowel
individually like "a -- e" so what I hear
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a lot, which is a mistake is "a-gay-een",
"mount-ay-een", and "pay-een", which sounds
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really weird and not smooth and fluent at
all.
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So, to sound more fluent and more native-like,
you have to mix these vowels together and
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just make them sound like "eh."
It's easy -- "eh" -- "eh."
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Alright so "again", "mountain" -- "mountain"
sorry, I don't want to confuse the stress
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there "mountain", and "pain."
It's all kind of an "ay-eh-eh."
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But they're not two separate sounds.
It's one sound, so, this little piece of information
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