🗣️ Improve Your English Pronunciation! Learn How To CORRECTLY Pronounce 20 Confusing HOMOGRAPHS

Did you know that this word has two different  pronunciations depending on how the word is  

used? This is called a homograph. And in  this lesson, you're going to learn the 20,  

most confusing homographs in English. And  number 10 is new to me. I had no idea. There  

were two different pronunciations for this word.  Let's get started. Let's begin with this word.

Listen to the sentence. The dove dove into  the water. Now, Dove is a noun, it's a bird.  

Dove of don't have, is the past simple form of  the verb dive. I always dive into the water. I  

do Vin to the water in British English. You  can also use dived as the past simple but in

Can English its more common to say do of the dove,  

dove into the water. How do you pronounce  this word? Don't desert Us in the desert  

here. We need to think about syllable stress,  Don't desert us. When you desert someone,  

it means you leave them alone in a difficult  situation without any help for the verb. This see,

Syllable stress is on the second syllable desert.  But for the noun, the syllable stress is on the  

first syllable, desert don't desert Us in the  desert. Now, it's really important to have a  

professional review, your pronunciation, so you  can make sure that you are saying it correctly  

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there. How do you pronounce this word? They  need to deliberate on whether her actions  

were deliberate. The verb. Deliberate is  when you think or talk about something,

Being seriously or carefully, the adjectives.  Deliberate means intentionally or on purpose.  

They need to deliberate on whether  her actions were deliberate. How  

do you pronounce this word? My  parents are going to separate  

and live in separate homes. The verb  separate means to divide in two parts.

Separate the adjectives separate is when  two things happen independently or with  

location. It means two independent  locations. So my parents are going  

to separate and live in separate homes. One  will live here and one will live here. How  

do you pronounce this? Let's resume with  the resume, resume is a verb and it's used

He's too mean to start again after a pause.  So we were reviewing the resume. Of course,  

a resume is your summary of your qualifications,  your experience, and your work history. That's  

your resume. We were reviewing the resume  and then we stopped. But now, we're going  

to resume reviewing the resume. Notice. How the  end is pronounced resume. This isn't typical.

Jewish pronunciation because  this word is bore owed from  

French pronunciation, resume resume  the resume. How do you pronounce this?

Let's use what we can put to good, use, notice  the length of the sounds, let's use the verb,  

let's use what we can put to good use,  use use use, use how about this word,  

close the door, so we can get close. Of course,  the verb to close now close as an adjective.

Active describes, when two people have a  strong connection or relationship my sister  

and I are close. We have a strong  connection or a relationship. Now,  

physically two people can get close where  they are separate and then they get close,  

physically, close the door so we can get  close. The pronunciation difference again is

Is a longer sound for the verb, close the door,  

and then a shorter sound for the adjectives,  close the door, so we can get close.

Close, close, close close. How about this word?  We need to record a new record this week. The  

difference depends on syllable stress with the  verb. The stress is on the second. Syllable  

record, record for the noun. The syllable stress  is on the first syllable record record. We need

To record the record this week. How about  this word, polish? The Polish silverware,  

Polish people are from the country Poland.  The verb is Polish. Notice the difference  

in the vowel, Polish Polish, Polish, Polish,  the Polish silverware. And this is the word, I

Did not know was a homograph.

This sound is making it difficult to sew the seeds  the verb to. So this is when you plant seeds in  

the ground so they will grow its what farmers do  or what you can do in your backyard as well. Use,  

so the seeds, but sow is a female pig.  Now, I didn't know that the word sow

Described a female pig. So, that's new to me,  sow sow sow the seeds sow. The sow is making  

it difficult to sew this seeds. Do you know how  to pronounce this word? Listen to me, say this  

sentence and notice how the pronunciation changes.  You should bow out the woman with the large bow.

You can pronounce this as either bow or  bow. It depends on how it's being used.  

Bow is a movement that we do either with your  head and you can bow your head or you can bow  

your upper body and this is usually done as  a sign of respect that bow. It's a verb or a

a noun and this is a bow and actually this  is a cool bow because it lights up and of  

course you can put a bow on a present. Now  there are different styles of bows. You can  

put a bow in your hair, you can  put a bow on a piece of clothing.  

Men wear bow ties for very special  occasions like their weddings for

You should bow at the woman with the large bow.  How do you pronounce this word? We need to lead  

with the information on the lead. Pipes, two  pronunciations lead and Lead. I'm sure you're  

familiar with the verb to lead. Now, the past  simple of the verb lead is Led but the spelling is

Is different here on our second option.  We also have lead. And in this case  

it's a noun and it's a chemical substance  lead pipes pipes that are made from lead,  

which is a chemical substance.  How do you pronounce this word?  

Listen, to the difference, seeing the tear  in my shirt, brought a tear to my eye.

First, we have tear, you can tear a  piece of paper. Now tear as a noun,  

is used to describe a whole or a rip in  clothing or in material like a piece of paper.  

Tear is the liquid. That's comes from your  eyes tear seeing a tear in my shirt brought

A tear to my eye. How do you pronounce

this?

Well, again, it depends listen to the difference.  It's hard to wind the toy in the Wind.

The verb to wind is to turn or to cause something  to turn. So it's very small here. But right now  

what I'm doing is, I'm winding this clock. So  if you have a watch and you need to change the  

time on your watch, what you're doing, there  is wind, you're winding your watch and of

Course, you know what the wind is? What  about this word? How do you pronounce it?  

Listen to the difference? I wound the  toy too hard and now I have a wound.

Wound is the past form of whines. I wound  the clock but we also have a noun wound,  

wound wound is when you have a cut or hole  on your body usually caused by a weapon,  

you know how to pronounce this  word, right? Listen to the sentence.

And I need a minute to review these minut details  

minute is our time reference 60  seconds, you know how to pronounce

that

minute. But there's an adjective minut  minut. My nude means very small. So  

notice how it describes the details,  very small details. I need a minute.

To review the minut details.  How do you pronounce this word?

Listen to the difference. They need  to produce more stands for the produce  

produce as our verb. Of course, means to  make something. Have you been in a grocery  

store and notice that there are signs for the  produce department produce represents the crops  

that are grown by Farmers for consumption.  They need to produce more stands for the

Produce this word confuses, a lot of  students. How do you pronounce it?  

Listen to the difference? I live in an area with  frequent live music performances, the verb live,  

of course, represents where you  reside, where you call Home Live,  

is used to describe a performance, it could  be a musical performance sports movie.

He's any kind of entertainment a performance  that is being broadcast or recorded as it's  

happening. So, you can watch a sports  game live, which means the moment

that

you're watching it, it's happening in real life  right now, this recording that you're watching,  

it's not live. I recorded this in the  past, I edited it and then I upload

loaded it to YouTube. So this is not a  live broadcast. How do you pronounce this?

Listen to the difference. I was supposed  to read three chapters but I only read one  

when the pronunciation is that long sound read  Eid, that's for the infinitive to read or the  

base verb read and when it's the short sound, the  same sound as the color red, that's the past form.

Of the verb read yesterday. I read a  book. I've read three books this month  

and the homograph that confuses me all the  time. Is this word? How do you pronounce this?

Listen to the difference. The  bass guitarist loves bass fishing.  

Now I always forget if the musical  context is bass or base, its base,  

base base base represents, very low  tones and sounds in music. So a bass

guitar

is a guitar that plays those very low.

Low sounds. Now bath is a type of fish. The

bass

guitarist loves bass fishing. Now I'm  going to quiz you to make sure you have  

the correct pronunciation. I want you to read  the sentence out loud and after you'll listen  

to my pronunciation so you can make sure  you have it correct. Let's get started.

The dove dove into the water.

Don't desert Us in the desert.

They need to deliberate on whether  her actions were deliberate.

My parents are going to separate  and live in separate homes.

Let's resume with the resume.

Let's use what we can put to good use.

Close the door so we can get close.

We need to record a new record this week.

Polish the Polish silverware.

This sow is making it difficult to sew the seeds.

You should bow at the woman with the large bow.

We need to lead with the  information on the lead pipes.

Seeing the tear in my shirt,  brought a tear to my eye.

It's hard to wind the toy in the Wind.

I wound the toy too hard. And now I have a wound.

I need a minute to review these my new details.

They need to produce more stands for the produce.

I live in an area with frequent  live music performances.

I was supposed to read three  chapters but I only read one.

The bass guitarist loves bass fishing. So how  did you do with that quiz? Do you know all of  

these homographs? And if you want feedback on  your pronunciation, you can get that in the  

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