12 Confusing Word Pairs You're (Probably) Mispronouncing | DON'T Confuse These Words!

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In this video. Let's improve your  pronunciation so you can speak English,  
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clearly and confidently will  review the 12, most confusing,  
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English word pairs. So you understand the  difference in pronunciation. Let's get started.  
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Here's our first word pair. I want  you to say these two words out loud.
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Now, listen to me and notice the difference Lack.
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Luck. Notice the difference  in my mouth position, lack  
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act Luck, Chuck. Notice with lack, we have a  longer sound a more open mouth position and  
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luck. My mouth is closed, because this  is more of a schwa sound in my throat.  
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She doesn't lack luck in her life. Our next  confusing word, pair say, these two words,
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Out loud.
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Now, listen to me Dawn.
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Down. There are very similar  because they both have open  
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mouth positions. On Dawn a bow down.  Let's meet down by the water. At dawn,  
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I hear mistakes with this word  pair all the time. Say it out loud.
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Cup.
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Cop. Which one is the shorter sound cup up a  cop off my mouth opens wider for cop. I gave  
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the cop a cup of water. It's really important  that you get feedback on your pronunciation. So  
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you understand what mistakes you're making and how  to fix those mistakes. Now I can't offer you that.
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single sound. Let me show you how this works  with the word Cup. First I can hear how Eliza
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feedback. I'm going to mispronounce this on  purpose. Let's see what happens. Cop. Now,  
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you can click on the word to get instructions on  how to pronounce it correctly. And then try again,  
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let me try that again.
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Cup. Whoo hoo! I just improved  my pronunciation. Now let's say  
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And you can type any word or phrase that you want  to learn the correct pronunciation of and then  
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get personalized feedback on your pronunciation.  So, let's practice this word because I hear a lot  
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of mistakes with this word. Now, let me say  it. The way I hear a lot of students say it,
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Wary.
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Ah, it noticed the mistake. I made my V  sounded like a w. listen to the difference.
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Very wary, and if I need more support, Eliza can  teach me the correct pronunciation of V. Now,  
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Right now, our next word, pair,  I want you to say this out loud.
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Now, listen to me, advise advice eyes  ice. Notice the difference in that z  
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sound. Advise advice, I advise you to seek advice.  
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I bet you're going to make mistakes  with this word pair. Try it out loud.
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Suit Soot. Notice the spelling does not match  the pronunciation suit suit suit suit soot but  
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it's that schwa sound uh soot. Now what  is soot? It's the ash from a burnt fire.  
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So I could say, I have soot on my suit. Spanish  speakers, pay close attention. Say it out loud.
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This these notice again, we have a short  sound and a long sound. If this these ees.  
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I don't want this shirt but I want these shoes.  We have our singular and plural. Try it out loud.
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Man men.
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Man, men.  
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So, we have a long sound on the singular, and a  short sound on the plural. I hired one, man, and  
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fired two men. Now let's see if you can get this  word, pair singular and plural. Try it out loud.
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The difference is at the  beginning of the sound woman.
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Women.
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Whoop, with woman women. I  hired one woman and fired,  
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two women Eastern European students.  This one's for you. Try it out loud.
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Say says my vowel changes in the  third person singular say, a but  
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says, as as we have a longer sound and a shorter  sound, I won't say what she always says. Here,  
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we have two abbreviations that we  use with women, try it out loud.
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Loud.
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Miss Ms. So here it's the the unvoiced and  the voiced sound. I helped Miss Smith and  
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Ms Brown. Now generally we use Miss  for younger women and we use Ms for  
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older but unmarried women all students pay  attention to this one. Try it out loud.
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Work walk  
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her ignore the spelling. It's not an o sound.  It's a herb or were work. Work, walk awk awk.  
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I walk to work. Can you get  this word pair? Say it out loud.
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Daughter laughter. So notice in the first one  auditor daughter, but in the second one laughs  
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laughter laughter.  
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My daughter is filled with laughter. How  about this tricky word pair say it out loud.
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Tomb bomb. So there's two things to  notice the bees are silent in both,  
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you don't pronounce it but the  vowel is different. Umm tomb,  
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bom, bom they found a bomb in the  Tomb and finally try it out loud.
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Ensure insure.
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Ensure, insure this one is about  syllable stress. Ensure the syllable  
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is on the second sound ensure its louder  ensure, but the second one is insure.  
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Insure the stress is on the first syllable. We  need to ensure we ensure the car now. Improving  
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your pronunciation. Takes practice, practice,  practice. And it's so important to get feedback.  
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