STOP Saying "BEACH" like THIS! Difficult English Pronunciation Mistakes!

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Do you make these pronunciation mistakes when you speak English?
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The answer is probably yes, because they're extremely common.
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But don't worry.
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In today's lesson, I'm going to show you exactly how
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to pronounce all of these difficult words perfectly in English.
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First BEACH and BITCH
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There are two reasons that you might be pronouncing this word.
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Like this word.
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First, are you using the long
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or the short e sound?
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If it's the long /i:/ sound, that's BEACH
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The short /I/ sound that's BITCH
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So be careful.
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The second reason might be how you end the word.
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How do you pronounce this part of the word?
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If you use a glottal stop, which means your throat closes, that stops the sound.
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That sound finishes the word.
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It's good for both
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Same thing, it’s fine!
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However, if you use your tongue to stop the sound
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by hitting the back of your teeth, Just there.
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To stop the sound.
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Then it will always sound like “BITCH”
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Even if you use the long E sound.
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Because my tongue is hitting here.
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Changes the sound, makes THIS sound like THIS!
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So practice with me.
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ELECTION and ERECTION
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If your language doesn't really have a specific “L” or ”R” sound,
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it can be difficult to do the two sounds.
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So how do you do the “L”?
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And how do you do the “R”?
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Well, “L” is all in your tongue.
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La la la la la la la la la.
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Nothing else makes that sound but the “R” is the opposite.
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The tongue doesn't touch anything in the mouth.
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It's only the lips that make the “R” sound.
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Think of it like a tensed, awkward kissy mouth.
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And then relax it.
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See! Awkward kissy mouth! To compare, just the tongue
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La, la la la la.
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Could kiss the mouth.
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Just the lips. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah.
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Now you try it. Let's practice together.
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SHEET or SHIT
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This one, you just have to be very careful about your long
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/i:/ sound and the short /I/ sound for some people.
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I know this still isn't clear, So let's see what's happening inside the mouth.
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when I do the /i:/ sound the back of my tongue,
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this area goes up, it's raised and tense.
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The sides of my tongue match the sides of my teeth.
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it's tense and raised.
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EE But for /I/, everything relaxes the tongue does nothing.
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Let's practice together.
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I mean, right?
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Let's just be honest.
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They’re kind of mid!
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TEETH and TITS
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Yes. This can be very embarrassing if you don't have
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the “TH” sound in your language and you replace it with a
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So how do we learn the sound?
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if you have your tongue and you rest it on your bottom teeth
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like this
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you breathe out and close your mouth slowly
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you get this sound.
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That's not a “TH” sound.
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That's rubbish. So how do you do this?
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So imagine there's a tiny weight right here on your tongue pushing down.
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The rest of the tongue has tension
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and comes up slightly in the mouth.
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your mouth might be different to my mouth, but if we have the same mouth,
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then the edges of my tongue
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line up perfectly with the edges of my teeth,
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with the exception of the front, just there!
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if you don't have the “TH” sound in your language, it's a new muscle that you have to train.
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So practice this until it sounds good, until it sounds like...
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there's also the long E
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and the long E and short E
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But you already know that.
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So let's just practice
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ANKLE and UNCLE
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I hope you paid attention to my mouth shape just then.
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I hope you weren't. Actually, that's kind of creepy.
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But if you were, then you noticed that the mouth
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makes two very different shapes to make these two words.
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So with “Ankle”
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The “a” is represented by this symbol.
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When you look in a dictionary and see those weird symbols,
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this is one of those this sounds like...
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You hear it in “apple”, “bat”, ‘can”.
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And notice my mouth is very open and kind of in this shape.
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My mouth is very wide open.
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but this symbol represents the “U” sound.
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You hear this in words like “Come”, “Up”, “Bum”
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To make this sound correctly your mouth is more narrow.
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Compare the two mouth shapes.
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ANKLE UNCLE
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Repeat with me.
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See how good your English pronunciation really is.
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Oof!
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COKE or COCK
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This one can be very embarrassing if you don't use correct pronunciation.
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So how do you pronounce them correctly?
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This word uses the ... sound.
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This word uses an ... sound.
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Notice there is only one sound for this.
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This one, however, the mouth will change shape in the word.
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And that creates two different sounds.
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Starting position here,
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finishing here.
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Okay. Let’s practice together!
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You're at a restaurant, you're reading the menu,
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and your English pronunciation is not perfect
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“Hi! Can I have a big bowl of crap?!”
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CRAB or CRAP?
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Some languages don't differentiate between the two, the P and the B.
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So how do you pronounce them?
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Well the “P” is what we professionals call an “unvoiced” sound.
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The “B” is what we call a “Voiced” sound
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when you have a voiced sound,
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you can feel the vibration in your throat when you say it.
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You can practice this, too! Put your hand here and say,
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There's vibration here, right?
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That's a voiced sound.
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The “P”, however,
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no vibration, It's a practice This You can grab a tissue
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or a bit of paper and put it next to your mouth.
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to make the “P” sound.
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This should move
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to make the “B” sound.
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This should not move.
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my job is weird.
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So let's practice that together.
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I mean, honestly, kind of. Right!?
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at least very overrated.
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FORK and FUCK
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there are two distinct sounds you need to practice
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“OR”, it's that same sound in “walk”,
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“more”, “door”
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and this is that sound again like in “bum”
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Look how the mouth shape is different for both for this
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So let's practice that together
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PEACE and PISS
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Do you wish peace for the world ...or just piss?
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This difference is again that long /i:/ sound and the short /I/ sound.
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long e for peace.
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Short /I/ sound for “piss”
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Practice it with me.
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I'm sorry to my Japanese friends, but, yeah, you need to practice this one
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EARTH and ARSE
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When you don't pronounce the “TH” properly,
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EARTH really sounds like ARSE
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So you need to practice it.
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Remember those very important tips I gave you?
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There should be tension in your tongue.
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The edges of your tongue should go with the edges of your teeth.
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And there should be that gap in the front of your tongue
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and the front of your teeth to let the air out.
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Practice it a few times.
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Remember, this is a new muscle that you need to exercise in your mouth.
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So even if you get it perfect the first time
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and then the second time you miss it, don't worry, you just need to practice it.
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Then it will become normal. I promise.
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Let's practice that together.
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CITY or SHITTY
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Loads of students have problems with these two words because of the sounds /s/ and /sh/
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How do you differentiate those two sounds?
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I'm glad you asked, you can relax your tongue for city, city,
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My tongue doesn't really do much, but for shitty
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I notice that my tongue comes back in
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the mouth, there’s a bit of tension
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notice the other thing.
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My lips are going in that awkward kissy mouth thing again.
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Let's practice together
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I know I'm going to make lots of enemies, but I don't care
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By the way if you pronounced everything perfectly in today's lesson.
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But then tomorrow you try to say those words again and they sound wrong.
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Don't worry, most of these sounds will be new in your language,
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which means you have to work on a new muscle in your mouth.
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So even if you pronounced it perfectly today, this is new.
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You need to build that muscle memory in your mouth
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in order for this to sound comfortable and therefore natural.
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When you speak English.
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Don't forget to leave a comment below
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which words are difficult for you to pronounce?
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So watch the video again.
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If you need more practice,
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this video will teach you more how to pronounce the “TH” sounds.
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And I'll see you in the next class! Bye!
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