4 Most DANGEROUS English Words to Mispronounce! English Pronunciation Lesson!

- (foreign language)

Ah no.

(upbeat jazzy music)

- Ah. I need kisses.

- Excuse me, sir?

- I need my kisses.

- This is a hotel.

- My room ca-cheek kisses.

- Oh, your keys?

- Yes, sorry, my English, sorry.

- Kisses, keys.

- (foreign language)

- Do you need anything else?

- Eh? Yes. You have cock?

- Huh?

- I want cock.

- Oh! A coke?

- I see, coke. Yes. (foreign language)

- Of course, is everything else okay?

- I loose my day, I don't have bitches.

I look everywhere, I only see mountains.

- Oh mountains.

- Beautiful mountains, but no bitches.

- Oh, beaches. Yeah, they're far away.

- Ah, well I go now.

- Goodnight, sir.

- I need to put shit in my bed.

- Yeah.

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(upbeat electronic music)

- Welcome back.

Let's start with beach because that one's ridiculous.

So if you ask your teacher,

how do I pronounce this word differently to this word?

They'll probably say, well, beach has a long E sound,

and bitch has a short I sound.

Beach. Bitch. Easy.

Oh, beach. Wait, that still sounds like this word.

How do we fix this?

You need to grab a pen, a straw, chopstick,

anything that shape.

First thing is your tongue position.

This is your tongue, for this example.

So grab that pen, that straw, that chopstick,

and put it between your teeth.

Like this.

Please don't choke.

Are you still alive?

Okay, good. Let's continue.

To make the eh sound, your tongue shouldn't touch this.

It's just chilling on the bottom of your mouth.

Eh, eh, but for the E sound,

with that tension in the tongue,

now you should see the tongue come up,

producing a different sound, ee, ee, ee.

See that pen moved up,

because my tongue was pushing it,

because it was tense.

So compare those two sounds.

Remember, eh, tongue is dead flat, doesn't do anything.

Ee, the tongue becomes tense, rigid.

It moves up in the mouth, it changes position.

Eh, eh. Ee, ee.

It's always the tongue that creates problems.

So the main problem is how you finish this word

and I'll show you exactly what the problem is.

Say beach, but pay attention to where your tongue is

at the ch sound at the end.

Really try it.

Okay, where's your tongue?

If your tongue finishes that ch sound

by hitting up here,

at the front roof of your mouth, beach, see?

See my tongue is hitting up there, beach.

Even if you get that long E sound, doesn't matter.

If you finish with your tongue there

it always sounds like this word.

So how do you fix that?

It's actually really easy,

instead of stopping the airflow,

and stopping the sound with your tongue.

Stop it with your throat.

Like a glottal stop, beach, beach.

See, my throat is stopping the airway, stopping that sound.

By stopping the sound in the throat,

you can make both words,

but like I said before,

if that stops, the airflow, stops the sound,

it will always sound like bitch.

So that's the difference.

If you don't believe me, I'll show you.

Perfect E sound,

but I'll finish with my tongue here.

Beach, beach.

See, that's what you've been doing, beach.

I'm not calling you a- nevermind.

So the short answer,

dead tongue, finishes the sound with your tongue. Bitch.

Long E sound, tense tongue,

finishes the sound with a glottal stop, beach, beach.

Say it with me. Beach. Bitch. Beach, bitch.

Are you noticing your tongue is doing a different thing now?

If it is, great you're amazing, let's move on.

This is an awkward one, but very easy to fix, don't worry.

So, cock, that is a vulgar slang term for penis.

Coke is just that delicious drink.

So how do you make those sounds. Easy.

With this, we need an o sound.

Look at my mouth.

O, nothing changes, right?

My lips don't move, cock, cock.

But with Coke, my lips will move.

Oh, oh, Coke.

Practice with me.

Say it loud for your whole house to hear,

cock, cock. You're lips shouldn't move.

For this one, your lips should move.

Oh, Coke, Coke, please buy me a Coke.

Next is keys and kiss.

That was based on a true story.

One of my old students told me

that she asked her manager

at work to give her kisses.

Obviously her manager looks shocked,

but we all know, of course,

she was asking for her keys.

Well, first keys are already plural.

You don't need keys is,

and second, the pronunciation is easy.

It's the same as bitch and beach, kiss keys.

Short sound, long sound.

Tension in the tongue, ease, keys.

Dead tongue, kiss.

Another two words you wanna be careful of is lick and leak.

Leak means this or this,

and lick means this.

So you definitely don't want to say this one,

if you mean this one.

And again, it's that short, dead tongue sound,

long tense tongue sound, lick, leak.

See the difference?

And yes, of course, this is the same for sheet and shit.

And in the movie, the terminal,

the main character has problems with the word cheat.

- Eat shit.

- What?

- Eat shit.

- Eat shit?

- Eat shit.

- So this is more a problem with the ch and sh sounds.

Okay, with the ch sound,

remember earlier I talked about the tongue

hitting here for the ch sound?

Well, we're gonna do the same again,

but at the beginning of the word.

So try it with me. Ch, ch, ch.

You should feel the air stopped.

And then P, P, coming out of your mouth really fast,

in linguistics terms, that's called a plosive.

You don't need to remember that,

but with sh however, that's different.

The air can move freely in and out,

if you want, let me show you. Sh, sh, sh.

It looks weird, but that's the only way to demonstrate.

So try it with me. Sh, sh.

So it's a plosive ch for cheat,

and a free flowing air for sh. Sheet.

Okay, pronunciation challenge time.

Try to pronounce these sentences,

and then I'll show you the correct way after.

Let's go.

(soft jazzy music)

I love a cold Coke on my face.

(soft jazzy music)

I woke up and my ex was cheating on me.

(soft jazzy music)

Before I go home, I always give my boss my keys.

(soft jazzy music)

There are too many beaches in my city.

(applause)

You're amazing, well done.

Which words do you find difficult to pronounce?

Let me know in the comments,

and I'll see you in the next lesson.

Bye.

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