With about 171,476 word's in English its a fact that we all( Including native speakers ) may make mistakes in pronouncing ,understanding and/or writing them. But as speaking is one of the most important parts of a language so i thought i should write about some words that are mispronounced. Here is 50 English words that i found most of my students in China are having trouble pronouncing them in a proper way.So i hope you can take a good look at them and try to practice with the correct pronunciation and remmember to record and play back your voice and compare its with a native speaker. Here we go:
-accounting
-argue
-actually
-available
-arrangements
-basically
-business
-calls
-complete
-continue
-contribute
-corporation
-differences
-directly
-exactly
-educational
-every
-exceptional
-familiar
-financial
-frustrating
-general
-immediately
-inconvenience
-introduce
-irrational
-justice
-likeable
-loosen
-measurements
-middle
-multiple
-national
-original
-outrageous
-particular
-partnership
-problem
-prohibit
-quality
-question
-referring
-regardless
-request
-similar
-specific
-value
-visualize
-vulnerable
-working
I hope you learned something here . If you had any questions don't hesitate to contact me. Good luck Chris Amirani www.englishu.weebly.com
There are certain sounds that some students can't produce because of their native style.
They would say 'sank you' instead of 'thank you'.
They would mix up the sounds of 'L' with 'R'. So they would say 'Engrish'.
Sometimes it gets funny.
A very good friend of mine always says, "In the who*e world". She replaces 'L' with an 'R'.
As a native US English speaker, I can tell you that even WE don't pronounce all of these words correctly. This is mainly due to being too lazy to fully form every syllable. I'll list them here, but please do not think that these are acceptable ways to pronounce them. They are not. I'm mentioning it only so if you hear a native speaker pronouncing them this way, you won't be confused. (And certainly do not think ALL native speakers pronounce them this way. I'm sure a lot of this has to do with regional accents.)
actually = the second "a" is often omitted, resulting in ak-shu-lee
basically = the second "a" is often omitted, resulting in bay-sik-lee
business = the "i" is often omitted, resulting in biz-ness
differences = the first "e" is often omitted, resulting in diff-rences
directly = the "t" is often omitted, resulting in dir-ekly
exactly = the "t" is often omitted and the "x" pronounced softly, resulting in eggs-akly
every = the second "e" is often omitted, resulting in ev-ree
familiar = the "li" is often slurred, resulting in fa-mil-yer
outrageous = the "t" is often slurred, resulting in ow-ray-jus
value = the "l" is often slurred, resulting in vow-you
Note that most of these are very subtle. You'll also notice that some have to do with the tongue not making the entire movement necessary to fully make a "t" or "l" sound. Some of these may be spoken so fast that you may not even catch that they are not pronounced correctly (such as outgrageous).
Great compilation, probably the same words aren't going to be difficult for the same set of persons, for instance I thank you remarked these words were the more difficult to pronounce correctly for chinese people. As a latinamerican and spanish native speaker probably there will a different subset, anyway, I'm practicing right now all these words =D
You did some writing mistakes :)
1. There should be a space before "(" and after "." and ",".
2. No space before ")".
3. "I" is always written in capital.
4. Here is 50 words --> here are 50 words.
5. ....(Including..) --> including
6. word´s --> words
7. compare its --> compare it
There are also alot of words that are sometimes spelled so differently to how they sound that in my English speaking places the pronunciation has now changed - for example the word "often" is sometimes prnounced with a T, and no-one still pronounces "waistcoat" as "wes-kut". There are many more of these, but this is all I could think of now.
