2 Native English Pronunciation Tricks Speak British English

hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy

i hope you’re well i hope you’re ready

for a lesson i haven’t done in a really

long time for a very long time i have

not done anything to do with sounding

native

um because i didn’t want to push my

students into thinking they have to

sound like a native speaker or it’s

something you should absolutely aim for

sounding like you’re a non-native isn’t

good enough however something that

really interests me when i’m learning a

language

how come i sound non-native and they

sound native it doesn’t mean that i want

achieve native level necessarily i just

find it fascinating to see why do i

sound the way i do and they sound the

way they do in today’s lesson i’m going

to teach you some native pronunciation

tricks so little things that native

english speakers do

that you might not notice but once i

point them out you will hopefully be

able to apply them to your own speaking

skills if you so wish if not it’s just

good to know isn’t it it’s been a long

time since i’ve spoken about native

english pronunciation i don’t want

anyone to feel not good enough because

they don’t have native level

pronunciation or they might never

achieve it instead i’m equipping you

with the information and you can make

the decision about what’s best for you i

think that’s a fair way to deal with it

because i’ve had so many different

messages from people

on one side people saying that they’re

so pleased that i’ve stopped pushing

native pronunciation and things like

that

on the other side people saying they

really miss those old videos that they

found them really helpful so i think

this is a fair way of doing it here’s

the info do what you want

so in this video we’re going to be

talking about noun verb pairs firstly so

these are two syllable words

that can be pronounced in two different

ways depending on whether they’re a verb

or a noun i often hear my students just

focus on one pronunciation for example

the word permit as a noun and to permit

as a verb

a lot of learners of english will just

take one of these pronunciations and use

them as both the noun pronunciation and

the verb pronunciation we’ll talk more

about that later i’ve got loads of

examples for you after that we’re going

to talk about how to pronounce words

with specific suffixes and more

specifically on what syllable of the

word do you place the stress there are

some rules

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let’s start with noun verb pairs this is

something that really isn’t obvious to

students when they’re learning english

but once you clock it does make a lot of

sense and you’ll start to notice it

around you as well as a native speaker i

had no idea that we even did this until

i started learning to teach english and

i thought ah

yes

we do do that i need to teach my

students this so there are many not all

of them but there are many two-syllable

words in english that can be pronounced

in two different ways take a look at the

noun

record

and the verb

record

record record

record record to record a record to

record a record the spelling is the same

but the stress is different the syllable

stress changes the meaning and it does

this

for many different words and we’re going

to look at them now there are two

categories for these word pairs there

are those that keep the same general

meaning but they change from noun to

verb when the stress moves from the

first to the second syllable there are

also those which change their meaning

completely most of them change from a

noun to a verb but there are those that

change from a noun to an adjective

firstly let’s take a look at those which

change from a noun to a verb but keep

the same general meaning let’s have a

look at this first one decrease

decrease

decrease as a noun it’s pronounced

decrease with the stress placed on the

first syllable there has been a sharp

decrease in homework submission now if

we move that stress to the second

syllable it becomes a verb to decrease

to decrease we don’t want homework

submission to decrease any further

number two import

import

import as a noun stress on the first

syllable

chocolate is an import from switzerland

an import changing it to a verb how’s it

going to be

ah the stress is going to be on the

second syllable import to import

switzerland hopes to import more

chocolate

switzerland hopes to import more

chocolate

notice my pronunciation of chocolate i

know that this is a word that lots of

learners of english struggle with the

way it’s written is not necessarily the

way it’s always pronounced choc lut

choc lut

not chocolate

or chocolate

chocolate number three

increase

increase as a noun there has been an

increase in absences there’s been an

increase in absences and then changing

it to a verb we don’t want the absences

to increase any further we don’t want

the absences to increase any further to

increase

number four

insult insult

insult

insult as a noun what she said to me was

an insult what she said to me was an

insult and as a verb i hope she doesn’t

insult me again

i hope she doesn’t insult me again

insult insult number five permit

permit

permit as a noun she doesn’t have a

walking permit she doesn’t have a

walking permit and as a verb

i can’t permit you to walk here

permit

permit permit number six this is a big

one this is very common produce to

produce as a noun

produce we sell lots of produce from our

allotment an allotment is a patch of

garden that you can rent from your local

area and you can use it to grow

vegetables it’s very popular here in the

uk to have an allotment if you don’t

have a big garden where you can grow

vegetables and flowers as a verb produce

our allotment produces lots of

vegetables our allotment produces a lot

of vegetables number seven

reject

reject you can see for this one and for

decrease number one the vowel sound

actually changes not just the stress we

say decrease

decrease

and reject reject as a noun you can take

the reject pile of clothes to the tidy

tip

a tidy tip

is basically a recycling center here in

the uk you can take pretty much anything

in your car and recycle it to reject as

a verb unfortunately the charity shop

will reject any dirty clothes

unfortunately the charity shop will

reject

any dirty clothes

if the charity shop won’t take it you

take it to the tidy tip and lastly

number eight we have suspect suspect

suspect suspect as a noun

suspect they took the suspect into the

jail cell

they took the suspect into the jail cell

and as a verb

to suspect

they suspect she committed fraud they

suspect she committed fraud now let’s

have a look at those that change from

noun to verb or noun to adjective

but their general meaning changes in the

previous bunch their general meanings

stayed the same these are different

firstly we have address

and to address

address

address and address is where you live

i’ll give you her address if we change

it to a verb the meaning changes

she filmed a video to address the rumors

this means to speak about we also have

conduct and to conduct

conduct to conduct your conduct is not

acceptable

your behavior is not acceptable or we

have to conduct which means to lead or

guide my dad was invited to conduct the

local orchestra next we have console and

console

console she spends all day on her gaming

console

console is a set of controls or she was

sad so he consoled her

she was sad so he consoled her to

console someone is to make them feel

better at a time of grief or sadness

number four one word i say a lot content

content or content

content and adjectives the content of

his report was very complex the content

is what is contained or relaxing in the

sunshine makes me feel so content

so happy so peaceful we also have

default and default

default

default you can revert to the default

settings on your iphone the default

settings are the settings that something

comes with or our mortgage was denied

for defaulting on a loan if you default

on something you do not make the

required payments number six we have

entrance and entrance

entrance and entrance the entrance is

shut so go through the back door

entrance entryway we also have entranced

i was entranced by his singing voice i

was hypnotized by his singing voice we

have object

object and object

object object certain objects are not

allowed on planes certain items or to

object would anyone object if i