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
is
how come i sound non-native and they
sound native it doesn’t mean that i want
to
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
and
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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
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
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
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
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
i can’t permit you to walk here
permit
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
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
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
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
suggested we postpone this meeting to
object is to complain in this case
number eight we have project and to
project
project or project for some people and
project the project is easy enough for
two people the piece of work is easy
enough for two people or can you project
your computer screen onto the white wall
to project means to cast forward and
finally we have subject and subject
subject subject
what was your favorite subject at
primary school a subject is something
taught at school or university or as a
verb i was subjected to another creepy
lunch with my boss if you are subjected
to something it means you are forced to
undergo something
you’re showing that you didn’t want to
do it okay that’s it for the first part
of the lesson the first trick i’ve got a
really good quiz in the pdf so if you
haven’t downloaded that already make
sure you do because you can test your
learning now we’re going to move on to a
really short section another trick which
is showing you how to pronounce words
with certain endings so we’re going to
look at some common suffixes and with
all of these suffixes
in general the word stress is right
before the suffix this applies to words
of all syllable lengths if that’s not
making sense let me show you a couple of
examples and then we’ll just go straight
through the list now as always in the
english language
there are rules but there are always
words that break those rules but this
will give you a general idea let’s start
with number one the suffix able able the
stress is on the syllable right before
the suffix so
durable
laughable ineffable so you can’t say
that the stress is always on the second
syllable the stress is always on the
first syllable because you can see that
ineffable has four syllables the stress
comes on the syllable just before able
laughable ineffable we also have the ial
suffix social
financial again it’s right before so
we’re going to do one more and then i’m
going to put you through a test okay we
have the c-i-a-n suffix musician
clinician right before the suffix now
for each suffix i’m going to give you
two words each containing that suffix
and i’m going to give you a little bit
of time to say it out loud correctly
and then i will say it correctly for you
you can check if you’ve got it right
share your results in the comments
section let me know if there are any
that you struggled with okay we have e r
y how would you pronounce these two
okay
bakery
scenery what about i a n
go ahead
we have comedian
and technician what about ible
have a go
impossible
terrible
and i see
please try
it should be
diabetic
characteristic how are you finding these
easy or difficult let me know we have i
o n go ahead
it’s position
vegetation
i a try these two
media
victoria what about
i-e-n-t we have ingredient
ancient what about iou s
please have a go
it should be
mysterious
various
second from last
ish
have a try
it should be
english
punish and finally o-s-i-s
try for the final time
it should be hypnosis
osmosis
hopefully
you found that really easy and if not
don’t worry it just takes practice
really try to stay aware when you’re
listening to people and seeing where
they’re putting that syllable stress
i’ve just got a few more for you to
listen to i have got seven suffixes that
nearly always have the stress placed on
that suffix we’ll try it again in the
same way i will let you know the suffix
show you two words and i want you to go
ahead and pronounce them out loud with
the stress on the final syllable on the
suffix i’ll show you the first one we
have words ending in a d e the stress is
on that final syllable on that suffix
lemonade
arcade try it with the next one
words ending in e
okay it should be agree
guarantee eer
try please
engineer puppeteer number four
e s e
siamese
japanese e t t e
cassette
corvette iqe
unique
physique
and oon
it should be
afternoon
cartoon
right i hope you enjoyed that lesson for
people with certain mother tongues that
seems really easy but if you have a
different language as your native
language it can be more complex so
before you write in the comments this
was so easy how could anyone get this
wrong consider that people have really
different languages to yours as their
native language i really hope you
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