#90 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• ask
• bath
• castle
• class
• fast
• glass
• maths
• pass
• passport
• passed
• past
• task
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They have the long vowel [a:] in British English or [æ:] in American English. Some students want to sound more American but unfortunately pronounce a short [e] here. Whether you prefer British or American accent, the vowel MUST be long!
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• ask
• bath
• castle
• class
• fast
• glass
• maths
• pass
• passport
• passed
• past
• task
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They have the long vowel [a:] in British English or [æ:] in American English. Some students want to sound more American but unfortunately pronounce a short [e] here. Whether you prefer British or American accent, the vowel MUST be long!
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#94 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• aubergine
• August
• aunt
• Australia
• Austria
• automatic
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ Easy, they all start with “au”! But does that mean they are pronounced [aʊ]? Unfortunately not:
• Long o [ɔ:] – August, automatic
• Short o [ɒ] – Australia, Austria
• Long a [a:] – aunt
• Diphthong [əʊ] – aubergine
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• aubergine
• August
• aunt
• Australia
• Austria
• automatic
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ Easy, they all start with “au”! But does that mean they are pronounced [aʊ]? Unfortunately not:
• Long o [ɔ:] – August, automatic
• Short o [ɒ] – Australia, Austria
• Long a [a:] – aunt
• Diphthong [əʊ] – aubergine
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#98 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• coincide, coincidence, coincidental
• communicate, communicative, communication
• economy, economist, economic, economics
• educate, educator, educated, education
• exam, examine, examiner, examination
• photo, photographer, photography, photographic
• politics, policy, political, politician
• social, society, sociology, sociological
• technical, technique, technology, technological
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They have variable stress, i.e. different word stress:
• COincide, coINcidence, coinciDENtal
• comMUnicate, comMUnicative, communiCAtion
• eCOnomy, eCOnomist, ecoNOmic, ecoNOmics
• Educate, Educator, eduCAted, eduCAtion
• Exam, eXAmine, eXAminer, examiNAtion
• PHOto, phoTOgrapher, phoTOgraphy, photoGRAphic
• POlitics, POlicy, poLItical, poliTIcian
• SOcial, soCIety, soCIOlogy, socioLOgical
• TEchnical, techNIque, techNOlogy, technoLOgical
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• coincide, coincidence, coincidental
• communicate, communicative, communication
• economy, economist, economic, economics
• educate, educator, educated, education
• exam, examine, examiner, examination
• photo, photographer, photography, photographic
• politics, policy, political, politician
• social, society, sociology, sociological
• technical, technique, technology, technological
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They have variable stress, i.e. different word stress:
• COincide, coINcidence, coinciDENtal
• comMUnicate, comMUnicative, communiCAtion
• eCOnomy, eCOnomist, ecoNOmic, ecoNOmics
• Educate, Educator, eduCAted, eduCAtion
• Exam, eXAmine, eXAminer, examiNAtion
• PHOto, phoTOgrapher, phoTOgraphy, photoGRAphic
• POlitics, POlicy, poLItical, poliTIcian
• SOcial, soCIety, soCIOlogy, socioLOgical
• TEchnical, techNIque, techNOlogy, technoLOgical
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#100 Our favourite mistakes: Review
▶️ Time to look back at a big bunch of favourite mistakes before we go on!
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❓You’re interested in any kind of typical mistakes of Uzbek English learners?
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❓Vocabulary is what worries you?
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❓You want to work on your grammar?
❗️Check out #grammar (33 posts).
❓Your pronunciation needs polishing?
❗️Go for #pronunciation (30 posts).
❗️Besides, there’s also #writing (11 posts) for issues in spelling, punctuation and spacing.
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▶️ Time to look back at a big bunch of favourite mistakes before we go on!
To help you navigate between the different posts, Afandi English uses *hashtags*.
❓You’re interested in any kind of typical mistakes of Uzbek English learners?
❗️Browse #mistakes (99 posts).
❓Vocabulary is what worries you?
❗️Follow #vocabulary (35 posts).
❓You want to work on your grammar?
❗️Check out #grammar (33 posts).
❓Your pronunciation needs polishing?
❗️Go for #pronunciation (30 posts).
❗️Besides, there’s also #writing (11 posts) for issues in spelling, punctuation and spacing.
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#102 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• bowl
• dough
• focus
• ghost
• goal
• hotel
• joke
• lonely
• most
• notice
• own
• Seoul
• sew
• soap
• won’t
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They contain the double vowel [əʊ], or in American English [ou]. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• bowl – ❌ баул, ✅ боул
• dough – ❌ дау, ✅ доу
• focus – ❌ фокус, ✅ фоукус
• ghost – ❌ гост, ✅ гоуст
• goal – ❌ гол, ✅ гоул
• hotel – ❌ хотел, ✅ хоутел
• joke – ❌ джок, ✅ джоук
• lonely – ❌ лонли, ✅ лоунли
• most – ❌ мост, ✅ моуст
• notice – ❌ нотис, ✅ ноутис
• own – ❌ аун, ✅ оун
• Seoul – ❌ Сеул, ✅ Соул
• sew – ❌ сю, ✅ соу
• soap – ❌ суп, ✅ соуп
• won’t – ❌ вонт, ✅ воунт
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• bowl
• dough
• focus
• ghost
• goal
• hotel
• joke
• lonely
• most
• notice
• own
• Seoul
• sew
• soap
• won’t
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They contain the double vowel [əʊ], or in American English [ou]. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• bowl – ❌ баул, ✅ боул
• dough – ❌ дау, ✅ доу
• focus – ❌ фокус, ✅ фоукус
• ghost – ❌ гост, ✅ гоуст
• goal – ❌ гол, ✅ гоул
• hotel – ❌ хотел, ✅ хоутел
• joke – ❌ джок, ✅ джоук
• lonely – ❌ лонли, ✅ лоунли
• most – ❌ мост, ✅ моуст
• notice – ❌ нотис, ✅ ноутис
• own – ❌ аун, ✅ оун
• Seoul – ❌ Сеул, ✅ Соул
• sew – ❌ сю, ✅ соу
• soap – ❌ суп, ✅ соуп
• won’t – ❌ вонт, ✅ воунт
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#106 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• childhood
• happy
• have
• hobby
• homework
• house
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They contain the soft [h]. Do not pronounce the hard [x] as it is not found in any variety of English. On the other hand, Russian only has the hard [x] but not the soft [h] sound. In Uzbek there are actually both sounds but due to Russian influence the two have become largely indistinguishable. Make sure that every ‘h’ is soft when you speak English!
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• childhood
• happy
• have
• hobby
• homework
• house
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They contain the soft [h]. Do not pronounce the hard [x] as it is not found in any variety of English. On the other hand, Russian only has the hard [x] but not the soft [h] sound. In Uzbek there are actually both sounds but due to Russian influence the two have become largely indistinguishable. Make sure that every ‘h’ is soft when you speak English!
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#110 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• alcohol
• Alzheimer’s
• hamburger
• Hamlet
• Harry Potter
• Harvard
• Hawaii
• Hong Kong
• Hitler
• hyena
• hygiene
• Ohio
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ The [h] in these international words and names was changed to [g] in Russian - here's why. Make sure you do not pronounce [g] in English!
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• alcohol
• Alzheimer’s
• hamburger
• Hamlet
• Harry Potter
• Harvard
• Hawaii
• Hong Kong
• Hitler
• hyena
• hygiene
• Ohio
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ The [h] in these international words and names was changed to [g] in Russian - here's why. Make sure you do not pronounce [g] in English!
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#114 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• bull
• bullet
• bully
• bush
• butcher
• cushion
• pudding
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ The ‘u’ in these words is pronounced [ʊ], as in “book”, not [ʌ] as in “bus”. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• bull – ❌ балл, ✅ булл
• bullet – ❌ баллет, ✅ буллит
• bully – ❌ балли, ✅ булли
• bush – ❌ баш, ✅ буш
• butcher – ❌ бачер, ✅ бучер
• cushion – ❌ кашин, ✅ кушин
• pudding – ❌ паддинг, ✅ пуддинг
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• bull
• bullet
• bully
• bush
• butcher
• cushion
• pudding
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ The ‘u’ in these words is pronounced [ʊ], as in “book”, not [ʌ] as in “bus”. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• bull – ❌ балл, ✅ булл
• bullet – ❌ баллет, ✅ буллит
• bully – ❌ балли, ✅ булли
• bush – ❌ баш, ✅ буш
• butcher – ❌ бачер, ✅ бучер
• cushion – ❌ кашин, ✅ кушин
• pudding – ❌ паддинг, ✅ пуддинг
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