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Common Words with Silent Letters You Might Mispronounce 🤫🔡 1️⃣ Knife 🔪 (Silent K) → Nife2️⃣ Half 🧮 (Silent L) → Haf3️⃣ Whistle 🎵 (Silent T) → Whis-le4️⃣ Autumn 🍁 (Silent N) → Aw-tum5️⃣ Psychic 🔮 (Silent P) → Sy-kik6️⃣ Scene 🎬 (Silent C) → Seen7️⃣ Coup ⚠️ (Silent P) → Koo8️⃣ Depot 🏢 (Silent […]
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There are 26 letters in English alphabet but we get 44 sounds from those 26 letters. These 44 sounds are known as phonemes in English. Those 44 sounds are called phonemes in IPA International Phonetic Alphabet. Phonemes play very important role in English pronunciation. What is Phoneme? Phoneme is the smallest unit of English speech
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We learn the names of animals since our childhood. It can be quite surprising for you all that inspite of learning their names since our childhood, most of us mispronounce them. Today, in this post, you will learn to pronounce the names of animals correctly. 1.Leopard /ˈlep.əd/ It’s leh·puhd not leo-pard 2. Lizard /ˈlɪz.əd/ It’s
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Common Pronunciation Mistakes Learning English pronunciation is as important as English speaking. Correct English pronunciation helps you convey your message clearly to the receiver. Sometimes it becomes very difficult for non native speakers to pronounce correctly in English. That is the reason that most of the people pronounce very common words incorrectly. Here is passage
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What is syllabification? How to syllabify a word? What are the important rules for syllabification? You will get answer to all these questions in this post. You are going to read about syllabification and rules with examples. Before knowing about the syllabification which is also known as syllabication, you must know about the importance of
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English pronunciation requires a lot of practice. It is because the words in English are not pronounced exactly the way they are written. Sometimes the words having the same spellings are pronounced differently. On the other hand the same word is also pronounced in different manner. This post is about that word only which is
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Short vowel sounds are not pronounced in a longer way. A short vowel word is any word that doesn’t allow the vowel within it to generate that vowel’s long vowel sound. The words like pet, cat, pig, trick, milk, cup have short vowels. To identify a short vowel, we will have to listen to the
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Syllable Syllable is another important concept of English pronunciation. Syllables are the building blocks of a word. Unless we understand syllables, we will continue to make mistakes in pronunciation. To know about a syllable in detail, click here.Understanding syllables helps a lot with pronunciation. They improve reading and speaking skills also. When we say a word, the sounds
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Today, in this post I’ll discuss about 5 very common mispronounced words in English which we use in our day to day life. You all pronounce these words for sure but do you pronounce them correctly? Check this post. 1. Comfortable /ˈkʌmftəb(ə)l/ This word is mispronounced very commonly. There can be two reasons to mispronounce
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Our speech is not possible without speech sounds. We learn to improve our English pronunciation but we do not pay much attention to learn about speech sounds. Let’s learn more about English speech sounds. We have 44 speech sounds in English and they have been kept in the two categories: voiced sounds and unvoiced sounds.
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Silent letter ‘r’ rules. If you want to learn British English pronunciation, you must follow very important rules for silent letter r in English.
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Silent Letters in English Silent letters in English are the letters which are not pronounced sometimes in some words.The letter which is silent in some words, is not necessary will always be silent in all the words. Therefore, silent letters create a kind of confusion about their pronunciation.They are written in the words but they
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