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‫Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another aout speaking lesson today we're going to look at pronunciation

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‫for aout speaking.

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‫Here are your lesson notes.

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‫By the end of the lesson, you will understand what the phonetic alphabet is and how it is used.

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‫We're going to quickly go over stress and contractions and understand how they're used in English.

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‫But before we move on to those parts of the lesson, let's review the pronunciation ban descriptors.

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‫Now, I think it's fair to say that many students are very worried about their pronunciation in English.

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‫I do believe that there is no correct accent to use in the speaking test.

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‫And it is true you are not marked on any particular accent.

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‫The most important thing to remember is that you are speaking clearly and there are no difficulties

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‫in understanding what you are saying.

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‫The clarity of your pronunciation is without a doubt the most important thing in your speaking test

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‫sentence.

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‫Stress and pronunciation of vocabulary are super important and it's something that you need to work

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‫on if you identify it as a problem for you.

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‫And that brings me nicely onto my next point, which is identifying weaknesses.

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‫Think about which types of sound that you find most difficult to pronounce.

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‫These are the areas where you need to spend time practicing your vocabulary pronunciation.

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‫Now, I'm going to show you some examples of common pronunciation errors for non-native English speakers.

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‫And I don't mean to pick on any particular country, but I want to show you some common examples that

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‫I often see from students that I teach Korean English speakers often struggle with the F sound and replace

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‫it with the sound.

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‫Now, that's because in their native language, they don't have this F sound.

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‫So I would advise Korean English speakers to work particularly on that sound.

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‫Spanish speakers often extend the show and make it into an E, a word like net may become neat.

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‫Now, these are just common examples of errors that I see in the classroom, and I hope I haven't offended

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‫anyone showing you that.

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‫But it does go to show that if you really consider what areas you find difficult, then it's easier

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‫to understand where you need to improve.

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‫I'm now going to show you a resource which should help you learn how to speak standard English.

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‫And it is called the phonetic alphabet.

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‫I'm aware that some of you may already use this resource and if you are, that's brilliant.

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‫But if you are currently not aware of it, it's definitely something that you can use to help study

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‫for pronunciation.

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‫So the international phonetic alphabet shows pronunciation for standard English, and it is widely used

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‫by teachers and students across the world.

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‫It was actually created over 120 years ago jointly by the British and the French to help with pronunciation

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‫for French English speakers.

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‫It's something that I believe you should definitely learn and use when learning pronunciation of words.

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‫It's commonly seen in book dictionaries or online dictionaries.

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‫To the top section is the vowel sounds and the bottom sections are consonant sounds.

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‫For a quick example, let's look at the first box, which is C, this vowel sound is E or you can also

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‫call it the long E sound.

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‫The next box is the short E sound, which is it.

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‫Or set.

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‫As I showed you in the example before, Spanish speakers often mix these two vowel sounds around.

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‫And if you're aware that that's something that you do often, the phonetic alphabet will definitely

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‫help you.

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‫So let's move on to sentence stress.

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‫The words that you stress in a sentence can actually change the meaning of what you are saying.

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‫Take a look at these examples with questions and answers.

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‫Who is playing the guitar?

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‫David is playing the guitar at school.

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‫So here, as the question was, who I make David the stressed word in the sentence as that is the most

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‫important word for answering the question.

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‫Let's take a look at another example.

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‫Where is David playing guitar?

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‫And here I would change the stress to the location.

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‫David is playing the guitar at school.

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‫You can hear that.

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‫I emphasized the key words when answering these questions.

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‫But sentence stress doesn't have to be just for questions and answers.

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‫I guarantee this course will help you improve your child's school in this example, I want to emphasize

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‫that I guarantee the course will help improve your child's school.

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‫Now let's take a look at a feature of English pronunciation that is often used by native speakers,

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‫and that is contractions.

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‫Contraction is something that is made shorter or smaller.

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‫In English, we sometimes miss sounds from words, and that's because it makes it faster and easier

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‫to say.

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‫So here is an example.

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‫Black cat has two common consonant sounds with the cur at the end of black and at the start of cat.

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‫It would be difficult to fully pronounce all the sounds in these words black cat.

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‫So instead we take away one of the common sounds here.

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‫I've shown you from the end of black, it turns into black cat noticed that I didn't include the sound

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‫for black.

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‫Let's take a look at an example sentence.

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‫I was really very worried.

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‫My black cat, Sarah, had been missing for two whole weeks.

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‫So there you can see that common sound is only sounded out once.

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‫Let's take a look at another example here.

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‫We have good day, which is pretty much the same sound that does sound and instead will only say it

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‫once, which is good day.

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‫Let's take a look at an example sentence.

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‫My friend's wedding was quite special.

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‫That was a very good day.

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‫Try and look out for where words share common sounds at the end and start of the words.

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‫Going back to the phonetic alphabet, I just want to stress that this could be an excellent resource

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‫for you and improving your pronunciation, so I highly recommend spending time learning this chart.

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‫That brings us to the end of our lesson on pronunciation for Alt's speaking practice.

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‫Speak in English as much as you can, and I'm sure your pronunciation will improve.