Even Advanced Students CAN -T Pronounce All These Words

Even Advanced Students CAN_T Pronounce All These Words
 
You may understand English.
You may speak fluently.
But can you pronounce every word correctly?
Even advanced English learners often struggle with pronunciation — especially when it comes to tricky, irregular, and commonly mispronounced words.
In this focused and highly practical episode of Mind Life In English, host Profe Lao challenges you with a set of English words that even advanced students find difficult to pronounce correctly.
This episode is not just a test — it’s a complete pronunciation training session designed to improve your clarity, confidence, and natural speaking ability.
🎙️ What You’ll Practice in This Episode
🔹 1. Commonly Mispronounced Words
You’ll hear and practice words that learners often say incorrectly, including:
• Words with silent letters
• Words with unexpected stress patterns
• Words that don’t follow normal pronunciation rules
• Frequently used words that are often pronounced wrong
🔹 2. Real Pronunciation Correction
Learn how to:
• Pronounce words clearly and naturally
• Avoid common pronunciation mistakes
• Understand correct stress and rhythm
• Improve your overall speaking clarity
🔹 3. Listen → Repeat → Improve Method
This episode follows a powerful method:
🎧 Listen carefully
🗣️ Repeat out loud
🔁 Practice multiple times
This helps you build muscle memory and improve naturally.
🔹 4. Why Pronunciation Is So Difficult
Understand the real reasons behind pronunciation problems:
• English spelling vs pronunciation differences
• Influence of your native language
• Lack of listening practice
• Mislearning words from reading instead of hearing
🔹 5. Build Confidence in Speaking
Better pronunciation helps you:
• Sound more natural
• Be understood more easily
• Speak with confidence
• Communicate more effectively
🎯 Who This Episode Is For
✔️ Intermediate and advanced English learners
✔️ Learners who want to improve pronunciation
✔️ People preparing for speaking exams or interviews
✔️ Anyone who wants to sound more natural in English
🧠 Learning Insight
Fluency is not just about knowing words —
It’s about saying them correctly and clearly.
Correct pronunciation = Clear communication.
🎧 How to Use This Episode
For best results:
🎧 Use headphones
🗣️ Repeat every word out loud
⏸️ Pause when needed
🔁 Practice regularly
🎧 Final Thought
Even advanced learners make pronunciation mistakes.
But with the right practice, you can fix them — one word at a time.
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Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode with me, Lau. Today I'm going to be teaching you how to pronounce in standard American English about 34 of the most commonly mispronounced or difficult words for students learning English. These are words that I've noticed that students struggle with in our conversations. I made a video like this before, like last year in Spanish. So you might remember some of these words from that video, but there's also going to be new words. And of course, this time it's all in English. So it might be a refresh, it might be a reminder, but I think at least one of these words is going to be difficult for you. So I would be surprised if any student could say all of these without me telling them how to say it. Like I would be surprised if you already knew how to pronounce all of these perfectly. I speak standard American English. I grew up in Maine, but the way that I talk is the same as my friend from Indiana, my friend from California, etc. Nowadays, the younger generations, you go on social media, you go on the internet, you're going to hear mostly the same general standard American English accent. There is some variation in the pronunciation of words in the United States. People have different ways of pronouncing certain words, but the words that we're going to be looking at today are pretty standard. They have a pretty standard way of being pronounced. And my pronunciation is pretty standard. I would say the only word that I pronounce differently because of my region that I'm aware of is the word room. A lot of the country or most of the country says room, room, but growing up in New England, it's more common to say rum. A lot of people from New England say rum. New England is the northeast region of the United States that consists of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. So my family says rum. I've always said rum. But that's the only word that people from other states, from other parts of the country, have said, oh, that's strange. I've never heard that before. Or I don't say it like that. Besides that word, my pronunciation is pretty standard. All right, so let's get into it. Oh, and by the way, I'm not going to be using academic, official ways of talking about pronunciation. I'm not going to be explaining it in like the most, you know, professional academic way. I am going to be explaining this in the way that I would with my friends who are learning English. So this is very casual, real life, realistic explaining pronunciation. The first one is close. Close. This word is confusing because it has a th, but it's not necessary to pronounce the th. Some people might emphasize the th. Well, not really emphasize it, but some people might say it. Some people might kind of make a sound that sounds like it. But in my experience, it's totally normal and fine to just say close the same way that you would say close the door. So you can just make that zzz sound, that hard S sound at the end, and that's it. You don't need the th. You can forget about the th and just say close. That's the way that I say it. That's the way that you know people I know say it, my family. That's normal and totally fine, totally standard to say close. And it's a lot easier. So I recommend saying clothes. Close. I don't have a lot of clothes. All of my clothes can fit in one suitcase because I am a nomad. Number two is majority. This looks like a simple word, but a lot of students, especially Spanish speakers, will say majority, they're not pronouncing the J strong enough. It is majority. You need to be pronouncing that J very strong. It's not the same as a CH. It's not maturity. That would be if it had a CH. It's not that, but it is a strong sound. It is majority. J, j, j, majority. All right. So you need to make sure that you're not making that sound too lightly or too softly. It is strong. Majority. Majority, the next one is since. Since another simple word, but a lot of students will say signs or scenes or whatever. Since. Since. And the word sin, which is the first three letters in since, that is also a word in a religious context, that is like something bad that you're not supposed to do. You know, like that is a sin. It is a sin to steal. So that's how we pronounce sin. And it's the same for since. You're just extending the word to be since, since. I know that it's confusing. I know that English pronunciation doesn't make sense. It doesn't really seem to have rules, or there are rules, but there are a lot of exceptions to the rules. So it's like, are there even really rules? Because there are so many exceptions. English pronunciation is probably the hardest thing about English, but it is also the most important thing. It's the difference between people understanding you or not. So even though it's frustrating, it's annoying, it doesn't make sense, it's ridiculous. I know, I know, but it is necessary. It's necessary. It is the way it is. The people alive today did not invent it. We didn't make it up. We didn't create it this way. It just is the way it is. This is how we learned it. This is how we say it, how we use it. It is what it is. Oh, I realize I didn't give you examples for majority or since. Okay, let me back it up. Let me back it up real quick. So, majority, let me think of an example for majority. The majority of Spanish speakers pronounce majority wrong. Okay, next one is uh since. What is an example for since? I've been making this video since four o'clock. That's not true. Five o'clock. I've been making this video since five. You don't really have to say a clock. You can just say, I've been making this video since 5 p.m. or 5. It depends on the context. I don't know why I said a clock. I usually don't say a clock, but it's it's optional. It's like a lot of times we don't actually say a clock, but yeah, you can. Okay, the next one was strength. Strength. So we have strong, which is the adjective, but strength is the noun. It's the thing. You have strength. You need strength. Strength. That th is pronounced like a th. So if you struggle with the th sound, you're gonna struggle with words like this. So that is something that you need to be able to do in English. You gotta be able to do that strong th sound in American English. In British and other European English dialects, they don't do the th as strongly a lot of times, but in the United States we do. In North American English, we pronounce that th very strongly. We say strength. Strength. Strength. Look at my mouth, if you can see it, the tongue between the teeth, strength, th, th, th, th, strength. Like that. If you just say strength, it's you're not saying the whole word. You're not saying the complete word. It's not as clear. An example with the word strength, yes, you can build strength on a plant-based diet with plant-based protein. Yes, you can. There are tons of plant-based athletes who build strength, who have a lot of strength, and they eat a plant-based diet. The next one is jewelry. Jewelry. This word looks hard. And I recommend breaking the words up into the syllables and pronouncing the syllables over and over again individually so that you master the individual syllables and then you can put them together. So first focus on jewel. And then re jewelry jewelry. That's it. Jewelry, jewelry. I usually don't wear jewelry. I usually don't wear much jewelry. I like to wear some earrings sometimes. That's pretty much it. Next one is daughter. That is it's a strange word because of the way that it looks and what it is. It's a strange word in general. Daughter. Daughter. Yeah. Just dot er, but the T is like a D, the way that we pronounce it in the US. So it's just like a daughter. Dur, der, daughter. Daughter. I am a daughter. I am somebody someone's daughter. I am definitely someone's daughter. The next one is anxiety. So anxious is the adjective. I am anxious. Anxious anxious anxious. And the noun is anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety. Aang. There's no G there, but that's the way we're saying it. It's like ang, ang, anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety. Do you deal with anxiety? Let me know in the comments if you deal with anxiety. The next one is literally. This is a classic, classic, difficult word for students. But let's just break it down. Let's break it down. Shall we? Yeah, that's so silly saying shall. I usually don't say shall. We usually don't say shall, but every once in a while to be funny, to be funny, we'll say shall we? Because it sounds like very formal or British or like old. So we we don't usually say that a lot. But when we do is kind of to be like funny or cute, by the way. Shall we? Okay. Um, so let's break down the word literally. So litter, so that T is like a D. In American English, so often the T is really like a D sound. Litter, litter. So focus on litter, litter, litter, lee. Litter, Lee. What's hard is connecting them. It's hard to go from the R to the L. Literal, literally, literal, literal. Yes, that is hard. Literally. But yeah, these are just the words that you gotta practice a million times, and you'll get better at it. You'll get better at it. Even some of my friends who are very advanced in their English, like very, very advanced, they still struggle with these words. Okay, so don't feel bad about it. Even super advanced students are looking at looking in the mirror, looking at themselves in the mirror, in the mirror. That's another hard word. I just said mirror, mirror. You're gonna hear all kinds of pronunciations of that word. Mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror. That's a hard word. I didn't put that on the list, but that is a hard word. Mirror, mirror. I think if I was learning English, I would find that word crazy. Mirror, mirror. Even as an English speaker, I'm like, what am I even saying? Mirror, mirror. Anyways, the mirror. Um, even the most advanced students are looking at themselves in the mirror, going, literally, liter, literally, literally. I am literally making a video right now. That's what I'm literally doing. I'm literally making a video. Okay, next one. Next one is focus. So this sound is very important, the faux, faux, because if you say it wrong, it could sound like a bad word, quote unquote. Bad word. A word that I say all the time off camera. Um, so you need to say faux, faux. Really emphasize that faux, focus. And the end is just like kiss, like a kiss, kiss. Focus. Focus. That's it. Focus. Focus. All I can think about is the forward focus. It's a type of car. Uh the forward focus. But no, you need to focus. Listen. Listen up, pay attention, look at me, focus. You need to focus on pronouncing the word focus correctly. Next one is through. Through, through. This is that strong th sound as well. T, th th through. Through. You're going from the th to the r. Yeah. Thr. Thr. That's a little tricky. Through. Through. Through. So well, this is a homophone. So there's different words that sound like through. You could use through, like, like you need to go through the kitchen. You need to go through the kitchen to get to the living room. Go through the kitchen to get to the living room. The living room. You need to go through the tunnel. Go through the tunnel. But also it could be through like the past of throw. So to throw a ball, the past is through. So I threw a ball. So either way, it's the same pronunciation. Through, through, yeah. Alright, next one is schedule. Um, and like I said, this is this is American English pronunciation, British, uh, Irish, Scottish, Australian, it's gonna be different. In American English, we say schedule, schedule. Some people might say more like schedule, schedule, woe, woe. Some people might say more jewel, jewel, schedule, schedule, jewel, jewel, schedule, schedule, schedule. It it doesn't really matter. Like these are the subtle differences that you'll find in different different people in the United States, but it doesn't really make a big difference in the overall pronunciation of the word compared to like the British pronunciation, which is very different. Um, so yeah, whether you say like schedule, schedule, it's like basically the same thing. It sounds like the same thing. So yeah, schedule. We don't really think about it so much, and you shouldn't either. Like you should just, you know, just hear the sound, like, okay, gonna make a sound that's like that. You know, you don't have to like, it doesn't have to be the most perfect, you know, uh imitation of of the sound, but like just try to get something close to that schedule. Schedule. Yeah, I'm gonna put you on my schedule. If you want to have a conversation class with me, you can go on my channel page and you'll see the link to my calendarly page, and you can see the schedule. I have my schedule there, and you can choose a time on my schedule to schedule a class with me. So a schedule can be a verb or a thing, a noun. So you can schedule a time to have a conversation class with me on my schedule. All right? Sounds good? Okay. The next one is this and these um simple words that we use all the time, but the s is pronounced differently, and also the the vowels are pronounced differently. Um, so they're very different words that if you confuse them, uh it doesn't sound very good. So you have this, which is the short I sound, the i with the soft s. This, this, this, i, s, this. And then you have these for plural. So you have this chair, these chairs, and these is that long e sound. E. So you want to stretch that out. If you want to sound more American, you gotta stretch out some of these sounds. You gotta put emphasis on these long sounds. We really like to make these long sounds. So these, these. And also, it will make it so that people have an easier time understanding you. You will sound more clear in your pronunciation if you put emphasis on those long, long sounds. So this, these, these, and that S is that hard S, like a Z. Z, these. This, these, this chair, these chairs. Simple as that. The next one is thirteen. A lot of students struggle with all of the words that end in en. I just chose thirteen because it's extra hard because you have the th at the beginning, the thr, thr, that is the the strong th, thr, thirteen. And a lot of students will not pronounce the en at the end of these kinds of words, and so it will sound like thirty. And that's confusing. So in order to differentiate it from thirty, you have to really pronounce that en at the end. 13, 13. Um, same thing with 14, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. So you have to really emphasize that T and that en that teen. You really want to emphasize the teen at the end because that's what's going to make it clearly 14 instead of 40. 14, 40. You see the difference there? Yeah. It's they're they're very clearly different, but if you're not doing the correct sorry, if you're not if you're not doing the correct pronunciation, then it's confusing. The next one is beach. This is a classic word that students are often afraid to say because they think that they're gonna pronounce it wrong and it's gonna sound like a bad word. Um yeah, you're only gonna pronounce it wrong if you're speaking too fast, if you're trying to cut your sounds, if you're trying to make your sounds short. This is a common problem with Spanish speakers, um, but it could be anybody, anybody um who's not who's not realizing that the beach sound has the long E sound. So you really need to emphasize that E. So the more you emphasize it, the more it's gonna sound like beach, and it's not gonna be confused with the other word. So don't make a short sound there. You don't want to say beach, like you don't want to cut that short. You want to make it long. So you want to say beach, let's go to the beach, let's go to the beach. I love going to the beach. Let's go to the beach. Uh, I want to go to the beach right now. Let's go to the beach. You see how I'm talking fast, but I'm still putting emphasis on that beach. I'm not saying let's go to the beach, let's go to the beach. No, I'm saying let's go to the beach. Let's go to the beach. You you hear how that sound is very stressed, it's very emphasized. That's it. Beach. E. E. Each. Beach. Let's go to the beach. All right. And and a lot of you, most of you guys have this E sound in your language. It's not even a new sound. You just gotta do it longer. You just might not be doing it as long in your language, but you gotta you gotta do it longer. Be each. All right. The next common confusion, actually, I have a friend who has a very advanced level of English, and he didn't even know the difference between woman and women. So some of you might not either. So, and it's very confusing, of course, because it's not based on the way that the words look. Woman and women are spelled differently, but not in a way that represents the sound. So you just have to memorize it. And that's really what English pronunciation comes down to. It comes down to memorizing sounds. That's it. You just have to memorize it. So woman, singular, it starts with the uh sound. Wuh, w, w, w, men, woman, woman, w, men. It's not so much like men, it's more like men, woman, woman, men, min. Woman, woman. There's a woman over there. A woman. And plural, it's gonna start with wi. It's like a short I sound, like i. So the difference is really in the first syllable, the first vowel sound. That is where you're gonna hear the difference between woman and women. W. W, we. Woman, there's a woman over there, there are women over there. There's a woman, there are women. There's one woman, there are two women. Woman, women. This is very important. If you're listening to native speakers and you think that they're not pronouncing it correctly or they're not saying the words differently, they probably are. You're just not able to notice the difference yet. It's very subtle. Sometimes it's very subtle with the way that people talk quickly, but it's usually there in the speaking. In writing, native speakers make mistakes all the time, but in speaking, we usually always say it correctly because we know the sound of it. So if you don't notice it, you just haven't, you just probably can't notice that subtle difference. But it is there. Trust me. It is there. Women, women. And if somebody is not differentiating them and they're a native speaker, well, they're gonna confuse other native speakers as well. So okay, the next one is the difference between can and can't. This is very hard for students. Uh so many, I get so many questions about this. I've gotten so many questions about this over the years. Um, so you kind of gotta forget about what the words look like, and you just gotta remember that most of the time when we're speaking and a normal normal speed, we pronounce it like Ken, Ken, like K-E-N, like the name Ken in like in the movie Barbie, the male character is named Ken. So you have Barbie and Ken. So it's the same way we say Ken is the way that we say Ken in um normal speaking. If we're not speaking normally, we might say can. But if we're speaking at a normal pace, most of the time we say can. Can I go to the bathroom? Can I well, that's kind of a weird thing to ask as an adult, but sometimes. I actually just asked that question today because I was at the dentist. I said, can I can I go to the bathroom in the middle of the the appointment? Um yeah, can you speak slower? Can you speak slower? So it's not can, it's that's weird. We don't say can you, we say unless we're emphasizing. But generally we say can you, can you? I can, I can speak slower, I can do it, can you do it? Can and the that's the positive. And the negative is can't. And sometimes you will hear the T and sometimes you won't. A lot of the time you won't hear the T because we do a stop T. So we just say can't. So we cut off the air, and it indicates that it's can't and not can, because listen to the difference between can't and can. Can't, can, can't, can. So even though I didn't change the vowel sound, one is a stop T and one is not. The stop T is this abrupt cutting off of air, cutting off of the air. And so you will hear that sometimes. Sometimes you will hear can't. Sometimes you will hear can't. So I want you to forget about the T because you're gonna hear it, you're not gonna hear it, you can't depend on hearing the T to differentiate these words. You already learned that the positive is can, can. So what you need to listen for is the other vowel sound. You need to listen for a, eh. That is the sound you're gonna hear in American English. A, eh, I can, I can't, can't. That is the negative. Can't, ah, and so when you hear that sound, I can't, I can't, that's in the negative form. When you hear can, that's positive. When you hear can't, that's negative. I can, I can't. You can or you can't. You can or you can't. Can can't. Can can't. This is crucial. But even native speakers, sometimes we have to ask each other because we sometimes we talk fast and we don't emphasize. And sometimes we even ask each other, you can or you can't, because we need to clarify because the words are similar. They are close. They are close, but they are different. So most of the time we understand each other, but sometimes we have to clarify. All right, the next one. Comfortable. So this word, it looks like comfortable. So most students want to say that, but that's not the way we say it. We say kumpf ter bull. So I want you to break it down into the syllables and practice them individually. Kumpf, ter bull. Kumpf, kumpf. And sometimes we don't even really say the F. Sometimes we just say Kumpf or Kumpf, Kumpf, something like that. But if you want to say it nicely, you can say Kumpf, Kumpf, Bull, Bull. Comfortable. Kumpf, ter, bull, comfortable. So forget about the comfortable. When we write, when because the way that English is written is very different than the way it's pronounced. Yes. So even native speakers, when we write words like comfortable, usually we think in our heads comfortable. When we're writing, we say comfortable. We think that. But when we're speaking, we say comfortable. So some words in English, like for example, Wednesday, is spelled in a very strange way, and it's not how we say it. So when native speakers are writing Wednesday, we think Wednesday. But we don't say that. We say Wednesday. So yes, even we have to like sound it out. We have to say it like how it's written in our heads because it just makes no sense. Makes no sense. All right. That's how our parents taught it to us when we were kids. That's how that's how they taught it to us. Uh because it there's no other way. How are you gonna remember? Speaking of that, we have the next word, which is February. Now, personally, I say February. I don't pronounce the R. I noticed that some people do pronounce the R. Some people say February, some people say February. It sounds basically the same. It doesn't matter. If it's easier for you to get rid of the R and just say February like me, then do it. It's not a big deal. Saying February is totally normal, it's totally fine. I've never had anybody in the United States in my life tell me that I'm pronouncing February wrong or weird or different. So, yes, February. February is a rough month in the north where I'm from in Maine. It's very cold, lots of snow in February. By February, you're like, okay, I'm tired of winter now. I'm ready for spring. But if you're in Maine, like where I'm from, you won't get spring until May. So it even snows in April sometimes. All right. That's why I don't live there. One of the reasons, of several reasons. All right, the next one is the difference between politics and politician. Politics is a hard word for a lot of students. Politics. You know, the word isn't actually hard, but for some reason, because of people who speak a different language, um, like Latin-based languages, the word for politics in their language is similar but very different. And sometimes the emphasis is on a different syllable, and so it creates this confusion, and people end up pronouncing the word wrong in English. But in English, it's politics, and the emphasis is on the first syllable. Paul, politics, politics, politics, and the person is the politician. So this the emphasis changes. Politician. It's on the second syllable. So when you're trying to imitate pronunciation, when you're trying to learn pronunciation in general, really the most useful, the most important thing is gonna be focusing on where is the emphasis, where where is the stressed syllable. That is gonna help you so much in sounding correct, like in in pronouncing correctly. Politics, politician. Politics, politician. Alright, next one. Lose. Lose is a simple word, a simple verb, but it has that hard S, that z like a Z lose. So it's not loose, because loose has two O's, loose, but the word lose only has one O and it has that hard S. Lose, lose. The next one is tired. A lot of people see this word and they think it's tie red, tie red, but it is tired. So I want you to say this. I want you to say tie, tie, and then I want you to say erd, erd, not red, erd, er, er. It's just an ER, er, erd, tie, erd. That's it. Tired. A lot of these words are not actually that hard to say, but because the way that they're written doesn't represent the pronunciation, a lot of students will say it wrong because they've seen the word written, but they haven't actually paid attention to how we say it. So it's tired. Tired. Oh, I just realized I haven't been giving sentence examples, but I don't think I have time to give sentence examples because this video is going to be longer than I expected. So sorry about that. Your homework is to make your own examples, all right? Make your own sentence examples with these words. That's what you need to be doing. Every time you learn a new word in general, you should be making example sentences with it. Okay? Like when you're learning words that you can see are going to be regular words that you're going to use in your life, you should think of the ways that you're going to be using that word and then practice saying it in sentences. This is like learning a language 101. Learning a language 101, this is what you need to be doing. Alright, the next one is guitar. Guitar, uh, it's not guitar, it's just g. G. The sound is very short. Guitar. The emphasis is on the second syllable. Guitar. G tar. Guitar. Guitar. G tar. Guitar. The next one is island. I know it looks like island. It's not. I like I land. But well, actually when we say it fast, it's like lend. Island. Island. I lend. Lend. Island. The next one is Catholic. Catholic. A lot of students want to say Catholic or Catholic. It is that TH sound. Remember that that strong TH sound. Cath Cath. Look at my mouth. Cath. Cath lick. Forget about the O. Just throw the O in the trash. Forget about it. Cath lick. Catholic. That's it. The next one is pronounce. This is not a hard word to say, but a lot of students will say pronunciate, which is just the wrong word. The correct word is pronounce. Nounce. Pronounce. The next one is avocado. One of my friends with advanced English, he said avocado, but it's avocado. Avocado. Avocado. I love avocado. The next one is strategy. Strategy. Strategy strategy. Another example of how the T sounds more like a D a lot of times. Strata Strata Strategy G Strata Strategy. Strategy. Strategy. Strategy. So the emphasis really is on the first syllable. Strategy. Strategy. The next one is rural. Rural. Honestly, you don't really need this word. You can just say countryside, the countryside. I live out in the countryside. I live out in the countryside. Do you prefer living in the city or in the countryside? That's usually what I say, the countryside, because it's easy. It's easy for communication's sake. I started saying that as an adult, but when I was a kid, um sometimes we just say in the country, live out in the country. Sometimes we don't finish the word, but it's countryside. But when I was a kid, we used to also use the word rural. Yeah, you you might hear it. Some people might use it, uh, definitely, but it's not you don't absolutely have to use it, because it's a hard word to say, I know. But in case you would like to know, it is pronounced rural. Rrr, rrr. Get that English R, rr, rrr, rrr, rrr, rural, rural. It's hard because it's a double r. Even for us native speakers, it sounds like a strange word. It's very strange to say. Rural. Yes, just a just a simple rural life. Rural life, a rural. You know, because the word's so hard, native speakers might just say like rural, like rural, like they might just say it fast like that, like condensed. And instead of saying rural, they might just say rural, it's a rural life. Yeah, out out uh in in the rural town, it's a rural town, it's a rural, rural, I don't know. So yeah, it's it's a word, it's one of those words like mirror that doesn't have a lot of um like hard defining specific sounds. Like it it kind of it kind of changes a lot depending on people's accent. Uh, and you can kind of just pronounce it in like a lazy way, um, that is good enough and people will understand you in context. But yeah, um, you don't need to say it, like I said, you could just say in the countryside, it's easier. Okay, the next one is recipe. Recipe, this word I I know in English we usually don't pronounce the ease at the end of words, especially not like e, but in this case we do. In this case, I don't know. I don't know why, but we say recipe. So it's not receip or recipe or whatever. But make sure you do pronounce that e sound at the end. Recipe, recipe. And the final word I have for you today is genre, genre. This is a great word. Um what is your favorite music genre? What is your favorite movie genre? Genre. Um, yeah, it's just John, John, ra, ra, genre, genre. That's it. Um, so yeah, like I said, I know English pronunciation is absolutely insane. Absolutely insane. But um, you're doing great. If you made it to the end of the video, you're doing awesome. Um if you master these words, you're gonna sound great. Uh yeah, these are most of these words are pretty common, pretty useful everyday English type words. Uh, not all of them, but most of them. So yeah. Of course, there are many more words that people struggle with, and and feel free to write down words that you think are difficult in the comment section, and maybe I'll make another one of these videos. Um, but yeah, let me know what you think. And remember to make example sentences with these words to practice them to get the feel of like how you would really use them in real life. And uh remember to focus on the stressed syllable and to break up the words into syllable parts to practice individually, and then you can put it all together, and it's easier. So that's what you need to do when you see like a big word, break it up, say each syllable many times individually, put it all together, and there you go. Alright, that's it, guys. Thank you for your support, and I'll see you in the next video.