10 difficult to pronounce words in English
Channel: Real English Fluency Now with Trisha and Hope
Date: 2017-09-21

In this video lesson, I will teach you how to pronounce 10 English words that are difficult or tricky for many English learners to pronounce.  

Words included are:
island               queue                           
squirrel            colleague
colonel             chaos
breakfast         worm
architecture     realm

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*** English Lesson Notes / transcript:  ***

In today’s English lesson I will teach you how to pronounce 10 words that are really tricky to pronounce in English!  Let’s get started!
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Hello Real Fluency Friends! I’m Trisha and I’m here to teach you Real English used in Real Life so you can reach Real Fluency! Now!  And today I will teach you how to pronounce some English words that can be a little confusing for many learners to know how to pronounce correctly.  

Ten really tricky Words to pronounce in English

1Island  (noun)  aɪlənd  
An area of land with water all around it.  
The ‘s’ is silent.  Island came from an Old English word without an ‘s’ but someone took an ‘s’ from the Latin word for island and stuck it in the English word.
Related is ‘isle’ – same meaning but more formal.
Sample sentences:
I wish I could stay on a tropical island in the winter, because I don’t like cold weather!
There is an old American TV show called ‘Gilligan’s Island’ that is really funny!

2 Squirrel    skwərəl 
(noun) a small animal with a long tail and soft fur that lives in trees
(verb) to put something in a safe or secret place so that it can be used in the future
My dog, Hope, loves to chase squirrels!
He was always squirreling away money and eventually had enough to buy a new car.

3 Colonel    kɜrnəl   (noun)
- an officer of high rank in the military
- influenced by both the French (coronel) and Italian (colonel) words, the spelling with an ‘l’ was kept but the with the sound of ‘r’.
- abbreviated ‘Col.’
Colonel Hogan was always able to outsmart Col. Klink without much effort.  
Some people may know Colonel Sanders from Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).

4  Breakfast    brɛkfəst  (noun)
- first meal of the day
- literally means to break the fasting period of the previous night
He doesn’t eat very healthy, I’ve heard he eats Mars candy bars for breakfast! 

5  Architecture    ɑrkəˌtɛkʧər  (noun)
- the art or science of designing and creating buildings
Architect – a person who does architecture

6    Queue  kju  
(noun)  a line of people who are waiting for something
(verb) to form or wait in a line
Mostly used in British English, in the US we usually say a ‘line’.
They had to wait in a long queue to get their tickets.
(They had to wait in a long line to get their tickets.)


7 colleague     kɑlig  (noun)
- a person you work with on around the same level
- kind of formal
 He’s not friends with any of his colleagues from work.

8  Chaos     keɪɑs   (noun)
- complete confusion and disorder; nothing is controlled
- Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics
 After the hurricane hit the island, there was total chaos.

9  Worm   wɜrm   a long, thin animal that has a soft body with no legs or bones and that often lives in the ground     
idioms:
can of worms – a difficult problem or situation that is hard to solve
Please don’t talk about that, I don’t want to open that can of worms!
the early bird gets the worm - 
A person who arrives first or early has a better chance for success

10    Realm    rɛlm (noun)
A kingdom or an area of activity, interest, or knowledge
Everyday there are many new discoveries in the realm of genetics. 

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