Although it says family on the screen, hello, this is Victoria. Could you please read the words on the screen right now? Even among the basic words that were diligently memorized from the very beginning of learning English, these are basic words. Did you feel a bit awkward when pronouncing them, like something is missing? I will tell you 20 basic words that many Koreans pronounce awkwardly. These are the words I showed you earlier. First, the word business. In Korean, it sounds like bijeuniseu, with four sounds. But how many sounds are there in English? In English, the sounds are determined by vowels. Looking at how many vowels there are, there are three: ie. So, you can also pronounce it as bizniss. But it feels awkward, right? I will remove the isolation in the middle and pronounce it as a syllable. Doesn't it sound more natural this way? This is how it is written.

It seems like I need to produce a sound while speaking cheaply and globally, but sometimes one syllable disappears in the middle. In technical terms, it is called bow thinkly. This phenomenon refers to the case where unstressed vowel sounds in words are just removed one by one in the middle. Especially in American pronunciation, more sounds tend to disappear. That's why people often say that American pronunciation is lazy compared to British pronunciation. However, in Korea, American pronunciation is used more and considered more comfortable, so let's try to recognize these sounds a bit. So, let's pronounce the first word we saw earlier, disness. Shall we try pronouncing it once, where we skip the 'i' in the middle? The second meaning is temperature. Even though the word may look a bit long, how did you read this? Did you perhaps not read it as temper-ature when reading? How many vowels are here?

If there are five words like this, but the ones at the end of the word we don't pronounce, so I'll just ignore them. So, it's perfect for practicing pronunciation. I'll remove the 'a' and pronounce it. Stress is on the second syllable, so push the sound forward, please. Temperature, don't raise your voice, temperature, temperature like this. Let's practice pronunciation together. For the word restaurant, where does the stress go? I'll show you even if we pronounce it together. The stress in restaurant goes on the second syllable, which is why it goes on the first 're' that appears. So, it's okay to blend the sound in the middle where stress doesn't come. So, it's okay if it sounds a bit muffled in the 'a' and 'u' parts. Therefore, it's okay to say rester, but when speaking quickly in a sentence, you can completely remove 'au' as if 'str' is connected and make a lot of sound. Shall we pronounce Chinese restaurant? Chinese restaurant. The next word is dinner. Let's say boiling at dinner time.

How did I pronounce it just now? Good evening. Instead of saying Good evening, I pronounced it with a sound. The phenomenon of the disappearance of the second 2 is happening. So, if you try too hard to make that sound, it can feel like there is a vowel there. So, try to make the sound in the middle similar to an F. Evening sounds much more natural this way. Now, let's look at this word. It looks like it has one, two, three vowels, but I will skip the second 2 in the middle. So, it's not camera, but it transitions directly from m to r. Shall we try it together? For this word, instead of saying camera, I will make the second vowel i disappear and pronounce it. This word, too, interesting. Instead of pronouncing it as interesting, I will skip the 2 between t and r, then pronounce ing. Stick out your lips and make the sound. That's how it sounds. The last go is not table, right?

Please do not forget to crush the a in the recipe, and also do not forget to protrude your lips in the batch sound part. Since the following part will be treated as a pause, you will already be making a good sound. Now, we will move on to the family foot. It is written as family to look like a family, but by deleting the child, we quickly move on. However, in the pronunciation guide, there is a pronunciation change written as shua in the child part. It's a bit of a muffled sound. Usually, many people chase or get rid of sounds, so it's good to know that they make sounds. When our head hurts, we take aspirin. How do you pronounce aspirin? It also has one or two or three bodies, but we delete the one in the middle. Typically, when you look, many vowels in the middle disappear. So, we move directly from pi to r. Let's pronounce it together. Are there any people who go to church here? In Korean, it's called Catholic.

Catholicism eliminates the aura that the body is visible in the world, but in fact, it removes the aura in the middle. So, if you think that the sound of th is followed by the sound of deng, listen to it again. This really confuses a lot of people, so please refer to it. The next word is similar to the patchterball we saw earlier. It disappears like this with comfortable, four together. Shall we try again? But what is the reason these words disappear? They say there is no specific reason. Just think of it as sounds that disappear as you speak. Now, the favorite word is, well, this one is also a favorite, people use it a lot. Instead of favorite, eliminate the 5 in the middle and go straight to r from above. Once again, chocolate, chocolate is not chocolate, the aura in the middle disappears. Don't forget to pronounce it with your mouth open longer.

In the pronunciation of c, it transitions directly to l. There are many disappearing sounds when there is an o in the middle. Words ending in ry will be introduced in three different ways. The first one is a word we all know very well, history. Instead of pronouncing hi-sto-ry, eliminate the o sound in the middle and say his-to-ry in one go. Let's try saying it out loud together. Shall we sing along? The same goes for memory. Habitually, the o in the middle is often omitted, so even though it can be said as memary, usually it is pronounced as memory. It's like going straight from m to ry. Shall we try it again? Next is lab. Similarly, the middle o disappears, so pronounce it as lab. Again, for words ending in ry, what you need to remember is to stretch out the ree sound, sticking out your lips and pulling up to make the sound. Let's try it again. We often order delivery food, and about delivery...

It's about words. How should we pronounce that? At first glance, it seems like delivery with four sounds, but it's not. The second sound in the middle disappears, so it sounds like vry at once, emphasizing the syllable ai. Let's try it again, the livery. Let's see it as a whole. You might habitually read it as naturally, right? How about utilizing the double l? It disappears in the middle, so t and r are pronounced together, sounding like naturally instead of not trally. For the last word, words with cally at the end are usually adverbs, right? It seems like it should be pronounced as kally by writing it that way, ignoring the a completely, like kly. So, how do we pronounce clly at the end? I looked into these disappearing vowel sounds. What do you think?

There are many cases where it doesn't make a sound as it looks like this, so I'm going to organize it all at once, then I'll see you in the next class.

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