English Pronunciation Test - How good is your English?

hi I'm Lisa Let's test your English pronunciation we all know that English pronunciation can be a real challenge whether you're an intermediate or Advanced student of English this test is designed to give you an idea of your current pronunciation abilities [Music] some of these words are everyday words but other words you may not be familiar with I will teach you the meaning of those more advanced words we will look at English words that are spelled with the letters CH the most common pronunciation of these two letters is and the phonetic symbol of Chu is this it looks like this for example child teacher and much but as you know English pronunciation has some exceptions the CH can be pronounced three different ways depending on the origin of the word the most common pronunciation is but sometimes the CH is pronounced as a k sound and sometimes it's pronounced as a sh sound and in one pretty common word the CH is silent do you know which word that is you will see some words on the screen and you will decide whether the CH is pronounced as a church foreign sound or if the CH is silent and then at the end of the video you will have a chance to practice some of these words Again by saying them in sentences let's look at the first two words are the letters CH pronounced the same in both of these words or are they pronounced differently you say them first how did you pronounce the CH in these words the first word is pronounced with a sh sound chef chef a chef is a professional cook the main cook in a restaurant and the second word is pronounced with a CH sound chief a chief is a leader someone who has the highest rank did you pronounce those correctly let's look at the next two words how do we pronounce the ch the first word is pronounced with the chick a chick is a baby bird a baby chicken how about the second word it's pronounced with a sure sound chic and that means very elegant and stylish we can say you look very chic that's a Chic suit why is the pronunciation different in those words why do we say chef and Chic and not chef and cheek because these words have a French origin in the French language the CH is pronounced as a sh sound of course in English the Shu sound is spelled with an s h but sometimes in English we keep the pronunciation of the foreign words and I think that's pretty common with languages taking words from another language and maybe your language does something similar with English where the sound is pretty similar to the English pronunciation but it's not quite the same how about the name of this city how do we pronounce the CH it's commonly mispronounced as Chicago it's not CH you try it it's pronounced with a sure sound Chicago and this word doesn't have a CH in it but I'm including it because the city of Chicago is in this state and this state is also commonly mispronounced you say it did you know that the S is silent we say Illinois repeat after me Chicago is in the state of Illinois how about this word how do we pronounce the ch the CH is pronounced as a k sound we say choir choir acquire is a group of people singing for the public we can say she sings in a choir choir sounds beautiful how about this word how do we pronounce the ch you say it in this word the CH is silent we say yacht yacht a yacht is a large expensive boat with a sale this is a yacht he bought a big yacht how about this word how do we pronounce the ch it's pronounced with a k sound chaos chaos and that means complete confusion something very disorganized it's in chaos or it's chaotic let's look at the next word how do we pronounce the CH you say it do you know what this word means let's pronounce it correctly first charlatan it's pronounced with the Shu sound charlatan a charlatan is a dishonest person someone falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill it's someone who is a fraud we can say he doesn't know anything about medicine he's a complete charlatan stay away from him he's a charlatan let's listen to how some other people pronounced it and you see charlatans like this all the time or somebody that's a charlatan or somebody who's not going to deliver who is this charlatan and like this can't be real all of these words have the letters a-r-c-h in them how do we pronounce the CH in these words I'll give you a little time to think and say them out loud and then I will give you the answer the first word is pronounced Arch arch with a CH sound an arch is a structure where the curved top and straight sides that supports the weight of a bridge or a building an arch is also the curved structure of bones in the middle of your foot this is your foot arch let's look at the pronunciation of the CH of the second word it's pronounced with the k sound archeology let's say that again archeology and you probably know the meaning of this word because scientific words are often similar in many languages archeology is the study of ancient societies by examining what remains of their buildings Graves tools and so on let's say that again archeology let's look at the next word how do we pronounce the CH is it with the CH with the K or with the sound it's pronounced with the CH sound archery archery archery is a sport it's the sport of shooting a bow with arrows at a Target and the final word how do we pronounce the ch it's pronounced with the k sound architect architect repeat after me the architect created the beautiful Arch let's look at this word how do we say it how do we pronounce the ch it's pronounced with the k sound ache ache ache is pain an egg can be either a verb or a noun if a part of your body aches you feel a continuous but not very sharp pain it hurts we can say he has a backache and make sure you stress the first syllable backache she has a headache did you know that you can also use egg as a verb to ache you can say my head aches terribly my head is beginning to ache or in the past tense it ached all day yesterday and we have an adjective form of this verb a key you can say I feel achy when you have the flu you feel tired and achy and we pronounce this word with the k sound also stomach and now let's say these words together stomachache let's stress the first syllable stomachache he has a stomachache let's look at the pronunciation of the next four words how do we pronounce the CH in these words you say them first in the first word the CH is pronounced as an s h and the t is silent we say Chalet a chalet is a mountain house it usually looks like this did you get that one right let's look at the next word how do we say it once again we pronounce the CH with the sh sound but how about the final syllable the a-g-n-e how do we say that in English we say pain pain champagne champagne they celebrated with champagne they drank champagne on their yacht this word also begins with c-h-a-m how do we say this word do we pronounce it with the Shu or a CH sound in this case it's a CH sound champion let's reduce the O we don't say Champion we say champion and how do we pronounce this word in English you say it it's pronounced with the Shu sound Chandelier and we stress the first syllable Shan Shan we reduce the second syllable and the last syllable is pronounced as leer Lear repeat after me Chandelier that's a beautiful Chandelier we have a crystal chandelier how about this word is it pronounced with the chu or sure sound we say Channel I changed the channel the English Channel let's look at this word how do we pronounce the ch you say the word in this case we pronounce it the French way chauffeur chauffeur a chauffeur is a person who drives a car for someone else chauffeur let's look at this word how do we pronounce the ch it's pronounced with the k sound chemical chemical and of course this word is chemistry chemistry and this word is also pronounced with a k sound but the vowel sound is different it's not que it's Ki chemo chemo chemotherapy repeat after me chemotherapy let's look at this word how do we pronounce the ch the CH is pronounced as a sh sound let's say the word together chivalry chivalry and the adjective is chivalrous chivalrous if someone is chivalrous their behavior is very polite and honest and kind especially by men toward women we can also say honorable respectable or gentlemanly gentlemanly we can say he was very chivalrous he was very gentlemanly let's listen to the way some other people pronounce chivalry and chivalrous this is kind of the Antebellum idea of chivalry a kind of More Southern idea of culture chivalry especially opening doors for women not in a chivalrous way and again I'm not talking about chivalrous behaviors let's look at this word it's pronounced as a k cord a chord is a combination of three or more notes in music we can say he's learning the chords of that song on the guitar don't confuse this word with this word they're pronounced the same but they're spelled differently they're homophones chord chord a chord is an electrical wire with a protective covering for connecting electrical equipment to the supply of electricity for example this is an extension cord a chord is also a piece of thick string or thin rope this is a cord or rope how do we pronounce the CH of this word it's pronounced as K chronic chronic if something is chronic it continues for a long time we usually use chronic with an illness but we can also say there's chronic unemployment or we can say there is a chronic shortage of teachers in the country how do we pronounce the CH of this word you say it Echo Echo and Echo is a repetition of sound if a sound Echoes you hear it again and again because the sound was made near something such as a hill or a wall we can use it as a noun we can say I hear an echo but did you know that Echo is also a verb in English to Echo we can say the sound echoes or in the past tense our voice is echoed in the empty room in the progressive tense we can say it was echoing it was echoing let's look at the pronunciation of this U.S state how do we pronounce the ch we say Michigan Michigan repeat after me Chicago is near Michigan the pronunciation of this word is different in American English and British English do you know how to say them in both accents you say them first in American English the SCH is pronounced as SK schedule and how is it pronounced in British English you say it in British English it's schedule so American English is schedule British English is schedule how did you do on the test if you only made one or two mistakes congratulations in my opinion you are fluent and you are what I call near native if you made a lot of mistakes I recommend that you go back and you watch this video again and practice those words it's important to learn these exceptions so that you can speak English accurately and confidently and now let's practice a little bit more by saying these words in sentences repeat after me and pay attention to the pronunciation of the CH sound the rich man from Chicago has a chauffeur and a chef the champion celebrated with champagne the chef works at a Chic restaurant I heard the echo from the yacht Charlie sings in a choir in Chicago the charlatan caused complete chaos congratulations you've learned to fix some very common mistakes that a lot of my students make thanks for watching and keep practicing your English to get the two courses the American accent course and the 400 Advanced words you must know for fluent English go to accurateenglish.com

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Length: 17min 19sec (1039 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 17 2023