AEE 2610: Walk or Work? 3 Pronunciation Mistakes to Avoid With Dave Nicholls
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2610, Walk or Work? Three Pronunciation Mistakes to Avoid with Dave Nichols.
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What are the three common pronunciation mistakes to avoid?
If you have difficulty pronouncing walk and work, what about clothes and close? Today, English expert Dave Nichols joins us to share tips that will help you avoid three of the most common English pronunciation mistakes. Hello, listeners. I am so excited to introduce you to our guest today, David Nichols. Welcome to the podcast, Dave. Hi, Aubrey. Thank you for having me. Yes. Awesome. This is fun. Let me quickly introduce you. Dave is an English teacher with 20 years of experience. He spent the first eight years of his life working and teaching English in Moscow, Russia, but then moved back to the UK where you're from, right? And since then, has been making English courses and providing conversation classes online.
And Dave is here to share the three most common pronunciation errors he hears and tips for how to avoid them. So I'm so excited for this. All of our listeners are working to improve their pronunciation just with the goal of being clear, being understood, right? So welcome. Excited for you to share these tips today.
Okay, yeah. Thanks for having me, Aubrey. I've got some different words that I often hear mispronounced here. And I'd be interested to hear how you pronounce them as well, because I'm well aware that in America, you have a slightly different accent than we have in the UK. And so, I'd like to know how you pronounce these words too. Okay.
Okay, yeah, this is going to be interesting, right? The American accent is so different from the British accent. But as we know, there are regional dialects in both countries. So even the way I pronounce things is different from Lindsay or a lot of other American English speakers. And as you said, Dave, very different from many British English speakers.
Yes, all over the country here, people have very different accents, and it's actually much harder for me to understand someone from Scotland or from Ireland than someone from the United States.
Interesting. Yeah, so this is going to be fascinating. Let's start with this first sound that you want to talk to, and we'll hear how they sound in my accent and in your accent.
Okay, yeah. So, firstly, students have a lot of trouble differentiating the sound of walk, and I mean when you're walking or running, that kind of activity, walking and working. And I mean when you go to work and get paid, when you go to the office or go to the factory and you go and get paid, you work. But when you go somewhere on foot, you walk. And so, there is a difference. In British English, we say walk, Yeah, when you're walking or work, when you're working. How do you say those sounds?
Yeah, this is fascinating because I can hear the difference when you are saying them, but it's more subtle than American English, right? So, for the verb, it's walk. We walk around. I walk to the store. But then the verb, we have that harder R in American English. So, work. I go to work every day. And they are more distinct in American English.
Okay, yeah, so it's in British English that they're closer, and perhaps this is why my students have problems differentiating the sound. And there is a third word which is very, very similar but different in British English. We have walk for when you're walking. We have work for when you go to work or go to the office. But we also have walk. Wok, which is a very short sound. It's shorter than walk or work. And what is that wok? That's a noun, right? What does it mean? So, wok is a noun in British English. It's a noun and it means something that you cook with. It's a frying pan that's very often used in Chinese cooking. Yes, like a deep, a really deep pan, right?
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