#200 Difficult words to Pronounce in English

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everybody! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of . My mission is to help you speak English fluently. Today, we will look at some English words that are very difficult to pronounce. And with a point of view lesson, you will improve your English grammar without memorizing any boring rules. Before getting started, visit my website  and get the transcript for free.  Also, let me say that I’m really happy because this is episode number 200!! It’s been five years since I launched the first episode of the Speak English Now Podcast!! Thank you so much for your support and sharing the podcast with your friends and families. Ok, let’s start. 1. Cavalry and calvary People often confuse cavalry (armed forces on horseback) with calvary, an experience of extreme suffering, especially mental suffering. We call a metathesis the change of one or more sounds within a word. And yes. Metathesis is also a hard word to pronounce. Anyway, let’s practice the two words a little bit. Listen and repeat after me: [ kav-uhl-ree ] Cavalry. Cavalry. Cavalry. [ kal-vuh-ree ] Calvary. Calvary. Calvary. 2. Comfortable and Vegetable These two words are the most difficult for my students to pronounce. Most Spanish speakers pronounce comfortable, and vegetable as “comfortaibal” or “vegetaibal” and I guess it’s because both words end in “table.” So, let’s practice the two words a little bit. Listen and repeat: [ kuhm-fer-tuh-buhl, ] Comfortable. Comfortable. Comfortable. [ kuhmf-ter-buhl ] Comfortable. Comfortable. Comfortable.  [ vej-tuh-buhl ]  Vegetable. Vegetable. Vegetable. [ vej-i-tuh-buhl ] Vegetable. Vegetable. Vegetable. 3. Deteriorate Another word that my students find difficult to pronounce is det