20 Everyday English Words That are Commonly Mispronounced | Improve Accent and Pronunciation

Recently a lesson was uploaded on “the most mispronounced words in English language”

and I read through the comments and I realized, that there was one of the most motivated learners

who said that, that we seem to have missed a lot of other words as well, so thank you

very much for that comment, because this is part two and this lesson is entirely devoted

to you. In this lesson we are going to be talking about some of those words that we

seem to have missed, the last time because of the shortage of time, let's get started.

The first one in the list is, J-A-P-A-N, which is a nation, which is a country in the northeastern

part of the world, and a lot of people mispronounce it as in Japan, they literally go with the

spelling of the word, but it is not Japan, it is Japan. For example like you have a pan,

that you cook the gravy in, that you basically cook your vegetables in, you say /Juh-Pan/,

one more time, /Juh-Pan/. Next word S-E-C-O-N-D, after first what comes? First, second but

it gets mispronounced as second, second. But it is not right it is /sek-ind/ it is, sek-ind.

One more time, sek-ind. Next word is, truth. What is the opposite of false? The opposite

of false is, truth or truth? The sound ‘oo’ here is a little stressed, when we speak the

word and it turns out to be /tr-oo-th/, please repeat after me truth, truth. It is not truth

it is truth. Next one opposite or opposite? If I am here then you are opposite me, so

how do we say the word? We actually stress on the first part of the word and that is

here, a lot of people pronounce it by stressing on the second part opposite. It is not opposite,

it is opposite. So we say /op-uh-zit/, one more time opposite not opposite. Next one

is the place that one stands, for example my position is towards the left hand side

of the board to you. So what is it position or position? Position a lot of people misunderstand

the ‘Z’ sound with ‘G’, which is wrong and we say /puh-zi-shan/, one more time /puh-zi-shan/,

position. We also do not say, position, Po we say ‘puh’, position. The next word

is, what you respond to a question, how do you respond and give the response to a question?

By giving the answer. But sometimes people pronounce, pronounce the ‘w’ sound in

an exaggerated manner, and they say answer, wer, wer, not right, it is, /aan-suh/, one

more time, it is answer, answer, not ans-wer. Next is, example, and it gets mispronounced

as example or example. It is not exam, example, it is example, so /ig-zam-pl/ please repeat

after me, ‘ig’, it starts with ‘ig’ not ‘eg’, example, example. Next word,

especially or especially? The first one is right. So something that is quite special

to you, for example what is quite special to me? These video lessons are quite special

to me and I especially make them for you guys. Especially or especially? It is, ‘is’

we start it with ‘is’ ‘shali’ ‘pe-shali’ /is-pe-shali/ especially, especially. Next

word in the list of the most pronounced, mispronounced words is, ‘cabin’ you have an office,

and a family member or a friend comes to your office, you say, that's my cabin or cabin?

The rule is really simple, you have a cab, cab means a taxi, that's how we pronounce

it, and we write /ke-bin/ cabin we write cabin, we say cabin, not cabin, it is cab. The next

one in the list is pressure, do we say pressure? Or do we say pressure? Or do we say pressure?

It is pressure, /pre-sha/, please repeat after me, pressure. Let's look at the next word,