We Celebrated! How To Pronounce Past Tense

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Today we Celebrate Our Anniversary! And yesterday we “celebrated”!  Since we are always talking about past events, let’s learn how to pronounce the -ED using the American English Pronunciation.  With regular verbs, we add an -ed to the verb to change the word to mean something that has happenED in the past. There are a few different ways to pronounce the ED sound, so to simplify this for you, here are the 2 most important pronunciation changes:

  1. If the verb ends in a T or a D, you will add an extra syllable at the end.

That extra syllable will sound like “did”

pound + ed (pounded) will sound like “poun-did” and wait + ed (waited) will sound like “wai + did”

2.   All other verbs will have a small sound at the end of the word.

cook + ed = “cookt”

play + ed = “playd”

Listen to this lesson and practice repeating after me.

And by the way, Happy Anniversary. It’s been 4 years since I have been recording my podcast. And thank you for listening!

Please comment below about  verbs + ed that  you have questions about.

My Personal Picks

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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun!

A New Year means New Beginnings. But for some reason I wanted to reflect back and review some of my favorite recordings, and tell you about the most popularly viewed recordings. I can’t believe it but the recording called, Ring, Ring Hello! currently has over 1,000 listeners. It’s been played in over 50 Countries. You never know what is going to become popular. Unless it’s stuck on constant replay-it must be a favorite somewhere!

Listen to My Personal Picks and you will hear my favorite lessons for you

If you’d like to see my playlists (and listen to all 98 lessons) LOOK HERE 

We have a whole new year to keep learning from each other.

Are you ready?

Pronouncing “Clothes” and other related words!

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Pronouncing “Clothes” and Other Related Words!

American English pronunciation is so confusing because the spelling is unreliable. Today’s lesson is an example of the discrepancies of 5 words with similar spellings and their pronunciations. Wow! The good news, is that we will take care of a few of these challenging words right now!

In today’s lesson, we have words that are written the same but pronounced differently-and- words that are spelled differently and pronounced the same. American English is so weird! Listen to the following recording and read the descriptions of each word below! I encourage you to listen to the recording and read along. Then listen to the recording again and repeat the sentences without reading along! That way, you are practicing TALKING not READING!

You can do it!

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PODCAST- Can You Say These Words Without Swearing?

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Practicing these 4 words will help you stay out of trouble!

Those darn vowel sounds. That’s the difference between saying something perfect to saying something embarrassing.

 

PODCAST-Just like a haircut, give these words a trim!

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Get the right rhythm by trimming these vowels. Which ones? Start with learning these words. Listen to 10 different speakers say them for you.

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PODCAST- 10 Common Words with Dropped Syllables

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Finally a lesson where you can say less sounds!

Become familiar with these common words in American English and you will amaze your friends with your native-like pronunciation skills. Your friends will not know why you sound amazing, they will just notice that you are speaking English the correct way.

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PODCAST- Can and Can’t Another lesson!

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Back by popular demand for you to understand and pronounce the words CAN and CAN’T.

Get the checklist! Send me an email with the comment “Can Checklist”

PODCAST- Perfecting Your ER Sound

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A Bear and A Bird Walk Into A Bar And Order A Beer

Learn how to pronounce ER sounds and you will understand the differences between all of these words!

Check out my duolingo game with ER words HERE. It’s fun to play!

PODCAST- Pronouncing Words that Begin with CON-

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Just like in the word “Contest”,  there are many words that begin with CON.

I am sure you can read these words. Today I want you to read them differently. These are the changes that will take your English from “just okay” to sounding polished, clear and fluent.

Listen to this podcast and check out the word lists below

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PODCAST-Talking on the Telephone and Ordering a Pizza!

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Have no fear! Learn what to say on the phone and how to pronounce these American sentences. Most important, let’s order a pizza.  Sign-up for this FREE weekly podcast and newsletter to get awesome links, useful sentences and questions to rehearse, and there is always something funny.