Job titles
Job titles include some of English's oddest survivals: colonel is said kernel because it merged two competing Italian and French forms. Others keep French endings, like chauffeur and sommelier. Practise these before saying what you or someone else does for a living.
Accent
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The words
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Words that lose a syllable
Chocolate, comfortable, vegetable: fewer syllables than the spelling suggests. Hear the real count.
WH words
What, where, who, whole: the WH spelling covers three different sounds. Hear which is which.
Legal terms
Subpoena, plaintiff, voir dire, tort: courtroom vocabulary with unpredictable pronunciation.
Business English words
Entrepreneur, niche, liaison, quarterly: office vocabulary you need to say with confidence.
Tech and programming words
Cache, GIF, Linux, tuple, SQL: developer vocabulary that even engineers argue about.
Travel words
Itinerary, concierge, lounge, queue: airport and hotel vocabulary said the right way.
Keep practising
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