Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: Can You Pass This English PRONUNCIATION Test?

When I did this pronunciation test with some students, only 10% of them got all the phrases right.

How will you do?

Are you ready for the challenge?

Let's find out.

Hello, this is Keith and I run the website,

the Keith Speaking Academy, as well as the YouTube channel English Speaking Success and English Speaking Success Shorts.

Now, this test is for fun, right?

But pronunciation is hugely important.

I mean, you can have the best vocabulary in the world,

the most perfect grammar, but if people can't understand what you're saying, communication breaks down.

And what's more, in IELTS speaking, pronunciation counts for 25% of your score.

So it's a really important area to work on.

What's more, personally, I think bad pronunciation can cause a really bad first impression, right?

It's a bit like having scruffy hair or even food on your face.

So how do we fix this?

I mean, not the scruffy hair and the food, pronunciation.

Well, this test will help you see where your weaknesses are and what you need to focus on.

And so then you just need to start working on them.

Later, I'll tell you about a fantastic tool to help you with that.

It's a mobile app and it's called ELSA Speak.

It's a pronunciation app that basically lets you practice all different aspects of English pronunciation.

It then pinpoints your mistakes and gives you feedback so you can improve.

Brilliant.

More about that later.

By the way, there is a free PDF you can get with all of these phrases if you want to practice.

and also I have made a study set in ELSA so

that you can go to the app later and practice more and more.

All of the links down below in the video description.

Right now, let's get into the phrases.

Okay, getting into the test.

Right, so I'm going to show you 10 phrases with some challenging words.

I will show you first the phrase on the screen, then you can pronounce it,

and then listen to me as I will pronounce it and check if you were right.

I'll repeat it again and then ask you to repeat it so you can practise.

A few things to notice.

First of all, be aware I am using British pronunciation.

American pronunciation may have some variances.

Sometimes I will show those if they are noticeable with my best American accent.

Also notice that some of these phrases are natural, but some of them are not that natural.

I've kind of made them up to help practice specific sounds, okay?

And also we will start with some easy phrases, but it gets harder as we go along.

Okay, let's begin with the first one.

Okay, so the first phrase now is gonna be helping you practice the difference between I and E, right?

I and E.

Here's the phrase you try first.

And now listen, you can sit on this seat.

Let's try again.

You can sit on this seat.

Now you try.

Excellent.

Very, very good.

Number two.

In number two, we're gonna be practicing the difference between two diphthongs, which are ow and oh, right?

The diphthong is where it moves from one vowel sound to another.

It's kind of slides.

Oww, oh, two different sounds.

Here's the phrase.

Here we go.

Now I know how you knew.

Again, now I know how you knew.

You try.

Brilliant.

Number three, this is a very short phrase that looks at something we call consonant clusters or groups of consonants, right?

English often puts two or even three consonants together and they're quite difficult to get the sounds right.

So let's try this one.

You go first.

Okay, and listen, I like comfortable clothes.

Again, I like comfortable clothes. And now you try.

Okay, very difficult word is clothes.

It's the th and the s, clothes, right?

You have to have the th because otherwise it sounds like clothes, close the door, right?

Clothes.

Comfortable, we can say comfortable,

but normally the f just becomes comfortable the F and the T sound come together.

Comfortable, comfortable clothes.

Right, excellent, that's number three.

Let's see how you do with number four.

Phrase number four looks at two words which are often confused because the spelling is quite similar, right?

Let's see how you do.

and listen, I need a receipt for this recipe book.

And again, I need a receipt for this recipe book. And you repeat.

Right, moving on to number five.

Number five looks at words that have a silent letter.

I know, English spelling is so strange, right?

We have letters that we just don't pronounce sometimes.

Let's see if you can spot them and pronounce this phrase.

It's quite long, getting harder, right?

Try your best.

Okay, and listen.

There is a subtle difference between the schedules on Wednesday and Tuesday.

Again, there is a subtle difference between the schedules on Wednesday and Tuesday.

You try.

Right, so notice the word subtle, we don't pronounce the B, subtle.

Wednesday, we don't pronounce the D, Wednesday.

Schedules is an interesting word.

And I do know in America, they pronounce it schedules.

So if you said schedules, that's fine.

If you prefer British English, we would say schedules.

And also Tuesday, I think if I remember rightly, in some American states, they say Tuesday.

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I remember the Sopranos and there was a scene where the guy, the gangster was going, you've got to go on Tuesday, man, go on Tuesday.

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And I think it was a Tuesday.

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If anybody's from New York, please do correct me if I'm not right, but I think you can say that.

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Right, let's take a little break because the next phrase is six to 10, really up the ante, push up the challenge.

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You're gonna need all the energy you've got.

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You'll need to be full of beans to do that part well.

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Come with me to the water cooler, right?

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Let's get a little something to drink.

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I've got something really important to tell you.

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Come on.

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Hi, come in.

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Yeah, come and have a seat.

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Sit on this seat.

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How are you feeling?

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Right?

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Would you like a tea or coffee?

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Yeah, maybe you need something a little bit stronger after all of that pronunciation, right? Who knows?

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Listen, I hope this test is helping you see where you need to focus, right?

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But I guess the really important question is, how can I improve my pronunciation?

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It's actually quite simple.

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All you need is feedback and practice.

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It's as simple as that.

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And I'd like to show you that mobile app I mentioned earlier, ELSA Speak, because it's perfect for this.

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It's got really high tech voice recognition and artificial intelligence

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that really helps give accurate and detailed feedback on all the sounds and different aspects of of pronunciation that you're making.

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What you've got in the app, basically there's a wide range of topics you can look at and practice in.

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You've got a whole section on IELTS practice.

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So you can practice part one, part two, and part three.

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And that includes vocabulary, collocations, model answers, indeed whole conversations like this in part three,

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where you're practicing the different parts of your answer to get your pronunciation spot on, right?

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Also, you've got study sets where students are sharing different phrases that they've been practicing.

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I have the study set about the phrases from today's video, which you can get through the link down below.

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More about that later, but I'd like to show you actually how this mobile app works

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and the kind of feedback that you can get.

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Let's have a look at an example.

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So when we go in, we can have a look right at mixed skills,

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ending sounds, different phonemes, such as the S and the SH and the Z.

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Let's have a look.

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When you go in, you can see some videos that can help you work out those sounds.

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Then you get into the practice, right?

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Let's take one of the lessons and see how it works.

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So, the sun, for example.

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The sun's finally coming out.

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So you can see, you get to see the phrase, you get to hear an example, and then you press record and you repeat it.

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Let's see what happens if I don't get the right pronunciation.

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The sun finally coming out.

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Now you can see here, it identifies the sound that's not right, the suns.

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And it tells me, pronounce the S here with a Z sound, as in zero and buzz.

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Let's try again then.

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The sun's finally coming out.

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And there we get it.

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We get the feedback, smiley face, and it compares you to a native speaker, how close you're getting.

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So you can see hugely effective, very valuable feedback.

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You can get even more advanced and detailed feedback if you like, but it's a very powerful tool and one that I really think will help you with your pronunciation.

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And Elsa are offering a very special offer to all of my students.

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That's you, right?

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You can get 30% discount on a one-year membership and 80% discount,

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yes, eight zero, 80% discount on the lifetime membership.

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And then you've got the tool, the app, for your whole life.

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You can be practicing all the time.

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Fantastic.

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Great.

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Go and check out the links below.

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You can download the app and start practicing today.

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Right now, let's get back to part two of the pronunciation test.

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Right.

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Now that you're all refreshed and ready to go, let's go with number six.

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This one again is looking at consonant groups, in particular the s-k-s-s-k-s sound.

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Here's the phrase, have a go.

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And listen, he always asks about specific tasks.

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One more time.

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He always asks about specific tasks. And you try.

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Very good, right?

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This is quite a complicated sound.

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Asks, tasks.

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Tasks.

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Lots of words like that, so it's a useful one to get really, really right.

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Another challenging word is specific.

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It's got the s, s, c, specific.

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Great, let's move on to the next one.

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And this phrase is gonna look at the s and sh sound, right?

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The s and the sh.

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S, sh. Have a go.

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Right, and listen.

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Listen.

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She says sociable people love society. And again.

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She says sociable people love society. And you try.

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Fantastic, right?

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So you've got the she says, notice says becomes says.

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And this is the difficult one, sociable, s-sh, sociable.

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But society, s-s, society.

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Nice one.

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So here we are then, number eight, have a go.

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And listen, many women are enthusiastic entrepreneurs.

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And again, many women are enthusiastic entrepreneurs. And you.

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Lovely, right?

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Now, I think there's three difficult words here.

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First is women, because a lot of students confuse woman,

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one, with women in the plural, women, right?

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Enthusiastic has the Nth sound, enthusiastic.

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Enthusiastic.

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And then this word is probably, it's such a popular word nowadays, and it comes from French.

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We pronounce it in a British way, but it's entrepreneur.

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Think of the four sounds, on, tr, like train, tr,

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pr, like prize, ner, like ner, entrepreneur, entrepreneur.

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Lovely.

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Okay, number nine.

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Now, number nine is getting complicated.

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This one is quite long.

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Try your best.

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And listen, I'm not exaggerating the expected extinction of the black rhino.

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And again, I'm not exaggerating the expected extinction of the black rhino. And you?

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So the three tricky words here are exaggerating.

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that sound in exaggerating is like eggs, right?

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Eggs, as in fried eggs, sunny side up eggs, right?

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Eggs, exaggerating.

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But the other two words, it's a x, it's a cus, x, expected, extinction.

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How are you doing?

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We're almost there.

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Let's move on.

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Phrase number 10.

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Phrase number 10 looks at once more at two different vowel sounds, which are often confused because they don't exist in a lot of languages.

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We've got or and er. Have a go.

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Okay, have a listen.

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Walk and work are the weirdest words in the world.

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One more time.

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Walk and work are the weirdest words in the world. And you go.

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Excellent, right?

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You can see from the shape of the mouth, the walk, walk and work.

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How do I mind work?

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I don't know.

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And word, weird, word.

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And word and world are almost the same, but you've got the L, right?

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Word, world.

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Excellent, great.

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Well, brilliant.

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Now, some of you who've done very, very, very well, maybe thinking, I want more.

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Well, I've got a spicy bonus for you, right?

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Because there's one sound I haven't really covered, which is one of the most challenging out there.

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It's the th and the the and the O-U-G-H.

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When you're looking at that word, how do you pronounce O-U-G-H?

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Okay, here's a bonus phrase for you.

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Let's see how you do.

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Right, and listen.

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Although he thought he was thorough throughout, he went through it too quickly. And again.

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Although he thought he was thorough throughout,

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He went through it too quickly. And you go.

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Wow, that was one of the most challenging, right?

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Although, with a the, although, meaning but.

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He thought with a th, thorough.

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throughout, through, right?

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All those three have got the th sound.

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Well, listen, well done.

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So how did you do?

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Well, listen, a big congratulations for completing the test.

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And I hoped it helped you, right?

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Listen, the next step for you, right, is to download the mobile app ELSA.

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There's a link down below.

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Because in there, I've got a study set

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and you can practise all of these phrases until you can get them better and better.

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Remember, it's about practise, not perfection.

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And also remember, right, that if you sign up today, ELSA are giving you, my students,

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30% off the one-year membership and 80% off lifetime membership.

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ELSA, with you for life, perfect English for life.

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Sounds good to me.

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Please do remember to press the subscribe button, turn on the notifications to find about the new upcoming videos

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that I have every Saturday and also live lessons on Thursday at 10 o'clock Spain time.

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Leave me a comment below and let me know what score you got when you practice my study set in ELSA.

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Thank you very much for joining me.

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I look forward to seeing you in a few moments in the next video.

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Take care, my friend.

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Bye-bye.

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