Posted By Nash Biani
Hello everybody, I'm Nash Biani with you once more, welcoming you to our Mehfil-e-English Aam. In this Video Mehfil today, we will look at the word-list (the vocabulary list) given to you on page 2 of Absolute Beginner Course Lesson 1. You had been asked to write down this list of words in your English Aam Spoken English Vocabulary Book. You have to write the meanings of the words in your mother tongue after looking up the words in your English to mother tongue dictionary. If you haven't written the words you can go to that page and write them down. If you have already written the words and looked up the meanings, you will know what these words mean in your language. Even if you haven't yet got the meanings, you can take part in the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfil for this lesson and practise speaking with me to understand the pronunciation of these words.
Remember, you have to speak with me. That is most important. I am speaking and pronouncing the words so that you may join me in practising how to say them.
So, now we look at the first word in this list. Remember, don't write the meanings I discuss either in this lesson or in the Video Mehfil for this lesson. You have to write the meanings in your English Aam Spoken English Vocabulary Book from your dictionary.
1. poet: peu-it (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
This word has two syllables as you can see. The stress is on the first syllable - peu. Raise the pitch of your voice slightly when you say the first syllable. The second syllable is at a normal pitch and is pronounced 'it' not 'et'. Follow this in the Video Mehfil. Word stress and syllable stress are important in Spoken English.
2. poetry: peu-it-ri (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
3. poem: peu-im (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Now try pronouncing these three words - poet,poetry,poem- a few times. This practice is very important if you want to speak English fluently. These three words will give you good practice in producing the 'p' sound and the 'eu' sound.
4. welcome: well-cum (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
When you speak English, you should produce the sound of the letter 'w' with your lips rounded. Be careful your lower lip doesn't touch your upper teeth as this will create the 'v' sound. See how it is done in the Video Mehfil.
5. habit: ha-bit(refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
The first syllable is the stressed one in this two syllable word. Now here again, we have a very often used sound in spoken English. This sound, which we use here for the first syllable -'ha' will be found in many words as we speak English more and more. Please observe very carefully in the Video Mehfil how to produce this sound. In fact, you will also find in the Video Mehfil, a few other words which require this sound.
Example:
'That's a very bad habit.'
6. memory: me-m-ri (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'He has a fantastic memory.'
7. beginning: be-gin-ing (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1. 'The movie's just beginning.'
2. 'I'm just beginning to understand this.'
3. 'It's beginning to rain!'
4. 'From the very beginning.'
5. 'What happened in the beginning of the meeting?'
8. start
Examples:
1. 'Let's start it.'
2. 'Start the car.'
3. 'Don't start that.'
9. child
Singular: child
Plural : children: child-ren
10. mother tongue: mer-der-tung (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1. What's your mother tongue?
2. What's his mother tongue?
11. month:
12. age: ayj (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
13. sentence: sen-tents (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Notice the sound of the second 't' in this word. Although we write only one 't' in this word, while speaking English, we will produce the sound of a second 't' which is not there in the spelling.
Examples:
1. Read this sentence.
2. Write a sentence.
14. small
Example:
'We have a small problem here.'
15. cute
Example
1. 'A small, cute little child.'
2. 'What a small, cute little pet.'
16. pretty: pri-ti
Example
'She wore a very pretty dress.'
17. lovable: lov-a-bl (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'She's a lovable child.'
18. lovely: lov-li (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example
'What a lovely evening we had.'
All these words like lovable, cute, lovely, pretty, are so common in English. We will use them a lot when we speak English more often. You should practise these words well.
19. method: me-thod
20. but:
This word 'but' has two forms of pronunciation. The strong form and the weak form. There are many English words which have more than one form of pronunciation. Some of these words have what we may call a strong, a medium and a weak form while others have only two - strong and weak. As we start speaking English more fluently we go from the stronger to the weaker pronunciation in general. This word 'but' has two forms. Please take part in the Video Mehfil to understand this better.
21. necessary : ne-se-sari (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
1. 'That's not necessary at all.'
2. 'It's necessary that you give us the form.'
3. 'Is that necessary?'
I hope you speak with me in the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfils. Or is it that I keep speaking and you don't speak at all? Am I talking to the walls? As the poet or shayar says,'Deewaron se milkar rona achcha lagta hai, hum bhi pagal ho jayenge aisa lagta hai.' So, am I speaking to the walls? No. I know you are speaking with me. And if you are not, then I request you to please do so. Look, you started watching the English Aam Spoken English Videos, you started attending the Video Mehfils and you started reading and following these lessons because you want to improve your English. So, please speak along with me.
22. together: ta-ge-der (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1. 'We went there together.'
2. 'Put it all together.'
23. involved: in-volvd (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'Don't get involved in that.'
24. included: in-clu-did (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
25. miss
Examples:
1. 'That's Miss Denver.'
2. 'Don't miss your bus.'
3. 'I'll miss you when you go to London.'
26. remember: ri-mem-ber (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
27. natural: na-ch-rl (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
28. come
29. give
30. all
Examples:
1. 'All of that.'
2. 'All I said was...'
31. atmosphere: at-ms-phere (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
32. polite: pa-lite (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1.'You have to be polite to them.'
2. 'She's very polite.'
33. impolite: im-pa-lite(refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'Don't be impolite.'
You have to read and study this lesson along with the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfil for it. In this lesson we have tried to improve English pronunciation. You have to practise pronouncing these words again and again for the full benefit of this lesson.
Please let me know your views on this lesson by writing in the comments box below.
Please 'like' my page on English Aam on Facebook. You can go there by clicking on the FB button in the panel on the right or the one on the bottom of this page.
Follow me on Twitter. Again, there's a button for this in the right hand panel.
And hey guys, please do click on the 'like' buttons for the videos on YouTube and also share with all the people you can share with.
All the best, all the time J
ABSOLUTE BEGINNER COURSE
SPOKEN ENGLISH
LESSON 1
Page 3
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
How to Speak Fluent English by Practising Speaking Words & Sentences
Hello everybody, I'm Nash Biani with you once more, welcoming you to our Mehfil-e-English Aam. In this Video Mehfil today, we will look at the word-list (the vocabulary list) given to you on page 2 of Absolute Beginner Course Lesson 1. You had been asked to write down this list of words in your English Aam Spoken English Vocabulary Book. You have to write the meanings of the words in your mother tongue after looking up the words in your English to mother tongue dictionary. If you haven't written the words you can go to that page and write them down. If you have already written the words and looked up the meanings, you will know what these words mean in your language. Even if you haven't yet got the meanings, you can take part in the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfil for this lesson and practise speaking with me to understand the pronunciation of these words.
Remember, you have to speak with me. That is most important. I am speaking and pronouncing the words so that you may join me in practising how to say them.
So, now we look at the first word in this list. Remember, don't write the meanings I discuss either in this lesson or in the Video Mehfil for this lesson. You have to write the meanings in your English Aam Spoken English Vocabulary Book from your dictionary.
The pronunciation notations given against the words in this and other lessons on this blog do not confirm to standard phonetic notations.These are just rough and ready indicators to go with the pronunciation explanations in the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfils and are not meant to be scholarly representations of the pronunciation or phonetics.
1. poet: peu-it (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
This word has two syllables as you can see. The stress is on the first syllable - peu. Raise the pitch of your voice slightly when you say the first syllable. The second syllable is at a normal pitch and is pronounced 'it' not 'et'. Follow this in the Video Mehfil. Word stress and syllable stress are important in Spoken English.
Producing the Sound of 'P' in Spoken English
Pay attention to the sound of the letter 'p'. When speaking English, the 'p' sound has to be plosive. This means, you explode the sound.
Explode the sound? How?
1. Put your lips together gently but firmly.
2. Form a small, tiny bubble of air in your mouth, behind your closed lips. It is this tiny bubble that you will explode when you make the sound of 'p'.In fact, you will not need to actually form thebubble behind your lips it will form there byitself.
3. Now, make the 'p' sound by moving your lips and allowing the air bubble to explode gently. The key word here is gently. Don't overdo it. Watch the Video Mehfil for help.
Coming back to the first syllable of the word poet, the sound you have to make is 'peu' with 'p' being plosive. Refer to the Video Mehfil.
The second syllable is to be pronounced 'it'. So what you get is 'peu-it'. The bold letters indicate the stressed syllable, that is, where you need to raise the pitch of your voice.2. poetry: peu-it-ri (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
3. poem: peu-im (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Now try pronouncing these three words - poet,poetry,poem- a few times. This practice is very important if you want to speak English fluently. These three words will give you good practice in producing the 'p' sound and the 'eu' sound.
4. welcome: well-cum (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
When you speak English, you should produce the sound of the letter 'w' with your lips rounded. Be careful your lower lip doesn't touch your upper teeth as this will create the 'v' sound. See how it is done in the Video Mehfil.
5. habit: ha-bit(refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
The first syllable is the stressed one in this two syllable word. Now here again, we have a very often used sound in spoken English. This sound, which we use here for the first syllable -'ha' will be found in many words as we speak English more and more. Please observe very carefully in the Video Mehfil how to produce this sound. In fact, you will also find in the Video Mehfil, a few other words which require this sound.
Example:
'That's a very bad habit.'
6. memory: me-m-ri (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'He has a fantastic memory.'
7. beginning: be-gin-ing (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1. 'The movie's just beginning.'
2. 'I'm just beginning to understand this.'
3. 'It's beginning to rain!'
4. 'From the very beginning.'
5. 'What happened in the beginning of the meeting?'
8. start
Examples:
1. 'Let's start it.'
2. 'Start the car.'
3. 'Don't start that.'
9. child
Singular: child
Plural : children: child-ren
10. mother tongue: mer-der-tung (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1. What's your mother tongue?
2. What's his mother tongue?
11. month:
12. age: ayj (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
13. sentence: sen-tents (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Notice the sound of the second 't' in this word. Although we write only one 't' in this word, while speaking English, we will produce the sound of a second 't' which is not there in the spelling.
Examples:
1. Read this sentence.
2. Write a sentence.
14. small
Example:
'We have a small problem here.'
15. cute
Example
1. 'A small, cute little child.'
2. 'What a small, cute little pet.'
16. pretty: pri-ti
Example
'She wore a very pretty dress.'
17. lovable: lov-a-bl (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'She's a lovable child.'
18. lovely: lov-li (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example
'What a lovely evening we had.'
All these words like lovable, cute, lovely, pretty, are so common in English. We will use them a lot when we speak English more often. You should practise these words well.
19. method: me-thod
20. but:
This word 'but' has two forms of pronunciation. The strong form and the weak form. There are many English words which have more than one form of pronunciation. Some of these words have what we may call a strong, a medium and a weak form while others have only two - strong and weak. As we start speaking English more fluently we go from the stronger to the weaker pronunciation in general. This word 'but' has two forms. Please take part in the Video Mehfil to understand this better.
21. necessary : ne-se-sari (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
1. 'That's not necessary at all.'
2. 'It's necessary that you give us the form.'
3. 'Is that necessary?'
I hope you speak with me in the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfils. Or is it that I keep speaking and you don't speak at all? Am I talking to the walls? As the poet or shayar says,'Deewaron se milkar rona achcha lagta hai, hum bhi pagal ho jayenge aisa lagta hai.' So, am I speaking to the walls? No. I know you are speaking with me. And if you are not, then I request you to please do so. Look, you started watching the English Aam Spoken English Videos, you started attending the Video Mehfils and you started reading and following these lessons because you want to improve your English. So, please speak along with me.
22. together: ta-ge-der (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1. 'We went there together.'
2. 'Put it all together.'
23. involved: in-volvd (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'Don't get involved in that.'
24. included: in-clu-did (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
25. miss
Examples:
1. 'That's Miss Denver.'
2. 'Don't miss your bus.'
3. 'I'll miss you when you go to London.'
26. remember: ri-mem-ber (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
27. natural: na-ch-rl (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
28. come
29. give
30. all
Examples:
1. 'All of that.'
2. 'All I said was...'
31. atmosphere: at-ms-phere (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
32. polite: pa-lite (refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Examples:
1.'You have to be polite to them.'
2. 'She's very polite.'
33. impolite: im-pa-lite(refer to the Video Mehfil for pronunciation guidance)
Example:
'Don't be impolite.'
You have to read and study this lesson along with the English Aam Spoken English Video Mehfil for it. In this lesson we have tried to improve English pronunciation. You have to practise pronouncing these words again and again for the full benefit of this lesson.
Please let me know your views on this lesson by writing in the comments box below.
Please 'like' my page on English Aam on Facebook. You can go there by clicking on the FB button in the panel on the right or the one on the bottom of this page.
Follow me on Twitter. Again, there's a button for this in the right hand panel.
And hey guys, please do click on the 'like' buttons for the videos on YouTube and also share with all the people you can share with.
All the best, all the time J
LESSONS IN ABSOLUTE
BEGINNER COURSE
CHAPTER 1
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