Pronunciation | Silent Letters - AIRC86

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In this episode: Pronunciation | Silent Letters

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We practised the pronunciation of some words that have silent letters in episode 38( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2014/12/21/must-ought-to-and-should-vocabulary-in-the-home-the-kitchen-and-pronunciation-of-difficult-words-airc38/ )

Today we're going to give you a longer list and focus on groups of words that have the same silent letter.

Silent letters (I say the Spanish word, you say the English word before you hear it)

/t/ listen - escucharsoften - ablandarse, suaveizarsewhistle - silbar (chiflar in Mexico)fasten - atar, abrocharChristmas - Navidadcastle - castillo

/k/ knife - cuchilloknee - rodillaknowledge - knowledgeknit - tejer, hacer puntoknob - pomo, picaporte (a knob of butter)know - conocer, saberknot - nudo

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/p/ receipt - recibopseudonym - seudónimopsychic - psíquico/a psychology - psicologíapsychiatry - psiquiatríapneumatic - neumático

/b/ climb - subir, ascender, escalardebt - deudasubtle - sutilcomb - peinilla, peine, peinetanumb - entumecido/a, adormecido, insensibledumb - tonto/a, estúpido/adoubt - dudar, duda womb - úterolamb - corderotomb - tumba, sepulcro

/h/ hour - horahourly - una vez por horahonest - honesto/a heir / heiress - heredero / heredera honour - honorhonourable - honorable (dishonourable)

/e/sitelanguageridenotecarecurve

/t/gourmetdebut

/ed/stoppedkissedhelpedtravelled

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