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Hi, everyone! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of&nbsp;. My mission is to help you speak English fluently. Today we are going to look at some trendy words. These words have been added to the dictionary in the last decade. And with a mini-story, you are going to improve your fluency. I'll tell you a story while asking you many questions that you have to answer right away. It's like talking to another person in English. Please, visit&nbsp;&nbsp;to get the transcript of today's episode. And follow me on&nbsp;,&nbsp;,&nbsp;,&nbsp;, etc. Let's get started! As I said today, we will look at some words added to the dictionary in the last decade. These are trendy words, and I'm sure most of them sound familiar to you. Let's start with the first word: 1. Jeggings The word was introduced into the dictionary in 2015. Jeggings are a blend of jeans and leggings.&nbsp; When they first came out, I was fascinated by these pants. They are the most comfortable thing ever in my opinion, and yet they look so much like jeans. &nbsp; 2. YouTuber The term was introduced into the dictionary in 2016. YouTube appeared in 2005 and since then, millions of people have been uploading videos on the platform on a regular basis. I started creating weekly videos in 2012, but it wasn't until 2016 that the word was added to the dictionary. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a YouTuber is a person who uploads, produces, or appears in videos on YouTube. 3. LOL The word was introduced into the dictionary in 2011. Though this word is still popular, we have actually been using it for many years. So what's LOL? It's an abbreviation of laughing out loud or laugh out loud. The word abbreviation means a shortened form of a word or phrase. 4. Facebook The term was introduced into the dictionary in 2018. Did you know that we have used Facebook so many times that the verb&nbsp;to facebook&nbsp;has emerged?&nbsp; So “to facebook” means to spend time using the social media website or app Facebook. 5. Skype The word was introduced into the dictionary in 2014. Before other apps like Zoom or FaceTime existed, Skype was the most popular app on the Internet for video calls.&nbsp; According to the Oxford Dictionary, to skype&nbsp;means to have a spoken conversation with (someone) over the Internet using Skype, typically also viewing by webcam. Get the transcript here:  &nbsp; &nbsp;

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Hi, everybody! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of&nbsp;. My mission is to help you speak English fluently. Today we will talk about how to pronounce vowels in English. And with a fun point of view story you will improve your grammar. The truth is that vowels in English always represent a particular difficulty for many students. But don't worry because there is a self-evident reason why this happens. It turns out that in English, we have&nbsp;six vowel letters&nbsp;represented by the letters&nbsp;a, e, i, o,&nbsp;and&nbsp;u&nbsp;and&nbsp;fifteen vowel sounds.&nbsp; Fifteen vowel sounds?&nbsp; Yes. You see that's the real problem.&nbsp; In English,&nbsp;we don't read vowels&nbsp;as they are written, simply because&nbsp;the same vowel letter can be pronounced in different ways. For example, we can pronounce vowel A in seven different ways. Amazing, right? We divide vowel sounds into three different categories: Long vowels&nbsp;(we pronounce the long vowels the same as the letter.) These are the long vowel sounds in American English:&nbsp; A /eɪ/,&nbsp;E /i/,&nbsp;I /ɑɪ/,&nbsp;O /oʊ/,&nbsp;U /yu/. Examples: Steak&nbsp;&nbsp; / steɪk / Sleep&nbsp; / slip /&nbsp; Bike&nbsp; &nbsp; / baɪk / Home / hoʊm / Cute&nbsp; / kyut / &nbsp; Short vowels&nbsp;(have the most common sound for a single vowel spelling.) Examples: &nbsp; cat&nbsp;/kæt/  &nbsp;bed&nbsp;/bɛd/&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; sit&nbsp;/sɪt/ top&nbsp;/tɑp/ sun&nbsp;/sʌn/ &nbsp; Other vowels&nbsp;(the remaining vowel sounds) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;other u&nbsp;/ʊ/&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Put&nbsp;/pʊt/ oo sound&nbsp;/u/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; soon&nbsp;/sun/ aw sound&nbsp;/ɔ/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; dog&nbsp;/dɔg/ oi sound&nbsp;/ɔɪ/ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; join&nbsp;/ʤɔɪn/ ow sound&nbsp;/aʊ/. &nbsp; down&nbsp;/daʊn/ &nbsp; Ok, let’s continue. I want to talk about the&nbsp;schwa (ə)&nbsp;sound. What is Schwa? The&nbsp;Schwa sound&nbsp;- is the most common&nbsp;vowel&nbsp;in English.&nbsp; We find this sound in almost all words with more than a syllable. Examples: Doctor,&nbsp;about, the,&nbsp;center. Schwa (ə)&nbsp;replaces any vowel in English if the vowel is unstressed.&nbsp; It also appears in words consisting of only one syllable:&nbsp;a, the,&nbsp;of. &nbsp; Read the transcript at

#156 How to pronounce vowels in American English? ESL

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