‘worm’ or ‘warm’? #shorts

👂 Can you hear the difference in pronunciation between ‘warm’ and ‘worm’? To some learners, words with /ɔ:/ and /ɜ:/can almost sound the same. Listen carefully to Nicola and practise saying the words yourself 🗣️ ! Make sure you watch to the end for a short quiz. What other words with /ɔ:/ and /ɜ:/sounds do you know?

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[vevepriezviskova]

Thank you so much! No one has ever explained how to distinguish these sounds practically - how to physically pronounce them. This is extremely useful. I teach English as a second language. Your videos are helping me to pronounce properly for my students. I'll play the videos for them in the lessons, too!

[aishwarya]

Really helpful in improving my pronunciation. Please make more videos like this on 26 alphabets.
No one has explained in simple way till now how to pronounce alphabets.

[RedRedRedRed]

Really useful, I need more of these pronunciation skills' videos ❤

[bernadette_ri]

The last one is difficult, I still hear it the same, but I'll be able to tell the difference when I listen to the audio for the hundredth time 💪🏻

[S.S.]

Born-Burn
Cord-Curd
Form-firm
Torn-turn

[AntoniaCrivillesRojo]

Quite difficult....! I nailed all of them.... But your pronunciation is stunning

[giovannirivetti]

Hello, a very nice video with a very clear explanation in it of two essential and similar sounds! I love the IPA 😊

[guadalupecorchado]

BBC Learning English Thanks kindly, for sharing the right pronunciation, for both, warm vs worm. It is enormously useful, as we see their phonetic symbols, listen to sounds, and the lips move at the same time.
Awesome teacher and awesome explanation.

[gabrielamoreiral]

Brilliant content! ❤ Thank you so much!

[factfulgovernance]

It was Always difficult to pronounce them. I didnt know that actually. This was why I had to hesitate to saying those.

Now I am goint to speak them in confidence.

Thanks a lot.

[brucelourenco]

Thanks for this exceptional explanation! Greetings from Brazil!

[Роман-ьыи]

this explanation is really easy to understand!! thank you.

[ernestorevollar]

British English pronunciation is awesome, and so is American English. By the way, I got all the answers right. Those sounds are very similar and can easily be mixed up, but I didn't fail on this mini-test because I looked at the teacher's lip positioning and listened carefully at once. Having some tricks in something difficult is super useful and effective. Thanks, she's a cute lady ❤😊.

[Islam-qks]

You are a great teacher. You are helping me a lot. I have been used using the word work in my daily work. I can pronounce it well now ❤😊

[-tzpg]

Thanks alot ❤❤great iob that helps me pronounce correctly 😊

[kelberadriangutierrezramos]

Really Really useful. I really love this videos.

[mohammedezzaldeen]

All ❤❤❤. Keep on making this kind of shorts and videos 😍

[AnthroSpirito]

I need to send this to my brothers in Nigeria 😅

[baizamehdi]

I should tell everyone that there videos are better as heaven

[dessieveneva]

'Chalk' and 'Bird'.