9 Homophones -- Commonly confused words in English

[sweiland75]

I think everyone needs to see this video. If there is one thing that I have learned online, it is that a lot of people, whose first language I am sure is English, confuse different homophones like there, their and they're.

[MSunnyday]

you are amazing thanks for all :D

[patagarro80]

what an amazing teacher, we all love you

[MyCobert]

Thanks a lot. You are a great teacher! You are also funny. I want to a teacher like you.

[flyxawayxxx]

@grrarghh1 In America those are all pretty much homophones. No one I know pronounces the 'th' in clothes. The 't' in cents is there but almost inaudible.

[networkplayer1]

you're cool!

[pablonort]

I like so much lessons with you. Greetings from Poland

[514570HP]

Very, very nice and useful !!! Thanks so much !!!

[grrarghh1]

Clothes and close - not homophones. Sense and cents - not homophones. And 'funner'? That's just not a comparative adjective.

[SemiAquaticRhino]

@grrarghh1 Clothes and close is a pair of homophones. As is sense and cents. They are two pairs of words with the same pronunciation, but different meanings.

[grrarghh1]

@SemiAquaticRhino I am perfectly aware what homophones are. Clothes and close are NOT homophones as they do not have the same pronunciation. Where exactly is the voiced 'th' of clothes in close? Where is the 't' of cents in sense?

[SemiAquaticRhino]

@grrarghh1 i realised my mistake with clothes and close. however, i still believe that cents and sense are homophones. could you explain to me why you say otherwise?

[grrarghh1]

@SemiAquaticRhino Maybe it's my accent (I'm Scottish), but 'sense' and 'cents', to me, aren't pronounced the same. I wish that phonemes were on keyboards! To me, the second 's' of 'sense' is a pure, soft 's'. With 'cents', there's a 't' in the equation. So, the 'ts' is pronounced like the 'ts' in 'presents'. You wouldn't say that 'presents' and 'presence' were homophones, would you? Or would you? It's subtle, but I have managed to make students see the difference.

[SemiAquaticRhino]

@grrarghh1 I'm American and I do believe that presents and presence are homophones. Could you make a video or something about it? Just so that I can hear the way you say. You and I have two different accents; I have an American accent and you have a Scottish accent.

[sfwpsycho]

what abouT the difference in "SON", SUN", "SONG" ????

[sfwpsycho]

@sfwpsycho and "BUY" AND "BYE"

[oceanssaga]

Teaching is in Ronnie's blood.

[SrB5248]

I always liked this example of a homophonic sentence, "Real eyes realize real lies." lol

[17377584]

peppy the teacher

[RuckalltheFules]

You close the door when you change your clothes hehe

[srikanth6382]

thanks a lot, these vedios are very very helpful

[isaacsenglish]

Great video, as an EFL teacher I have to signal these differences constantly. Many people can't pronounce the TH so they use the S. They'll say Somesing(something) for example. Thumbs up for all your videos.

[ShannonTheRiver]

As someone already mentioned, CLOTHES & CLOSE are not homophones whatsoever; I don't think that teaching pronunciation to beginners should be any different that teaching to advanced students. Later on, beginners will be confused & dissaponted when they discover that they were taught badly & they will never take that teacher's lessons as a reference anymore, I know it by experience. Apart from that, I'm happy with other videos I've seen so far. THANKS

[PANORAMAPEPSI]

thank you so much Ronnie, your explain is very good. iam from Saudi Arabia and i learn English in university.

[jiberish001]

Clothes and Close are highly debatable. Pronouncing the TH is widely accepted and used to be more common.

[hypersigil]

@jiberish001 mmm... right, but they sound very similar, especially to the untrained ears this lesson is meant for. So those people need to know that when they hear that sound it could be "CLOTHES" or "CLOSE/CLOSED", right? That much is not debatable. You are talking about whether these words should be pronounced the same way, and I agree with you that they should not be, but this lesson is about how to not get confused when hearing these words.

[jiberish001]

@hypersigil Point taken, and I agree.

[christinesmith2]

Please Ronnie

ProNUNcation



[hypersigil]

@christinesmith2 that's the way it's spelled and usually the way it is pronounced, but there are some weirdos like Ronnie who pronounce it 'pronounciation'... wonder why?

[ProvokeLaughter]

7:48 LOOOL

"This one you eat; nah don't eat this one."

BTW, I am an ESL and have heard/noticed grammatic mistakes by you. :-) @@

Sort of demonstrates the fact that imperfectness endures even in originality. (I just made this up @@)

[ycst25]

awesome i want ore and more of those words

[samurai50062]

Thanks Ronnie you always so pretty and so clear and your explanation, Greetings from Venezuela

[kwiipopart]

here in colombia we write cheque 4 da same thing... n' the pronunciation.. hmmm just in the spanish way.. X)

thx!..

[esunsinverguenza]

thanks!!! very useful lesson (as always) 

[smoothnice]

Hi Ronnie are you ok ? thank you very much excellent leson here in Brasil is "cheque " too bat the pronunciation is xequi congratulations Ronnie you are nice teacher !!!!!

[salwa9895]

hi rani thank u so much for this lesson and plz i really want a lesson about antonyms plz by