How to pronounce "World & Word"

This video targets a confusing word pair: WORLD and WORD. Say them correctly to get your meaning across.

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Education

Tags:

• ESL
• accent
• reduction
• Pronunciation
• speech

[Torcufanshaw]

Thank you very much from Spain. This is very useful.

[TarleSpeech]

@Torcufanshaw Happy to help:)

[WetPurplePaint]

When I try to pronounce world, my tongue feels like it's too big for my mouth, and my voice has to go extremely low =/

[TarleSpeech]

@WetPurplePaint Some words are extremely difficult. Especially if you don't have the sounds in your native language. Take your time, practice the word slowly, and you will be able to say.

[Dokas80s]

When I say WORLD I find myself moving my tongue from left to right. When i do the L sound I move my tongue to the left and then when i do the D sound it ends at the right of my mouth. Thanks for this video, now I know how to say it correctly (at least I have a better idea).

I have problems when saying sand. I went to a store asking for sandpaper and they probably thought I was asking for SUNpaper :(. embarrasing.

[TarleSpeech]

@Dokas80s To say SAND correctly, focus on the AH. It is the very American OPEN vowel. Sand rhymes with band, hand, land. Start by saying S, OPEN WIDE for the AH, move your tongue to behind your top front teeth for the N, then pull your tongue down for the D. Good luck and thanks for watching!

[TheCaioholanda]

the worst word in the world, is the word world :D

[cipihevent]

@TarleSpeech mhm... perhaps this sounds better --> world = wurulled

[WetPurplePaint]

@TarleSpeech Aha, thank you. I'll practice.

[TarleSpeech]

@cipihevent Thanks and thumbs up:)

[TarleSpeech]

@cipihevent Thanks for your input. I would say:

word = were+d

world = wore+ld