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PRONUNCIATION: How to say “-ious” endings correctly in English - YouTube
Channel: English with Emma · engVid
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Hello. My name is Emma; and in today's
video, I am going to teach you a
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pronunciation trick. So, many of you
know that, in English, sometimes the way
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we spell words is different from the way
we say words. So, today, we are going to
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talk about how to pronounce: "i-o-u-s".
"i-o-u-s" is a suffix — that means it
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comes at the end of a word. I often hear
many learners making mistakes with the
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pronunciation of: "i-o-u-s". So, we're
going to talk about: How do we pronounce
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this sound, or how do we pronounce this
set of letters? So, let's get started.
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So, I have here three words. I want you
to listen very carefully, and I want you
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to tell me: For "i-o-u-s", am I
pronouncing it as: "ious", or am I
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pronouncing it like: "tious"? Okay? So,
listen very carefully to these three
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words. The first word is: "anxious".
"Anxious". What do you think you hear?
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Do you hear: "i-o-u-s", like: "e-us" or
do you hear us anxious? If you said
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this, the second part or the second
answer you are correct. I O U s in this
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word is pronounced as a Shas anxious. So
this is very different from how we spell
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this word. If you looked at the
spelling, you might think it was
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pronounced as ies, but in fact, we
pronounce it as Shas. What about the
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next word? cautious? cautious? Do you
hear e us? Or do you hear shus?
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cautious? The answer is, again, the
second we pronounced the IO U 's like
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Shas. Alright, let's look at the third
word now. Spacious, spacious. So what do
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you hear in this one? Do you hear see
us? Or do you hear shus? Spacious?
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Again, the answer is the second one we
pronounce ci o u s as Shutts. So what is
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the rule here? When do we pronounce
words as Yes. And when do we pronounce
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words like shus. We pronounce words that
have IO U 's, like Shas when there is a
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C, a T or an X before the eye. So in
this case, we have an x, okay, so it
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meets our rule. So we pronounce this
like shus. In this case, we have a T
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before our eye. Again, we pronounce this
like shirts because there's a T here we
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have a C before I owe you s if you have
a C, you pronounce it like chess. And we
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are going to do a lot of practice on
this in a moment. But the main thing I
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want you to remember for now is that
with these letters C T and X we
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pronounce I owe us as shots. So I'm just
going to mark that off. What about other
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words or other letters? Well, let's
let's think about this. So again, I have
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a US and I have shots. I want you to
listen carefully and decide what am I
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pronouncing? The first word is DVS DVS.
Do you hear us at the end or do you hear
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shuts? devious? Okay. You probably heard
this one. And that's correct. What about
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curious? Curious? Again, we hear he us.
Why are we not saying it like Shas?
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Well, it's because the letter before the
AI is not a C. It's not a T and it's not
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an x. So this is the rule for all other
letters. So the ones you really need to
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pay attention to are the C the T and the
X. If it's a different letter.
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We pronounce it as Yes. Okay, so that's
a lot. But now we are going to practice
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and this is an important lesson because
if you realize that I owe us can be
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pronounced like Shas. This can help you
With your spelling, you'll start to
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notice patterns and your pronunciation
will become a lot better. So now let's
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look at some more examples of this.
Okay, so now let's look at some more
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examples. So I have here a word
conscious. And again, if you don't know
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these words, that's okay. The focus of
today is pronunciation. So you might not
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understand these words, but the main
focus is how do we say words with I O
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us? So the first word conscious? How do
we pronounce the I O us? Well, our first
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question is what comes before I owe us.
If there's a C, a T, or an x, we
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pronounce it like Shas. If it's a
different letter, we pronounce it like
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s. So what do you think we pronounce it?
How do you think we pronounce it? Well,
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you see that there's a C. So that means
we pronounce it like Shas. So the C I
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owe us us has a sound like you're
telling someone to be quiet. And then we
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have a short use sound SHAs and an S at
the end. So let's say this one together.
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Con shus. conscious, conscious. Okay,
excellent. Now let's go to the next
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word. Okay, so we have here the word
vicious, vicious. So the first question
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is, you look for the I O U s, it has i o
us? What is the letter that comes before
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I O U S? Is it one of our special
letters? Is it a C A T or an X? It's a
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C. So what does that mean? That means we
need to pronounce C I O U S? Like shus.
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vicious, vicious. Sharks are vicious.
Okay, so that's an example. Let's go to
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the next word. This is a word I hear
many learners use. You might have used
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this word before. Now we're going to
find out Have you been pronouncing this
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word correctly? Or maybe you've been
making a mistake? Let's find out. So the
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first thing we do when we see a word
like this is we look for I O U S? Okay,
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we got it i o u s? And does it have one
of our special letters? Yeah, it does.
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It has a C. So what does that mean? Do
we say delicious? Or do we say
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delicious? Do we have a sh sound in
here? We do we say? Delicious? So we're
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pronouncing it like this delicious.
Let's say this one one more time
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together, because this is a very common
word. Delicious. Excellent. All right.
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The next word we have is this one. We
look does it have I owe us? Yes, it
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does. And then we look at the letter
before I owe us. Okay, it's a v is v one
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of our special letters. It's not a C.
It's not a T and it's not an x. So what
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does that mean? We pronounce it like I O
U s, s. So let's say the word previous,
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previous. So we're pronouncing it like
this pre v s. All right, the next word
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various. Again, we look at the ending,
it's our IO U 's ending, we look to see
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what letter is before I owe us. It's an
R. It's not one of our special letters.
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So we pronounce it like this. various,
various. Alright, the next word is a
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long word. So this might be a harder
word. Again, we use the same rules. We
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look to see if there's IO us there is we
look at the letter before I owe us it's
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a T is T one of our special letters.
It's not a c t it is a special letter.
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So this means we need to pronounce t i o
u s like Shas. So how do we say this
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word? It's a long word. We say
superstitious, superstitious. So has
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four parts soup Per stiff shifts shifts.
So again, we have this Shas at the end.
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The next word precious, I might have
given it away. What do you think it is?
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Well, we look to see what the letter is
before I owe us. It's a C. Is that one
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of our special letters? It is. So we
know we need to pronounce it like this
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shus. precious, precious. If you like
the movie, Lord of the Rings, you might
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know that the ring is called precious by
one of the characters. My precious, he
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always says the last word is obvious. So
we look at the letter. Before I owe us
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it's a V. It's not one of our special
letters, which means we pronounce it he
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us. Obvious, obvious. And there you have
it. What I recommend you do is you
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practice pronouncing the words that you
use the most. So this is the rule. But
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if you use words like delicious,
superstitious, anxious, more than other
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words, those are the words you should
focus on. And again, when you find a new
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word that ends in i o us, I recommend
looking at the letter before the eye,
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and that will help you decide how to
pronounce I owe us. So thank you so much
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for watching this video. You can
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