English Place Name Pronunciation Audio Practice Ep 232

Today’s podcast covers a tricky problem for most new English language learners, and that’s the correct pronunciation of place names. The UK has a long history behind its place names and as a result UK place names can be difficult to pronounce. The full article can be found here: https://adeptenglish.com/2019/06/10/name-pronunciation-audio/ This Articles Group: https://adeptenglish.com/pronounce-english-words/ Last Article In Group: https://adeptenglish.com/2019/05/06/english-pronunciation-guide/   Summary: Place Name Pronunciation Audio If you have to deal with UK addresses, or want to pronounce a football, cricket team's name correctly, or maybe ask someone for directions or the correct London Underground station name for a place in London then you will need to practice your English place name pronunciation. The English seem to have gone out of their way to make some place names difficult to pronounce. We have silent letters, we change a letter into another letter (just for the pronunciation!) we have Celtic names, old English “folk” names. The whole thing is a minefield to learn to pronounce correctly if you were to just read and write these names down. Fortunately for you we are Adept English and we deal with these problems by listening and learning the correct ways to pronounce names. You just need to listen and your brain will automatically remember how to pronounce the names correctly. So listen to this podcast a few times and you will soon be familiar with some of the most common difficult to announce English place names.   If you need to understand more about our teaching technique, then listen to this podcast https://adeptenglish.com/2018/05/14/speaking-english-podcast/ which explains how to get the best out of our podcasts. Or sign up for our FREE 7 rules of Adept English video course here http://7rules.adeptenglish.com/ We provide over 200 FREE English language conversation and video lessons to help you learn the English language. If you do not like this one then you can visit this page https://adeptenglish.com/about-us/podcasts/ to choose from 100's of English lessons with lots of different topics . So why not learn English the easy and FREE way? We try to make ourselves as accessible to everyone who wants to learn to speak English fluently. You can find us on these popular social media sites: ✭ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adeptenglish/ ✭ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdeptEnglish ✭ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcZoWbqWzXSYzxQL9utJ1g We are also on these popular streaming services: ✪ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7ixeOS7ezPTZSaISIx2TTw ✪ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/learn-english-through-listening/id1134891957 ✪ Tunein: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Educational/Learn-English-Through-Listening-p888646/ ✪ Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.