Hi, and thank you for joining me for say it right pronunciation course. Lesson number two. In this week's lesson, we are going to be focusing on our EDI endings. Ah, yes, those dreaded EDI endings, why? EDI endings oftentimes pose a huge challenge for English language learners. It's one of the most difficult features for English language learners to hear, and also to produce.

So we really got to take the time to dive in deep to do as much practice as we can to make sure that this is no longer a challenge for you. So let's get started. Before we get started with some tips and techniques for pronouncing our Eb endings accurately, I want to quickly review our past tense to make sure that we are all on the same page. When it comes to past simple, so here we go. First and foremost. For the sake of this lesson when we focus on our end endings, we are only focusing on our regular past simple verbs.

Regular past simple verbs are the only verbs that require an ending. And so therefore, those are the only ones we're going to be looking at, and making sure that we are pronouncing them accurately. So what exactly is past tense? Well, past tense is when you are new is used when you are trying to express an action that is completed. And when it comes to regular past simple verbs, you simply add an add to the base form of any verb to make it past simple, if it's regular. Now, if it's not regular, that's a whole different story and you're gonna have to know Memorize that structure.

For the sake of this lesson, we're only focusing on those irregular past simple verbs. Okay? Now, anytime you are speaking about something that's dealing with yesterday, last night, last year, or anything dealing with a go, make sure that you are using a past tense prep. Now, I say this because this week's assignment requires you to speak about something in the past. And I want to make sure that you are mindful that all of your information must be in past tense. Okay, so keep that in mind.

So yesterday, last and ago, making sure those verbs are past. Okay, so now let's talk about how to create how to develop sentences in past tense. Well, if you want to create an affirmative past simple question, or sentence or a negative, past simple sentence, this is what you need to do. First, affirmative past simple sentence looks like this. First you need a subject. Then you need the verb plus your Eb suffix.

And then whatever your object is, for example, I watched a movie last night. Pretty simple, right? Now, negative, negative requires you to use the auxiliary in the past. Remember, when you ask a question, you need an auxiliary. And so therefore, you need to use the auxiliary in the past. And so your negative past simple sentence looks like this subject did Then not remember, when you want to make a sentence negative?

We use not. Do not say no. Okay? That's a common mistake that a lot of English language learners make. No does not go with verbs. You must use not with verbs.

Subject did not. And then the base form of the verb. Do not add the ed ending to the main verb. Because guess what? You don't need to do that. You are using the auxiliary in the past.

And then whatever your sub your object is. So here we go. We have I didn't watch you see, watch. There is no Ed suffix for watch. You don't need that. I didn't watch a movie last night.

Okay, now, questions. How do we create questions and past. While there are two types of questions there are yes no questions and there are your wh questions. Now, your Yes, no questions are simply just the auxiliary in past your subject and the base form of your verb. Remember, anytime you ask a question in English, you need to invert your subject with your verb. So what does that mean?

That means that you're switching positions, the subject will no longer be at the beginning of the sentence, it's going to come after the verb. Okay? Now, if it's a wh question, you simply add the wh word before the past tense, auxiliary. Okay. All right. So now that we're all on the same page with what past tenses, let's get started with some tips for producing and pronouncing your Edy endings accurately.

So, just like we talked about in Lesson One, the sound of your ad ending will be determined by the final consonant sound that precedes the end suffix. Okay? So remember when we talked about our plural S's, and how to write, and but the, all of those consonant sounds, determined whether it was a as well, it's the same thing with our end endings. So, here are the tips for you to remember. First and foremost, there are three possible end ending sounds. The first one is on the screen for you, which is next, the UN third aid.

So how do we know when to produce to the UN aid? Well, based on that final consonant sounds, this time the final consonant sounds that needs to be produced to get the sound Include Po, qu, and x. Okay, x, x. That's exactly right. So if you have a final consonant before the end that is one of these sounds, you need to pronounce the EDI ending as one sound being. Okay, remember, your EZ ending needs to be one sound.

So I'm going to put that on the top of the screen so that you can see ed ending equals one sound. They are not two separate sounds. It's one sound. Okay. Now, next, the next thing to get the de for your end suffix, you need to have a final consonant sound of ba ba Joe, oh. Oh, what?

Yeah, and Okay, let me do that again. Because this may be throwing some of you off. These are the consonant sounds in the English language for these consonants right here. Let's try that again. But go Java, or M or R or rough or whatever road. I'm kind of rolling my tongue there just for fun.

Please do not roll your tongue in English language. Okay. Sorry. The English language does not require any fancy Rowling's up the tongue. So, the letter R is simply raw, like river wrote, okay, you don't need to say if river or road don't roll the time, it's very difficult. Okay, let's keep going via What?

Yeah, and if you have a final consonant sound as I just produced, you are going to pronounce your EDI ending as the. Now, the last column is ID, but before we go to the last column ID remember that anytime you have a word that ends in a vowel sound, this will also fall in the category. Okay, so, if your final sound is not a consonant, it's a vowel, you need to produce the Now, as for the ID column, this is the easiest column of life because there's only two possible sounds for it. And if your final consonant is not represented by one of these two sounds, then you're not going to produce eight. Okay? So what are those two cells to?

And duh, that's it. Okay. And All right. Let's look at some examples for these ending sounds. So an example of some words that have an ed ending of are stopped, kissed, laughed, washed, watched and fix. Okay, did you hear that?

One sound it's only one sound so you do not add extra sound Okay, all right. So repeat after me. Stop. Kids. laughed. washed.

Watch. Fixed. Yeah, you did it. Okay. If you got the one sound if you're adding two extra sounds if you're saying step aid to see let the wishy washy, fix it. No, no no no no dancing.

No music don't add that extra syllable. It's just one sound. Okay? stopped, kissed, laughed, washed, washed, fixed. That's it. Okay.

Let's look at some examples for the the column. All right. Some of the examples include played Love cried. Oh, whoops. Okay, that's it. Right so we have played, loved and cried.

Yes. Yes. All right. Again. One sound no cry. Love vade play yet.

No, no no no dancing, okay. Maintain your composure. One sound played. Loved. cried. I hope you repeated after me if you didn't, let's try again.

Played. Loved. cried. All right, great job. Now, final column, the easiest sound of all because there's only two possible sounds. Now when you have a final consonant sound have to De, your word is going to be two sounds.

It's not one sound, it becomes two sounds. Eight, plus whatever sound comes before. For example, one tape. That's two sounds. One, tape. Try that again.

Wha? said, Good. Land. Did. Land did. All right.

Let's try all of the words one final time. Okay, repeat after me. Remember the first two columns, which I can go ahead and mark for you here. The first two columns right here. One sound, this column right here. Two sounds.

Okay, one. All right, here we go. Repeat After me, stopped, kissed, laughed, washed, watched, fixed, played, loved, cried, wanted landed. All right, great job. Great job. Now if you remember this tip, I promise you that you will have less problems when it comes to pronouncing your past tense verbs.

When you do this week's lessons, please pay special attention to these three possible sounds to de an aid if you are not producing them accurately. If you're making if you're saying something else and it doesn't sound like to the it, you may want to try again. Remember, practice, practice, practice, production is key for success. For a possession of any language, okay, guess what? I have some good news for you. Okay?

Practices everything. So, we're going to practice. So this is what's going to happen. I am going to say a word for you. Okay. I will repeat the word two times.

After the second time I will give you a quick second to decide if the ending sound is a, the or if it is, you will find out because I will reveal the answer to you. Okay, Is everyone ready? I hope you said yes. Because I'm ready. All right, here we go. Number one, okay.

Study the study to the or aid the It it's the That's right. It ends in a vowel. Okay, so the final sound is a vowel sound. So therefore we must produce did. Okay, let's go to number two, Dance. Dance is better to did or it is correct.

Now, don't get confused by the letter. I said this in lesson one. pronunciation is not about the letters, it's about the sound that the letters produce. And so the letter C in this word sounds like dance. So because it's a town You need to produce Okay, dad? Not dad said nope.

Dance. Quick and short. All right, let's go to the next one. Number three decided decided to the ER aid. Well I hope you said it because guess what? It's an eight.

Remember the easiest one of life. If it ends in a tip or the it's always a and this one ends in a duck so therefore it's eight. All right, you're doing a great job. Let's keep going. I have two more left. All right, here we go.

Number four asked asked asked is correct. Okay. It's definitely because it is in UK. All right. So remember if it ends in a you need to do it once out, asked no at skated asked. Okay, here we go number five enjoyed enjoyed all right I hope you said that because the is correct.

We have a just sound enjoy yeah yeah yeah nyjah Yeah. And a year makes a de. Okay. Okay, so this is the last practice one before you do practice on Europe now Make it count. I know you can do it. If you didn't do well on the other ones.

It's okay. There's still time. All right, here we go. Last one, make it count. Number six. Use the use the repeat again.

Used to the ER aid. It's a duh. Oh, hope you got it correct. If you didn't, I know you're probably thinking What? Why? Okay, let me explain this.

Remember, pronunciation is about the sound It is not about the letter. I understand that you see the letter S here. But guess what that sound is? Any time anytime you have the letter S sandwiched in between To vowel sounds, you must produce the s as a. So because it's a and not a, you do the you did. Okay.

Listen to that again. You did try that again. You did. It's not youth. Okay? You don't want to do that that's not good.

Used is the appropriate structure. It's the appropriate sound. Okay. All right. Well, I really hope that these tips help you and remember that if you use these tips, I promise you, you will no longer have those challenges, but you gotta practice them. If you don't practice, you won't see results, practice equals results.

Thank you again for joining me here. Stay tuned next week for our next topic. And our next lesson. Oh, it's going to be great. Take care.