Aversion

Swear words

and other undesirable words

By learning these words, and learning which words they typically mispronounce as such words, students' desire to not say them will guide them towards a) correctly pronouncing the words and b) fixing their overall pronunciation model, by way of them forcing themselves to develop the skill of pronouncing the sounds correctly.

It's honestly a surprise that this even needs to be explained, but here we are.

as

/az/

/as/

ass

sheet

/ʃɪjt/

/ʃɪt/

shit

fact

/fakt/

/fʌkt/

fucked

beach

/bɪjʧ/

/bɪʧ/

bitch

piece, peace

/pɪjs/

/pɪs/

piss

can't

/kcɑːnt/

/kʌnt/

c*nt

I want avocado

/ɑj wɔnt a.vəˈkɑː.dəw/

/ɑj wɔn tə ˈfʌ kə dɔɣ/

yes I've really heard this IRL

his

/hɪz/

/hɪs/

hiss

hall

/hoːɫ/

/hoːɹ/

whore

horse

/hoːɹs/

/hoːɹz/

whores

knees

/nɪjz/

/nɪjs/

niece

pitch

/pɪʧ/

/pɪjʧ/

peach

Tonal examples in Vietnamese

enough

đủ

đụ

fuck

pepper

tiêu

tiểu

piss

big; pork

lớn; lợn

lồn

...

part

phần

phân

shit

expect

mong

mông

ass

brush

bàn chải

bạn trai

boyfriend

secret

bí mật

bị mất

lost

Needless to say, mis-intonating these words is problematic in normal conversation, especially if you are speaking your non-native language, as you will likely have several other problems, such as personal accent, mispronunciations, lack of phonemes, grammatical mistakes, missing words, and more!

Language is a large skill, encompassing a multitude of smaller skills which all work together in concert.

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