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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