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betty laughs and dances to the music

hi betty nice music

thanks my nephew sent me this musical birthday card

isn't it fun it says

leap for joy it's your birthday

happy leap year birthday that's great

so are you excited for your birthday

tomorrow yes i'm very excited i'm thinking about

getting engaged what

really no

not really but i could get engaged you know

how do you know someone who wants to propose

to you no

but i could propose to someone that's true some women do propose to men

they do now but years ago in great britain and

ireland women could only propose marriage on february 29th

really that's interesting

yes and you know what else

what the man couldn't say no what if he did

then he'd have to give the woman a gift sounds like a perfect day for women

yes too bad it only came once every four years

the first one familiar right

this one is pronounced cosmetic cosmetic remember

s here so z okay

cosmetic now cosmetic

you know things like lipstick or foundation concealer or eyeliner

they are used to put on your face to make you to be more

beautiful or attractive you know just like put on a makeup so you have to use

cosmetics cosmetic

cosmetic for number two i think you know this one

you know what i mean is you know the meaning of the word right the popular

styles of hair or clothes or anything but remember don't pronounce a fashion

it's not fashion it's actually a faction

fashion for number three

um this one very familiar

um mosquito

mosquito you know when you are sleeping the mosquitoes

can bite you and makes you hurt okay

so mosquito

remember s here mosquito not more sweet dog

mosquito mosquito or you can even pronounce

mosquito for

number four this one is not that

this one b this b here is silent so we just pronounce

that that you know when you are in depth that

means you owe somebody

you know the money or things like that

that you owe somebody something um

now for number five recommend

this one is not very common or recommend okay it's recommend

recommend recommend that means to

introduce or to tell somebody something is

good or useful or suitable to do or it can also

mean that to advise somebody to do something

recommend recommend for number six

this one please don't pronounce so much even though this one here is

just like watch or catch or teach right but this one is pronounced summer

stomach tell me the reason why i'll tell you the

reason why well i don't know stomach

okay so just remember not that much no stomach

okay stomach

um stomach is actually an organ inside your body where the food is contained

stomach for

number seven um

this one is marriage remember

g e here so we have to pronounce marriage not mary h okay marriage

marriage is actually the legal relationship

um between a husband and a wife

marriage for number eight

um you know this one right uh but don't pronounce finance or phoenix

is finance

finance and remember ce here is s

finance finance um

threat second syllable or you can even stress first syllable

finance finance or you can pronounce

finance f here for finance but i usually

pronounce finance finance okay

um finance you know things to do with money

now number nine

we can't you can pronounce we can't just like

american oh sorry we can't british english and for

american english stress the first syllable weekend but

don't ever pronounce weekend that weekend okay

we can't or we can't you know saturday and sunday

um and the last one um

when you see this one you can maybe you can see the similarity between

nature right so you think it is major or just like future or things like that

but actually actually this one is mature

mature mature or you can pronounce as t mature mature okay

or mature anything but usually i would pronounce this one mature mature

c h this one

t-u-r-e sure

future future

feature feature

nature number three

t-u-a-l chor

cho actually

actually puncture

puncture virtually

virtually s