Hi, my name is Rebecca and in today's lesson we're going to do a little bit of pronunciation.
Pronunciation of nationalities, alright?
Now the words for nationalities have different endings, many different endings.
What I've done is I've taken six of the most common ones and I'd like to give you some
examples how to pronounce these, alright?
Now of course what you need to do is to find out what is the word for people from your
country, from your nation and learn that particular one very, very well because you will need
But it's also important to be able to talk about other people and other nationalities
so let's look at some examples, okay?
You can repeat after me if you like, I will leave space for you to do that.
So one common ending or suffix is with -an as in American, Mexican, German, Moroccan,
So as you can see we have just -an as the ending, alright?
Now with -ian we have countries like this, nationalities like this, Canadian, Russian,
Italian, Brazilian and Australian, alright?
See how because it's -ian we say it a little bit longer than the one where we have only
Now we have -ish as in British, Spanish, Turkish, alright, good.
Sometimes you have only an -i as the ending as in Pakistani or Israeli or Iraqi, alright?
And the last one from our set of examples, it's not the last one, there are other endings
which I haven't covered here, but the last one here is with -en as in Korean, Chilean
and people from El Salvador are called Salvadorian, okay?
So here we see the -en ending.
So of course it is important to learn how to pronounce nationalities properly.
Just as we respect our nation, many people respect, most people respect their own nations
and when we pronounce the nationality correctly then we also show respect for them in that
So good luck with pronunciation of nationalities and if you'd like some more practice in various
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