Tracking the Way We Use Language / Dashboard. My courses. User Dashboard. EngVid. Word-Neighbors. Learn Real English! My English. British Council. The American Accent Workshop Blog. By Marisol on Friday, June 7th, 2013 | No Comments There are many words in the English language that sound very similar to each other with very slight differences.
There are also some words which are pronounced exactly the same way and wherein even native speakers can only tell the difference due to the context in which the words are used such as “scene” and “seen,” for example. Naturally, words that are pronounced the same way aren’t really much of a problem for people with English as a second language since if you know how to pronounce one word, then you also know how to pronounce the other one – quite logically.
What many English language learners have a problem with however, are similar sounding words that also have similar meanings that could easily be confused for one another when used in oral communication. What are these words? The School of Life - Good Ideas for Everyday Life. IJV Career Blog. Harvard Business Review Magazine, Blogs, Case studies, Articles, Books, Webinars. Learning English - Home. Englishtips.org: Learning English Together.