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Jun 2021
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100 - 100 Commonly Mispronounced Words i...

Shana Thompson
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After 5 years of teaching intermediate to advanced level English online, I found trends in the words that my students mispronounced. In today's episode, I consolidated the common mispronounced words in my language classes into one episode with example sentences so that you can work on your pronunciation.

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