Learn how to pronounce the words HOSTEL & HOSTILE with this American English Homophone pronunciation lesson. These words are homophones and are pronounced exactly the same way.
Definitions:
HOSTILE: unfriendly, an enemy, or opposed
HOSTEL: lodging that provides inexpensive often shared rooms and bathrooms
Pronunciation:
These words are pronounced exactly the same way!
/ˈhɑstəl/
Sentence:
The hostel will not tolerate hostile guests.
This may be helpful:
HOMOPHONES – words spelled differently, with different meanings, but are pronounced the same way.
Transcript:
Hello Jennifer from Tarle Speech with your two for Tuesday homophone lesson. Homophones are words that are spelled differently, have different meanings, but you pronounce them the same way.
We have two words today:
hostile which is unfriendly, an enemy, or opposed and
hostel which is lodging that provides inexpensive often shared rooms and bathrooms
To say these words correctly two syllables or beats in these words. We’re going to start with haas and to do that start with that h. Open your mouth. It’s relaxed. Air moves out.
Next open wide for that ah. Tip of the tongue is low, back of the tongue is pulled high up, and then add the s. You can either have your tip of your tongue down or behind the top front teeth. It’s just not touching the teeth and the air continues to move out of your mouth. haas
Then we’re going to end with syllable number two tul. And to do this, touch the tip of your tongue to the spot where your teeth meet the skin on the roof of your mouth, and the air is going to puff out for that t. You’re going to pull the tongue down and then pull it right back up and touch in that same spot for the l. tul tul tul.
You don’t have to think about adding a vowel if you just move from top to bottom like I just described, but some people think about that as having an uh vowel in there, and that’s fine.
And then just relax the mouth for that uh and then move to the l.
haas tull
haas tuoll
hostile hostile hostile
hostile hostile hostile
And now for a sentence:
The hostel will not tolerate hostile guests.
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