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Pronunciation Mastery Formula:
How to Pronounce ED Endings Correctly

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This video give you the very simple Pronunciation Mastery Formula for pronouncing -ED endings correctly. Did you know these endings are actually pronounced 3 different ways? Watch the video to find out more!

Did you learn these rules in school? I’d love to hear your comments on this formula. 🙂

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  3. Marieke Anthonisse

    Hi Heather, great lesson! Do you do the ‘video editing’ yourself (putting
    the text in your video?). I want to do that more in my (dutch) videos. My
    worldwide ambitions are here, so I will watch your lessons carefully 😉
    Bye, Marieke

  5. Heather Hansen

    Hi Marieke!! Yes, I do it all myself. Recording on my webcam on my
    MacbookPro and edit in iMovie. 🙂 I like your videos too. I can only pick
    up bits and pieces (due to some old German skills and my Danish) but you
    look and sound great! 🙂

  6. Marieke Anthonisse

    Thanks! My husband does it now but I forget to tell him to add words, so
    maybe time for me to do it myself on his Mac 😉 I need some more guts
    before I go english/global, haha!

  11. Heather Hansen

    Hmm… not sure what you mean here. Hated and wasted are both words with
    past tense ‘ed’ endings. If we were talking about words ending in /d/ and
    /t/ we would also include words like ‘hat’ and ‘had’ which are not on topic
    here.

  12. mightlife

    Well, at 2.55, you mention words ending with a T or a D (e.g. ‘painT and
    ‘lanD’). Neither ‘hate’ nor ‘fade’ (allow me to include a better example)
    end in a T or a D, however the final sounds produced are /t/ and /d/
    respectively. In my experience, pointing out that learners should be
    listening for the ending rather than reading it is a better approach. The
    subject of the video is ‘Past Tense endings’, so of course, neither ‘hat’
    nor ‘had’ are covered under this heading, surely that is a given.

  13. Heather Hansen

    Ahh.. I see what you’re getting at. Yes, of course I mean D and T sounds,
    but the point isn’t the T or D – it’s that words ending in the T and D
    sounds add an ID ending in the past tense (I don’t use phonetics in my
    lessons, but yes, that’s /schwa+d/). All the other words in the video
    depend on voiced and unvoiced consonant endings which then determine
    whether the -ed ending is pronounced as a T or D. This vid shows people
    when and why -ED endings are pronounced as T, D or ID, hence the title.

  15. Heather Hansen

    No, Lisandra. I’m from the US (California), but have been living in Europe
    and Asia since 2002. I have a good friend here from Brazil. She’s the one
    that asked me about the -ed endings. 🙂

  16. lisandra512

    Thanks for your attention, great video, I’m brazilian and I’m improving my
    English with your videos and some books I’m reading. Best regards from
    Brazil!

  21. leonardo jr

    Hi heather i’m from brazil and i have started to see your videos now, i’m
    not good with grammar, i love to talk so your video help me so much. thank
    you.
    I’m 18 and want to go for other contry, i think that you don’t care with
    this, but please tell me is hard to live in your country for a foingner (i
    forgot how to write someone who come for another country) thank u for your
    atention.

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