0:00 hello and welcome back to easy english with james today we're going to learn all about the letter k in english now k is the 11th letter in the english alphabet and it's another consonant letter and it's actually one of the most common letters in english but not because it appears in loads of different words but because it appears in the word okay and we say the word okay all the time in english okay so if you want to master the pronunciation of this letter and you want to learn some really cool big words and practice some crazy tongue twisters
0:46 then stick with me let's learn all about the letter k okay so in english when we see this letter and when we pronounce this letter it is always pronounced as a okay how do we make that sound easy all you do is take the back of your tongue and put the back of your tongue to the back of your mouth a place called the soft palate it's the soft part of your mouth at the back so you raise the back of your tongue and then you blow a
1:32 little bit of air out very quickly like this now remember this is a voiceless sound that means we don't use our vocal cords we don't vibrate we just blow air like this it's quite a quiet sound it's hard to make this sound very loud you have to blow a lot of air to make this sound really loud okay normally it's a quiet sound okay so practice with me okay okay let's practice some words that
2:18 begin with this k sound words like key and also kid kid he's a kid okay and finally kind kind try this sentence give the key to the kind kid give the key to the kind kid you'll hear that key kind kid key kind kid each time air will be coming out of your mouth key
3:05 kind kid okay so you know that you're saying this sound perfectly if there is some air coming out of your mouth key kind kid okay give the key to the kind kid okay well done now in english when you see the letters c and k together they are also just pronounced it's exactly the same sound okay when you see c and k together especially at the end of words it's just pronounced think of words like pick or pack or tick or check or back okay in all of these words the ck is just pronounced
3:52 okay some words even have a hard at the beginning and the ck at the end words like kick kick or kicking where it's in the middle kick kicking and kicker practice with me kick kicking and kicker okay you should have lots of air coming out there kick kick king and kicker kick kicking and kicker okay see if you can say that really fast kick kicking and kicker kick kicking and kicker and you should feel it all the way down here in your stomach okay kick kicking and kicker okay try
4:40 this amazing practice sentence a bit of a tongue twister the key to the king's keep with a well-kept kitten the key to the king's keep with a well-kept kitchen the key to the king's keep with a well kept kitchen lots of ca in there okay your turn see if you can practice it okay well done number two kim kissed carl but carl didn't kiss kim kim kissed carl but carl didn't kiss kim again lots of in there kim kissed carl but carl didn't kiss kim you try
5:25 okay well done okay it's also important to remember that there are many words in english that end in k e where we have that magic e on the end and that means that the e is silent so the final sound is still think of words like bike and pike the e there is silent so the final sound of those words is still also look at words like lake lake and cake or even the common name luke luke like luke skywalker luke okay okay so let's try all of these
6:10 words together cake lake and sake three words cake lake and sake and then bike bike and pike pike with a bu and a pu bike and pike and then of course luke my favorite star wars character luke and fluke fluke which means lucky in english a lucky shot in paul is a fluke a fluke okay practice those words too and remember that the e is often silent so that means the k is pronounced and it's the final sound in those words okay okay now in english the letter k is also
6:58 quite often silent when is the letter k silent it is always silent when it comes before the letter n the letter n think of words like knee and night night and knife knife okay in all of these words the letter k comes before the letter n and that means the letter k is silent so practice with me night knife and knee knight knife and knee okay
7:45 sometimes the letter k at the beginning can be silent but there'll be a c at the end like in knock or knack knack or in the word knapsack knapsack okay practice with me knock you can see that at the beginning silent k but at the end ck so knock also knack knock and knack and then finally knapsack knapsack okay then we have the word no no this is a really interesting word in english because the k
8:31 is silent which means that we just say n-o-w but you know how to say n-o-w we normally say n-o-w is now like right now but this one the k at the beginning is like a magic k and it changes now to no which means that in the word no actually the k is silent and the w is silent at the end too you've just got no no and that's why no as in no i don't want that and yes i know no and no are exactly the same they sound exactly
9:17 the same no and no and no okay no and no i know and i hope you know too now if you are learning something if you know a little bit more about english because of these lessons make sure that you hit that like button and subscribe to this channel so you don't miss any of my future videos okay just click that little red subscribe button and you'll get notified about any of my future videos so you can really improve your english pronunciation okay try these wonderful silent k tongue twisters number one
10:03 i knew the knight had a knife behind his knee i knew the knight had a knife behind his knee i knew the knight had a knife behind his knee okay lots of silent k letters in there i knew the knight had a knife behind his knee okay your turn okay number two is knock knock as in knocking on a door knock knock is the sound in english when you bang on the door knock knock knock knock i know i left my knapsack full of knickknacks in here knock knock i know i left my knapsack
10:50 full of knickknacks in here okay you try lots of silent k in there knock knock i know i left my knapsack full of knick-knacks in here look at this word knick-knack knick-knacks in english are little items small items small things knickknacks okay knickknacks has a silent k at the beginning and then a ck and then another silent k and then another ck knick knack knick-knack okay and when we say it really quickly it sounds like this knick-knack knick-knack the ck in the middle becomes reduced it's not
11:35 knick-knack it's nick nack knick-knack knick-knack we put a little glottal stop in the middle nip knick knack knick-knack okay so knick-knacks knick-knacks okay now let's try a more difficult sentence look on your screen now and you'll see a really long sentence with lots of silent k's and lots of k sounds okay so practice with me a knight kicked a king on the king's knobbly knee so the king kept the knight in the king's keep and kicked away the key a knight kicked a king on the king's
12:21 knobbly knee so the king kept the knight in the king's keep and kicked away the key one more time a knight kicked a king on the king's knobbly knee so the king kept the knight in the king's keep and kicked away the key okay how did you find that sentence it's a pretty crazy sentence but if you pause the video and practice reading that i promise you will get perfect english pronunciation for the letter k both when we pronounce it and when it's silent okay so try that again rewind it and practice it as many times as you need to for now we're going
13:07 to have a look at four of my favorite k words in english okay okay these are my favorite k words in english number one is kind-heartedness is someone who has a kind heart the having of a kind heart you could use it in a sentence like he showed real kind-heartedness when he helped the poor person he showed real kind-heartedness when he helped the poor person okay i hope everyone watching this has a full and kind heart okay kind-heartedness
13:54 kind-heartedness number two is the word knowledgeable knowledgeable is of course to have lots of knowledge about something you could say he's very knowledgeable about history he's very knowledgeable about history he has a lot of knowledge when it comes to history knowledgeable what is something you are knowledgeable about okay tell me one thing you are knowledgeable about in the comments below knowledgeable knowledgeable okay number three is the opposite of knowledgeable it is knucklehead a knucklehead is a really crazy word that means stupid you'll hear
14:41 this sometimes in cartoons he's a knucklehead your knuckles are actually these things here knuckle knuckle knuckle knuckle your knuckles so knucklehead kind of means somebody who's been hit in the head and now they're stupid knucklehead a knucklehead okay knucklehead finally number four is one of my favorite words with the letter k it is the word kingliness kingliness this is to be like a king you could say the kingliness of his voice if someone has a voice that sounds like a king you would say the kingliness of his voice
15:26 if someone is wearing really expensive clothes or has a crown on their head you could say the kingliness of his clothes the kingliness of his clothes okay it comes from the word kingly and you could say he's very kingly he looks like a king he walks like a king he's very kingly he has a kingly walk okay are you very kingly i hope so kingly and kingliness okay we're going to finish this lesson with a short test have a look at the four words that you can see on the screen now one of these words has a silent k i want you to write a b c or d in the
16:13 comments below which one of these words has a silent k okay well done thank you very much for watching today i hope you enjoyed the lesson if you did enjoy the lesson make sure you hit that like button and subscribe if you have any questions leave a comment below okay thanks for watching and i'll see you again for the next lesson bye bye
