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All right, welcome to 19 words you must pronounce correctly on the TOEFL Speaking. And without  

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further ado, let me just tell you what those 19 words are right now so you don't have to  

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stick around and wait. Here they are, all 19 words you have to pronounce correctly for  

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the TOEFL Speaking. There it is, but, of course, you probably know there's more to it than that.  

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the problem is that you don't know why these words are important, you don't know when to include these  

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words in your response and you might not know how to practice these words and how to pronounce them  

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correctly. So that's what we're gonna do together, so you know exactly why these words are important,  

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when to use them in your response, and how to pronounce them correctly. So, let's do it  

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together. My name is Josh MacPherson, I'm the head 
instructor of TST Prep, an online TOEFL school  

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where our mission is simple, to help you get the TOEFL score you need as quickly and easily as  

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possible. Now, let's look at 19 words you must get, you must pronounce correctly on the TOEFL Speaking.  

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So, you might be wondering at this point how do I know that these words are important? Well,  

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first of all, how do I know that pronunciation is important? Well, ETS the TOEFL the company  

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that makes the TOEFL, has a product and I'm going to share my screen right now, it's called TOEFL  

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Practice Online and they grade your speaking with something called Speech Rater. When they  

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grade your speaking, they use a human grader right now, but they also have the tool called Speech  

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Rater, and you can hear your own response, you can get feedback on your own speaking based on their  

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own speech rater. I did this about a month ago, this is just a quick little copy of my results. And one  

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of the grading criteria was vowel pronunciation, and I'm going to read this, this is to the right.  

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Vowels which is a, e, i, o, u is a measure of how you pronounce vowels compared with the pronunciation  

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of a native speaker. Specifically, it is a measure of your vowel length. Stronger speakers tend to  

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pronounce the English vowels more like a native speaker. So, you have to pronounce vowels correctly.  

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And this happens students have trouble with this, with longer words, and there are a lot of longer  

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words that you're going to use in your responses. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you,  

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we're gonna go through each question type. There are four question types, and I'm going to show you  

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which words you might have trouble pronouncing, but you will probably have to say when you speak.  

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So, this is a template to question one, and this is available in our guide,  TOEFL Speaking 26+

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You can find it a link to it in the description below. And there are some words, some phrases  

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that you're gonna have to say on test day that are part of the template, that are part of the  

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question types. So, for question one there are only two words that really are probably going to show  

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up, and one of those words is really like I just said and the other one is remember. So, let's look  

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at examples, and that's what we're going to do for each of these questions. I'm going to explain when  

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to use it and I'm going to show you an example of how to use it. So, here's an example from TST  

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Prep test ten. I remember when I was a child. So, for your independent speaking, you are probably gonna give 

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a personal example to help explain your opinion, and a popular phrase is I remember when. And you might  

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have some trouble saying remember. Some students, I've heard say the rememba. So, remember. Or, another  

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example is really. Is really a great way to build fluency, you might say really to show emphasis of  

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what you believe, and some students have trouble with the R and L pronunciation. So, this is a  

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template for speaking question number two. I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about this, I have  

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different videos that go into detail about how to respond to questions one, two, three, and four, and  

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I'll put a link in the description below for those as well, but so for question two there are some  

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words that are going to come up, like university, according to, however, disagrees, woman, clearly. So,  

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I'm not going to go through each of these and show you all of these examples and explain it,  

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but one example that I'll do together is the first one from TST Prep test four. And this is according  

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to an university. According to the announcement, the university. So, for question two it's going to be an  

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announcement from a university. So, you'll probably have to say according to and you'll probably have  

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to say university, university. All right, so that's an example. Another example from question two are  

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words that like however. So, this is from TST Prep test number ten. However, the woman points out that. 

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So, we usually say however for question two because the reading passage announces a change, and the  

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person in the conversation probably doesn't like the change, so they'll probably say however, you  

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will probably say however, and that they disagree. Disagree, disagree, another word that you have to  

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pronounce correctly. Also, from TST Prep test number three, almost immediately the woman... So, a woman is  

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one of those words that actually students have a lot of trouble with. I hear students say woman,  

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woman, or women. So, there's a lot of different problems with the vowel sound in the middle,  

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depending on your accent and your native language, it'll be different. Woman, woman, woman. All  

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right, and then the other one is clearly. This is to kind of wrap things up to finish. Clearly, the  

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woman thinks the school is making a mistake with this new rule, clearly. You don't have to say this,  

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but it's one of the templates that we teach, one of the words that we teach students. If you need  

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more help with pronunciation, I strongly recommend you check out YouGlish. You can just type in any  

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word, and I did an example here, for example battery, and then you could find a lot of videos right at  

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the moment where the word is being pronounced. So, if any of these words you need more help besides  

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this video, definitely check out YouGlish, type in the word and listen to some other examples of the  

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pronunciation. Alright, let's move along question 3. This is an example of our template for question 3.  

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Again, I'm not going to go into too much detail, there are other videos that talk about this a  

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lot, but there are some words that you will have to say, for example, passage, example, professor, reading,  

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listening. Let's look at the reasons why. So, the first sentence from test number 1. The reading  

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passage goes into detail. So, you're gonna have to say passage for questions 2, 3, and 4 because you're  

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talking about the reading passage or the listening passage. I've heard some people say passage or  

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passage. So, you have to work on your vowels in their, passage. Another example here is example, I hear  

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some students say example, example, or example. So there's a lot of different pronunciations I've  

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heard. Example, example, example, you want it to sound like that, there's a sound in the middle. Professor,  

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is something you'll have to say for questions 3 and 4. I've heard profesor, you know,  

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and so on. Professor, professor. You'll also have to say reading. Reading passage, reading passage. 

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You will also have to say listening. Listening passage, listening passage. So, make sure that your  

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pronunciation of these words is strong because you're gonna have to say them on test day and  

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you're going to have to say them. A lot of these words you'll have to say for more than one question.  

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Passage, reading, listening, professor. So, you want your pronunciation of these words to be really  

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good. Alright, also, if you need help with trying to figure out if your pronunciation is okay or  

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not, I strongly recommend practicing with voice typing software, for example, talking to Siri,  

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talking to your iPhone, if Siri can understand you, if your iPhone can understand you, I like to use  

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voice typing in Google Docs. If voice typing can understand you, then your pronunciation is pretty  

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good. If it's having trouble understanding you, then you need a little bit more work. I recommend  

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doing this with words, or sentences, or phrases. I wouldn't do a whole TOEFL Speaking passage with  

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voice typing because it's too long, just a sentence or two. All right, so that's another  

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way to kind of practice your pronunciation and check if you're doing it well or if you're not.  

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Of course, we also have teachers at TST Prep if you need more help with that. Okay, question  

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number four. This is again the template, I talked about this in a lot of detail in another video,  

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just to show you what it looks like, and again, by the way, you can download this in the link  

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in the description below, the TOEFL Speaking 26+ guide. Okay, that's that. Now, these last words  

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lecture, topic, explains, discusses, interesting, secondly.  So, let's look at some examples from  

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test 11. The lecturer mentions that, so that's another way to say professor. You can't just keep  

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saying professor, professor, professor, over and over and over again. So, lecturer, we would say  

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instead. Another example is topic. Some people would say topic, topic. Topic, topic, not topic. So,  

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the reading passage to, I'm sorry, the listening passage talks about an interesting topic. Some  

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other words there, explained. So, the professor is going to explain something and he's also going  

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to discuss or she is going to discuss, explain something. Another example interesting. You don't  

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have to say this, but it might be a nice way to sound more casual is to say that the topic is really  

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interesting from question four. And not interesting, interesting, interesting, not interesting. Secondly  

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is another way to say also or on top of that to add information which is important for question  

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number four. But that's about it. So again, these are the 19 words you must pronounce correctly  

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for the TOEFL Speaking. Hopefully, by now you know why they're important and how you can use them  

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and also how to pronounce them well. Let me know in the comments below which words you have the most  

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trouble pronouncing and also if you have any tips for other students who are trying to figure out  

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how to pronounce these words. Thank you guys for watching. Please click the subscribe button, leave  

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a comment below if you have any questions, and thanks for watching guys. See in the next video.