I’ll never forget my WORST pronunciation mistake when I was learning Portuguese. It was VERY embarrassing: 😱 I wanted to say: “Eu gosto de água de coco” (“I like coconut water”) 🥥 But I said: “Eu gosto de água de cocô” (“I like poop water”) 💩 The problem is that these two words are different by only one sound! We call these MINIMAL PAIRS, and there are a lot of them in English, too. For example: it / eat ship / chip wait / wet bad / bed ice / eyes free / three they / day If you want
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