“I would like to buy a hamburger.”
If you teach small groups or one-on-one, and find some students struggle with pronunciation, put them at ease with this funny clip of Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) trying to say “I would like to buy a hamburger.”
Why English Can Be Challenging for Non-Native Speakers
Below are sentences that contain words with double meanings. A native speaker knows how to properly stress the syllables in these words to convey their intended meaning, but non-native speakers often struggle when confronted with sentences like these: The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was [...]

