Good morning.

Good evening.

Not good night though.

Um, I'm really going to tell you something.

Really.

I am terrible at spelling.

Are you really, really terrible at spelling in english too.

I am.

Um the reason why is because our pronunciation is completely different from how we write things and this makes a terrible problem, especially if you're studying for very important tests like aisles or any other written tests that you need for your school.

It is terrible.

But I have a method that I want to share with you and it's helped me pass the spelling tests, it's helped me graduate university and it's helped me become, You are # one English teacher.

I'm Ronnie and I'm gonna teach you how to spell these terrible, awful words that I always felt wrong.

But let's start with these.

I was looking on the internet, you know that place, the internet and there's a list, 25, words that native english speakers spell wrong all the time.

So don't don't be discouraged if you think your spelling is terrible because you're learning a language because guess what?

Native speakers can't even spell it correctly.

So you're good but watch my tips.

So this is what I do.

Um and I'll tell you how I got this method.

I look forwards inside the words that helped me remember to spell the words.

Let me show you what I mean.

We have this word.

Unfortunately.

Now even the pronunciation is weird.

It looks like on Fortuyn a ete Lien for two knee I easily and then we just come and say unfortunately?

yeah.

And then you have the job of trying to remember how to spell this word.

So let's look at it.

What words can you see inside the word?

Okay, first of all I see the prefix on.

So in english just means not.

Okay then.

I see four.

Okay.

I almost see, I always see fortune but there's no E.

So that will really mess me up.

But then I see the past tense of the verb To eat eight.

So I can remember on four T U N eight lee.

So I've got words inside.

And this is the problem with native speak with native speakers when we try and write things is we mix these up.

We usually omit the E.

We could put another vowel here instead of you.

So always look for words inside words.

I had this problem in grade two and I had a wonderful grade two teacher mrs it'll I don't never know what happened to her.

Hi, if you're watching thank you.

Um and when I was eight years old I could not spell the word about properly.

I probably felt it.

Uh vote Mhm.

Because that's how it sounds.

I remember my great to teachers sitting me down a little desk and saying Ronnie, you are going to write this word about 100 times and for an eight year old, that's a lot.

Even for I'm not eight year old, it's a lot.

So I sat there with my pencil and I probably spelt it wrong 100 times and she said it's wrong, you gotta do it again.

So I realized that there is you, why is there you why don't you say to you?

So it's about so in my little seven year old brain I thought oh no no no but there's an out so I can remember it's a B C D E F out ab out wow.

Then I proudly wrote it 100 times and I showed my teacher and I think I got it.

I will always remember how to spell this word because I realized this pattern ID AJ anna was a genius now I use it.

Okay so what where do you see in this or combinations of words?

I see again.

Oh there's a double M here but this is a prefix.

So we're gonna look at the beginning of the word and see these prefixes.

Then we have meat.

Mm Okay.

Oh I get to eat something again.

So imedi.

Uh there's the, I watch out for the I Okay, so prefix mead I Atlee.

Okay this is getting fun.

Can you see a word in this word problem we have in english is the double letters right?

But most of the time when you have a double letter it's because it is a prefect.

Okay so when I look at this word I see two PS and I say a parent oh I see a parent in here.

Okay so we have to remember that parent is in the word but we also have to add an extra P.

Before it.

That'll nail the double P.

There.

Apparently I can spell this word now.

Uh There's ease.

There's IEA's there's sees there's lots of ends.

Well this sounds crazy convenience.

Con.

Okay con good.

Wien no vain.

No I don't know.

This one's hard convenience.

Mm.

Yeah just memorize this one because I don't have a technique convenience.

There's a a little rhyme we'd like to say.

We say I before E.

Except after C.

But there's so many exceptions to that rule that really doesn't worked like that.

But you can remember I before E.

Except after C.

But that means because there's a C.

And then it would be like this so watch out for that one.

Nor to see there.

So I what about this one?

I always spell this like this separate S.

E.

C.

I can't even do that.

S.

E.

P.

E.

R A T separate.

Yeah.

No no apparently except pa.

Right so um excuse me could you please step pop rate this for me?

Hmm.

So in this word I can see the word par.

This is our problem areas.

So I remember sep par and then if you wanted to you could sit another eight here but as long as you get the A.

R.

Not the er you're okay.

Oh this word so many vowels.

What are you guys doing down here in their season?

S is what's this?

I remember this guy likes, I like science.

So I go conscious conscious.

That's how you should spell it conscious.

And then you know there's a C.

I remember the beginning of khan and then the science and then us con science us conscious.

Good.

This one's fun.

I can see this in two ways.

First of all I can see city spent with an S instead of a C.

And I also see hm real, which is the Portuguese and spanish word for river.

So I see a rio in here there's a river.

I see curio, which could be a fun word to as well.

But so I think rio atrocity and the problem lies within here getting the I.

And the O in there.

This one.

Oh God, it's another, it's another one with the E.

And the L.

Y.

Sometimes you put the E in, sometimes you don't.

So I would look at this and go the thin, oh no.

Oh look look look there is the wonderful slang, american spelling of the word night.

So def Finn.

And then aight definitely if you say it like that, you remember it like that to spell it.

But don't say it like that on the exam, definitely.

Just remember there's a night in there.

He's your knight in shining armor.

This one.

Look at this.

So many of these guys have double consonants, double letters.

Oh, how are you going to do this?

This one we have to ours because again this is a prefix.

Look at Oh, my sister is here to help me.

So I am re cyst sister table.

Oh, this is when we hit another mistake.

Sometimes we have able sometimes we have cable.

So to help you with this one, I would make a chart of the words like this.

I would make words that end and able and where does it end and able.

If your pronunciation is up to speed, which means it's very good.

You could even hear the difference in it.

But if you don't know how to say it.

The spelling is harder because we say here's this table but we say avail able.

So that actually makes sense.

But you got to make sure your pronunciation is okay.

This one wow, wow wow, wow.

There's, there's more vowels, so main.

Oh, Ken, name 10 and then and Maintenance, maintenance.

So I think of a main and then number 10 and then I just remember the ants part here.

This word.

I know.

Why do we have the a something's a veil abul sometimes there and in table which is fun.

But this one doesn't have a table inside.

So you're going to just break this year avail vegetables are really good punk band too.

If you ever knew that one.

Mm.

So double consonants just remember double double double C, double S.

And I like the way that, that some people um, I have learned the double consonants because I have learned to say a C C E S S I B L E.

But some people say a double c D E double S.

I'm like, wow, I like that.

You can make a song.

Like I got the next one I got to see and I got double M.

And I got a double what?

T.

And I got a double E.

Diandra doubling up on these.

So if you can make little rhymes, double M, double T, double E, it's going to help you because I would write this committee committee.

He had like this committee.

So if something is irresistible means you cannot resist it.

It means you need it like chocolates.

If someone, hey Ronnie, would you like some chocolate?

Like Yeah, I do, I do.

I've eaten 100 kg of chocolate already but I cannot resist the chocolate.

I need it.

I need it maintenance.

We do this in a car.

If your car is old, it's not broken.

But the mechanic likes you to bring it to them so they can charge you money to maintain your car.

That means charge you extra money to keep your car in good running order.

You maintain something maintenance available means that you have free time or you can do something um, accessible.

We have the word innit?

Access.

But you got to remember the doubles.

Okay.

If something is accessible, it means it's easy to get to or easy to achieve committee is a group of people who like to give their opinion about things.

Uh huh This one Look at the double letters in this one embarrassing.

And again, oh there's a bar, Hey, I get to go to the bar with another are so you can think of is like in bar bar dolar A double S.

Okay, the doubles are liking this.

This is um two more examples.

These are two more examples of, remember the double L.

Don't remember the double L.

It's your choice.

I always put them in um when we spell things like cancel or jewelry with a double L.

It's british spelling apparently in America, They only put one L.

in Canada.

We definitely put to.

But if you're writing your test and you only put one are sorry, one else fight it because that is normal in american english, which I kind of think it's cool because why do you need to because the rule here, but ju la la la la la la la la la la it's canceled.

No, just one go.

Um This is a fun rule, that doesn't make sense.

But I always say it because it's been nailed into my head since I was a little runny.

Uh huh, achieve achieve means you win your goal basically.

If you achieve something, we always say, okay, I before e so this is the you always put the eye before the okay before he okay.

Believe I before e.

Good.

So that's how we figure out that.

But then they have exceptions.

They say except after a C letter.

So if you see it, see Ei but but there's a C here, but it has to be directly after the C.

And then we have so many exceptions to this rule that when I was a kid, it was a good rule.

But now I'm like, that was terrible.

But I still say it and it might help you just be careful of those.

I would make um a little chart and I would put all the guys that fit into this and expect, see, I can't even spell this except see huh Ronnie.