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Звуковете /p/ и /b/ са подобни на българските /п/ и /б/, но в английските звукове имаме така наречената аспирация (особено ясно изразена при /p/ и по-малко забележима при /b/).

Това означава, че при произнасянето им издишната въздушна струя е много по-експлозивна, отколкото в български, особено в началото на думата пред гласна (port, poke, pit).

За да се произнесат правилно, трябва да притиснем плътно устните, за да се получи пълна преграда за въздушната струя, която след отварянето на устата ще е съпроводена от ефекта на експлозивност.

Издишната въздушна струя също така е много по-силна в сравнение с български – в български устните не се притискат толкова силно една в друга при произнасянето на звуковете /п/ и /б/.

wɪˈðɪn ə ʃɔːt wɔːk ɒv ˈlɒŋbɔːn lɪvd ə ˈfæmᵊli wɪð huːm ðə ˈbɛnɪts wɜː pəˈtɪkjələli ˈɪntɪmət. sɜː ˈwɪljəm ˈluːkəs hæd biːn ˈfɔːməli ɪn treɪd ɪn ´meritən, weə hiː hæd meɪd ə ˈtɒlərəbᵊl ˈfɔːʧuːn, ænd ˈrɪzᵊn tuː ði ˈɒnər ɒv ˈnaɪthʊd baɪ ən əˈdrɛs tuː ðə kɪŋ ˈdjʊərɪŋ hɪz ˈmeərᵊlti. ðə dɪˈstɪŋkʃᵊn hæd pəˈhæps biːn fɛlt tuː ˈstrɒŋli. ɪt hæd ˈɡɪvᵊn hɪm ə dɪsˈɡʌst tuː hɪz ˈbɪznɪs, ænd tuː hɪz ˈrɛzɪdᵊns ɪn ə smɔːl ˈmɑːkɪt taʊn; ænd, ɪn ˈkwɪtɪŋ ðɛm bəʊθ, hiː hæd rɪˈmuːvd wɪð hɪz ˈfæmᵊli tuː ə haʊs əˈbaʊt ə maɪl frɒm ´meritən, dɪˈnɒmɪneɪtɪd frɒm ðæt ˈpɪəriəd ˈluːkəs lɒʤ, weə hiː kʊd θɪŋk wɪð ˈplɛʒər ɒv hɪz əʊn ɪmˈpɔːtᵊns, ænd, ʌnˈʃækᵊld baɪ ˈbɪznɪs, ˈɒkjəpaɪ hɪmˈsɛlf ˈsəʊlli ɪn ˈbiːɪŋ ˈsɪvᵊl tuː ɔːl ðə wɜːld. fɔː, ðəʊ ɪˈleɪtɪd baɪ hɪz ræŋk, ɪt dɪd nɒt ˈrɛndə hɪm ˌsuːpəˈsɪliəs; ɒn ðə ˈkɒntrəri, hiː wɒz ɔːl əˈtɛnʃᵊn tuː ˈɛvribɒdi. baɪ ˈneɪʧər ˌɪnəˈfɛnsɪv, ˈfrɛndli, ænd əˈblaɪʤɪŋ, hɪz ˌprɛzᵊnˈteɪʃᵊn æt seint ˈʤeɪmzɪz hæd meɪd hɪm ˈkɜːtiəs.
ˈleɪdi ˈluːkəs wɒz ə ˈvɛri ɡʊd kaɪnd ɒv ˈwʊmən, nɒt tuː ˈklɛvə tuː biː ə ˈvæljəbᵊl ˈneɪbə tuː ´misizˈbɛnɪt. ðeɪ hæd ˈsɛvᵊrᵊl ˈʧɪldrən. ði ˈɛldɪst ɒv ðɛm, ə ˈsɛnsəbᵊl, ɪnˈtɛlɪʤᵊnt jʌŋ ˈwʊmən, əˈbaʊt ˈtwɛnti-ˈsɛvᵊn, wɒz ɪˈlɪzəbəθs ˈɪntɪmət frɛnd.
ðæt ðə mɪs ˈluːkəsɪz ænd ðə mɪs ˈbɛnɪts ʃʊd miːt tuː tɔːk ˈəʊvər ə bɔːl wɒz ˈæbsəluːtli ˈnɛsəsᵊri; ænd ðə ˈmɔːnɪŋ ˈɑːftə ði əˈsɛmbli brɔːt ðə ˈfɔːmə tuː ˈlɒŋbɔːn tuː hɪər ænd tuː kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt.
“juː bɪˈɡæn ði ˈiːvnɪŋ wɛl, ˈʃɑːlət,” sɛd ´misiz ˈbɛnɪt wɪð ˈsɪvᵊl ˌsɛlfkəˈmɑːnd tuː mɪs ˈluːkəs. “juː wɜː ´mistə ˈbɪnɡliːz fɜːst ʧɔɪs.”
“jɛs; bʌt hiː siːmd tuː laɪk hɪz ˈsɛkᵊnd ˈbɛtə.”
“əʊ! juː miːn ʤeɪn, aɪ səˈpəʊz, bɪˈkɒz hiː dɑːnst wɪð hɜː twaɪs. tuː biː ʃuə ðæt dɪd siːm æz ɪf hiː ədˈmaɪəd hɜːr-ɪnˈdiːd aɪ ˈrɑːðə bɪˈliːv hiː diː-aɪ-diː-aɪ hɜːd ˈsʌmθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ɪt-bʌt aɪ ˈhɑːdli nəʊ wɒt-ˈsʌmθɪŋ əˈbaʊt ´mistə ˈrɒbɪnsᵊn.”
“pəˈhæps juː miːn wɒt aɪ ˌəʊvəˈhɜːd bɪˈtwiːn hɪm ænd ´mistə ˈrɒbɪnsᵊn; dɪd nɒt aɪ ˈmɛnʃᵊn ɪt tuː juː? ´mistə ˈrɒbɪnsᵊnz ˈɑːskɪŋ hɪm haʊ hiː laɪkt ˈaʊə ´meritən əˈsɛmbliz, ænd ˈwɛðə hiː dɪd nɒt θɪŋk ðeə wɜːr ə ɡreɪt ˈmɛni ˈprɪti ˈwɪmɪn ɪn ðə ruːm, ænd wɪʧ hiː θɔːt ðə ˈprɪtiɪst? ænd hɪz ˈɑːnsərɪŋ ɪˈmiːdiətli tuː ðə lɑːst ˈkwɛsʧən: əʊ! ði ˈɛldɪst mɪs ˈbɛnɪt, bɪˈjɒnd ə daʊt; ðeə ˈkænɒt biː tuː əˈpɪnjənz ɒn ðæt pɔɪnt.’”
“əˈpɒn maɪ wɜːd! wɛl, ðæt ɪz ˈvɛri dɪˈsaɪdɪd ɪnˈdiːd-ðæt dʌz siːm æz ɪf-bʌt, haʊˈɛvə, ɪt meɪ ɔːl kʌm tuː ˈnʌθɪŋ, juː nəʊ.”
“maɪ ˌəʊvəˈhɪərɪŋz wɜː mɔː tuː ðə ˈpɜːpəs ðæn jɔːz, ɪˈlaɪzə,” sɛd ˈʃɑːlət. “´mistə ˈdɑːsi ɪz nɒt səʊ wɛl wɜːθ ˈlɪsᵊnɪŋ tuː æz hɪz frɛnd, ɪz hiː?– puə ɪˈlaɪzə!–tuː biː ˈəʊnli ʤʌst ˈtɒlərəbᵊl.”
“aɪ bɛɡ juː wʊd nɒt pʊt ɪt ˈɪntuː ˈlɪziz hɛd tuː biː vɛkst baɪ hɪz ˈɪlˈtriːtmənt, fɔː hiː ɪz sʌʧ ə ˌdɪsəˈɡrɪəbᵊl mæn, ðæt ɪt wʊd biː kwaɪt ə ˌmɪsˈfɔːʧuːn tuː biː laɪkt baɪ hɪm. ´misiz lɒŋ təʊld miː lɑːst naɪt ðæt hiː sæt kləʊz tuː hɜː fɔː hɑːf-ən-aʊə wɪˈðaʊt wʌns ˈəʊpᵊnɪŋ hɪz lɪps.”
“ɑː juː kwaɪt ʃuə, mæm?–ɪz nɒt ðeər ə ˈlɪtᵊl mɪˈsteɪk?” sɛd ʤeɪn. “aɪ ˈsɜːtᵊnli sɔː ´mistə ˈdɑːsi ˈspiːkɪŋ tuː hɜː.”
“eɪ – bɪˈkɒz ʃiː ɑːskt hɪm æt lɑːst haʊ hiː laɪkt ˈnɛðəfiːld, ænd hiː kʊd nɒt hɛlp ˈɑːnsərɪŋ hɜː; bʌt ʃiː sɛd hiː siːmd kwaɪt ˈæŋɡri æt ˈbiːɪŋ spəʊk tuː.”
“mɪs ˈbɪnɡliː təʊld miː,” sɛd ʤeɪn, “ðæt hiː ˈnɛvə spiːks mʌʧ, ənˈlɛs əˈmʌŋ hɪz ˈɪntɪmət əˈkweɪntᵊnsɪz. wɪð ðɛm hiː ɪz rɪˈmɑːkəbli əˈɡrɪəbᵊl.”
“aɪ duː nɒt bɪˈliːv ə wɜːd ɒv ɪt, maɪ dɪə. ɪf hiː hæd biːn səʊ ˈvɛri əˈɡrɪəbᵊl, hiː wʊd hæv tɔːkt tuː ´misiz lɒŋ. bʌt aɪ kæn ɡɛs haʊ ɪt wɒz; ˈɛvribɒdi sɛz ðæt hiː ɪz iːt ʌp wɪð praɪd, ænd aɪ deə seɪ hiː hæd hɜːd ˈsʌmhaʊ ðæt ´misiz lɒŋ dʌz nɒt kiːp ə ˈkærɪʤ, ænd hæd kʌm tuː ðə bɔːl ɪn ə hæk ʧeɪz.”
“aɪ duː nɒt maɪnd hɪz nɒt ˈtɔːkɪŋ tuː ´misiz lɒŋ,” sɛd mɪs ˈluːkəs, “bʌt aɪ wɪʃ hiː hæd dɑːnst wɪð ɪˈlaɪzə.”
“əˈnʌðə taɪm, ˈlɪzi,” sɛd hɜː ˈmʌðə, “aɪ wʊd nɒt dɑːns wɪð hɪm, ɪf aɪ wɜː juː.”
“aɪ bɪˈliːv, mæm, aɪ meɪ ˈseɪfli ˈprɒmɪs juː ˈnɛvə tuː dɑːns wɪð hɪm.”
“hɪz praɪd,” sɛd mɪs ˈluːkəs, “dʌz nɒt əˈfɛnd miː səʊ mʌʧ æz praɪd ˈɒfᵊn dʌz, bɪˈkɒz ðeər ɪz ən ɪkˈskjuːs fɔːr ɪt. wʌn ˈkænɒt ˈwʌndə ðæt səʊ ˈvɛri faɪn ə jʌŋ mæn, wɪð ˈfæmᵊli, ˈfɔːʧuːn, ˈɛvriθɪŋ ɪn hɪz ˈfeɪvə, ʃʊd θɪŋk ˈhaɪli ɒv hɪmˈsɛlf. ɪf aɪ meɪ səʊ ɪkˈsprɛs ɪt, hiː hæz ə raɪt tuː biː praʊd.”
“ðæt ɪz ˈvɛri truː,” rɪˈplaɪd ɪˈlɪzəbəθ, “ænd aɪ kʊd ˈiːzᵊli fəˈɡɪv hɪz praɪd, ɪf hiː hæd nɒt ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd maɪn.”
“praɪd,” əbˈzɜːvd ˈmeəri, huː piːkt hɜːˈsɛlf əˈpɒn ðə səˈlɪdəti ɒv hɜː rɪˈflɛkʃᵊnz, “ɪz ə ˈvɛri ˈkɒmən ˈfeɪlɪŋ, aɪ bɪˈliːv. baɪ ɔːl ðæt aɪ hæv ˈɛvə red, aɪ æm kənˈvɪnst ðæt ɪt ɪz ˈvɛri ˈkɒmən ɪnˈdiːd; ðæt ˈhjuːmən ˈneɪʧər ɪz pəˈtɪkjələli prəʊn tuː ɪt, ænd ðæt ðeər ɑː ˈvɛri fjuː ɒv ʌs huː duː nɒt ˈʧɛrɪʃ ə ˈfiːlɪŋ ɒv ˌsɛlfkəmˈpleɪsᵊnsi ɒn ðə skɔːr ɒv sʌm ˈkwɒləti ɔːr ˈʌðə,
rɪəl ɔːr ɪˈmæʤɪnᵊri. ˈvænəti ænd praɪd ɑː ˈdɪfᵊrᵊnt θɪŋz, ðəʊ ðə wɜːdz ɑːr ˈɒfᵊn juːzd sɪˈnɒnɪməsli. ə ˈpɜːsᵊn meɪ biː praʊd wɪˈðaʊt ˈbiːɪŋ veɪn. praɪd rɪˈleɪts mɔː tuː ˈaʊər əˈpɪnjən ɒv
aʊəˈsɛlvz, ˈvænəti tuː wɒt wiː wʊd hæv ˈʌðəz θɪŋk ɒv ʌs.”
“ɪf aɪ wɜːr æz rɪʧ æz ´mistə ˈdɑːsi,” kraɪd ə jʌŋ ˈluːkəs, huː keɪm wɪð hɪz ˈsɪstəz, “aɪ ʃʊd nɒt keə haʊ praʊd aɪ wɒz. aɪ wʊd kiːp ə pæk ɒv ˈfɒkshaʊndz, ænd drɪŋk ə ˈbɒtᵊl ɒv waɪn ə deɪ.”
“ðɛn juː wʊd drɪŋk ə ɡreɪt diːl mɔː ðæn juː ɔːt,” sɛd ´misiz ˈbɛnɪt; “ænd ɪf aɪ wɜː tuː siː juː æt ɪt, aɪ ʃʊd teɪk əˈweɪ jɔː ˈbɒtᵊl daɪˈrɛktli.”
ðə bɔɪ prəˈtɛstɪd ðæt ʃiː ʃʊd nɒt; ʃiː kənˈtɪnjuːd tuː dɪˈkleə ðæt ʃiː wʊd, ænd ði ˈɑːɡjəmənt ˈɛndɪd ˈəʊnli wɪð ðə ˈvɪzɪt.

	Изявително наклонение (говорещият е свидетел на глаголното действие)	Преизказно наклонение (говорещият не е свидетел на глаголното действие)
сегашно време	работя	работел съм
минало свършено време	работих	работил съм
бъдеще време	ще работя	щял съм да работя
минало неопределено време	работил съм	бил съм работил
минало несвършено време	работех	работел съм
минало предварително време	бях работил	бил съм работил
бъдеще предварително време	ще съм работил	щял съм да съм работил
бъдеще време в миналото	щях да работя	щял съм да работя
бъдеще предварително време в миналото	щях да съм работил	щял съм да съм работил

Humorous topics

• How to lose weight without losing your mind.
• How to get rid of an unpleasant roommate (without committing a crime).
• In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.
• Work expands to fill the time available.
• Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
• When life throws you lemons, make lemonade.
• When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane.
• The things I’ve learnt at school: How to whisper/ How to text without looking/ How to look as if I am paying attention.
• When someone in class reminds the teacher about homework.
• If there’s one thing school’s taught me, it’s never to touch the underside of a desk.
• Punishment: Getting your seat changed for talking too much. Solution: …
• When my substitute teacher is meaner than your regular teacher.
• Trying to stay awake at school is one of the hardest things on earth.
• The awkward moment when you are the only one who did homework.
• Dear Teacher, I talk to everyone, so moving my seat won’t help.
• That feeling of awesomeness when you prove your teacher wrong.
• In boring classes, I improve my art skills.
• When your teacher says “Get out”, it means you won the argument.
• Switching names with your best friend when there’s a substitute teacher.
• That moment in class when you just want to scream “No one cares!”
• Mondays should be banned.
• Life should come with background music.
• Before Facebook, I had a life.
• All drivers were once pedestrians.
• When you get older, you will regret not taking all those naps as a child.
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• Vegetables have feelings – stop carrot cruelty.
• How to survive a hippopotamus attack like a pro.
• The importance of wearing pajamas all day, every day.
• How to deny reality?
• Things to do in a traffic jam.
• My most profitable mistake.
• The ugliest fashions of today.
• Common sense is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone’s garden.
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• The art of being annoying.
• How to save paper towels?
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• Relationship between GPS users and flat-earthers is complex.
• How to be lazy like a pro?
• Why does everyone need a favorite kind of problem?
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• Behind every man, there is a woman rolling her eyes.
• True friendships survive auto-correction mistakes.
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• Why do hiccups occur and how to stop them?
• In order to understand what life is all about, you should hang out with a 3-year-old.
• You are not weird; you are just a limited edition.
• Having a third arm is better than a third leg.
• How to confuse a telemarketer?
• Totally useless professions.
• Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.
• Why I don’t want to be a millionaire.
• How to win an argument when you know that you are wrong?
• Useless things everyone has in their house.
• Being lazy enhances your productivity.
• The worst advice you have given to a friend.
• The best part about taking a selfie.
• If you were a farm animal, who would you be?
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• What would be the absolute worst name that you could give your child?
• What is something that hasn’t happened yet, but would certainly break the internet?
• What is the silliest way that you’ve been injured?
• What old person tendencies do you have?
• What was your worst fashion disaster?
• If you could start a secret society what would it be called?
• If the color blue had a smell, what would it smell like?
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• Sum up the internet in one sentence.
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• If peanut butter wasn’t called peanut butter, what would it be called?
• The worst “buy one, get one free” sale of all time.
• If you could be a colour, what colour would you be?
• How would you get to the centre of the Earth?

• England and the USA are two countries divided by a common language.
• A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die in his care.
• Those who can – do, those who can’t – teach.
• The trouble with her is that she has the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
• I am hungry, therefore I am.
• I am not messy, I am organisationally challenged.
• Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
• You can lead a man up to university, but you can’t make him think.
• The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go worng goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
• I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
• I am giving you the right answers – you are asking the wrong questions.
• I hate television when it writes stuff at you.
• Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said: Cigarettes contain fat.
• Men – because of a tragic genetic flaw – cannot see dirt until there is enough of it to support agriculture.
• The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
• It’s money – I remember it from when I was single.
• I don’t know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
• Men are born ignorant, not stupid – they are made stupid by education.
• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
• He was so learned that he could name a horse in five languages and so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
• Never confuse motion with action.
• My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
• Certainly I am innocent, Edith, but of what?
• Listen, Edith, I know you are singing, you know you are singing, but the neighbours may think I am torturing you.
• Aquaintance – someone you know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
• Bore – a person who talks when you want him to listen.
• Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
• I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
• The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
• Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
• If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner’s silence.
• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
• It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
• When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course.
• Success is getting what you want, happiness is liking what you get.