How to Pronounce: What Do You Recommend on the Menu?

Hello! I’m John Russell.
You are in a restaurant and have no idea what kind of food to get. How can you ask for help?
There is one useful verb you need to know. You can use it to ask about food in a restaurant; you can also use it to ask about activities and places to go. What is this verb?
Our verb is “recommend.”
This verb involves three vowel sounds, but two of them are the same.
Listen and repeat after me:
Let’s do the word only with the vowel sounds:
Now let’s add the consonant sounds
Now that we have mastered the sounds of the word, let’s try to use it in a sentence. We started this lesson with a situation in a restaurant. How might you ask for help?
You might ask this:
What do you recommend?
Or you might ask this:
What do you recommend on the menu?
Listen and repeat after me:
What do you recommend?
What do you recommend on the menu?
Our lesson today explored the verb “recommend.” But you should know that there is a related noun form. It is “recommendation.”
For “recommendation,” we place a little more stress toward the end of the word, like this:
Recommendation
That’s all for today! Keep up the good work!
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