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So what.
What grammar shall we practice today, Jack?
I think today we should focus on something called homophones.
And homophone is actually a word that means.
Well, homo means the same, phone means sound.
And so in English, there are a lot of sound.
There are a lot of words that have the same sounds, but they have totally different meanings.
Yeah, I mean, every language has.
Has homophones, of course, but there's some that are just very confusing.
Yeah, I think they're probably confusing for every second language learner.
Whenever you're trying to learn another language, you get confused because you hear a word and you recognize it, but it's different.
And the difficult thing with English is most homophones, you can figure out which word it is in context.
But like in Korean, for example, if there's a homophone, it's spelled the same way.
But in English, the homophones are often spelled differently.
Not always, but often spelled differently.
And so it is a different word.
But because english pronunciation is not friendly, they sound the same even though they're spelled differently.