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What word do you find difficult in English?

Confident Business English

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How to Pronounce Words Starting With E X

When the stress is on the E X and it's followed by a consonant, it sounds like X. If you have E X which is unstressed and then it starts with a vowel, the pronunciation sounds like Iggs. So there's actually quite a few little differences in pronunciation with words starting with E X. And yeah, Q is like the most ridiculous word by the way I'm talking about. You can say the pronunciation just with the letter Q, but obviously we insist on having four more characters. Is it four? Yes, it's four. Your word was thorough. Now, this is a really difficult word, thorough. A lot of people don't know this word

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