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Accentology
Добавлен 21 ноя 2022
We are trilingual speech and language therapists with a previous background of teaching English. Over the years we have often been asked by non-native speakers of English how to improve their accent and sound 'more British'. We have since been working with people keen to improve their pronunciation in English as well as their general communication skills.
Видео
Presenting clearly when you have an accent
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Here are a few communication tips to ensure clarity of speech when speaking in public or presenting if you're worried about your non-native accent! Links to previous videos on stress-timed vs syllable-timed languages: ruclips.net/video/7XIHFhjPQjE/видео.htmlsi=N9luaN6YehelMtHi ruclips.net/video/rESNy6IPv1k/видео.htmlsi=55ZabO2nsj1QFJag
LAY or LIE? Do YOU know the difference?
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Knowing when to use 'lay' and 'lie' can be tricky even for native English speakers. Test your knowledge and take the test at the end!
3 tips for better voice quality when presenting
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Voice therapists Sophie and Nathalie Cooper give advice for optimising your voice quality when your nerves get the better of you during presentations.
West Side Story: consonant clusters!
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Tips for how to simplify a mouthful of consonants in English!
Which word should I stress?!
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Speech therapists and communication coaches Sophie and Nathalie Cooper share a few tips on what words to stress in a sentence in English! Full tongue-twister from video: Betty Botter bought some butter, 'But,' she said, 'This butter's bitter! If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter! (Sentence accidentally omitted from video:) But a bit of better butter will make my batter better...
Long and Short vowels: Offal or awful?!
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This is a video about the difference between long and short vowels in English and how important it is to differentiate between the two in order to avoid misunderstandings. Long and short vowels also play a significant part in giving English its distinctive rhythm.
How to fix a sore tongue...
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Speech and Language Therapists Nathalie (left) and Sophie (right) give tips on speech and communication...
Linking: one of the secrets to better flow
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Linking: one of the secrets to better flow
BLACKbird or black BIRD?
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In this video we talk about the difference between compound nouns and descriptive phrases.
From Queen's English to MLE
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In this video we talk about some of the changes that have occurred and are currently occurring in Southern British English over the past few decades.
SHIFTING stress!
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Stress is not ALWAYS static in English… sometimes it changes!! Most native English speakers may not even be aware that they do this. Here we look at a couple of common examples.
Contractions in spoken English
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Contractions are used all the time in English speech and generally make speech sound much more fluent. It is one of the things that gives it flow! Some non-native English speakers may worry that the use of contractions will make their speech sound too colloquial in professional situations, but the truth is these are used in all settings - formal and informal - even though we would not usually f...
Keep your hair on!
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This is a very commonly used English idiom you may come across! Here's a bit of background information in case you are not familiar with it.
Where do we put the stress on roads and streets?
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Where do we put the stress on roads and streets?
The difference between 'bit' and 'beat' - do they sound the same??
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The difference between 'bit' and 'beat' - do they sound the same??
Commonly mispronounced words (with dropped syllables)
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Commonly mispronounced words (with dropped syllables)
Is English stress-timed or syllable-timed?
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Is English stress-timed or syllable-timed?
Connected speech - how some word-final stops can seem to disappear
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Connected speech - how some word-final stops can seem to disappear
Why work on improving your pronunciation/ accent?
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Why work on improving your pronunciation/ accent?
To say or not to say? The R sound in English (rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents)
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To say or not to say? The R sound in English (rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents)
My French partner always loves saying Beach...yep then laughs....
In the USA the word "process" isn't pronounced pro-cess.
@@johnd1216 indeed!
@@accentology Yes, it's more like proc-ess.
Great explanation and examples. You are both lovely in your own special ways. Wishing you both good luck and health.
@@grump9001 what a lovely thing to say! Thank you! And we’re glad you enjoyed the video! 😊
Fun video, but... How can you learn English pronunciation from a person where the word Doe, as in female deer, and door have no audible distinction...? Also McCartney has a very distinct "R" in there.
Yes, well English isn’t easy for that reason! Also there are so many different regional accents - in our accent you don’t pronounce the ‘r’ in McCartney, but most Americans and Irish people, and some accents in England would! 😅 In our accent the female deer, a doe, is pronounced differently than ‘door’, but in more Northern accents it’ll sound the same!
You're suggesting then that all teachers of the English language must be those that speak with the Queen's English accent?
@@theTerriberg not at all - I was making the opposite point! It’s not only confusing because of non-matching spelling and pronunciation, but there are so many different accents in the UK! Obviously when we teach English we base it on our southern accent but that doesn’t mean it’s the one correct accent!
thank you for your service can you tell me you both are friend or sisters
@@ShahidHaider-g1p we are sisters! And even more than that - we’re twins! 😊
@@accentology ok thank you please do the noble job regards
Gott sei Dank!
"Thank the Gods!" is the only correct way.
@@twitch1965 interesting! Haven’t heard it before !
Thank gods... just in case thy are more than one?
@@claravanser7989 very good point! 😊
May I ask from where you hail? I can't place your accents!
@@brianw289 haha well we were born in London but were brought up bilingual (french with our mum and English with our dad) but also lived in Russia for a number of years!! So a bit of a hodge-podge!!
@@accentology Ah, interesting! Well, you're both delightful and your content is very enjoyable. All best wishes.
@@brianw289 thank you for the lovely comment! 😊
Are you twins ?
@@holtaf6026 yes! well spotted! 😊
This is such a brilliant channel - it's criminal that it has so few subscribers. Well done Sophie and Natalie - I love your content.
@@brianw289 Thank you so much!!! It’s so nice to hear this, and I’m glad you enjoy the channel! 😊
Simple, clear, and bright! Thanks a lot!
I’m glad it helped! :)
Are you relative each other, Because you look like twins 👯♀️.
Yes we’re twins! 😂
This is so funny, I thought the video was going to be about trannies. Heh.
This was lovely, thank you.
Enjoyed the video, good tips. The yawn-sigh is a great relaxer I've used, but I hadn't come across the specifically downward lip trills before, I'll have to try that out.
Lovely video, and very helpful
@@t111ran3 I’m glad it was helpful! Thank you :)
Thanks for the positive comments David! I think being singers and voice therapists with experience of speaking / singing in public we’ve figured out helpful advice, whilst trying to keep it simple and not get too technical! 😆 and YES, we are indeed twins!
Great Advice! 👏Thanks for pointing out the physical things you should do in order to get relaxed. Often time I get advice that is too abstract like "think about positive things" or "imagine everyone in their underwear" but these tips are simple and straight to the point. Keep Going! btw are you guys twins? you look so cute together.
English is my 2nd language, I love watching your videos! Dankeschön!
Great job!
Given, that unlike me, you were not born in the time you CLAIM these changes happened, what is your point?
This is a myth-there are no actual long and short vowels in English. Take these two words from Cambridge and Merriam-Webster: leaf and live. If you actually measure the length of the vowel sounds, you'd find the vowel in live is longer than the one in leaf. You can also do that with a British dictionary and you'll get the same result So technically, what's supposed to be shorter ends up being longer!
Actually this is because there is a voiceless consonant after the ‘ee’ in leaf, which shortens the vowel! You’ll hear therefore that the ‘ee’ in LEAVE sounds longer than in ‘LEAF’. So you need to factor in whether the consonant after the vowel is voiced or voiceless!
Home/həum/ Come/kuhm/ write and right?😅
Wonderfull
Stress makes me feel stress. Thanks for the clarification.
You guys are amazing 🥰. We love you! Te amamos! Gracias 🙏🏻. I’m literally watching all of your videos!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@Ggg496 thanks so much!
Thank you
Thank you❤
Boston accent is non-rhotic.
Thank you so much 🥹🫶🏻
Gosh, you both are beautiful! Difficult to concentrate on learning pronounciation!
Thanks a lot for the information . This means that there is no harmony between sound n spelling in English . Arabic is a phonetic language .
Firstly, fantastic presentation. Secondly, I thought this video was about flow states. Finally, at first I thought there might only be one of you and the microphone was cleverly used as the split for editing two takes of "you" in different outfits.
Many thanks for the comment! Haha, that would indeed have been an interesting way to edit the video! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
Great work. Thanks a lot
This was a perfect explanation
Very informative. Didn't know about the intrusive R. Thank you.
Listen to any story narrators on RUclips. They all do it, i never understood why until now
@@GankTown, I guess it's not common in your regional accent? May I ask which that is? I have occasionally noticed myself using it (Australian English) and have wondered if it's "normal." Now I know it has a name, thanks @accentology
You two look alike, are you twins
Yes !
Indeed, I really enjoyed that video.
I've just discovered your channel today and enjoy it massively. I have to say that you don't seem that comfortable with MLE though lol.
I like the video . Do you know if Spanish is a time stressed or syllable stressed language? I’ve studied Spanish in various courses, and many, like Michel Thomas, really emphasize the stress being elongated. However, I saw a clip in Spanish that said that the syllable length doesn’t get longer but just gets louder which surprised me. You might know
Hi and thanks for the question- Spanish is syllable -timed. I have heard Michel Thomas’s Spanish and to me it has always sounded a little more stress-timed than what Spanish normally is (sounding kore Italian, which is ALSO in theory syllable-timed but has more of a sing-song quality with syllables that do sound longer at times!!) Confusing eh!!
@@accentology yes the Michelle Thomas pronunciation is incredibly elongated on the stress syllable. I tried saying the stressed syllable in Spanish words at the same length as the other syllables, but just louder and it just comes across as me shouting lol
The non-rhotic accent is so difficult to understand. Did he say "She went to party" or "She went to potty"? And the list of confusing words goes on and on.
Haha well it’s all in the length of the preceding vowel! That’s the secret! If it sounds long (paaaaaah-ty) then the likelihood is that it’s the word with the ‘r’ (party), whereas if it’s short it’ll be ‘potty’ - also, in British English the vowel is different in both words, whereas in US English it’s the same (but the ‘r’ is audible to make the distinction)
Amazing video ..short and concise and very clear .. thanks for sharing your knowledge
Laura Norder, drawring, Indiar, Chinar, Americar, Russiar ...
very interesanting
You're scarily close to each other
Scarily close, how ridiculous. Maybe they are close but why is it scary, are you autistic (if you are, then like I am, I could understand discomfort with someone entering your personal space, but if not you have no excuse; besides they look like twins and twins are always very "close".
Anyone been to the Gloucestershire villages or South Bristol or Somerset and Devon recently?
So I have an Essex accent and I've just learnt that I don't use any rhotic Rs at all, even with vowels involved - feels more natural to me to just put a very slight pause in between the two sounds (for example "her aunt"), though that does feel a little stilted when I focus on it! Never even noticed I do that 😅
That’s really great. Thanks for posting!
Thanks so much on that! After living in Ireland (as a non-native speaker) I was so used to using the rhotic R. However, during my postgraduate in the UK I was feeling rather uncomfortable for using it 😂.