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I have been following this channel for a while. Thank you for sharing these classes with us. I want to do an MA degree in ELT or TESOL. Could you suggest a few universities in London? My budget is around 12k to 17k pound. It can be any midrange university.

i worked as a UK bond trader in tokyo and the japanese staff there asked me to help them deal with a london trader who had a strong essex/cockney accent as they honestly couldnt understand him so i had to get on the phone line to "translate" from cockney english into my SSB/RP so they could understand. i admit i had to strain to understand him at times too and only caught some of his utterances because i grew up in greater london myself, so for a non-native speaker of english from japan it would have been impossible. he knew the problem and i often wondered why he couldnt just tone down his accent for the few seconds it took to give the tokyo sales desk a price. i dont know if he was passive-aggressive or if speakers with non-RP accents find it extremely hard to speak RP to be better understood by foreigners.

Hi! thanks for your post! Currently I use the book English Intonation by Prof J Wells. Best regards from Brazil.

I truly thank you for this! I have been lucky enough to have email correspondence with him, but I have never met him in person. I can now feel more than ever that his energy and humour are rather contageous. He was the sort of teacher I wish I had had. RIP.

Waw...

His Geordie accent sounds more like an Indian accent.

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i was once confused by a train conductor with a yorkshire accent who talked about a "dairy turn". it turned out he was trying to say "day return"

Great going sir

May Allah grant you a very long life and help do more and more better jobs for the betterment of English pronunciations lovers.

Prof. John Wells, vibration of my heart.

He gives Walter White vibes

wish I could've made it, was only 6 at the time tho

Amazing!

Doing God's work lads, keep it up!

I have no idea why there are so few comments under videos like this. The channel is definitely most underrated!😮❤

Thank youu!!

thank you for this

our bald savior 🙏

There's a problem with the sound

Great videos professor

Looking forward to the second part of the lecture!

Thanks a million

Fantastic

Thank you 👍

His British English is exaggerated, like he's living in the past and uses the RP from 50 years ago that was mostly spoken by "royalty".

/ˈdænjəl ˈdʒəʊnz ɪz maɪ ˈfeɪvərɪt ˈbrɪtɪʃ fəʊnɪˈtɪʃn. aɪ ˈɔːlsəʊ ˈlʌv ˈeɪ siː ˈgɪmsn. ðeɪə ˈɔːlweɪz ɪn maɪ ˈhɑːt./

Sound needs to be clear ma'am

Nice explanation, thank you!

Dear John. I would like to enter the faculty of phonology and phonetics at UCL. I don’t have any linguistics background but I have studied how to teach pronunciation in Oxfordtefl short course. I am now an accent coach but feel like I have developed an endless love towards phonetics. What can I do to become a student of UCL?

These videos are goldmines of instruction in phonetics; however, it is a pity that better quality sound could not be captured in most lectures.

This terrifically eye-opening body of work by Wells has aided in re-thinking the entire phonological landscape. Masterful contributions!

I would love for the chance to show someone like this my auxiliary writing system for English. I am designing it for optimized graphic & semantic utility

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marvelous!

Dear Professor Wells, my old accusatory comment has been inadvertently deleted now but I mistakenly thought I heard you say "pronounciation" "rather than the standard pronunciation". I was wrong in that and apologised in my reply to you but when i deleted the original offending comment i inadvertently deleted the whole thread, as per some unintuitive idiosyncratic youtube protocol. I didnt want you to think you stood falsely accused and hadnt received an apology so I write again here. best regards, Chris B.

DIZZY RASCAL FOR PRIME MINISTER!

I am interest to learn this mostly.

'Thank you /so much!

It is so so interesting what Professor Wells is saying.I´ve been taught that there was only 1 English Language, but I´ve been shown that it is not the reality all of a sudden. I simply love it. Thank you for uploading this material.

Excellent lecture sir

Waw... Admirable accent. Loved to listen

"Guilty" comes from "guilt" so doesn't the first syllable end in the cluster "lt"? So the second syllable has just a nucleus?

amazing!!!!!! there r even subtitles!!! Thank you soooo much!

Very nice lecture but terrible recording unfortunately

very good teacher. marvelous.