Learning English from scratch, as I have done for the last three decades here in the US, is a monumental task; this particularly because phonetically the English is a complex language, not easy to learn. But this video helps a lot.
Every second I spend watching your videos I learn more and more. Thank you Greg for all the time you spend in making us truly learn this beautiful and useful language.
For my part,, I like to make an effort to pronounce all the letters : it's a good practise. In French for instance, I like saying "parc de saint-Cloud" and not "parque de saint-Cloud"! And I like saying (still in French) "Natacha n'attacha pas son chat, c'est ce qui fâcha Sacha"!!! 230917
Having heard English a lot, it sounds naturally to my ear, but I have to say, if we'd done this in an English lesson at school, we'd get beaten. So I've actually practised and struggled to get these right, and now you're telling me I don't have to?! Makes my life so much easier. Thank you!
It’d be worth pointing out that this is region specific. It isn’t the general rule for English or British English. In fact, I clicked on this video because I’d never thought of this rule as being part of the English at all. I work with people from through the UK so I’ll be listening more closely to see if I can hear anyone using these contractions.
Sorry to say, when a native English speaker hears those sounds dropped, it is obvious the person is not a native speaker or simply speaking lazily Do NOT drop the letters I. Question - they are NOT silent in English
Your lessons are excellent and very useful, but I don’t agree with this last one : to get rid of a consonant is to spoil the language and make it even more like chewing gum ! I am French and speak also German and Russian. In Russian you have some terrific combinations of consonants which are just delightful to pronounce. For example, учреждение (utch-rej-de-nie) or чрезвычайно (tchrez-vy-tchay-no). Wow, I love it ! In Serbo-Croatian, there are words with no vowels at all like “prst” (the finger), “mrkv” (the carrot) “krv” (the blood). Amazing ! Best regards, Josyane
I have to congratulate you on your excellent pronunciation videos. Your unique way of explaining, demonstrating and practising phonology is fun and very effective. You are an excellent teacher and I share your videos with my own students. Who am I? I’m a retired English teacher with 50 years of experience in teaching ESOL, particular skills English Phonetics and Phonology, I had to learn myself as I’m from Brazil but have lived and worked in England for over 40 years, course married an English man; didn’t come here for the weather 🥴 When I worked for the local college, I also trained future English teachers like you, my background is Linguistics with major languages Portuguese and English. I hope you don’t mind me sharing this with you. So, again, thank you for your dedication and excellent lessons 🙏🫶
Yes,indeed. Spoken English I agree with you but when it comes to standard written English you must write the conjunction " and " correctly. Mostly people , spoken English are good but when " spelling of word " is involve ...failure is the result!!!
You taught me new words and techniques every video I watch from you, many thanks I think the word SANDCASTLE has two dropped letters T and D, I am not so good in English but I try to learn thank you Greg
I just simply love this! A flow off mind blowing examples, why I still can do my proper english and with a sim tiny effort I'm alle to catch a real dialect 🤩 Thanks!
Do you find it easier to pronounce words and phrases using this technique? Let me know below ⬇️ Then watch my other videos on Connected Speech: ruclips.net/video/ky9dQC9-0vc/видео.html
Ιmpressive lesson! It cleared up a lot of things that were weird to me. I had never noticed the different pronunciation between "I can" and "I can'(t)" . Thank you so much!
Hey there, Greg. This is the first time I´m in touch with one of your videos and I´ve gotten extremely astonished. It´s EXCELLENT. I got suscribed immediately. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
I didn't know (didn know 🙂)these rules, but I like it. Recently I read an article 'Physicists found a fifth force". Really a tongue twister for me as a German.
You have to try for years, my native tongue is Spanish so know it by experience: If you give up you then will never learn it. Lots of patience when it comes to English as a second language.
Hello. I love your videos. I am from Venezuela. I get your point. But I ask: Is a problem to English teachers when students speak deleting this letters t and d ? I am Spanish native speaker and in Spanish language we do this too. But some writers and teachers think we are damaging the language. They say we must speak correctly. What do you think about it?
Just because someone is English (from England) it doesn't mean we have to speak like Americans' by dropping the T's and D's. There's a very good honest reason why we pronounce the T's and D's... So when speaking (like on the phone or radio) people can clearly understand what is said and don't misunderstand each other! Like with the sum of 10+10=20, -> 20 is spelt twenty and bot t's are pronounced, not dropping the 2nd T like Tweny, what does someone have brain damage or really drunk?
Excelent as always Greg! In the case of words in the past form that ends with the T sound, don't you pronounce them either? For example in the phrase " He passed the book to me".
Correct. It's important to join the words together though. I mean, if you say " He pass.... err... the book to me", it would sound like you haven't used the past tense. However, if you say "He passthebook to me" it would sound quick and natural (and feel easier).
Thanks a lot Greg sir for teaching English language on line;it is very interesting to me. I am an Indian and have a poor English but want to improve my knowledge specifically in grammar in easy way so kindly help me .I am Badri Prasad Yadav vill.Ranipur p. o.Belarampur Distt. Pratapgarh, U.P. India.Thank you once again.
Thanks for the video, very helpful! I was wondering, do you also remove the /t sound when you say for example “I asked him”? It’s difficult to say it quickly
I "dunno" if you know anything about my language, Czech - we have quite a lot of words consisting only of consonants - and here's a tongue twister for you: STRČ PRST SKRZ KRK (meaning Put you a finger through a throat - yes, we might be a weird nation 😊 )
"Makes life easier for you." No. 1) it makes me think that all English speakers are very lazy and 2) they want to complicate things to confuse us for unknown reason. I see no difficulty in pronunciation of all sounds as is, no problem, really.
You are a awesome teacher!
Nobody has taught me these incredible points.
You are a star, just five stars!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
And I love your British English tone, Greg. Just because it sounds clearer and warmer than American English.
Take into account that he is here speaking slowly: British English can be really fast-paced compared to American English.
Learning English from scratch, as I have done for the last three decades here in the US, is a monumental task; this particularly because phonetically the English is a complex language, not easy to learn. But this video helps a lot.
You teach in so amazingly and enthusiastically that hardly anyone would escape your video lecture.
Very useful and inspiring lesson
I don't know why people watch less of your video comparing to others, but I found that you are the best tutor of English.
Good luck Greg😍
Every second I spend watching your videos I learn more and more. Thank you Greg for all the time you spend in making us truly learn this beautiful and useful language.
For my part,, I like to make an effort to pronounce all the letters : it's a good practise. In French for instance, I like saying "parc de saint-Cloud" and not "parque de saint-Cloud"! And I like saying (still in French) "Natacha n'attacha pas son chat, c'est ce qui fâcha Sacha"!!!
230917
j'y arrive pas 😂 😂
Having heard English a lot, it sounds naturally to my ear, but I have to say, if we'd done this in an English lesson at school, we'd get beaten. So I've actually practised and struggled to get these right, and now you're telling me I don't have to?! Makes my life so much easier. Thank you!
It’d be worth pointing out that this is region specific. It isn’t the general rule for English or British English. In fact, I clicked on this video because I’d never thought of this rule as being part of the English at all. I work with people from through the UK so I’ll be listening more closely to see if I can hear anyone using these contractions.
Thanks for the lessons Greg. They're very useful. Learning English with you is a pleasure.
yes,it becomes easily, and I feel happier.
Very good lesson. You explain why and where the missing sounds go! Grazie!
Sorry to say, when a native English speaker hears those sounds dropped, it is obvious the person is not a native speaker or simply speaking lazily
Do NOT drop the letters I. Question - they are NOT silent in English
Your lessons are excellent and very useful, but I don’t agree with this last one : to get rid of a consonant is to spoil the language and make it even more like chewing gum ! I am French and speak also German and Russian. In Russian you have some terrific combinations of consonants which are just delightful to pronounce. For example, учреждение (utch-rej-de-nie) or чрезвычайно (tchrez-vy-tchay-no). Wow, I love it ! In Serbo-Croatian, there are words with no vowels at all like “prst” (the finger), “mrkv” (the carrot) “krv” (the blood). Amazing ! Best regards, Josyane
I have to congratulate you on your excellent pronunciation videos. Your unique way of explaining, demonstrating and practising phonology is fun and very effective. You are an excellent teacher and I share your videos with my own students. Who am I? I’m a retired English teacher with 50 years of experience in teaching ESOL, particular skills English Phonetics and Phonology, I had to learn myself as I’m from Brazil but have lived and worked in England for over 40 years, course married an English man; didn’t come here for the weather 🥴 When I worked for the local college, I also trained future English teachers like you, my background is Linguistics with major languages Portuguese and English. I hope you don’t mind me sharing this with you. So, again, thank you for your dedication and excellent lessons 🙏🫶
Ur class is unbelievable❤❤❤❤
Yes,indeed.
Spoken English I agree with you but when it comes to standard written English you must write the conjunction " and " correctly.
Mostly people , spoken English are good but when " spelling of word " is involve ...failure is the result!!!
Dear Greg, thank you very much for your book “English Quick Fix”. I am very grateful to you for your lessons and for the book. Good luck to you.
You taught me new words and techniques every video I watch from you, many thanks
I think the word SANDCASTLE has two dropped letters T and D, I am not so good in English but I try to learn
thank you Greg
Muchas gracias from Brazil! 😊
what easier ,what nice,what friendly
Thanks
Much easier. Love It..thanks
Wow! It’s so much easier.
Thank you for this useful video, Greg
Great Lesson !! Thank You !!
It was such a brilliant lesson indeed Mr. Greg. Thanks a lot . Salah
I just simply love this! A flow off mind blowing examples, why I still can do my proper english and with a sim tiny effort I'm alle to catch a real dialect 🤩 Thanks!
Thanks for this episode.
Thank you.
Thank you greg❤❤❤
Excellent Thank you
Do you find it easier to pronounce words and phrases using this technique? Let me know below ⬇️
Then watch my other videos on Connected Speech: ruclips.net/video/ky9dQC9-0vc/видео.html
Nice lesson and interesting as well
Ιmpressive lesson! It cleared up a lot of things that were weird to me. I had never noticed the different pronunciation between "I can" and "I can'(t)" . Thank you so much!
Hey Greg,could you do video on how to pronounce past simple verbs?
thank you very much!!!
We love you Greg
Nice
Thanks Greg... this is really useful
Great video. How about writing a little dialog in wich all these examples get used? 😉
It's much easier without t or a d. I loved this lesson
THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR, YOU MADE MY LIFE EASIER THAN EVER
brillian- lesson
Really good.
Makes me lose the hard sound I sometimes have.
Thank you your videos really helps me to improve my English speaking
Excellent with easy and complete explanations...
Brilliant.. Thank you Greg🤗
Where r u from darling
I'm so thankful for all your efforts
Hey there, Greg. This is the first time I´m in touch with one of your videos and I´ve gotten extremely astonished. It´s EXCELLENT. I got suscribed immediately. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Thank you for your pronunciation tips!
Always, you are creative .
I didn't know (didn know 🙂)these rules, but I like it.
Recently I read an article 'Physicists found a fifth force". Really a tongue twister for me as a German.
You have to try for years, my native tongue is Spanish so know it by experience: If you give up you then will never learn it. Lots of patience when it comes to English as a second language.
Hello. I love your videos. I am from Venezuela. I get your point. But I ask: Is a problem to English teachers when students speak deleting this letters t and d ?
I am Spanish native speaker and in Spanish language we do this too. But some writers and teachers think we are damaging the language. They say we must speak correctly.
What do you think about it?
Good good, I'm here in Brazil and this lesson is so great, thanks a lot!
love from Bangladesh
Just because someone is English (from England) it doesn't mean we have to speak like Americans' by dropping the T's and D's.
There's a very good honest reason why we pronounce the T's and D's...
So when speaking (like on the phone or radio) people can clearly understand what is said and don't misunderstand each other! Like with the sum of 10+10=20, -> 20 is spelt twenty and bot t's are pronounced, not dropping the 2nd T like Tweny, what does someone have brain damage or really drunk?
Thanks very much.
I found it easier.
What's the pronunciation difference between SAN'CASTLE and SUNCASTLE? Thank you Greg!
Much easier, Greg ! Excellent lesson !
Excelent as always Greg! In the case of words in the past form that ends with the T sound, don't you pronounce them either? For example in the phrase " He passed the book to me".
Correct. It's important to join the words together though. I mean, if you say " He pass.... err... the book to me", it would sound like you haven't used the past tense. However, if you say "He passthebook to me" it would sound quick and natural (and feel easier).
Thank you so much!
Hope there will be more variety of videos about English pronunciation. Thanks
Sure it does
In 'Sandcastle' you have even two examples! 'd' and 't', right?
Hi Greg your technique really works all the time.. Thank you very much for that..
you are amazing wow
Thanks a lot Greg sir for teaching English language on line;it is very interesting to me. I am an Indian and have a poor English but want to improve my knowledge specifically in grammar in easy way so kindly help me .I am Badri Prasad Yadav vill.Ranipur p. o.Belarampur Distt. Pratapgarh, U.P. India.Thank you once again.
I found it easy with out a t
Thank you Greg
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Thanks 👍 teacher
Yeah it worls thanks
Perfect! Thank you, Greg!
Thanks Greg ..love it
Thanks Greg. Great video.
Thanks, Greg. Really a good one this lesson!
Brilliant Greg...!
Brilliant
Yeah, it works
Great! At last I got what is San-Francisco!😋
Make life easy 👌.
Thanks for these tips! 🤗
Where r u from darling
Brillant Greg
Thanks for the video, very helpful! I was wondering, do you also remove the /t sound when you say for example “I asked him”? It’s difficult to say it quickly
I always just said “I ass’ him” but I’m American so that’s probably just me
Hi Greg,
I am doing 20 years English, but I didn't know.
What about Wednesday??
Wenzday
haha! It works! Like in Guns'n'Roses
Great, that's easier but I need to practice. "Can't" without the t will be a tough one 😅😅😅
In American English, I think T sound is used in Can't as a sharp tongue movement that most British English speakers don't use
Best
5:32 Guns an' Roses
Never pronounciate T sound!
Poeo, omeo, eeth,
Please teach me British accent
Wawww
Wowww,,, you have blue eyes 😧BTW thank you for the lesson 💜
Bandana darling you like blue eyes where are you from I like you
Where are you sweetie
I'm from India nd uuu?
@@bandana8361 nice to meet you darling I'm Greek
How old are you ?what's yr good name
@@English-ug2cs Nice to meet you too!!!
I'm an Aussie and I pronounce all the written consonants there. I don't elide.
I "dunno" if you know anything about my language, Czech - we have quite a lot of words consisting only of consonants - and here's a tongue twister for you: STRČ PRST SKRZ KRK (meaning Put you a finger through a throat - yes, we might be a weird nation 😊 )
It's a bit unusual for to omit the letters in such cases
(2:55) What if someone says, "Ahl see ya inna nex lesson?"
I'm just realizing that I've always said it intuitively that way. And I'm not a native speaker.
The "can't" is very confusing
Don't ☆ Can't
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"Makes life easier for you."
No. 1) it makes me think that all English speakers are very lazy and 2) they want to complicate things to confuse us for unknown reason.
I see no difficulty in pronunciation of all sounds as is, no problem, really.
I find it easier to pronounce without 'T"