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Of course...when you learn a certain language ...you must start in alphabet ,syllable formation ,word formation & phonics as well. Likewise , in Spain alphabet it has " ch, rr ll, & with a correct pronunciation into a word formation.. Example: Dallas in Spanish it has to be pronounced ll followed by vowel sound " a" lia.
10 points. Probably one of the most important lessons for anyone learning any language. I am French and I have been learning English for 5 years now - the other way around. I have made exactly the same reflections that you have. In fact, we even have to learn how to pronounce the letters themselves, which are pronounced differently. For example, French language has no plosive letters. Not to mention intonation... ruclips.net/video/DxxAwDHgQhE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/i9hJVDeZ9BU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/jt9xBrCdvU4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/hQPecn3BtO4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/UjiHe1R2cXA/видео.html ruclips.net/video/3kT_NeGRWy4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Mu42JDczI0w/видео.htmlruclips.net/video/Mu42JDczI0w/видео.html HAVE FUN !
What a lovely british accent! Thank you very much for the tips and advice. Before I learn phonetics (IPA), I was mispronouncing the words and trying to exaggerate making the sounds so as to people can understand me, but nowadays I feel a lot more comfortable when I speak because I watched loads of videos on RUclips related to IPA, consonant and vowel sounds, short and long vowel sounds and minimal pairs as well. In my view, learning pronunciation is fun and really useful! It was challenging, I mean, in spanish we have only five vowels. Currently, I practise the sounds three times a week, stress syllables and group new vocabulary by synonyms. And I'm going to group vocabulary by sounds, record myself reading a short story and look for videos related to sentence stress. Many thanks, greetings from Peru.
Jajaja, that was exactly what happened to me last weekend, I was in London visiting my daughter and I asked for a Decaf in a café and they didn't understand me, and now I know why!!
In the example "I've lost the black and white photo" I would have intuitively said that the most important thing or piece of information is the word "lost". Not only because it is the verb, but also because the "loss" is probably the reason why the sentence is even voiced in the first place, and perhaps carries an implicit call for help to find it or wish to hear a comment regarding the unfortunate situation.
One thing I do is recording myself speaking, It was one of my teacher's recommendations, you really see what needs improvement. And the stress is another thing I try to pay attention to
Hi Greg, In the last five years I had the focus on learning vocab and grammar. But not on pronunciation. It's a shame. I didn't do none of this things. Your channel changed my mindset completely. I enrolled to the pronunciation course recently and I'm convinced it'll be the most worth-fully investment for learning English. Speaking English clear and understandable its a wonderful skill. I'll learn chunks, record my own voice, learn phonetics instead of spelling (I think in addition is a good way, spelling is necessary for writing), learn the word stress and the sentence stress as well. All eight points are important. You cannot skip one. But in my opinion the last point is the most important one. Everyone should have a real pronunciation coach.
@@Marco-from-Germany I have been learning English for 20 years but I am still poor at speaking , writing , listening , reading.But, I do not care because it is not the end of the world.I will improve them someday when I go to GB or US. One thing you should know is I am self-educated.
Unfortunately many language teachers don’t really teach the language; they go into the classroom and talk about the language. They teach reading, vocabulary lists, rules and translation. They don’t teach us to actually listen. On the subject of stress, I’d also add that what “stressed” or “accented” syllables are, differs from language to language. English stress often involves syllable length, whereas in Spanish or Greek, it doesn’t. (Think of the people who stress “thirteen” the same way as they do “thirty.”) Also, many learners only learn the pronunciations of words in isolation, and pay no attention to how they change in different environments. (That “listening” issue again…) In US English almost nobody would say “and then” with a clear enunciation of “d” and “th.” We’d mostly say “an’ then” or even “an’ nen.” If I’m reading in some formal situation, I won’t use the last example, but in every day speech? Almost exclusively. So a lot of non-native speakers’ English can actually be fairly clear, but it also sounds stilted. Ajm gō’-ēng tū thē store, vs. “əm goin’ tə thə store.“ Sentence stress also varies widely among languages, and tends to be one of the last things people pick up when they learn a language in the classroom. But interestingly, it’s one of the first things babies learn, before they even learn words, and also learners who learn by ear. Basically _anything_ that will get us to really listen, to others and ourselves, will go along way!
I do all of them and I practise all of them with my students as I am a pronunciation teacher, specialised in Phonology and Phonetics and not a native speaker, well nearly, why I do it? Because I had to learn them myself while I was training to be an English teacher. I do like and appreciate your videos. You are an excellent teacher. I share your videos with my students so I hope they are following your valuable lessons. Thank you indeed 🙌
I learn daily the basics of the English language and the way of thinking, pronunciation and communication, but there is still a long way to go to benefit more and more and benefit more from you
I 've watched your videos pretty long, Greg. So I dare to emphasize that none of your "monologue" I've ever listened has ever gathered more superlatives than this one. Bravo, monsieur, chapeau! I do realize that English pronunciation is also my weak point. And I do some effort for improving it. The only thing I would never do is recording myself and then listening to. I think it is much more effective to listen correct pronunciation, like yours and many other youtubers, instead of my gibberish. Thank you and stay healthy.
Những lời khuyên 1Học phát âm trước 2.Loại bỏ những giọng bạn hãy dùng ở ngôn ngữ của bạn khi học ngoại ngữ 3.học từ vựng cùng với nhóm 4.quên những âm câm 5.Ghi âm giọng của bạn lại 6.quan tâm tới trọng âm của từ vựng rơi vào đâu 7.quan tâm cách phát âm của từ vựng khi ở trong câu 8.có 1 mentor sửa lỗi phát âm cho mình.
The thing that i do currently is to learnd more vocabulay, and the thing that i'm going to start doing is to foccus on phonetic mainly listen more conversation or words in english Thanks My Greg for advices 👍
Great points all of them! Phonetic script is a wonderful tool. But then again we have got a terrible stumblestone in the random attempts to inform native English speakers about the pronunciation of a word - nothing could be more confusing when not using International Phonetic Alphabet. Here's an example: uh-bree-vee-ay-shn, and an other one: əˌbrēvēˈāSH(ə)n - and last, the only stable and correct one in modern usage: əˌbriːviˈeɪʃᵊn (IPA). In my school In Finland we used the whole first semester/term just for IPA before we learned anything written in standard English spelling. Very useful. The points Greg makes become so much more clear. The word in the examples is abbreviation - but you saw it immediately, didn't you? :-D
Wow, I came across your English lessons and I watch them whenever I have time. I might be wrong, but I think the correct pronunciation of words is especially important in monolingual areas (England, France…). In places where people know 2 or more languages it’s easier for them to make an effort to understand foreigners. When talking about learning the new sounds that don’t exist in people’s first language is not that easy (at least for everybody). For instance, I’m a teacher of Catalan and when it comes to teach our two E sounds to monolingual Spanish speakers they don’t even notice the difference because the Spanish E sound is in the middle of our two E sounds, so for them they’re similar. The same happens with our two O sounds and the Spanish O sound. So, if they don’t “train” their ear to at least see the sounds’ differences, it’s impossible they can pronounce them. I don’t know if I made myself understood… 🤪 Finally, when you’re trying to learn these sounds that are difficult because they don’t exist in my language I wonder what’s the “correct” pronunciation… 🤔 I would say you have standard British English, but then I have Irish friends from Cork (a totally different accent), I love singing old-time/bluegrass songs, so again another accent… so when I speak I make a mix… 😅😂 Anyway, thank you for your videos and see you again soon.
In much of the US, people are so used to hearing English through a huge variety of accents; this is especially true in cities. People in cities also tend to be more aware of how to slow things down or enunciate a bit more carefully when someone isn’t getting it. But go into a far-flung rural area with a heavy accent and you’ll definitely get more confused looks, at least to start out with. Still, it’s sometimes amazing how quickly we can learn to understand even very thick accents. I’ve had the corresponding experience as an American learning languages…Vietnamese has a lot of unfamiliar consonant and vowel distinctions, not to mention the tones. Since not many foreigners attempt Vietnamese, Viet people generally are not very used to hearing their language spoken (or mangled?) by non-native speakers. They seem to have a harder time with foreign accents and often will have no patience to try and figure it out. Contrast that with Mexicans (who also are well represented in my neighborhood) - Lots of Americans know some Spanish, even if badly. I can walk into a Mexican shop and speak absolutely crap Spanish, but they’ll still figure it out, and generally have no problem speaking with me even if I’m stammering.
Tell me about it; might be hopeless in the States now and then - some of the Yanks don't accept any variance from normal. Having said that, it's much more of a problem in the major cities, less so in, say, Florida. If you ask me, it's about mindset - their mindset. (Great ppl in Florida, by the way; great mindset.)
It is important for me to pronounce the letters with the correct pronunciation in English. I practice pronunciation with native friends, but I will start recording my voice. Thank you.
I have just watched this video. I am a native Englishman and, while I feel I speak the language well, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and explanations. I have watched many of them now and there are some words that even natives pronounce wrongly. You have covered words like "vegetable" in another video but sometimes words get changed. A particular gripe I have is the omission of two of the five syllables of the word "speciality". Many people say the word "special" and put "ty" on the end. This is interesting as it appears to lose just one syllable provided by the letter 'i' but the word "special" (two syllables) becomes three when the word "speciality" is formed. I would love you to cover this in one of your dynamic videos. Am I wrong? because I confess to always having pronounced "vegetable" with four syllables!
“Speciality” tends to be a more British usage while Americans favor “specialty.” (I don’t think I’ve ever heard an American use the former.) as for “vegetable“ with four syllables, I think I have only ever heard some Indian English speakers use that, as well as people just learning English.
@@sazji Hi Sazji Thank you for replying. I guess you are right. When I think about it, I think all those I have heard saying "specialty" have been American. The other thought I had was that (in my case) when I say "vegetable" with four syllables it is usually said quickly and possibly comes out as only three. If that be the case is there an argument for saying that certain words are not necessarily pronounced incorrectly just said quickly like contractions with apostrophes? such as 'isn't' 'aren't' etc
@@gammock4026 I’m sure that’s how we ended up with “veg-ta-ble;” the spelling reflects the actual pronunciation in French (and pretty much every other Romance language). Our habit of lengthening stressed syllables and shortening the following one likely led to a reduced “e”, (and then a disappeared one), to the point that “veg-ta-ble” is now considered standard pronunciation.
Greg you are brilliant and your English is an example to all. However although I'm now an old 82 hard of hearing French teacher of English, it came to my ear like a memory of my young days as an assistant in Lancaster when I heard you pronounce words such as "but , such, and much".Please don't change a thing and make me feel young again!
I met plenty of people who had no idea of certain word pronunciation in their own language (especially in UK and USA), it's not just non-English speaking people. By the way Scots roll their R better than us Italians ;-)
Actually, i am practicing new sounds, training mouth muscles, phonetics, and stressed syllables. What i will do ?! I will record my pronunciation, it's really good idea. Thank you Greg for this lesson.
I think recording and listening to your talking is one of the most important pieces of advice, I am kind of a procrastinator, so I will beat that first, immediately, and start using my tape recorder. Thank you, Greg!!
I wish I had met you 25 years ago... I am speaking English since I am 12 but I just figured out how to improve my pronunciation properly this year... And now just in one video, you summarize my all inventions, my all tactics😅😅 but it is never late 😅😅 I am following you from now on🎉🎉
I have been studying the IPA phonetics charts for two years. Here in Argentina teachers only allow de british accent as the "valid" to take my exams, so i must study only british phonetics. As a native spanish speaker, the sounds that cost me the most are: the d (because is not dental like in spanish, it is alveolar). The r sound because is very soft, and the "ts and dz" phonemes too. I have been prscticing for years to slip the r sound and still is dificult.
I still had great difficulty with fluency when I found this tip for English pronunciation - if you find and practice the correct position of the tip of your tongue in an English T and an English D, then easily the rest of the pronunciation will follow. It helped me a lot. The consonant system "rolls" around T and D. Neither sound is produced with the tip of your tongue touching the teeth. They are made further back, and so because of that, they are not so clear and distinct as in many other languages, making English "softer" or more "blurry" or how ever you want to describe it. Think like this: as English has sounds produced between the teeth (like the two written like TH; examples are these and thin) and they, too, have to be clearly different from T and D, you make room for T and D further back. Every sound has its own place in the mouth. We do need to sort them out, like gems on a bookshelf. :-D
Today I learn something new... Thank you! Now I use to train my mouth muscles by repeating every word you say in your videos and I will start to record my voice (very clever) and next video I'm going to watch is Basic Phonetics in English Pronunciation :)
Thank you for this great video again. In my experience it helps also to hear as much englisch texts, music and videos as possible. But this helps just to know the right pronunciation but to do it there for I have to talk. Talk for example with colleagues. Your idea with recordings is great and will try it. And the other advices as well. Thank you again. 🙂🙂👍👍
Thank you Grégoire for your explaination, I am French and effectivelly the pronunciation is very important. I try to do my best but it's so hard😢. I don't give up... 😅
hi, Teacher greg. i am a new in your class, but I think that I should practice all that you told in this video. I hope to improve my english pronuntiation. God bless you!
Good evening sir...i have already started doing these techniques in order to improve my English. Recording my voice and the stress words and sometimes i read the text book while i mire myself .
Hey Greg, good to see you. I'm trying to correct myself using feedback from my OLA teacher Ryan. He gives me feedbacks and after that, I work on it trying to avoid the same mistake. Unfortunately for a long period of time, I avoid confronting myself with my mistakes If I have done that before now I'll be a better English speaker. Recently I started to record myself too. I'm not reading something but I chose a topic or a question and then I answer the question or I speak about the topic. This is just for few minutes from 3 to 6 minutes. Then I listen to myself and I can see my mistakes, my intonation, etc. That's helping me a lot and with that, I can see my progress and maybe I becoming more fluently. Thanks for all. See you.
Hi, I hope you are okay. I'm a student, and I wanted to tell you that I really like to watch your English videos, but I don't know why I can't get your book (English quick fix). Would you mind helping me please. And I am so sorry if my English is bad.
Me gustan mucho sus lecciones , son muy claras de entender , pero podría uud poner exactamente esa pronunciación muy escondida y juntada q tiene el inglés?
What a brilliant video... thanks. Isn't it a shame that in most European schools English is taught without including those rules you spoke about.....the emphasis is sole on grammar rules. I think it's acceptable to have an accent though which is different from mispronouncing words.
I figured all this out through my years of teaching here in Ecuador exactly these point you're making and my student are amazed and extremely thankfull. here hair her fear fair fur we're where were , dog or duck God or gut sheep or ship kiss or keys. I really like your vids mr Greg keep it up!!!
I've been studying the IPA during the pandemic and surprisingly it was fun! Then it was a joy to suddenly be able to make sense of those symbols at dictionaries and now I think they're highly profitable. I used to have trouble with exceedingly rhotic sentences, thus, I've chosen to follow mainly British English rules and I now I feel those (once scary) scenarios significantly easier making Rs silent after vowels.
Hi from America - I'd never seen your RUclips posts before today. I'd love it if you'd say to medical personnel that this advice about getting rid of your accent goes TRIPLE for you. I have gotten to where I try to avoid any foreign doctor who has an accent because I've had so much trouble understanding them, to the point where miscommunication was made. They might be the best doctor in the world, but it is so tough on the patients. I can well imagine it being a great detriment if they're trying to get a practice going among English speakers.
Respectable Teacher Mr. Greg! I'd like to make a feedback on the the first and most crucial point of the eight ones that you've demonstrated concisely, yet pretty convincingly. The thing is that all the monolingual teachers of the English Language, both native and foreign, , haven't the "knowledge by acquaintance" which you have possessed in France... You, dear knowledgeable Teacher, are the first one to make a masterpiece of "differential diagnosis" of the most widespread disease among the majority of English Language Learners as a Second Languager - cacology. I hope I won't be considered presumptuous if I say that merely telling the learners the reason behind their illness will not be enough for an adequate degree of recovery; a serious and thorough attempt at making salubrious teaching methods will probably do. Sorry for not being able to express the notion precisely and concisely. Many thanks for your efforts and time.
I can tell you are from North England by your pronunciation of “studied” and “France”. 👍 I had to practice saying the French word “Chartres” many times.
you are not only great, Greg , but also you are a psych analyst when you mentioned recordind our voices. you are really talented and expert. may be your faults in French language pronunciation have made this expertise that you gave us on a plat of gold. Arabs are more towards British accent bcz they have a problem with the R which is fortunately silent at the end of a word in British English. the other problem is b vs. p bear vs. pear we have the b but we don,t have P in Arabic language in fact , you will notice that the majority of people of whatever nationality have a mix of British And American accent
My problem has been so many time, I always try to translate wich words on sentences this is very dificult to speak moment please upload a video explain these problem and solution. thank you Greg
Great vid! Could you do one on the final s sounds, /s/, /z/ and /iz/. The voiced /z/ can be really tricky and hard for non-natives to master. How would you go about practicing the pronunciation of these different s-sounds?
Something is forgotten about, by I would guess 99 of 100 teachers, especially in schools, but also on YT. No matter if it's UK or US English. Where do you use 'z' sound?? I mean, if you pronounce the word 'president' like most of us non native speakers would, we actually say 'precedent'. Advice (noun) - advise (verb), if you learn that the pronunciation is different, it's much easier to remember which is the verb and which is the noun. Etc.
Very helpful video. I have been living in England for more than 40 years and I still can not get my tongue to say the TH sound correctly as in The. I am from Germany and also have problem with the letters V and W.
In my language, _"... and in this lesson I am going to be explaining ..."_ would typically be just _"... and this lesson I will explain ..."_ One of many reasons English will never feel natural to me, on top of the pronunciation.
Would it be correct to stress the word LOST in the sentence: I've LOST the black and white photo. To me the most important thing (word) is that i've lost something.. ?
I'm teaching in Cambodia. So many common and crucial English sounds don't exist in Khmer- th, sh, f, v, for a start. And consonants at the end of the word.. forget it! a word like milk will be mi ... think will ti.. lunch will be 'lun', five sounds like pi... and on and on. Past simple such as 'looked' ,with a consonant then 'ed' - ouch! We spend about a quarter of each lesson on basic pronunciation of sounds in words. And for the 'stress' of sentences - I've taught them that 'English has a rhythm, a rhythm like a song' so they flow more naturally through sentences rather than the staccato of Khmer. At least I've been able to persuade them to take off those dang face masks in class so I can get some idea what their lips/mouths are doing! But we also laugh a lot and talk about things they really love, like music and art. So we're getting more confident to try and that's worth it every day :)
Why did the levels go from C to A, and not A (top level) to C. It's always been that way because you are working your way up ie improving, aiming higher etc. It's like a teacher saying, "That is ok" Instead of "That is excellent " You should be aiming for the excellent.
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There is a word which confused me. It is "turn up for" what does it mean, please?
@@abdiazizibra2998 It means you arrive somewhere for a particular reason. For example "I turn(ed) up for the meeting but it had been cancelled"
Of course...when you learn a certain language ...you must start in alphabet ,syllable formation ,word formation & phonics as well.
Likewise , in Spain alphabet it has " ch, rr ll, & with a correct pronunciation into a word formation..
Example: Dallas in Spanish it has to be pronounced ll followed by vowel sound " a" lia.
10 points. Probably one of the most important lessons for anyone learning any language. I am French and I have been learning English for 5 years now - the other way around. I have made exactly the same reflections that you have.
In fact, we even have to learn how to pronounce the letters themselves, which are pronounced differently. For example, French language has no plosive letters.
Not to mention intonation...
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Excellent! I'd also add intonation to the list: every language got its own "melody", so to sound natural you should get it down too...
What a lovely british accent! Thank you very much for the tips and advice. Before I learn phonetics (IPA), I was mispronouncing the words and trying to exaggerate making the sounds so as to people can understand me, but nowadays I feel a lot more comfortable when I speak because I watched loads of videos on RUclips related to IPA, consonant and vowel sounds, short and long vowel sounds and minimal pairs as well. In my view, learning pronunciation is fun and really useful! It was challenging, I mean, in spanish we have only five vowels. Currently, I practise the sounds three times a week, stress syllables and group new vocabulary by synonyms. And I'm going to group vocabulary by sounds, record myself reading a short story and look for videos related to sentence stress. Many thanks, greetings from Peru.
Jajaja, that was exactly what happened to me last weekend, I was in London visiting my daughter and I asked for a Decaf in a café and they didn't understand me, and now I know why!!
In the example "I've lost the black and white photo" I would have intuitively said that the most important thing or piece of information is the word "lost". Not only because it is the verb, but also because the "loss" is probably the reason why the sentence is even voiced in the first place, and perhaps carries an implicit call for help to find it or wish to hear a comment regarding the unfortunate situation.
Many thanks for your lovely help. I am in love with your classes on line.
Have a brilliant day.
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One thing I do is recording myself speaking, It was one of my teacher's recommendations, you really see what needs improvement. And the stress is another thing I try to pay attention to
Hi Greg,
In the last five years I had the focus on learning vocab and grammar. But not on pronunciation. It's a shame. I didn't do none of this things.
Your channel changed my mindset completely. I enrolled to the pronunciation course recently and I'm convinced it'll be the most worth-fully investment for learning English. Speaking English clear and understandable its a wonderful skill.
I'll learn chunks, record my own voice, learn phonetics instead of spelling (I think in addition is a good way, spelling is necessary for writing), learn the word stress and the sentence stress as well. All eight points are important. You cannot skip one. But in my opinion the last point is the most important one. Everyone should have a real pronunciation coach.
which country are you from?
@@baneensaad1494 Hi. I live in Germany 🇩🇪.
@@Marco-from-Germany I have been learning English for 20 years but I am still poor at speaking , writing , listening , reading.But, I do not care because it is not the end of the world.I will improve them someday when I go to GB or US. One thing you should know is I am self-educated.
Unfortunately many language teachers don’t really teach the language; they go into the classroom and talk about the language. They teach reading, vocabulary lists, rules and translation. They don’t teach us to actually listen.
On the subject of stress, I’d also add that what “stressed” or “accented” syllables are, differs from language to language. English stress often involves syllable length, whereas in Spanish or Greek, it doesn’t. (Think of the people who stress “thirteen” the same way as they do “thirty.”)
Also, many learners only learn the pronunciations of words in isolation, and pay no attention to how they change in different environments. (That “listening” issue again…) In US English almost nobody would say “and then” with a clear enunciation of “d” and “th.” We’d mostly say “an’ then” or even “an’ nen.” If I’m reading in some formal situation, I won’t use the last example, but in every day speech? Almost exclusively. So a lot of non-native speakers’ English can actually be fairly clear, but it also sounds stilted.
Ajm gō’-ēng tū thē store, vs. “əm goin’ tə thə store.“
Sentence stress also varies widely among languages, and tends to be one of the last things people pick up when they learn a language in the classroom. But interestingly, it’s one of the first things babies learn, before they even learn words, and also learners who learn by ear.
Basically _anything_ that will get us to really listen, to others and ourselves, will go along way!
recording my voice was the best method for me..thank you Greg.
Very very useful 8 tips, Greg ... grateful to your efforts
I do all of them and I practise all of them with my students as I am a pronunciation teacher, specialised in Phonology and Phonetics and not a native speaker, well nearly, why I do it? Because I had to learn them myself while I was training to be an English teacher. I do like and appreciate your videos. You are an excellent teacher. I share your videos with my students so I hope they are following your valuable lessons. Thank you indeed 🙌
I learn daily the basics of the English language and the way of thinking, pronunciation and communication, but there is still a long way to go to benefit more and more and benefit more from you
Greg you are GREAT teacher.
I 've watched your videos pretty long, Greg. So I dare to emphasize that none of your "monologue" I've ever listened has ever gathered more superlatives than this one. Bravo, monsieur, chapeau!
I do realize that English pronunciation is also my weak point. And I do some effort for improving it. The only thing I would never do is recording myself and then listening to. I think it is much more effective to listen correct pronunciation, like yours and many other youtubers, instead of my gibberish. Thank you and stay healthy.
Những lời khuyên
1Học phát âm trước
2.Loại bỏ những giọng bạn hãy dùng ở ngôn ngữ của bạn khi học ngoại ngữ
3.học từ vựng cùng với nhóm
4.quên những âm câm
5.Ghi âm giọng của bạn lại
6.quan tâm tới trọng âm của từ vựng rơi vào đâu
7.quan tâm cách phát âm của từ vựng khi ở trong câu
8.có 1 mentor sửa lỗi phát âm cho mình.
Stressing Syllables in a word.... Will continue with this because I am not yet there... Thank you Sir Greg...
You'll get there.😊
The thing that i do currently is to learnd more vocabulay, and the thing that i'm going to start doing is to foccus on phonetic mainly listen more conversation or words in english
Thanks My Greg for advices 👍
Great points all of them! Phonetic script is a wonderful tool. But then again we have got a terrible stumblestone in the random attempts to inform native English speakers about the pronunciation of a word - nothing could be more confusing when not using International Phonetic Alphabet. Here's an example: uh-bree-vee-ay-shn, and an other one: əˌbrēvēˈāSH(ə)n - and last, the only stable and correct one in modern usage: əˌbriːviˈeɪʃᵊn (IPA). In my school In Finland we used the whole first semester/term just for IPA before we learned anything written in standard English spelling. Very useful. The points Greg makes become so much more clear. The word in the examples is abbreviation - but you saw it immediately, didn't you? :-D
Thanks a million Greg.🙏
You are a great teacher.
Thanks for always bridging the gap.
Thank you so much!
I believe you're right so now it's my turn to follow the procedure
Wow, I came across your English lessons and I watch them whenever I have time. I might be wrong, but I think the correct pronunciation of words is especially important in monolingual areas (England, France…). In places where people know 2 or more languages it’s easier for them to make an effort to understand foreigners.
When talking about learning the new sounds that don’t exist in people’s first language is not that easy (at least for everybody). For instance, I’m a teacher of Catalan and when it comes to teach our two E sounds to monolingual Spanish speakers they don’t even notice the difference because the Spanish E sound is in the middle of our two E sounds, so for them they’re similar. The same happens with our two O sounds and the Spanish O sound. So, if they don’t “train” their ear to at least see the sounds’ differences, it’s impossible they can pronounce them. I don’t know if I made myself understood… 🤪
Finally, when you’re trying to learn these sounds that are difficult because they don’t exist in my language I wonder what’s the “correct” pronunciation… 🤔 I would say you have standard British English, but then I have Irish friends from Cork (a totally different accent), I love singing old-time/bluegrass songs, so again another accent… so when I speak I make a mix… 😅😂 Anyway, thank you for your videos and see you again soon.
In much of the US, people are so used to hearing English through a huge variety of accents; this is especially true in cities. People in cities also tend to be more aware of how to slow things down or enunciate a bit more carefully when someone isn’t getting it. But go into a far-flung rural area with a heavy accent and you’ll definitely get more confused looks, at least to start out with. Still, it’s sometimes amazing how quickly we can learn to understand even very thick accents.
I’ve had the corresponding experience as an American learning languages…Vietnamese has a lot of unfamiliar consonant and vowel distinctions, not to mention the tones. Since not many foreigners attempt Vietnamese, Viet people generally are not very used to hearing their language spoken (or mangled?) by non-native speakers. They seem to have a harder time with foreign accents and often will have no patience to try and figure it out. Contrast that with Mexicans (who also are well represented in my neighborhood) - Lots of Americans know some Spanish, even if badly. I can walk into a Mexican shop and speak absolutely crap Spanish, but they’ll still figure it out, and generally have no problem speaking with me even if I’m stammering.
Tell me about it; might be hopeless in the States now and then - some of the Yanks don't accept any variance from normal. Having said that, it's much more of a problem in the major cities, less so in, say, Florida. If you ask me, it's about mindset - their mindset. (Great ppl in Florida, by the way; great mindset.)
Sir, You really improved my pronunciation... Thank you very much.
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It is important for me to pronounce the letters with the correct pronunciation in English. I practice pronunciation with native friends, but I will start recording my voice. Thank you.
I have just watched this video. I am a native Englishman and, while I feel I speak the language well, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and explanations. I have watched many of them now and there are some words that even natives pronounce wrongly. You have covered words like "vegetable" in another video but sometimes words get changed. A particular gripe I have is the omission of two of the five syllables of the word "speciality". Many people say the word "special" and put "ty" on the end. This is interesting as it appears to lose just one syllable provided by the letter 'i' but the word "special" (two syllables) becomes three when the word "speciality" is formed. I would love you to cover this in one of your dynamic videos. Am I wrong? because I confess to always having pronounced "vegetable" with four syllables!
“Speciality” tends to be a more British usage while Americans favor “specialty.” (I don’t think I’ve ever heard an American use the former.) as for “vegetable“ with four syllables, I think I have only ever heard some Indian English speakers use that, as well as people just learning English.
@@sazji Hi Sazji Thank you for replying. I guess you are right. When I think about it, I think all those I have heard saying "specialty" have been American. The other thought I had was that (in my case) when I say "vegetable" with four syllables it is usually said quickly and possibly comes out as only three. If that be the case is there an argument for saying that certain words are not necessarily pronounced incorrectly just said quickly like contractions with apostrophes? such as 'isn't' 'aren't' etc
@@gammock4026 I’m sure that’s how we ended up with “veg-ta-ble;” the spelling reflects the actual pronunciation in French (and pretty much every other Romance language). Our habit of lengthening stressed syllables and shortening the following one likely led to a reduced “e”, (and then a disappeared one), to the point that “veg-ta-ble” is now considered standard pronunciation.
Greg you are brilliant and your English is an example to all. However although I'm now an old 82 hard of hearing French teacher of English, it came to my ear like a memory of my young days as an assistant in Lancaster when I heard you pronounce words such as "but , such, and much".Please don't change a thing and make me feel young again!
I met plenty of people who had no idea of certain word pronunciation in their own language (especially in UK and USA), it's not just non-English speaking people. By the way Scots roll their R better than us Italians ;-)
You are very charismatic and your videos are very dynamic. Thank you for sharing!
Actually, i am practicing new sounds, training mouth muscles, phonetics, and stressed syllables.
What i will do ?! I will record my pronunciation, it's really good idea.
Thank you Greg for this lesson.
I think recording and listening to your talking is one of the most important pieces of advice, I am kind of a procrastinator, so I will beat that first, immediately, and start using my tape recorder. Thank you, Greg!!
I wish I had met you 25 years ago... I am speaking English since I am 12 but I just figured out how to improve my pronunciation properly this year... And now just in one video, you summarize my all inventions, my all tactics😅😅 but it is never late 😅😅 I am following you from now on🎉🎉
Tnx for your job 👍
like listening to you to practise my listening & speaking at the same time
Your lessons are pretty helpful💪
I have been studying the IPA phonetics charts for two years. Here in Argentina teachers only allow de british accent as the "valid" to take my exams, so i must study only british phonetics. As a native spanish speaker, the sounds that cost me the most are: the d (because is not dental like in spanish, it is alveolar). The r sound because is very soft, and the "ts and dz" phonemes too. I have been prscticing for years to slip the r sound and still is dificult.
I still had great difficulty with fluency when I found this tip for English pronunciation - if you find and practice the correct position of the tip of your tongue in an English T and an English D, then easily the rest of the pronunciation will follow. It helped me a lot. The consonant system "rolls" around T and D. Neither sound is produced with the tip of your tongue touching the teeth. They are made further back, and so because of that, they are not so clear and distinct as in many other languages, making English "softer" or more "blurry" or how ever you want to describe it.
Think like this: as English has sounds produced between the teeth (like the two written like TH; examples are these and thin) and they, too, have to be clearly different from T and D, you make room for T and D further back. Every sound has its own place in the mouth. We do need to sort them out, like gems on a bookshelf. :-D
Thank you very much Greg! Very helpful
Greg hola.Thanks for you help.You speak clearly English. I wish to learn good pronunciation.Blessings.Chao.
Could you please make video explaining more about sentence stress, how do I stress it correctly? Thanks
Greg, you don't have at all the idea how much you are helping me.
Thank you so much.
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Today I learn something new... Thank you! Now I use to train my mouth muscles by repeating every word you say in your videos and I will start to record my voice (very clever) and next video I'm going to watch is Basic Phonetics in English Pronunciation :)
I used to record myself and agree it’s very useful and am going to start doing it again. Thanks for the reminder!
Thank you for this great video again.
In my experience it helps also to hear as much englisch texts, music and videos as possible. But this helps just to know the right pronunciation but to do it there for I have to talk. Talk for example with colleagues. Your idea with recordings is great and will try it. And the other advices as well. Thank you again. 🙂🙂👍👍
Thank you Greg for your nice explanations! I say hi from Czech Republic 😊😊
Thank you Grégoire for your explaination, I am French and effectivelly the pronunciation is very important. I try to do my best but it's so hard😢. I don't give up... 😅
It DOES work, actually:)) Once I spoke to my British friend with the strongest Russian accent ever! And he was able to understand everything 😉
It works but it isn’t ideal or it isn’t right. It’s just like grammar. You may be understood, but it’s a lot easier when it’s correct
It's most useful lecture. Thank you so much Greg ❣️
hi, Teacher greg. i am a new in your class, but I think that I should practice all that you told in this video. I hope to improve my english pronuntiation. God bless you!
thanks
Your pronunciation is the best from my viewpoint.
Good evening sir...i have already started doing these techniques in order to improve my English. Recording my voice and the stress words and sometimes i read the text book while i mire myself .
thank you so much
Hey Greg, good to see you. I'm trying to correct myself using feedback from my OLA teacher Ryan. He gives me feedbacks and after that, I work on it trying to avoid the same mistake. Unfortunately for a long period of time, I avoid confronting myself with my mistakes If I have done that before now I'll be a better English speaker.
Recently I started to record myself too. I'm not reading something but I chose a topic or a question and then I answer the question or I speak about the topic. This is just for few minutes from 3 to 6 minutes. Then I listen to myself and I can see my mistakes, my intonation, etc. That's helping me a lot and with that, I can see my progress and maybe I becoming more fluently.
Thanks for all. See you.
I do currently all of them, and I need to write accademicly too!!
Greg, you are fantastic!!!
Jedna z najlepszych lekcji Grega!
Thank you so much for these important pieces of advise
Hi, I hope you are okay. I'm a student, and I wanted to tell you that I really like to watch your English videos, but I don't know why I can't get your book (English quick fix). Would you mind helping me please. And I am so sorry if my English is bad.
Thank you
Me gustan mucho sus lecciones , son muy claras de entender , pero podría uud poner exactamente esa pronunciación muy escondida y juntada q tiene el inglés?
I ll record my voice reading my english book so will see how many times i ll have to repeat the same sentence 😊thank you for your advice
I will definitely start recording myself! Great tip!
thanks good job👍
What a brilliant video... thanks.
Isn't it a shame that in most European schools English is taught without including those rules you spoke about.....the emphasis is sole on grammar rules. I think it's acceptable to have an accent though which is different from mispronouncing words.
I figured all this out through my years of teaching here in Ecuador exactly these point you're making and my student are amazed and extremely thankfull.
here hair her fear fair fur we're where were , dog or duck God or gut sheep or ship kiss or keys. I really like your vids mr Greg keep it up!!!
I've been studying the IPA during the pandemic and surprisingly it was fun! Then it was a joy to suddenly be able to make sense of those symbols at dictionaries and now I think they're highly profitable. I used to have trouble with exceedingly rhotic sentences, thus, I've chosen to follow mainly British English rules and I now I feel those (once scary) scenarios significantly easier making Rs silent after vowels.
Hi from America - I'd never seen your RUclips posts before today. I'd love it if you'd say to medical personnel that this advice about getting rid of your accent goes TRIPLE for you. I have gotten to where I try to avoid any foreign doctor who has an accent because I've had so much trouble understanding them, to the point where miscommunication was made. They might be the best doctor in the world, but it is so tough on the patients. I can well imagine it being a great detriment if they're trying to get a practice going among English speakers.
Respectable Teacher Mr. Greg!
I'd like to make a feedback on the the first and most crucial point of the eight ones that you've demonstrated concisely, yet pretty convincingly.
The thing is that all the monolingual teachers of the English Language, both native and foreign, , haven't the "knowledge by acquaintance" which you have possessed in France...
You, dear knowledgeable Teacher, are the first one to make a masterpiece of "differential diagnosis" of the most widespread disease among the majority of English Language Learners as a Second Languager - cacology.
I hope I won't be considered presumptuous if I say that merely telling the learners the reason behind their illness will not be enough for an adequate degree of recovery; a serious and thorough attempt at making salubrious teaching methods will probably do.
Sorry for not being able to express the notion precisely and concisely. Many thanks for your efforts and time.
I'm a teacher, thanks, I have liked and subscribed with thanks!
I can tell you are from North England by your pronunciation of “studied” and “France”. 👍 I had to practice saying the French word “Chartres” many times.
Thanks Greg.
I'm gonna start recording myself reading a short text. I think is quite useful to improve my pronunciation
you are not only great, Greg , but also you are a psych analyst when you mentioned recordind our voices.
you are really talented and expert. may be your faults in French language pronunciation have made this expertise that you gave us on a plat of gold.
Arabs are more towards British accent bcz they have a problem with the R which is fortunately silent at the end of a word in British English. the other problem is b vs. p
bear vs. pear
we have the b but we don,t have P in Arabic language
in fact , you will notice that the majority of people of whatever nationality have a mix of British And American accent
17:30 It's sounds real colloquial speech
The best teacher.
Thank you for this video! It`s really helpful🤩
You explained very well sir👌🙏🙏🙏
Thanks!
Wow! Thank you! It was useful!
I speak 5 language but English is the most challenging
How do you explain to your students the difference between bath and barth, grass and grarss? I am from the north but live in the south.
👍👍👍👍👍👍thanks mr . great channel and video. Good luck.
My problem has been so many time, I always try to translate wich words on sentences this is very dificult to speak moment please upload a video explain these problem and solution. thank you Greg
I'm definitely going to start learning how to pronounce "tongue" and other "ng"-words))
Thanks
Great vid! Could you do one on the final s sounds, /s/, /z/ and /iz/. The voiced /z/ can be really tricky and hard for non-natives to master. How would you go about practicing the pronunciation of these different s-sounds?
La pronunciación del francés es una puta locura!
Something is forgotten about, by I would guess 99 of 100 teachers, especially in schools, but also on YT. No matter if it's UK or US English.
Where do you use 'z' sound??
I mean, if you pronounce the word 'president' like most of us non native speakers would, we actually say 'precedent'. Advice (noun) - advise (verb), if you learn that the pronunciation is different, it's much easier to remember which is the verb and which is the noun. Etc.
Very helpful video. I have been living in England for more than 40 years and I still can not get my tongue to say the TH sound correctly as in The. I am from Germany and also have problem with the letters V and W.
Hi Greg and thanks for the amazing videos! Do you think training pronunciation will also help listening?
greg Can you bring Subtitales in Hindi also, by the way, today the lecture is good.
During my Scholl/ college life have not been teaching such words and where words to give stress and emphasis.
In my language, _"... and in this lesson I am going to be explaining ..."_
would typically be just _"... and this lesson I will explain ..."_
One of many reasons English will never feel natural to me, on top of the pronunciation.
The R at the end of daughter IS pronounced in American English...but understand Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter it is not heard in Britain.
It's easy to be understood
Would it be correct to stress the word LOST in the sentence: I've LOST the black and white photo. To me the most important thing (word) is that i've lost something.. ?
Greg. I love your accent
Thanks very much indeed. I would like to learn advance level English from you. But, I need your advice on how I can pay you from India.
I'm teaching in Cambodia. So many common and crucial English sounds don't exist in Khmer- th, sh, f, v, for a start. And consonants at the end of the word.. forget it! a word like milk will be mi ... think will ti.. lunch will be 'lun', five sounds like pi... and on and on. Past simple such as 'looked' ,with a consonant then 'ed' - ouch! We spend about a quarter of each lesson on basic pronunciation of sounds in words. And for the 'stress' of sentences - I've taught them that 'English has a rhythm, a rhythm like a song' so they flow more naturally through sentences rather than the staccato of Khmer. At least I've been able to persuade them to take off those dang face masks in class so I can get some idea what their lips/mouths are doing! But we also laugh a lot and talk about things they really love, like music and art. So we're getting more confident to try and that's worth it every day :)
Hey Gad Elmaley, we recognised you !
I usually trying silent letters, and I'm gonna try sentence stress
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Thank you, teacher!
You are welcome!
Why did the levels go from C to A, and not A (top level) to C. It's always been that way because you are working your way up ie improving, aiming higher etc. It's like a teacher saying, "That is ok" Instead of "That is excellent " You should be aiming for the excellent.