8 Simple Pronunciation RULES to Speak English Clearly 🇬🇧 Powerful! 🇬🇧 (Part 2)
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
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► CHAPTERS:
00:00 Pronunciation Rule 1: Words that are nouns and verbs
01:41 Pronunciation Rule 2: Words ending -TION and -SION
2:40 Pronunciation Rule 3: The -ABLE suffix
3:55 Pronunciation Rule 4: The -ISE suffix
5:08 Pronunciation Rule 5: Compound Adjectives
6:36 Pronunciation Rule 6: How to pronounce the word THE
7:59 Pronunciation Rule 7: Abbreviations
9:28 Pronunciation Rule 8: How to pronounce 13 and 30
11:15 Pronunciation Quiz
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Look at this word. How do you pronounce this word? Well, actually, there are two different ways that we can pronounce this, and it all depends on whether we are using it as a noun or a verb. So look at these two examples here. The increase in unemployment was shocking. They increased the prices by 10%. Okay, in the first example, we're using increase as a noun, so we stress the first syllable increase. In the second example, we're using it as a verb. So we stress the second syllable increase. They increased the prices. Now, this rule is true for other words that can be both a noun and verb. So, for example, you can see an attendance record on the school app. I record my videos inside my office. Record when it's a noun, record when it's a verb. We stress the first syllable for a noun and the second syllable for a verb. Thanks for the birthday present. Present. As a noun, we stress the first syllable. And let me present you with eight simple pronunciation rules that you never learnt at school.
Yes, this is part two, because I've already done a lesson on eight simple pronunciation rules to speak English clearly and also a video on eight silent letter rules. So make sure you watch those videos after this one. You can find the links in the description. Okay, we've looked at rule number one. For rule number two, I want you to tell me which is the stressed syllable in these words. Collaboration, cooperation, demonstration, fiction, modernisation, organisation, presumption, television, vision. Now, I often hear students having problems pronouncing these words because they try to put the stress on the first or second syllable of these words. But with words that end shin or jun, we put the stress on the penultimate syllable. So not the last syllable, but the one before that. Listen again. Competition, demonstration, fiction, nation, television, vision. Okay, it doesn't matter how long the word is. The stressed syllable is the penultimate one in these words.
OK, look at this little sentence here. Are you able to put the vegetables on the table?
Are you able to put the vegetables on the table? Now, in other words, able and table, the able is not a suffix. A suffix is just a little bit that we add to the end of words like -tion or -sion and -able. Now, when it's a suffix, we pronounce it /ə/ with the schwa sound. You need to practise the schwa sound for this, the schwa sound.
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I've been studying English all my life and this is the first time ever I know about this numbers rule. Great lesson sir, you make English much easier to learn and understand. Thanks and greetings from Mexico City 🇲🇽🇬🇧🇲🇽🇬🇧🇲🇽
Thanks, Jaime! 😊
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Clear and Understandable lesson Mr.Greg, you're a super
Thank you Greg!! After so many years of using English I’ve now found a simple rule on the pronunciation of numbers!!!👏👏
Thank you, Greg ! You are nor a teacher but THE teacher 💯
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Thanks, Belén! 😊
I've always heard "television" being stressed on the first syllable, never the third. Although the 3rd syllable stressed is listed in the dictionary as another pronunciation, certainly it's not the most popular.
Yeah this one stuck out to me as a native speaker.
I really never learned the numbers pronunciation nuances, just used those accents intuitively. Thank you so much for such a simply explanation! Greetings from Kyiv!)
Thanks, you are the best teacher!!!!!!!
Thanks, Roser! 😊
Superb and nice vedeo Mr. Gerg ...
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Simple, short, comprehensible, emotional, even attractive - those and some others epithets represent your style of teaching, Greg. Excellent video for watching; requires, however, some time end efforts for "digesting". And it's absolutely normal, I do believe. Thank you, Greg.
In American English, you usually stress the “adjective within the compound adjective”; ie, the first word, or emphasize them both equally (or at least the first syllable of each). In some American dialects (eg. more Southern), the second word of the compound adjective is sometimes barely pronounced (if it’s not the end of the sentence).
I never heard about the numbers rule (#8), thanks for your teachings.
My plan for the next year is to enroll for the ESOL course... Probably I'll spend rest of my life living in the UK, so I feel like I need to speak English with no problems communicating. in the future I want to apply for the British passport too which requires ESOL certificate.
Greg would be nice if you make a video about how to pronounce words like; run, fun gun, etc. Cheers 😗
Hola! excelent! excelente profesor! lo mejor desde Argentina!
All this time I thought I knew how to pronounce the numbers from 13 to 19 but just today I realised that I have to fix my English pronunciation.
The best English teaching channel on RUclips. Thanks for take some time to teach us.
Greetings directly from Africa - Mozambique
P.S.: I'll check the T&Cs of courses you offer and ASAP I'll subscribe to one of your courses. English opens doors here.
Thank you. It's pretty useful video.
Nice pronunciation tips, thanks.
Very good . Thanks a Lot.
We do have a ROUGH time following all those rules. But you are undoubtedly THE master!
Hi Greg! I' m from Argentina and I met you in you tube by chance, your explanations are so clear and the best thing... I understand every single Word you say! I love your british accent Wonderful!
I have dedicated very little time to learning pronunciation in my life but I know all of these intuitively. Perhaps it's because of listening to English videos and movies. I don't know exactly. But now I’m ensured that these words're pronouncing correctly and thank you for this! Great videos!
Hi Kateryna
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I'd be very interested to see your sources for these rules and examples.
Number 1 should have a caveat that it only applies to words whose pronunciation changes as a noun and verb. Given a word that can serve as a noun or verb, it's not obvious if there's any change at all. For example: reveal, exit, reply, concern, vomit
I've never known the word vegetable to contain a suffix
Number 5 has a lot of intricacies to it. Every example you gave could've been stressed the other way or had equal stress, and it may depend on your accent. It may also depend on the actual compound adjective itself and the surrounding words. For example, Shakespeare is well-KNOWN, but he could either be a well-known author or well-KNOWN author
Number 7 is replete with exceptions or at least options. ASAP can definitely be pronounced as two syllables. FUBAR is never pronounced as letters. LOL can be either (and yes, people do use it in speech). Remember, these rules expressed to be about speaking English clearly, not in any particular register
Number 8 has more to it. The stress on disyllabic "teens" can be even or really anywhere. "Before the sunset of her SIX-teenth birthday, she shall prick her finger ... and die!" "Princess Aurora had an awesome Sweet Six-TEENTH." In these contexts, you may well pronounce and hear the stress on both syllables, but using the given stress patterns won't sound particularly strange
I doubt he'll have any, as a native English speaker, a lot of this utter bollocks.
Good points here. There are some rather common exceptions to the No.1 rule. 'Review' invariably stresses the second syllable, irrespective of its word category, and it's the opposite with 'preview'... fascinating. I disagree on the stress change rule concerning only words whose N/V pronunciation changes, though. It doesn't change for 'increase' for instance, only the stress placement does.
As James Gonzál I never heard about the number rule, but I realize that my pronunciation in the different situations was right. Having a B1 I never heard about many other rules of that kind, but all the same I realize that in most cases I pronounce correctly. Wow so interesting about the stress, which was so neglected when I studied: it was as if we had to learn it just experiencing it. Thanks 🙏
Thank you.
The “the” part really helped I never minded it
Thanks Greg!
Very helpful video. Thanks a lot.
The teen numbers stress change is new to me. Awesome! Thx a bunch!
Thanks!
I always teach my students to stress the last syllable in 13-19, except for years like 1919, which is NINEteen nineTEEN. This is new info for me, Gregg, thank you.
I'd say a lot of these 'rules' are more like guidelines and that not everybody follows them exactly. For my part (70 year old who was raised in the USA up until age of 22 and live in the UK since then), I'd stress the first syllable in both for year - so I'd say NINEteen NINEteen.
Likewise, in the compound adjective 'world-famous', I'd give equal stress to the first two syllables: WORLD-FAmous, but it does depend on the word
@@frankhooper7871 thanks for your comment! In fact, when you listen to a lot of English, some things come to you naturally, but still you have to exlain a lot to students, because in most cases you are the only person they hear speaking English. And unfortunately, students do not normally copy you, so you need to 'force' it into them by explaning and asking to repeat.
Greg - I remember writing you a year ago my comments about editing, framing, sound effects, etc. Now it is IDEAL.
A very worthwhile lesson and the coolies are not distracting. Greetings
I really appreciated (and appreciate) your comments 👏🏼 Thanks a million!
@@EnglishWithGreg I also wrote you to make a short vide when you had about 60 thousand subs. ;)
As you can see you now have a quarter of a million - so that probably increased the reach.
Don't freak out too much with editing anymore. Just focus on valuable content. Success and I look forward to a million subs!!!
Great rules 👏
Hi Greg, You are the best! Thank you for everything.
Someone else pointed out 'vegetable' has a silent e, I think both forms are in use, perhaps the silent e is more recent or in fast speech. I went to British school decades ago and no one said anything about the silent e, the second syllable ge would sound lighter but not totally absent.😮
I normally stress the first and third syllables in television and engineer or at least the differences aren't that much. Actually the British people commonly just say the telly.😊
Not all abbreviations are pronounced by their letters, UNICEF as a name is normally pronounced you-nee-cef.
Thanks for the nice lesson, you've got another subscriber. And with all respect: what amazing eyes.
Thank you, Greg, it was very helpful
Thanks a lot. This your video was very usefull for me. Greetings from Moscow.
Hello Greg, I have never known about the number rules, thank you. And my answer is Rough.
Thank you Greg for this info👍.
You used "The honest man" as an example for "vowel after the". I would have preferred to also find something like "the union" among the "consonant after the" examples. Just to make it even clearer that (of course?) the sounds instead of the letters detemine the pronunciation.
As a native English speaker, these videos are really interesting - these are things we just do without even thinking about them. But at the same time, it's doing that thing where it becomes a manual process like when you remember you have to breathe lol
Omg teen rule was totally new to me even though i think i have always done it the right way...thanks
I have a personal gripe about how the verb 'Contribute' has changed in its pronunciation in popular discourse. It now seems common to put the emphasis on the first syllable 'con' rather that the latter two in 'tribute',which used to be the accepted pronunciation. This has the effect of making the word sound like 'contrabute' which disguises its Latin root. It means a kind of co-payment hence its a kind of 'tribute' and we can see this in the idea of a payment or award. Imho, the classic pronunciation highlights its derivation more clearly and is more elegant.
There was a lot to learn for me. Thanks! About the pronunciation of "the", I find it funny that in "the unit" and "the umbrella" the word "the" is pronounced differently. But as you said, it is not the vocal, but the vocal sound that matters. And unit sounds like "junit".
You are cool as always!
As for THE, in Canada we say tha the (shwa) and thee
I would say tha day, thee other, and the (shwa) thing
The (shwa) day is okay too
I think tha day is more to emphasize the day in particular
Thee is for in front of a vowel OR to emphasize a noun
Sometimes one has to just get the meaning before using the pronunciation - in time
I disagree about television. No one I know says ‘I’m gonna watch the teleVISion.” Native speakers stress the first syllable TELevision. Great video though!
Hi Greg, thanks for this informative video. Stress rules for numbers 13 to 19 was very clear. But what is the rule for numbers from 20 upwards ? Would you be able to generalise it, maybe in another video ?
i love your lessons. Thank you
pure awesomeness :) Thank you for the great video mate :)
amazing lesson!!!
well in your first example you can pronounce it differently if you want to differentiate. "they INcreased the prices in stead of DEcrease them". same with your numbers"shes not seventeen years old shes EIGHTeen" even though its at the end of a sentence
Thanks Greg. Great lesson. The answer of the test is D I think.
I am a bit confused with the pronunciation of vegetable. I learned the second e is silent. But Greg used a clear pronunciation of that e. Does it depend on local dialect?
Right, the second ‘e’ is not pronounced.
I speak English as a foreign language and there is something that I'm still having troubles with when it comes to the pronunciation of the - teen numbers. If the following word begins with a stressed syllable it sounds to me as if you only stress the first part of the - teen number, not both, as in tennis: FIF-teen-LOVE. Probably too many stressed syllables in a row otherwise.
Great video, BTW (stress on the W) ;-)
I had tried to sort out the pronunciation rules using cards when I started to learn English on my own when I was 13 years old. Can you imaging yourself learning Czech at age 13? Never the less I did not managed the rulse well, because I've learned a lot of things wrong. Thank you for your lesson which help me to correct it.
Czech language is brutally hard. Thankfully I`m native speaker :D
It's pretty common to say ASAP as a word now, though :)
'Ey up Greg, I just discovered you set of videos and as a native English speaker I really like your explanations of rules I never knew were rules.
You may have covered this in a previous video but could you explain to me why people in the UK use the preterit form of the verb as an adverb(?) instead of a gerund for an action that currently happening? I'm stood here looking at the scenery vs. I'm standing here looking... Thanks.
P.S. you spelled 'realize' wrong. 🤭
He used the British spelling of realize. The are many spelling differences between American english and British english. Most of the spelling differences are subtle. Like the S and the Z in realize/realise.
I didn’t know -able in the word vegetable was a suffix
In the US, we stress the first syllable of television.
never heard vegetable with 4 syllables. Its got 3 for me, 6 for Japanese. veg-ta-bles. mid a is a schwa
It is all about British English, in America you need just stressing on the first syllabus both nouns and verbs.
Magic e song for children is helpful
Btw anericans do the stress other ways ... For example ,contribute.. they are saying contri-bute all over the media .. no its contrib-ute or contrib-bute
Yes, and Canadians say COMposite and Americans say comPOSite.
Thank you! You're the best teacher! =D
I just want to ask you if these rules also apply to American English! Thanks!
As an American the only rule that seems to be different is the rule about the word The. Many Americans don't pronounce it thee in any situation. You will be understood using British rules for the word The. There are many regional differences in how words are pronounced in the USA.
Dear Greg can you tell us why we can’t use “with” after discuss
Good morning Greg, My name is Everardo from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. I want to learn english with you. Could you tell me how to use your videos course??? Which is the first one or how is the process to use the videos? Because i want to have a method continuou for learn english. Please help me
The different ways of saying words because of regional dialects is called allophonic variation. Castle and chance are examples of this. The homographs you mention can either sound the same and are therefore homonyms (words that are spelled the same, sound the same but have different meanings), or homographs (words that have the same spelling but have different meanings, such as refuse). Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. My Dublin father never said the, but duh.
Greg, I want to add a comment. I have problems with past and past participle verbs pronunciation.
Well well. Always a good lesson, but about the "THE" sound... Alone you pronounce it like "ze/zi" but in a sentence it sounds either like "de"... After years of learning English, this is still a challenge 🙂
It's the TH sound of English..
It may sound like DE but it's because the way the TH sound is made, sounds almost like a buzz.. like a Bee (the insect) think of that sound... zzzzzzzzzzzz
Only you put your tongue to the back of your teeth and try to now make that buzz sound.. thhhhhh... (it's a vibration)..
So when an English speaker says TH quickly..
It can sound like DE...
But its T(vibration sound) H .... THe.
Also.. I'm going to teach you something most English teachers may not tell you..
Ok.
So you know that English TH sound.
Th once had a letter all of its own... that's right..
When people write THe THat THen...
A long time ago..
People didn't need th..
Yup..
Ok.. it's like this ..
Look at the letter C.
I could write these letters "see" and then drop the letter C altogether..
That's pretty much, exactly what's happened to the proper TH (sound) letter in the English language..
The TH letter used to be...
þ
Note that is NOT a "P" or a "b"..
THAT is the letter for the TH sound of English.. and it is called, "Thorn"...
But the letter thorn (þ) is no longer in use..
But imagine if it still was used in English today..
Þen english might look someþing like þis...
I'd like to þank all of you for þe marvelous party þat took place last þursday at þe pub...
As if English wasn't a tough language already..
Imagine if you had to learn a foreign letter..
A b c d e ..... w x y þ z..
Actually there were two ways to write th...
There was another letter as well..
But that second letter dropped out of use way before þ did..
Þ was still being used up untill the beginning of this century.. along with another letter called long S.
Which was a fancy looking s...
It was the letter s but it was a long sounding S..
It was dropped because it confused a lot of people..
I'm 50 but some decades back, my grandmother once told me she was taught the long s in school and then shortly after she learned it, she was told in school to forget about using it as the letter was being dropped, and no one wsd going to use it anymore...
But she showed me on paper how to write it..
Also the letter þ got dropped for a very different reason...
It had a lot to do with the invention of the printing press and foreign communications..(to extensive to get into) pretty much þ was forced out of use because it was only found in the English language and the other countries didn't have þ on their typewriters.. so the English language lost one of it's letters because of that!!
It's not the only reason, but partially...
That would never work the other way around though would it?? Hey....
English phones do not have ū ë ñ é or backwards e's and backwards r's ...
Or the omega... so the countries that use any of those letters... you have to drop drop those letters because we do not have them on our English keyboards!!!
Yet that is exactly what happened in English...
we lost þ partially because of that exact reason...
Yup.... just wow...
So... i know....
It's useless info as of current times..
But i suppose it's good to know..
@@orangie8426 Indeed... useless but very interesting. About the S, like in German with the ß with is a dobble s... Gruß = Gruss. Cheers
as a native english speaker, its weird that i have never been given these rules... but i seem to know them in my speech lol
Any "tion" words have equivalents in Spanish. Messes them up terribly. Ps hadn't noticed these rules.. native speaker. Fun vid
So, which of the four do we pronounce 'gh' in? I've already watched the video you linked to, and don't remember the answer. Because of course that's how my brain works. Or not. I really wish you wouldn't cross-link questions to answers in other videos!
I'm often drawn to "how to speak (British) English" videos, being a native speaker but also being perfectly fluent in Dutch and Limburgs, pretty good in French and passable in German. And it always surprises me that these videos pretty well invariably get one thing wrong: the -IZE/-ISE/-YSE suffix words - and their relation with the TION ending. Unfortunately, spelling checkers on computers have completely corrupted the correct spelling over the past years and RUclipsrs are only compounding the problem. Basically ALL those words that can take a TION ending, should be spelled with the IZE suffix, not ISE. RealiZe, organiZe, demoniZe etc. these words can form TION words : realization, organization, demonization. If a TION form is not possible, then it must be -ISE (or rarely -YSE) : advertise, analyse etc.
Excellent lesson Greg. I would love to see you do a lesson on superlatives. So often these days we hear people saying things such as "most easiest" or "most funniest" which, of course, is not correct ... and sounds odd too. I love your explanation about correct pronunciation of "the." It's another thing we're hearing more frequently ... and it makes people sound like children just learning to read as they painfully sound out each word and syllable. "Thuh" elephant, "thuh" apple etc..
veselă veselă. 😁
The numbers rule is really interesting, especially at the end of the sentence. I usually tend to stress the 'more detailled' part of the number (as in the counting example, THIRteen, because the 'three' implies more detail than the 'ten'); or either part if I want to mark a difference ("No, not THIRTY one pounds, only TWENTY one" or "She was twenty TWO when she published that song, not twenty ONE".) So, I guess if I heard "He was thirTEEN," I would tend to think "No-one claimed that he had been _twenty_ three." BTW: does this also apply to sentences that continue, like "He was thirteen, but he is older now"?
I always thought year number is named xxyy in standard British English instead of xxxx format, as pronouncing 2019 in xxxx format would be lengthy in standard British English, i.e. two thousands and nineteen, but i heard the American format, two thousands nineteen instead... it's just messy... I'd stick with xxyy format, i.e. twenty nineteen, to be consistent.
First time I learned about this number role. Just noticed that I would do the same pronunciation differences in German. Weird.
Mamma Mia! 😮 Why don’t you have one rule for all cases?
Quiz time- I think D is correct
You're my heroe
Then if a word is a verb we must stressed the second syllable?
Excellent lesson !
I knew already one or two rules but I learnt several ones to be remembered.
Rough : if you don't know the pronunciation, this adjective can be uneasy to say.
221203 RR
The alternative way to pronouncs ncrease = in cre ah say?
Not that I’ve ever heard (native American English speaker)
You got so handsome with your beard...I've subscribed😍
Or tha can saa "price on grub hez gotten aboon har mich at we can pay".
I notice I have always followed the numbers' rule unconsciously, even thou nobody has ever taught me that
I also found that rule regarding "the's" pronunciation has an exception, if the word after it begins with a consonant, but that word is an Italian loan word, then it still gets the "THEE" pronunciation. Because it is more natural to say "thee" pizza and "thee" piano. I like to think that "the(e)" has a distant relationship with "die" in German since all Italian loan words in German also get the female gender and hence preceded by "die".
The pronunciation of “the” definitely varies a lot between accents. In my native north-eastern American accent you’d usually pronounce it with a shwa for those words. But if I am trying to imitate a thick Italian-American accent I’d pronounce it “thee”.
@@takoma74 yeah, it depends a lot on the accent. This is for British English only
6:55 They are asking this because they don't know if it's pronounced with Z or D or T
Nothing will make me spell realize/organize etc with an s
Rule 6- If using the word THE to differentiate between a bar, any bar and the bar you got thrown out of for barfing on a pretty girl, one might ask, "Is this THE bar where you...?"
"Yes. Keep driving."
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After putting my name and my e-mail, I didn´t get the .pdf file: The system didn´t send it to me. What is going wrong?
Hi Marcos. Could you send an email so I can see your email address? I will then investigate and let you know! 👍🏼
(Use the email address on this page: www.youtube.com/@EnglishWithGreg/about) - Thanks!
@@EnglishWithGreg Hi, Greg! The problem was solved. Thanks for your special attention.
@@Marcos.ACSantos Ah great! What was the problem?
@@EnglishWithGreg I believe there would be some delay in the System
and when he says vegEtable, you instantly know that you can ignore the entire channel.
"Fourty" (11:09). Yikes!
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Hmm such nuances never occurred to me or I don't remember them. I see I pronounce vegetables so bad XD
When I was young I achieved C1 in 3\4 areas but now after years of absence I could barely keep it on B1-B2,
It is interesting how the society brings the language level down, it is not uncommon that people speak and write incorrect grammatically - after some time you get used to it and speak the same.
Because it's not "incorrect". Language is funny that way. There is no "right" or "wrong" except that others understand you. Over time, what does and does not make sense changes.
@@john_titor1 There are some grammar rules, or basic rules which you need to follow. If many (much?)people make a mistake and use a wrong 3rd verb form in the past tense, then it is likely others will follow. If people use tenses wrong (as the general population or a group you sit with) then you may copy such behavior after time. Then you indeed are understood (because others speak the same) but you don't speak the proper English anymore. Such degradation happened to me and now it is hard to back on track :D
@@Boberrosini But that is my point. There is no such thing as "proper" any language, as language is fluid and constantly changing. Not static and predefined. What may be considered incorrect at some point in time will likely become the standard and formally correct way in another.