I don’t care about English so much, I speak with relative ease though I’ve been away from my country for decades (Canada) but what I appreciate is your super nice , kind, opened spirit! True gentleman! Thanks so much!
I speak English but I struggle with pronouncing my “L” because it sounds like an “R” along with a few other words. This has really helped me figure out why ! Thanks !
I just recently moved here in London. And I got cast in a Kiss Me Kate musical where I have to learn English and American accents. I'm already very fluent in English but accents are just a bit hard for me to grasp. Great lessons!
Wow! Congrats Edward : ) Well I've got lots of British accent videos so I hope you check them out. Keep in touch and if you have any questions find me on Instagram and DM me.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish"Kiss Me Kate" has a really useful bit of advice in the lyrics of one of its songs: "Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now..."
Hi Tom. Thanks for this really helpful video I am nearly 18 years old and I have struggled pronouncing the R sound for the whole of my life in my language I would naturally pronounce the R sound with the alveolar tap or the alveolar trill .
Wow, that's amazing. I always can't remember how to pronounce /l/ before, but now I can contrast with /n/. It becomes much easier for me to remember and say it! Thanks a million!
That was totally useful! I've just realised I've been saying L sound not British way but the way we do it here in Russia - we put the tip of the tongue much closer to the upper teeth or sometimes even right behind them. Thanks a lot!
Many thanks from India.....being a Voice & Accent (English Lang) Trainer in India,I struggle to get my students to correctly use the /r/ sounds as they are totally mixed up with the British , American & the Indian /r/ sounds. As well as the /s/,/sh/,/z/, /j/, /h/ & a host of others. Cheers !! Gautam S.
'Z's are just voiced 'S's. Try saying "Ahhhhh" (just make a noise in your throat) then make a hissssssss sound. If you are still saying "ahhhh" in the back of your throat while making an "s" sound, it turns into a 'z'. You should feel a bit of buzzing in the back of your mouth
You can do this with all consonants sounds. I struggle with rich and ridge, breach and bridge. And also the z and s sound in sentences like “it is” “he’s” (I always say them with an s sound)
Suggestion for another tutorial: "th" followed by an "s"-sound. Like in Northsea. I usually have no problem with th but I just can't say Northsea without a tiny stop after the th. The time it takes to move the tongue back from its position for "th" to where it's placed for the "s"-sound 🙄
I think the key is to place the tip of your tongue behind your front teeth, not below, this will make the transition easier and the sounds seems the same (at least to me... but open to suggestions!)
Just say /clouz/ (which sounds like "close", no th). That's an accepted pronunciation as well (check the Oxford dictionary if you don't believe me) and it's waaaaaaaaaay easier.
Thank you very much for your motivating and interesting videos that make English sweeter. I really have problem with saying Singer and the pronunciation of( ŋ ) and also ( ɜː ) in words like learn. It would be great if you describe them as well.😍❤
I'd like you to make a "learn english with" a British singer that I love so much! Her name is Florence, she's vocalist in Florence + the machine. I don't know if you're gonna notice me, but I'm being confident about that! haha
This video is super useful for us non-native speakers..😊 And I wonder if you could think about making a video on connected speech(especially intrusion of /r/ sound..)
Tom, thanks much 🙂, nice and useful technique to improve the pronunciation of individual letters: I imitated you throughout the lesson 😃 No problem with the N and L sounds (natural sounds for me) and fortunately my English sound of the R is quite decent considering that my natural R is "rolled" and vibrant......not in a strong way like the Spanish one but still vibrant. The hardest thing for me are the linking sounds of words in connected speech in particular when there are no vowel sounds between the words that follow each other 😐 P.S: White man's shirt 👌.....It looks great on you 😃
Hi Alice, thanks for the response. Linking sounds can be tricky. I'm working on a digital course that looks at this in depth but perhaps I'll try and make a video about them in the meantime.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish No, I thank you Tom. Any video lesson you want to do or feel right to do will be great. There is always and only to learn from you 🙂 Have a nice weekend 🙋
This is a very fundamental question. I am a Japanese and Japanese do not have the consciousness or habit of *recognizing consonants alone* as speech sound. So when listening to *"light/right"* , we (I) do not recognize the sounds *"l"* or *"r"* alone, but rather *"la"* and *"ra"* combined with vowels. In other words, we recognize the *INSTANTANEOUS EXPLOSIVE SOUND* of the *TRANSITION* changing from a consonant to a vowel. I think/doubt that native speakers recognize the consonant alone before the explosive transition. *LA = lll la aaaa, RA = rrr ra aaaa* where *"la"* and *"ra"* express an explosive transision Since I am Japanese, I cannot hear *"lll"* and *"rrr"* part and hear only the very short explosive part *"la"* and *"ra"* . Do You, native english speakers, really produce/recognize the preceeding part *"lll"* or *"rrr"* ? Or you also produce only after *"la"* and *"ra"* part as Japanese? I think the short explosive part *"la" and "ra" are similar even to native speakers* and it can be a main reason that Japanese can not distinguish the two sound "L" and "R" in English. It also explain that Japanese are bad at distinguishing explosive sound *"ba"* and fricative sound *"va"* . I think Japanese people unconsciously recognize the parts that are close to rupture and ignore the important sound before it. These short explosive parts are similar. To sum up, *MY QUESTION* is whether *ENGLISH NATIVE SPEAKERS PRODUCE/RECOGNIZE A CONSONANT BEFORE THE EXPLOSIVE TRANSITION "LA" AND "RA"?* Some people respond and some don't, and I want to ask many native speakers, so I think I'll post the same question in several movies in RUclips. I apologize to those who find it annoying to see similar comments multiple times.
It is often said that the consonants of *Japanese people are very short* . This fits well with the possibility described above. For Japanese people, amoung the sequence of sounds *ccc cv vvv* where c is a consonant and v is a vowel, only the "cv" part is important, and "ccc" is a sound that produced without intension. Extremely speaking, there is "no need to produce ccc for Japanese".* On the other hand, for English native speakers, ccc may be important and cv is a sound that is inevitablly produced. So Japanese people might try to estimate the consonant from the garbage or noise part for native speakers.
Hello Tom. I’ve been followed you channel for almost a year and I’d love a video by you showing differences between long and short vowels. With words like: heat vs hit Sheep vs ship My rewards from Mexico xoxo
Hiii, Tom! Really brilliant tip hahahaha I was thinking though, what about the "r" sound in the end of words like "over" in British Pronunciation, for example? Is the sound we do in "Brighton" or "right" the same as in "over" or even "words" in British English? Thanks xx
Have been wondering for a long time how to pronounce THe during fast speaking. It's too hard to make clear TH sound instead of pronouncing it by D like "De", but i try to aviod it. It would be an interesting film about how do Brits handle with this issue.
Hi Tom, i d also like to be able to pronoumce words ending with S and starting with TH. Once i said "i was thinking..." But it seems i say "i was stinking". Sounds a bit weird.could please explain it? Thanks mate👍
In the way you've explained the "L" sound turns out to be palatalized or softened. It is all right when "L" is followed by a vowel but when a word ends with "L" like ALL, TALL, SMALL, BALL, DOLL it must sound hard (at least in RP). I've heard a lot when native speakers pronounce it soft in these words but they speak Southern English. By the way Tom pronounces it also soft in the words like "ALL". And that is not RP.
Thanks you, Tom. Very awesome. Reading alone allows you to really relax. Not very appropriate. There is in Russian. На дворе трава, на траве дрова. Не руби дрова на траве двора. Is very similar :)) But It's another story and others "rrrrrrrrrrrr"
And then, a moment later.. crash and burn.. my r seems to be permanently broken.. I shall push on with the practice but I fear my r is always going to come off a bit sharp? My Spanish R can only come off properly if I purr like a cat first. Any American speakers have a hint on this?..mine sounds like a pirate, middle of mouth.. arhhh matey! Lol
I know it might get annoying after a while, but if your students repeat the word "null" over and over, it might help them. Your examples are better, though.
Hey Daniel, we are using the /n/ sound, which almost all students can make, to help us find the correct mouth positions to make the /l/ and /r/ sounds which students find very hard. It's a little trick I have used with my students in classes for years.
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I don’t care about English so much, I speak with relative ease though I’ve been away from my country for decades (Canada) but what I appreciate is your super nice , kind, opened spirit! True gentleman! Thanks so much!
Well that's very kind to say hallobaaby, thank you : )
I am learning English for the past 25 years ... but learning with you Tom is really fun ☺ lots of love from Germany
Aww that's so kind of you to say. Thanks for all the support and let's keep learning together : )
Had been trying to pronounce these right for years, even the BBC standard pronounce lesson didn't work. Finally!! Thx a lot!!!
I’m only a moment in. Just going to say how brilliant you are at this! You’re a joy to watch ! Very easy to understand! Well done..!
I speak English but I struggle with pronouncing my “L” because it sounds like an “R” along with a few other words. This has really helped me figure out why ! Thanks !
I just recently moved here in London. And I got cast in a Kiss Me Kate musical where I have to learn English and American accents. I'm already very fluent in English but accents are just a bit hard for me to grasp. Great lessons!
Wow! Congrats Edward : ) Well I've got lots of British accent videos so I hope you check them out. Keep in touch and if you have any questions find me on Instagram and DM me.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish"Kiss Me Kate" has a really useful bit of advice in the lyrics of one of its songs: "Brush up your Shakespeare, Start quoting him now..."
Hi Tom. Thanks for this really helpful video
I am nearly 18 years old and I have struggled pronouncing the R sound for the whole of my life
in my language I would naturally pronounce the R sound with the alveolar tap or the alveolar trill .
Great! I'm really pleased to hear this video helped you Lucy : )
Wow, that's amazing. I always can't remember how to pronounce /l/ before, but now I can contrast with /n/. It becomes much easier for me to remember and say it! Thanks a million!
Great video! I love watching phonetic videos. I consider that the pronunciation is the most important thing at the moment of learning a new language
Awesome! I'm super happy you liked it mate
That was totally useful! I've just realised I've been saying L sound not British way but the way we do it here in Russia - we put the tip of the tongue much closer to the upper teeth or sometimes even right behind them. Thanks a lot!
Like you I have started from a scratch, and my eyes on skies.
Wish me best of luck!
Thanks for the lovely explanation.
You make me able to pronounce 'Crisps'. Love your videos ❤️ Thank you
I loved your explication and tips also amazing this video
Many thanks from India.....being a Voice & Accent (English Lang) Trainer in India,I struggle to get my students to correctly use the /r/ sounds as they are totally mixed up with the British , American & the Indian /r/ sounds. As well as the /s/,/sh/,/z/, /j/, /h/ & a host of others. Cheers !! Gautam S.
“L” is easy for me, but the tip for “R” is awesome 👏🏼 thanks
Great video!!! Thank you!!!!
Great Lesson:)
Thanks a Million!!
Thank YOU a million for watching Dazzling Girl : )
Very useful, thank you Tom :)
Brilliant!! Thank you so much, Tom! And yes, please, prepare something about s and z
'Z's are just voiced 'S's. Try saying "Ahhhhh" (just make a noise in your throat) then make a hissssssss sound. If you are still saying "ahhhh" in the back of your throat while making an "s" sound, it turns into a 'z'. You should feel a bit of buzzing in the back of your mouth
You can do this with all consonants sounds.
I struggle with rich and ridge, breach and bridge. And also the z and s sound in sentences like “it is” “he’s” (I always say them with an s sound)
So smart way to hlep us to get the true sounds out of our mouths.
Fab lesson👏hope you'll make more videos like this 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it Mamy, yes more of these to come if you guys want them : )
Woooooow, it's wonderful!!!!! Very, very exciting and very entertaining! Please do similar tips for all English sounds if possible!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 happy you enjoyed it!
I simply love watching your videos. ♥️
Thank you Tom for your tips!!
Thank you so much
My pleasure Daniel, thanks for watching.
Thanks for this video!! The most difficult for me about the R sound is at the end of the word. For example: car, star...
In North America we slightly curl the tip of the tongue upward too on the L sound, it seems to me.
Was waiting for this go a long time
Thanks Tom
Tom, good video! Another topic that could be nice to explore is about theatre. British theatre that I know is very famous too. Thanks
Suggestion for another tutorial: "th" followed by an "s"-sound. Like in Northsea.
I usually have no problem with th but I just can't say Northsea without a tiny stop after the th. The time it takes to move the tongue back from its position for "th" to where it's placed for the "s"-sound 🙄
I think the key is to place the tip of your tongue behind your front teeth, not below, this will make the transition easier and the sounds seems the same (at least to me... but open to suggestions!)
Great!!!! Loved it! How about the TH sound? Voiced and voiceless!..
Hey Denise, I've done one video about the -th sound in 5 different British accents - ruclips.net/video/bGcQOfNNWiM/видео.html
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish thank you!! Will watch it!
This was fun! I always struggle with the word "clothes" where I have to switch from "th" to "s". Would love to learn a trick how to do this.
Just say /clouz/ (which sounds like "close", no th). That's an accepted pronunciation as well (check the Oxford dictionary if you don't believe me) and it's waaaaaaaaaay easier.
@@danielabize1398 Thank you, that´s good to know. But I still would like to tackle the "real thing". :D
A perfect example how to be the good teacher and the one who tells you how to spell despite the progenia.
do you have a video on the s and sh sound
thank you, i love it!! can you please make a video for spanish speakers????love from argentina!💗💗
Thank you Tom! 😁👍👍👍🔝
My pleasure Moni : )
So much fun 😊
Good series
Hello Tom :) Thank you so much for these amazing tips. I always find your lessıns quite useful. Have a nice weekend :)
Absolute pleasure new loggers, always happy to help
Good advices
Tha.s good. You should give US more words for repeating and pronunciation too
Thank you very much for your motivating and interesting videos that make English sweeter. I really have problem with saying Singer and the pronunciation of( ŋ ) and also ( ɜː ) in words like learn. It would be great if you describe them as well.😍❤
I'd like you to make a "learn english with" a British singer that I love so much! Her name is Florence, she's vocalist in Florence + the machine. I don't know if you're gonna notice me, but I'm being confident about that! haha
This video is super useful for us non-native speakers..😊
And I wonder if you could think about making a video on connected speech(especially intrusion of /r/ sound..)
I found" rinse" is hard to prononce Tom. Thank you!
Tom, thanks much 🙂, nice and useful technique to improve the pronunciation of individual letters: I imitated you throughout the lesson 😃
No problem with the N and L sounds (natural sounds for me) and fortunately my English sound of the R is quite decent considering that my natural R is "rolled" and vibrant......not in a strong way like the Spanish one but still vibrant.
The hardest thing for me are the linking sounds of words in connected speech in particular when there are no vowel sounds between the words that follow each other 😐
P.S: White man's shirt 👌.....It looks great on you 😃
Hi Alice, thanks for the response. Linking sounds can be tricky. I'm working on a digital course that looks at this in depth but perhaps I'll try and make a video about them in the meantime.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish
No, I thank you Tom. Any video lesson you want to do or feel right to do will be great. There is always and only to learn from you 🙂
Have a nice weekend 🙋
🤗🤗🤗thank you
Happy New Year Tom...
Heeeeey Paul! Happy New Year mate. Hope you are doing well : )
Eat Sleep Dream English hope you are doing well too Tom...
another video pleaseeeeeee about grammar. thankyou sir
Great tip Tom!
My real struggle is when a word ends in th and the next begins with an s 😅
Hey Erika, ok would you like to give me a few examples of this so I know specifically what you struggle with?
I would like you comment about the pronunciation of the "r" at the end of the words.
Subscribed 😊😊😊
When teaching properties of English consonants, I told my students that l is a lateral sound not an alveolar sound!
This is a very fundamental question.
I am a Japanese and Japanese do not have the consciousness or habit of *recognizing consonants alone* as speech sound. So when listening to *"light/right"* , we (I) do not recognize the sounds *"l"* or *"r"* alone, but rather *"la"* and *"ra"* combined with vowels. In other words, we recognize the *INSTANTANEOUS EXPLOSIVE SOUND* of the *TRANSITION* changing from a consonant to a vowel. I think/doubt that native speakers recognize the consonant alone before the explosive transition.
*LA = lll la aaaa, RA = rrr ra aaaa*
where *"la"* and *"ra"* express an explosive transision
Since I am Japanese, I cannot hear *"lll"* and *"rrr"* part and hear only the very short explosive part *"la"* and *"ra"* . Do You, native english speakers, really produce/recognize the preceeding part *"lll"* or *"rrr"* ?
Or you also produce only after *"la"* and *"ra"* part as Japanese?
I think the short explosive part *"la" and "ra" are similar even to native speakers* and it can be a main reason that Japanese can not distinguish the two sound "L" and "R" in English. It also explain that Japanese are bad at distinguishing explosive sound *"ba"* and fricative sound *"va"* . I think Japanese people unconsciously recognize the parts that are close to rupture and ignore the important sound before it. These short explosive parts are similar.
To sum up, *MY QUESTION* is whether *ENGLISH NATIVE SPEAKERS PRODUCE/RECOGNIZE A CONSONANT BEFORE THE EXPLOSIVE TRANSITION "LA" AND "RA"?*
Some people respond and some don't, and I want to ask many native speakers, so I think I'll post the same question in several movies in RUclips. I apologize to those who find it annoying to see similar comments multiple times.
It is often said that the consonants of *Japanese people are very short* .
This fits well with the possibility described above. For Japanese people, amoung the sequence of sounds *ccc cv vvv* where c is a consonant and v is a vowel, only the "cv" part is important, and "ccc" is a sound that produced without intension. Extremely speaking, there is "no need to produce ccc for Japanese".* On the other hand, for English native speakers, ccc may be important and cv is a sound that is inevitablly produced. So Japanese people might try to estimate the consonant from the garbage or noise part for native speakers.
Hello Tom. I’ve been followed you channel for almost a year and I’d love a video by you showing differences between long and short vowels.
With words like:
heat vs hit
Sheep vs ship
My rewards from Mexico xoxo
Hiii, Tom! Really brilliant tip hahahaha I was thinking though, what about the "r" sound in the end of words like "over" in British Pronunciation, for example? Is the sound we do in "Brighton" or "right" the same as in "over" or even "words" in British English? Thanks xx
Have been wondering for a long time how to pronounce THe during fast speaking. It's too hard to make clear TH sound instead of pronouncing it by D like "De", but i try to aviod it. It would be an interesting film about how do Brits handle with this issue.
My life's first like goes to his video :)
Hi Dear Teacher Tom! How have you been?... Great lesson as always. Thank you for that.
Regards from Peru 🇵🇪
I'm doing great Brian, thanks for watching all the way over there in Peru!!! Abrazos desde Londres
Can You do a video about Keira Knightley and Emilia Clarke's accent, please? 🙏
I really love how They speak 🎶😍
Hi Tom, i d also like to be able to pronoumce words ending with S and starting with TH. Once i said "i was thinking..." But it seems i say "i was stinking". Sounds a bit weird.could please explain it? Thanks mate👍
In the way you've explained the "L" sound turns out to be palatalized or softened. It is all right when "L" is followed by a vowel but when a word ends with "L" like ALL, TALL, SMALL, BALL, DOLL it must sound hard (at least in RP).
I've heard a lot when native speakers pronounce it soft in these words but they speak Southern English.
By the way Tom pronounces it also soft in the words like "ALL". And that is not RP.
I will try the R sound with that trick to avoid my rolling rrrrrr. By the way thinking about it in front of customers... It will be funny for them!
The trick for making the correct sound for "s" and "z" please. Thanks in advance.
A few examples to practice the s sound might be sissors, sun song.
For z zombie, zoo, buzzer.
How to (or not to) pronounce the r at the end of a word, like sister, mother, brother, both in british and american (southern) english ...
What about dark l and all that?
wish you could learn us th eright pronunciation of letters T , D and K. because sometimes I hear them as if they are aspirated.
Thanks you, Tom. Very awesome. Reading alone allows you to really relax.
Not very appropriate. There is in Russian. На дворе трава, на траве дрова. Не руби дрова на траве двора. Is very similar :)) But It's another story and others "rrrrrrrrrrrr"
Nice tips to pronounce r, l, n
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Hi mate,
For me it is thoroughly difficult TH sound 🥰
Hi Tom
Could you let me know if people still say much obliged instead of thank you so much recently in the next video?
😃😃😃😊
Great, I love it!
=click fingers, clap hands
;-)
👏 😃 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Laura : )
And then, a moment later.. crash and burn.. my r seems to be permanently broken.. I shall push on with the practice but I fear my r is always going to come off a bit sharp? My Spanish R can only come off properly if I purr like a cat first. Any American speakers have a hint on this?..mine sounds like a pirate, middle of mouth.. arhhh matey! Lol
I would like to know how to pronounce the dark L
My dad said I'm crazy because I was sounding with my headphone on! Where was Grace by the way?
Your secret tip is phonetics? As a philology student I can't say I'm surprised 🤓
hiya Tom, could you do sth like this for "a" sounds? much love x
I know it might get annoying after a while, but if your students repeat the word "null" over and over, it might help them. Your examples are better, though.
It was a great excercise, thank you! But still pronouncing the word "literally" is a nightmare for me. :)
L
2nd 😂
Reply me my boss
I don't understand why are we learning the N sounds? It has one type of it.
Hey Daniel, we are using the /n/ sound, which almost all students can make, to help us find the correct mouth positions to make the /l/ and /r/ sounds which students find very hard. It's a little trick I have used with my students in classes for years.
@@EatSleepDreamEnglish okay,clear now
Thankyou!
You are very welcome Syakira : )