Even though I'm English, I love watching your videos-- you're SO enthusiastic and such a great teacher. If I was learning English, I'd want you as an instructor! Another bang -up job there, Tom! Dream on! 💛
Here in India I heard many people saying that American accent is better than the British.But to be honest British accent is the real and original.i fell very happy when I listen British accent.thank you Tom for your another magnificent video for us.it will be helpful for us in listing from native speakers of English.
True even I am Indian, I do speak like my dad and he has British accent. Being different than my friends and class mates I was bullied about it but but soon I realised that I was right in pronounciation. People in India are confused between the accents and speak with all of it together. We prefer British grammar and American accent and it is very difficult to understand and unpleasant at times. Agree?
I wouldn't really say one way of speaking is better than the other. Both Americans and Brits are speaking english, just in a different accent and dialect. Same goes for those in London or those in Glasgow. Or Southern Americans and Northern. It's just pronunciation. Theres no right or wrong, better or worse, way of speaking English.
Jennifer you are right but when you hear all British, American, so called Indian and Australian accents together it will irritate your ears and will confuse you, you won't be able to understand the conversation. So if we use either of them it's all OK but not all of them.
I’m watching your videos for quite some time now and it helps soooo much! My English Teacher just asked me if I did an exchange year in England and I was like nooo but Tom makes us all a bit english so thanks for that Tom❤️
Oh my gosh!!! I'm so surprised that you teach us this way so keep up the good work my amazing teacher may God bless you 🙏 more i was gonna give you something coz This great and amazing lesson is proper helpful
You are a life saver, I can find out by myself when to pronounce R or when to not i guess thats a bit talent. But i couldnt find out when to use glottal t, but you helped a LOT with the examples. Thanks!
HELLO! Thank you very much for doing what you do.... my english was the worst when I was younger, my dad usted to talk to me in english all the time, yet I still couldn't pronounce correctly. My father have lived in the US and also in London, therefore he had a mixed pronunciation, and all the words I learned from him were a mixture too. Thanks to your videos I've switched 100% my pronunciation to british and in very happy and proud about it. Couldn't be happier :) pd: my father watches your videos with me all the time, we both learned :D
It sounds cool when I use glottal T, but it may be difficult to understand by my friends when I use it because most of them unfamiliar with british english. Thank you for your lesson, Tom
I prefer using the true T sound. It's easier for me as a non-native speaker (I'm not sure there's such a word: non-native) :-) As always great lesson Tom. Thank you.
Well done friend! Now I can spot the glottal T sound better! You always give us the Kind of tips that are useful to improve our listening skills. Thanks! 🤗
In Greece we learn American english but I love English accent!! The glottal T is very important and I'm really glad that I've learned how to use it, even though it would be difficult for me, and I'm pretty sure I will sound funny!!
I've recognised I often use glottal T! That may be why my American friends say my English sounds British. Well, my drama teacher told me to use true T instead, but when I just chat with friends in informal situation using glottal T makes it so much easier.
Dude you r stepping forward with your amazing lessons, taking us from one level to higher one smoothly. thanks a lot Tom Regards, Your permanent student Ahmad, ☺👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Yeah i found it useful to practice. Thank you Tom. But i guess if one day i have to speak English in the Uk i will try to use bbc English accent, lol. Your globbal t and other different stuffs are bloody cool but i think i can't get used to these to speak in this way. But it is of course necessary to understand what british say. Useful lesson&good explanation, thank you.
Hi teacher Tom - your channel is superb! Although I really enjoy studying British English, imitating British accents is not my thing at all. I rather try to reduce my German accent than to acquire a 'fake' one. Personally speaking, it's much more important to have a good command of the English language. If the foundation has been laid (being able to speak fluently), everything else follows afterwards.- It's just a matter of time, isn't it?
I partially agree with you, I also prefer to improve my mastery of English language and to try to reduce my foreign accent as much as possible.....personally I find the glottal T "unnatural" to pronounce considering that in my native language (Italian) I'm used to expressing the sound of every single consonant and vowel, however I think it's very important to know these particularities to improve the comprehension of the language spoken by a native speaker. I believe this is Tom's main goal with his video: Learners, choose the pronunciation most comfortable for you and learn to recognize the words you hear even if spoken with "non-standard" accent. Don't get me wrong, I find your comment very interesting and constructive and for this I expressed my point of view. Have a nice day! 🙋
Mat K_Boom you should not worry about your German accent as it is your native language (I guess) you should feel comfortable with it and of course your grammar ,fluency will matter. But if you are understandable to others with your pronunciation it's all great.....
I don‘t know about others, but I use the glottal T only when the T is at the end of words. Other T‘s I usually pronounce, but there I sometimes (but more rarely) glottalise as well.
I always drop the T in words like "that" or "but" and usually at the end of words. I'm not quite sure if all of it is correct but it just sounds more natural to me and it's easier to say.
That's a different phenomenon, and all English speakers do it. Tom is confusing a glottalized T with an unrealized T. In a glottalized T between vowels you close your throat (your glottis). In an unrealized T at the end of words you do the first half of the sound (moving your tongue up to your palate) but not the second half (pushing hard against the palate and making an explosive snap back to the middle).
Thank you Tom!....I think that if the glottal T is overused in a sentence the speech sounds a bit unpleasant. I remember a documentary film about Amy Winehouse and she said continously "You know what I mean" like "Ye naw waw ah mean" and other sentences in a very sloppy way. Sometimes also the flap T is used in British English, but in American and Australian English is more common
hi there! your channel’s so useful and you’re so nice, you make funny learning english! I hope to improve my pronunciation really soon and your videos help me very much in doing that! go on like this! Kisses from Italy 😘❤️
Tiny question. The glottal t is also present in General American English, such as mountain (moun'n) and sentence (sen'ns). Would someone from England who uses glottal t pronounce mountain and sentence that way too, or are the rules of glottal t different in different dialects? EDIT: Just remembered that I heard somewhere that some English speakers will at least occasionally glottalise k and p.
The glottal t is one of the biggest difference between British English and American English. If I tried to use it no one would understand me. However, I'm glad you brought this topic up because we do watch a lot of British television and movies over here. Not surprisingly though, we do still struggle at times with what the characters are saying. Usually with a combination of accent and their dialogue.
"If I tried to use it no one would understand me" - why so? I'm not sure if no one would comprehend that. Although it's a British speaking feature, American people would relate. That's not a big deal trying to complement missed sounds subconsciously.
The first time I saw the movie "Quadrophenia" in high school, it took ten minutes before I realized they were speaking English. A lot of it had to do with the heavy glottal t. And some accents glottalize p and k sometimes too, so it makes different words sound the same. One word in isolation is easy to tell: 'wa'er'. But when there's several of them in a row, it can be difficult to understand. Also, Americans have less exposure to British dialects than Brits do to American dialectws. Brits hear American English all the time in the movies and TV shows. But most of the British movies and TV shows and newscasts that Americans hear are in Received Pronunciation or something close to it. Americans have little exposure to Cockney and Scouse and Scottish English and other "thick" accents, so they're hard to understand.
Hi, we are an italian class, we followed you but we would like to discuss a few points with you, please give us an answer as soon as you get back! why do you call right the T with no glottal sound? take care!
My good dude, your assertion that modern RP also allows the glottal T tastes somewhat like ... hmmm! Bull? I was waiting for you to provide an example or two but was unsurprised when none were forthcoming. Could you show me where I went wrong, perhaps? Awfully kind if you do!
Even though I'm English, I love watching your videos-- you're SO enthusiastic and such a great teacher. If I was learning English, I'd want you as an instructor! Another bang -up job there, Tom! Dream on! 💛
Here in India I heard many people saying that American accent is better than the British.But to be honest British accent is the real and original.i fell very happy when I listen British accent.thank you Tom for your another magnificent video for us.it will be helpful for us in listing from native speakers of English.
True even I am Indian, I do speak like my dad and he has British accent. Being different than my friends and class mates I was bullied about it but but soon I realised that I was right in pronounciation. People in India are confused between the accents and speak with all of it together. We prefer British grammar and American accent and it is very difficult to understand and unpleasant at times. Agree?
Sanskruti Rajpure I agree with you.
I wouldn't really say one way of speaking is better than the other. Both Americans and Brits are speaking english, just in a different accent and dialect. Same goes for those in London or those in Glasgow. Or Southern Americans and Northern. It's just pronunciation. Theres no right or wrong, better or worse, way of speaking English.
Jennifer you may be right.but I love British accent.
Jennifer you are right but when you hear all British, American, so called Indian and Australian accents together it will irritate your ears and will confuse you, you won't be able to understand the conversation. So if we use either of them it's all OK but not all of them.
I love when you says "important" and "button" with your accent(Glottal T),sounds is so beautiful.😊
In Argentina most people speak using the glottal S, which sounds frightfully common !😄😀😄😀😄Un abrazo, from Olivos, Buenos Aires🇦🇷🏴🇬🇧🇦🇷🏴🇬🇧
I’m watching your videos for quite some time now and it helps soooo much! My English Teacher just asked me if I did an exchange year in England and I was like nooo but Tom makes us all a bit english so thanks for that Tom❤️
OH Tom, WE´VE JUST PRACTISED WITH MY SMART STUDENTS IN ARGENTINA. THANKS FOR YOUR IMPUT
Oh my gosh!!! I'm so surprised that you teach us this way so keep up the good work my amazing teacher may God bless you 🙏 more i was gonna give you something coz This great and amazing lesson is proper helpful
I really enjoyed it ,I checked so many videos to understand better the golttal t ,but yours was the best and the clearest .A brilliant teacher 😊
Some Brits here in the UK told me to try to avoid the glottal T, especially if I'm going for a job interview, as it sounds uneducated.
Thank you Tom! Very useful! I enjoyed the exercise part, I enjoy practicing pronounciation out loud at home!
Very useful lesson about how language changes. Thank you, as usual.
I just realized I use gluttel T naturally when I say little , it's easier .
I love accent videos 👍💕 thank you so much .
This was so interesting! I won't use the glottal T, but I found this video very educative to understand others, especially British.
Thank you very....very much. It's cool! It's wonderful. Tom, your lessons are the best.Your precise articulation is very good
You are a life saver, I can find out by myself when to pronounce R or when to not i guess thats a bit talent. But i couldnt find out when to use glottal t, but you helped a LOT with the examples. Thanks!
I'm an American english speaker and have always found the glottal t incredibly interesting. Thank you for making this video.
HELLO! Thank you very much for doing what you do.... my english was the worst when I was younger, my dad usted to talk to me in english all the time, yet I still couldn't pronounce correctly. My father have lived in the US and also in London, therefore he had a mixed pronunciation, and all the words I learned from him were a mixture too. Thanks to your videos I've switched 100% my pronunciation to british and in very happy and proud about it. Couldn't be happier :) pd: my father watches your videos with me all the time, we both learned :D
Hi Tom, practice section is super helpfull, thank you for your time that you spend on making videos for us. Greetings from Poland ;)
It sounds cool when I use glottal T, but it may be difficult to understand by my friends when I use it because most of them unfamiliar with british english. Thank you for your lesson, Tom
Thank you, Tom! Your video is so useful for me! More video with informal British words, please)
I do enjoy this glottal thing today.... It's flourishing my English.... Thank you Tom
Really great video, I always doubt myself about wether or not I am dropping the T properly. But turns out I am. Thanks a lot!
Sir. Your way of teaching is impressive and your voice is appealing.
Thanks
I prefer using the true T sound. It's easier for me as a non-native speaker (I'm not sure there's such a word: non-native) :-) As always great lesson Tom. Thank you.
flyingazorean non-native is a word
Me reading your comment with glottal Ts 🗿
Many thanks Tom! I asked for this few months ago and you said you will do.
Well done friend! Now I can spot the glottal T sound better! You always give us the Kind of tips that are useful to improve our listening skills. Thanks! 🤗
I loved that practice section. I almost did it perfectly lol. Please keep doing it!
I LOVE THE PRACTICE SECTION PART.
The practice part of the video was perfectly fine! I could conceive that I was on the phone with a native English bloke!
Ta! :)
I love learning English with your videos. These are super useful. Thank you so much Tom for this amazing video 😊
In Greece we learn American english but I love English accent!! The glottal T is very important and I'm really glad that I've learned how to use it, even though it would be difficult for me, and I'm pretty sure I will sound funny!!
I've been waiting for this topic Thanks!
Thank you so much Tom! As always an amazing class, very important for improving our listening and speaking skills..a huge hug!
Love the practice section of the video! More please!!!!
Another lovely lesson...
Thanks for helping us to improve our English
keep going on please!!!!
I've recognised I often use glottal T! That may be why my American friends say my English sounds British.
Well, my drama teacher told me to use true T instead, but when I just chat with friends in informal situation using glottal T makes it so much easier.
You are very helpful and pushing our English skills with out us noticing it that's great
Great video!
Please continue doing the practice sections. 👏👌😊
Yes Tom loved the examples!
Dude
you r stepping forward with your amazing lessons, taking us from one level to higher one smoothly.
thanks a lot Tom
Regards,
Your permanent student
Ahmad,
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47Sukhoi “dude” 🤭
Waoh..thx Tom ! I never thought of it that way 🙌🏼
Thank you very much Tom! I keep in mind this lesson :)
Thanky, dude! I did delight practising... Greetings from Mexico!
Thank you so much Teacher Tom. I’m really in love With your English accent and Yh I did enjoy your Useful Lesson 😃😍.
Thanks for your efforts.
Indeed I enjoy practice with you.
Great job, well-done! Super English teacher!
Alwaysss love it! I am learning to have british accent. It's tough.
Fantastic!
Thanks ever so much,Tom!
Always enjoy watching your videos...thanks
Thank you Tom for being awesome 😍😍😍 sending you a lots of love 💖💖💖💖, plis Do it again Tom, more about "glottal T"
I wait for this lesson... thank you tom. Love you forever
Great video! Thank you a lot.
Yeah i found it useful to practice. Thank you Tom. But i guess if one day i have to speak English in the Uk i will try to use bbc English accent, lol. Your globbal t and other different stuffs are bloody cool but i think i can't get used to these to speak in this way. But it is of course necessary to understand what british say. Useful lesson&good explanation, thank you.
thank you so much for doing all this videos they are really helpful
Thanks for the video. I have no idea about what is glottal t before watching the video.
Always love your content 💜
Lovely tips
Thanks Tom.
I'm gonna use more and more the glottal T! Let's start tomorrow :)
So useful, please make more videos like this one 👍🏻
thank you so much. recommend some podcast for English learners with differents accents from Britain.
Thank you so much Tom ❤
Hi teacher Tom - your channel is superb! Although I really enjoy studying British English, imitating British accents is not my thing at all. I rather try to reduce my German accent than to acquire a 'fake' one. Personally speaking, it's much more important to have a good command of the English language. If the foundation has been laid (being able to speak fluently), everything else follows afterwards.- It's just a matter of time, isn't it?
I partially agree with you, I also prefer to improve my mastery of English language and to try to reduce my foreign accent as much as possible.....personally I find the glottal T "unnatural" to pronounce considering that in my native language (Italian) I'm used to expressing the sound of every single consonant and vowel, however I think it's very important to know these particularities to improve the comprehension of the language spoken by a native speaker. I believe this is Tom's main goal with his video: Learners, choose the pronunciation most comfortable for you and learn to recognize the words you hear even if spoken with "non-standard" accent.
Don't get me wrong, I find your comment very interesting and constructive and for this I expressed my point of view. Have a nice day! 🙋
Mat K_Boom you should not worry about your German accent as it is your native language (I guess) you should feel comfortable with it and of course your grammar ,fluency will matter. But if you are understandable to others with your pronunciation it's all great.....
I don‘t know about others, but I use the glottal T only when the T is at the end of words. Other T‘s I usually pronounce, but there I sometimes (but more rarely) glottalise as well.
Glottal is a funny way to speak English and to understand better the English culture. Thanks Tom.
The examples at the end of the video were awesome!
As if I were in a classroom 😄
you are a perfect teacher, thanks😉💜
I love the practice part!
Thanks for your tips I will watch the video now 🤗
I always drop the T in words like "that" or "but" and usually at the end of words. I'm not quite sure if all of it is correct but it just sounds more natural to me and it's easier to say.
That's a different phenomenon, and all English speakers do it. Tom is confusing a glottalized T with an unrealized T. In a glottalized T between vowels you close your throat (your glottis). In an unrealized T at the end of words you do the first half of the sound (moving your tongue up to your palate) but not the second half (pushing hard against the palate and making an explosive snap back to the middle).
We actually need more examples and vocab for glottal T (this video is fab 👍)
Thanks Tom! (Yes, that would be great if there's practice section.)
Hi, Mr.
It's an amazing video.
Thanks very much.
Could you please tell us some techniques for improving our speaking skills? Thanks again.
So interesting, as always😉😻
I love the practice
aye! it was great to practice then listen to ya so ! lets do it again. thanks
Excellent topic!!
Thank you Tom!....I think that if the glottal T is overused in a sentence the speech sounds a bit unpleasant. I remember a documentary film about Amy Winehouse and she said continously "You know what I mean" like "Ye naw waw ah mean" and other sentences in a very sloppy way.
Sometimes also the flap T is used in British English, but in American and Australian English is more common
hi there! your channel’s so useful and you’re so nice, you make funny learning english! I hope to improve my pronunciation really soon and your videos help me very much in doing that! go on like this! Kisses from Italy 😘❤️
MasaaAllaah, What a beautiful accent of you, Boss!
Love this video ❤️.
Nice...sorry for bien not watching for the past week...now..another leason sir...cheers for that
The practice section is really useful! but omg this sound is killing me..it's so difficult to omit this T! hope it will get easier with practice.
I enjoy the quiz , do it always!
I really enoyed Practise section
Its better for us if u make seperate video for practise section with more examples.
I really enjoyed it
I really love British accent!
Tiny question. The glottal t is also present in General American English, such as mountain (moun'n) and sentence (sen'ns). Would someone from England who uses glottal t pronounce mountain and sentence that way too, or are the rules of glottal t different in different dialects?
EDIT:
Just remembered that I heard somewhere that some English speakers will at least occasionally glottalise k and p.
I feling like more example about the gottal T although It was a amazing video ..keeping up! ..
Can you say glottal T while using the Glottal T??
V. Martz I guess we can
Yes. He was clearly trying hard not to say "glo'l T".
thank you for this😍
i feel like the glottal t sounds perfect
The glottal t is one of the biggest difference between British English
and American English. If I tried to use it no one would understand me.
However, I'm glad you brought this topic up because we do watch a lot of
British television and movies over here. Not surprisingly though, we do
still struggle at times with what the characters are saying. Usually with a
combination of accent and their dialogue.
"If I tried to use it no one would understand me" - why so? I'm not sure if no one would comprehend that. Although it's a British speaking feature, American people would relate. That's not a big deal trying to complement missed sounds subconsciously.
The first time I saw the movie "Quadrophenia" in high school, it took ten minutes before I realized they were speaking English. A lot of it had to do with the heavy glottal t. And some accents glottalize p and k sometimes too, so it makes different words sound the same. One word in isolation is easy to tell: 'wa'er'. But when there's several of them in a row, it can be difficult to understand. Also, Americans have less exposure to British dialects than Brits do to American dialectws. Brits hear American English all the time in the movies and TV shows. But most of the British movies and TV shows and newscasts that Americans hear are in Received Pronunciation or something close to it. Americans have little exposure to Cockney and Scouse and Scottish English and other "thick" accents, so they're hard to understand.
Thanks for such an expanded opinion! :)
Could you please make more videos about glottal T and true T sound, Thanks
Lovely!!! Cheers 😃👍
Thank you Tom
Can you make a video about the Flap T in british english？
Go ahead.
Still practicing....thank you :)
Hi, we are an italian class, we followed you but we would like to discuss a few points with you, please give us an answer as soon as you get back! why do you call right the T with no glottal sound? take care!
My good dude, your assertion that modern RP also allows the glottal T tastes somewhat like ... hmmm! Bull? I was waiting for you to provide an example or two but was unsurprised when none were forthcoming. Could you show me where I went wrong, perhaps? Awfully kind if you do!
Thanks a lot!