Hi everyone, thanks so much for the comments in response to last week's episode about the new baby! Here's an episode all about working on your pronunciation. Two Lukes in one video. The audio version has 20+ mins more content. Listen to it in a podcast app on your phone 👉 pod.link/312059190/episode/c9cb76e2c24f92718fb615f5dfe227b1
Hi Luke 😊 and thank you for inviting Luke Nicholson! I knew him time ago when I watched one of his videos here on UA-cam, "Why do Italians sound Italian?". It turned out to be a sort of an eye-opener to me! I realised that I used to make some of those mistakes listed in the video, such as adding extra vowels at the end of words, the TH sound, and S vs Z sound, without noticing it! And I also realised how important it is to be intelligible when speaking (perhaps more than perfect grammar!). And it's not about modifying our own accent (a delicate topic nowadays) but improving our pronunciation to be more comprehensible. So thank you again for this in-depth conversation about one of my favourite topics!
Hi Luke! Congratulations on the birth of your son and thank you so much for sharing a part of your life with us LEPsters. You offer us such a true to life insight into some aspects of the English language that would be otherwise very difficult achieve for those of us who don't live in an English speaking country. So thank you so much again. It was also lovely to hear from your wife too. ❤️ I also really appreciated your episode with Luke Nicholson. I'm a huge fan of phonetics and I always try to teach a little bit of it to my middle school students and they love it! Love listening to you. Ros
Luke’s pronunciation course is the best! I’ve taken more than half a dozen courses and Luke’s(a.k.a. the guest on this episode 😊) provides the most specific and detailed information about pronunciation including intonation, word stress! You must try should you be really serious about pronunciation!
Thank you so much Teacher Luke, always love listening to your podcasts,it’s free learning resources,I just need to practice English language communication skill.for me accent comes second on my list.thank you both of you, it was interesting
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏It is a real pleasure to listen to you both ! You speak gooooorgeous English without an accent, and I love it ! You make me feel at Cowdray Park Polo Club, in Midhurst !😄😀😄😀😄Un abrazo grande para los dos, from Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧
...Sorry, Luke...I'm just repeating what I used to hear in Midhurst. When the polo season was over I worked as a houseboy for a grand family related to the Royal family. I promise they were not a bunch of wankers, but I heard them saying or asking things like "Has she got an accent ?".... or "Of course he hasn't got an accent", and things like that. Te mando un abrazo enorme, man ! Me encanta tu inglés, y el de Luke Nicholson !🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧
Great episode ! At some point it remembered me the incipit of Lolita by Nabokov "“Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." :) thank you both !
I really love your podcasts, but this one is really the hardest for understanding, First of all because of your guest. Just feelings, Your pronunciation is much better than your guest's
Can you explain me why it's quite easy for me to understand British English ( I mean, these podcasts) and it's terribly difficult to understand American English? I am Argentinian and I learned English at school since I was 3, but I have never been in a real life situation as I have never been in England. So now at my sixties I find that all I have learnt in the past is still somewhere in my brain, and even if I have never had a native English teacher somehow I learnt British English. Anyway I love all your podcasts !!! Both Lukes are great !
Wow, 6 minutes ago!🎉 +) I’m Korean, I learned US English at school but Nowadays when I say english I really confuseing use which accent😂 Thank you for the making this video😊
Listening to you, guys, is something special! It"s like music to the ears! I wish all the native speakers spoke like you! :) I could understand any of them then :) Thank you very much!
I would really like to hear how Luke Nicholson speaks Vietnamese. I have been studying it for 2 years in the university with a Vietnamese speaker. Nevertheless, I still have some problems with prononciation. Of course, Vientamese people say my Vietnamese is great, but only my teacher points on my flaws. Vietnamese is a very beautiful and melodic language, but its pronunciation is not an easy thing to learn
Hi Luke, I'm the one of your flock who finds phonetics and phonology fascinating. I've got a few remarks concernig the accent: doesn't it depend on the vowels/syllables length? In many languages prefixes and suffixes (enclitics) are never stressed, that's why the accent can move backwards. Listening to you was a great pleasure 😊 thanks a lot!
In English, suffixes can change the position of the primary stress. Compare: ENgine vs engiNEER (-eer suffix stressed), COMmerce vs comMERcial (stress 1 syllable before -ial suffix), INdicate and inVEstigate (stress is 2 syllables before -ate suffix). Prefixes don't usually affect the stress pattern of words. These stress alternations do change vowel sounds (for instance the "o" in commerce is different to the "o" in commercial).
Very difficult the pronunciation to me as a Brazilian 😅 Letter "I" is the worst because its sound changes. Now, I'm in New Zealand and locals here say the letter "E" different for all the world 😂😂😂
As always, great conversation, Luke! I have listened this one with a special attention, may I say, as I have decided to become an English teacher myself at the age of 27, or not a proper teacher really, but rather a tutor for now (I do not have a diploma unfortunately - I dunno , maybe it is a bit (or not a bit, but very) irresponsible for me to teach people without having one). I wonder though, is it worth it to start the career at that age, isn’t it too late for me? As you can tell, MY level of English is not that great, it is quite hard for me to formulate the thoughts - I probably should take some classes for myself before teaching anyone else :D
Hi, Luke, you really do not know how much I am delightful to see you. It is my daily basis activity to watch your informative videos. Thanks a lotttttt.
Hello teacher Luke, I personally appreciate you and what you are striving to do to help people around the world who are struggling with speaking the language. You have such an artistic and creative way of teaching that makes students feel motivated and enthusiastic about English. I can certainly say that you are born to be a teacher. I have been learning English for over a decade, and I can use the language independently and confidently. I know English is one of the hardest languages to master. On the other hand, being able to hold a conversation in English is not that challenging, but mastering it takes a lot of effort and time. Here is the question I have for you today. When it comes to movies, podcasters, and some individuals like Elon Musk, hip-hop artists, and stand-up comedians, their English is sometimes difficult for me to catch the pronunciation of every word they say. I have tried my best to solve this problem, but I can't find anything or anyone. Would you mind helping me out with this problem? What is the real magic to getting the hang of all accents and natives' real-life English? Let me tell you one thing that I surely know. The English you are speaking in all of your videos is entirely understandable for me, and I think this is not the way you speak with your friends and family, right? But what I am really looking for is the English that you use with your native counterparts. When you speak English in your videos, you enunciate every word clearly, and this in turn helps us understand what you say vividly. But the thing is, nobody or no native speaker speaks like that in real-life situations. I am looking forward to hearing your kind and constructive remarks. thank you I am Misganaw from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Hi Misganaw, it might be worth studying weak forms, assimilation and elision. These pronunciation topics will help you understand spoken English more easily. You can find information about practice for these topics in my course.
Sigo a Luke en sus podcasts, también a Marcus Carter un filólogo de la lengua Inglesa, británico radicado en España, actualmente tiene en UA-cam su in live de fonética todos los sábados a las 7 de la tarde hora de España, me ha servido mucho, enseña la pronunciación norteamericana y la británica, siempre haciendo uso de la tabla fonética internacional -IPA. Ojalá te sirva para comprender a los nativos.
Hi! I have plenty of episodes specifically about English in my episode archive, here 👉www.teacherluke.co.uk/episodes And all my premium episodes always include vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation teaching 👉 www.teacherluke.co.uk/premiuminfo
As English teachers, you should think outside the books as well as you think outside the box. Maybe a cheesy joke, but I give you leave to use it! lol Love from Morocco.
As a person who likes to learn not only a language but about languages as well I find it fascinating! But I'm a sheep from that part of flock which can't deal with all this stuff😁 for me, as the other Luke says, the best way to improve my pronunciation is to listen and imitate. Strangely enough, recently, I've noticed an interesting thing, before I started to learn English it was easy for me to sing along with my favourite american singers but now my singing is more on a British side so I have to make a mental and physical effort to reproduce american sounds
I really like the idea of Luke that there is no such thing as strange spelling, it's just you're unfamiliar with the language. It's so true! In Chinese, some words and grammars are very strange to learners at first, but once you get the reason behind it, everything just make sense and not that hard anymore. This episode answered so many of my questions about English learning, really appreciate!
It sounds weird... why do people try to eliminate their accent? Your accent it's a part of you... More strange and stupid to state that improvement accent can increase the intelligence))) Lucy gave apologies for this recently... Luke, be careful with picking up the interlocutors...
I think you’ve misunderstood. It’s “intelligibility” (clarity) not “intelligence”. Luke is talking about improving your clarity when speaking, not about eliminating an accent, although some people do want to remove their accent in some cases.
@@RoseReadings absolutely... If u are understandable, it's fine.. Moreover for me, as a non-native speaker is not possible to discern the difference between Glasgow and Manchester accents at all... For me both of them are same...
@@evgenyk.4681 As other Luke explained, I was talking about "intelligibility", not "intelligence". The latter has nothing to do with your accent. If you want to understand how to differentiate different UK accents, check out the accent videos on my UA-cam channel.
Luke, as everyone else, seems consider phonetics, or pronunciation for that matter, as intell8gable pronunciation of individual sounds. In practice, however, very few students experience problems with imitating sounds in English, or if they do, it doesn't in fact hinder intelligibility. What they really struggle with is intonation, rhythm and word stress. English intonation and rhythm are alien to speakers of other languages and require sufficient time and effort to get yor head around and get it right and, what's more challenging get used to it and develop the instinct of speaking that way. Does Luke work with these as well?
Yes he does. At one point in the conversation he says something to the effect of “we are only talking about sounds here but there’s a lot more including intonation and stress.”
I don't consider pronunciation simply to do with segmentals (individual sounds), however segmentals do cause communication breakdowns. I've been teaching pronunciation for over a decade and have heard numerous students explain to me that they have repeated one individual word multiple times with the listener not understanding. The cause was one or two sounds within the word, not stress. I would also like to add that many adults can't imitate sounds without instruction. Now onto suprasegmentals (word stress, rhythm, intonation): yes, I do teach this too. It's worth noting that English intonation and rhythm aren't completely alien to all languages (e.g. Germanic languages). My course has extensive materials for the suprasegmentals of Standard Southern British English (note that the segmentals and suprasegmentals are different for different varieties of English). What hinders intelligibility is different for every individual. For some people it's segmentals and others it's suprasegmentals. The teacher needs to decide what the priorities are. It's also worth pointing out that intelligibility is contextual. I talk about this on my funetics site: www.funetics.com/topic/pV
Hello Luke. Thanks for an interesting episode, but an excess of theoretical content spoils the practical aspects. The most effective way to master the accent is to find an good audiobook narrated by someone whose voice and accent you like and emulate their pronunciation. Start by mimicking individual words, progress to short phrases, and then to entire paragraphs, and so forth. There are many specialized applications to manipulate with your sample recordings in the needed way. But the main point in this is to listen carefully to your own speech. If you can't listen all accent training is useluss. A helpful implement for listeneing may be a simple notebook, not for writing, but as a listening aid. Partly open the notebook to the middle, (as if forming the letter L if to look from top edge). Put one side (a page) closer to your mouth and the other page to your ear. This works like a sound-duct and enhances the ability to hear more distinctly what you say. Alternatively, the may be a combination of both hands with palms positioned at right angles to each other and put one close to the mouth with the other to the ear. Although in this case both hands will not be free. Of course, it's good to know some basics of articulation at the beginning, but without delving into complex linguistic terminology, schemes and pictures, unless you intend to pursue a degree in linguistics. The purpose of the basics is to understand and feel how articulating muscles work. And the key element is relentless practice. Only through consistent and dedicated practice one will pick up on all the subtle nuances of pronunciation.
Good points, but to be fair Luke does explain the importance of getting feedback on your pronunciation. Those comments come nearer the end of the episode.
Unfortunately, the "listen-and-repeat" method very rarely works (loads of research has been done on this). Most people think they are imitating the sounds/rhythmic patterns correctly, but they aren't. That's why learning about pronunciation and training your ears helps enormously. In fact, without pronunciation training, most people will simply reinforce pronunciation mistakes while listening and repeating to an audiobook. I know, because I've worked with many students who have tried this method before coming to me for help.
Hi everyone, thanks so much for the comments in response to last week's episode about the new baby! Here's an episode all about working on your pronunciation. Two Lukes in one video. The audio version has 20+ mins more content. Listen to it in a podcast app on your phone 👉 pod.link/312059190/episode/c9cb76e2c24f92718fb615f5dfe227b1
Great lesson and you look very nice videos 👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you ☕️☕️🍀🍀🍀
Thanks bro but i don't like this fake Luke
Oh, this Luke Nicholson is absolutely awesome! Thank you, Luke, for inviting him. He is definitely an artist.
Hi Luke 😊 and thank you for inviting Luke Nicholson!
I knew him time ago when I watched one of his videos here on UA-cam, "Why do Italians sound Italian?". It turned out to be a sort of an eye-opener to me! I realised that I used to make some of those mistakes listed in the video, such as adding extra vowels at the end of words, the TH sound, and S vs Z sound, without noticing it! And I also realised how important it is to be intelligible when speaking (perhaps more than perfect grammar!).
And it's not about modifying our own accent (a delicate topic nowadays) but improving our pronunciation to be more comprehensible.
So thank you again for this in-depth conversation about one of my favourite topics!
It's heartening to see both Lukes together! ❤ 😍 Luke's English Podcast is very helpful in studying English language!!👍👌 🙏
What a wonderful guest and what an amazing conversation!!! Thank you so mush, Lukes, it was such a pleasure to listen to this episode! 🙂
What a relief to see that there are pronunciation teachers among us who don't push the speak-like-a-native agenda.
The best 2 Lukeiiies in the world of English 😅.. thank you so much, really insightful session 👍
This podcast was sooo amazing!!! ❤❤
Wow...fantastic conversation...informative
Hi Luke!
Congratulations on the birth of your son and thank you so much for sharing a part of your life with us LEPsters. You offer us such a true to life insight into some aspects of the English language that would be otherwise very difficult achieve for those of us who don't live in an English speaking country. So thank you so much again. It was also lovely to hear from your wife too. ❤️
I also really appreciated your episode with Luke Nicholson. I'm a huge fan of phonetics and I always try to teach a little bit of it to my middle school students and they love it!
Love listening to you.
Ros
Luke’s pronunciation course is the best! I’ve taken more than half a dozen courses and Luke’s(a.k.a. the guest on this episode 😊) provides the most specific and detailed information about pronunciation including intonation, word stress! You must try should you be really serious about pronunciation!
Thank you ☺
Brazilian here watching !!!!! 🎉 thanks for sharing your expertise!!!!❤
Wonderful, Double - Luke!
Your clear voice is God gifted 💖
I loved this episode. Thank you.
Two legend in a single frame.
I’m Brazilian 🇧🇷 Luke. Haha
Hugs from Brazil. ☺️
Thank you for the awesome lesson:)
Thank you so much Teacher Luke, always love listening to your podcasts,it’s free learning resources,I just need to practice English language communication skill.for me accent comes second on my list.thank you both of you, it was interesting
This is Mit, I am a Cambodian student. I like watching your videos
I love you podcast all at of Luke's
OMG！！！ I like this video! Thank you so much for shooting this:)
Hi "Lucky", greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷😂
Excellent podcast😊
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏It is a real pleasure to listen to you both ! You speak gooooorgeous English without an accent, and I love it ! You make me feel at Cowdray Park Polo Club, in Midhurst !😄😀😄😀😄Un abrazo grande para los dos, from Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧
There’s no such thing as speaking English without an accent!
Glad you enjoyed the episode though.
...Sorry, Luke...I'm just repeating what I used to hear in Midhurst.
When the polo season was over I worked as a houseboy for a grand family related to the Royal family.
I promise they were not a bunch of wankers, but I heard them saying or asking things like "Has she got an accent ?".... or "Of course he hasn't got an accent", and things like that.
Te mando un abrazo enorme, man !
Me encanta tu inglés, y el de Luke Nicholson !🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧
También me encanta el inglés de tu padre, el de tu madre y el de tu hermano !😄😀👍👍
Thnx
hi Luke ,i am from vietnam,thanks a lot because tell about vietnamese !
Interesting. Thanks
Two „lukealikes“ in one episode 😂😂😂
Hilarious... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great episode ! At some point it remembered me the incipit of Lolita by Nabokov "“Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." :) thank you both !
I’m just feel
How great science is language 😃
All is fair in pronunciation with intelligibility and identity.
Brasil here 🚩
Good life Leuke
I Love My Original Accent.
Luke's im sorry,corected
I really love your podcasts, but this one is really the hardest for understanding, First of all because of your guest. Just feelings,
I was intrigued about how to pronounce the name Luke correctly. You didn't teach. By the way, I'm a Brazilian student. Thanks.
Am I the only one who hears kind of a foreign accent in the guests🤔 pronunciation?
I really love your podcasts, but this one is really the hardest for understanding, First of all because of your guest. Just feelings,
Your pronunciation is much better than your guest's
You looks tired Luke 😮
This video is as fresh as bread at the baker's 🎉
I like the topic of pronunciation❤
Thank you, Luke.
Can you explain me why it's quite easy for me to understand British English ( I mean, these podcasts) and it's terribly difficult to understand American English? I am Argentinian and I learned English at school since I was 3, but I have never been in a real life situation as I have never been in England. So now at my sixties I find that all I have learnt in the past is still somewhere in my brain, and even if I have never had a native English teacher somehow I learnt British English. Anyway I love all your podcasts !!! Both Lukes are great !
Wow, 6 minutes ago!🎉
+) I’m Korean, I learned US English at school but Nowadays when I say english I really confuseing use which accent😂 Thank you for the making this video😊
سورة الدخان مكتوبة كاملة بالتشكيل | كتابة وقراءة

حمٓ (1) وَٱلۡكِتَٰبِ ٱلۡمُبِينِ (2) إِنَّآ أَنزَلۡنَٰهُ فِي لَيۡلَةٖ مُّبَٰرَكَةٍۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُنذِرِينَ (3) فِيهَا يُفۡرَقُ كُلُّ أَمۡرٍ حَكِيمٍ (4) أَمۡرٗا مِّنۡ عِندِنَآۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُرۡسِلِينَ (5) رَحۡمَةٗ مِّن رَّبِّكَۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ (6) رَبِّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَآۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ (7) لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحۡيِۦ وَيُمِيتُۖ رَبُّكُمۡ وَرَبُّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ (8) بَلۡ هُمۡ فِي شَكّٖ يَلۡعَبُونَ (9) فَٱرۡتَقِبۡ يَوۡمَ تَأۡتِي ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٖ مُّبِينٖ (10) يَغۡشَى ٱلنَّاسَۖ هَٰذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٞ (11) رَّبَّنَا ٱكۡشِفۡ عَنَّا ٱلۡعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤۡمِنُونَ (12) أَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ ٱلذِّكۡرَىٰ وَقَدۡ جَآءَهُمۡ رَسُولٞ مُّبِينٞ (13) ثُمَّ تَوَلَّوۡاْ عَنۡهُ وَقَالُواْ مُعَلَّمٞ مَّجۡنُونٌ (14) إِنَّا كَاشِفُواْ ٱلۡعَذَابِ قَلِيلًاۚ إِنَّكُمۡ عَآئِدُونَ (15) يَوۡمَ نَبۡطِشُ ٱلۡبَطۡشَةَ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰٓ إِنَّا مُنتَقِمُونَ (16) ۞وَلَقَدۡ فَتَنَّا قَبۡلَهُمۡ قَوۡمَ فِرۡعَوۡنَ وَجَآءَهُمۡ رَسُولٞ كَرِيمٌ (17) أَنۡ أَدُّوٓاْ إِلَيَّ عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِۖ إِنِّي لَكُمۡ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٞ (18) وَأَن لَّا تَعۡلُواْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِۖ إِنِّيٓ ءَاتِيكُم بِسُلۡطَٰنٖ مُّبِينٖ (19) وَإِنِّي عُذۡتُ بِرَبِّي وَرَبِّكُمۡ أَن تَرۡجُمُونِ (20)
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Great insights into the world of linguistics and English pronunciation, thank you Lukes, both of you!
Listening to you, guys, is something special! It"s like music to the ears! I wish all the native speakers spoke like you! :) I could understand any of them then :)
Thank you very much!
I accidentally read the title of the episode as Improve Your Pronunciation with Jack Nicholson and I screamed like WTF 😂😂😂😂
Not such a bad idea, actually.
@@LukesEnglishPodcast ✌️☺️
😂 sorry for the disappointment! But I'll ask my dad if he'll come on the podcast next month...
@@ImproveYourAccent 🙈🙈
That’d be great 😊
Hi Luke, thanks for your podcast and VIETNAMESE in this video, from VIETNAM with love !
I would really like to hear how Luke Nicholson speaks Vietnamese. I have been studying it for 2 years in the university with a Vietnamese speaker. Nevertheless, I still have some problems with prononciation. Of course, Vientamese people say my Vietnamese is great, but only my teacher points on my flaws. Vietnamese is a very beautiful and melodic language, but its pronunciation is not an easy thing to learn
Hi Luke, I'm the one of your flock who finds phonetics and phonology fascinating. I've got a few remarks concernig the accent: doesn't it depend on the vowels/syllables length? In many languages prefixes and suffixes (enclitics) are never stressed, that's why the accent can move backwards. Listening to you was a great pleasure 😊 thanks a lot!
In English, suffixes can change the position of the primary stress. Compare: ENgine vs engiNEER (-eer suffix stressed), COMmerce vs comMERcial (stress 1 syllable before -ial suffix), INdicate and inVEstigate (stress is 2 syllables before -ate suffix). Prefixes don't usually affect the stress pattern of words. These stress alternations do change vowel sounds (for instance the "o" in commerce is different to the "o" in commercial).
Also, I'm glad to hear you find phonetics and phonology fascinating ☺
Very difficult the pronunciation to me as a Brazilian 😅 Letter "I" is the worst because its sound changes. Now, I'm in New Zealand and locals here say the letter "E" different for all the world 😂😂😂
As always, great conversation, Luke! I have listened this one with a special attention, may I say, as I have decided to become an English teacher myself at the age of 27, or not a proper teacher really, but rather a tutor for now (I do not have a diploma unfortunately - I dunno , maybe it is a bit (or not a bit, but very) irresponsible for me to teach people without having one). I wonder though, is it worth it to start the career at that age, isn’t it too late for me? As you can tell, MY level of English is not that great, it is quite hard for me to formulate the thoughts - I probably should take some classes for myself before teaching anyone else :D
I’ve enjoyed this episode,Luke and Luke ! Lots of useful information 😊
Sometimes you soon don’t want to understand people, because everyone becomes like a robot. Thanks Luke, interesting episode!
Hi, Luke, you really do not know how much I am delightful to see you. It is my daily basis activity to watch your informative videos. Thanks a lotttttt.
Thanks for this opportunity to hear two Lukes at pronunciation
Hello teacher Luke, I personally appreciate you and what you are striving to do to help people around the world who are struggling with speaking the language. You have such an artistic and creative way of teaching that makes students feel motivated and enthusiastic about English. I can certainly say that you are born to be a teacher.
I have been learning English for over a decade, and I can use the language independently and confidently. I know English is one of the hardest languages to master. On the other hand, being able to hold a conversation in English is not that challenging, but mastering it takes a lot of effort and time. Here is the question I have for you today. When it comes to movies, podcasters, and some individuals like Elon Musk, hip-hop artists, and stand-up comedians, their English is sometimes difficult for me to catch the pronunciation of every word they say. I have tried my best to solve this problem, but I can't find anything or anyone. Would you mind helping me out with this problem? What is the real magic to getting the hang of all accents and natives' real-life English? Let me tell you one thing that I surely know. The English you are speaking in all of your videos is entirely understandable for me, and I think this is not the way you speak with your friends and family, right? But what I am really looking for is the English that you use with your native counterparts. When you speak English in your videos, you enunciate every word clearly, and this in turn helps us understand what you say vividly. But the thing is, nobody or no native speaker speaks like that in real-life situations. I am looking forward to hearing your kind and constructive remarks. thank you I am Misganaw from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Hi Misganaw, it might be worth studying weak forms, assimilation and elision. These pronunciation topics will help you understand spoken English more easily. You can find information about practice for these topics in my course.
@@ImproveYourAccent I appreciate it Sir
Sigo a Luke en sus podcasts, también a Marcus Carter un filólogo de la lengua Inglesa, británico radicado en España, actualmente tiene en UA-cam su in live de fonética todos los sábados a las 7 de la tarde hora de España, me ha servido mucho, enseña la pronunciación norteamericana y la británica, siempre haciendo uso de la tabla fonética internacional -IPA. Ojalá te sirva para comprender a los nativos.
In Bulgarian this ‘Wuke’ sound means “onion” (Лук) 😁
I forgot to mention the alternative version of my name: люк. Thanks for listening, Лук 🧅
Hi Lukes ❤
Hi from nepal🙏
this is the type of episode would love to see more often, where English podcast is actually about english!
Hi! I have plenty of episodes specifically about English in my episode archive, here 👉www.teacherluke.co.uk/episodes
And all my premium episodes always include vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation teaching 👉 www.teacherluke.co.uk/premiuminfo
As English teachers, you should think outside the books as well as you think outside the box. Maybe a cheesy joke, but I give you leave to use it! lol
Love from Morocco.
Thank you Mr Nicholson i m from Sénégal ,a french country but i love your method
There are many Lukes but you're the unique Luke from them...Lukeeee❤❤❤❤
Hey Luke, would you consider inviting ETJ English here?
I comment to get like from Mr.Luke and I'm going to watch this podcast little later as I added it in "watch later"option😅
As a person who likes to learn not only a language but about languages as well I find it fascinating!
But I'm a sheep from that part of flock which can't deal with all this stuff😁 for me, as the other Luke says, the best way to improve my pronunciation is to listen and imitate.
Strangely enough, recently, I've noticed an interesting thing, before I started to learn English it was easy for me to sing along with my favourite american singers but now my singing is more on a British side so I have to make a mental and physical effort to reproduce american sounds
I really like the idea of Luke that there is no such thing as strange spelling, it's just you're unfamiliar with the language. It's so true! In Chinese, some words and grammars are very strange to learners at first, but once you get the reason behind it, everything just make sense and not that hard anymore. This episode answered so many of my questions about English learning, really appreciate!
It sounds weird... why do people try to eliminate their accent?
Your accent it's a part of you...
More strange and stupid to state that improvement accent can increase the intelligence)))
Lucy gave apologies for this recently...
Luke, be careful with picking up the interlocutors...
I think you’ve misunderstood. It’s “intelligibility” (clarity) not “intelligence”. Luke is talking about improving your clarity when speaking, not about eliminating an accent, although some people do want to remove their accent in some cases.
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Thank u for clarification...
Maybe I've misunderstood..
@@RoseReadings absolutely...
If u are understandable, it's fine..
Moreover for me, as a non-native speaker is not possible to discern the difference between Glasgow and Manchester accents at all...
For me both of them are same...
@@evgenyk.4681 As other Luke explained, I was talking about "intelligibility", not "intelligence". The latter has nothing to do with your accent. If you want to understand how to differentiate different UK accents, check out the accent videos on my UA-cam channel.
Thanks Luke for your comment about our brazilian accent.
Thank You So Much Sir for your video i am the one Leaning english language.
Very fascinating subject indeed! Thanks for sharing this with us.
I'd like to see you on stream as twitch or youtube, it would be amazing
Thanks for this episode! Really helpful! 😊
Thank you Luke ❤ Im glad to have both of you to listen and to. 🙏
It is a wonderful podcast! Thanks you !!
This episode has been music to my ears, literally. Thank you!
First, Good morning Luke! ✨🏃🏻♀️
Thanks for your program and 🎉
Yar are my best accent coach❤
Beautiful episode 😊
Well done Mr.Luks
Thank you!
Always good.
Great as always
One Luke is so obviously overwhelmed and exhausted by the other Luke.
Or the newborn baby that I have at home.
Thank you ❤
Thank you
Excelente!!!
Great
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Luke, as everyone else, seems consider phonetics, or pronunciation for that matter, as intell8gable pronunciation of individual sounds. In practice, however, very few students experience problems with imitating sounds in English, or if they do, it doesn't in fact hinder intelligibility. What they really struggle with is intonation, rhythm and word stress. English intonation and rhythm are alien to speakers of other languages and require sufficient time and effort to get yor head around and get it right and, what's more challenging get used to it and develop the instinct of speaking that way. Does Luke work with these as well?
Yes he does. At one point in the conversation he says something to the effect of “we are only talking about sounds here but there’s a lot more including intonation and stress.”
I don't consider pronunciation simply to do with segmentals (individual sounds), however segmentals do cause communication breakdowns. I've been teaching pronunciation for over a decade and have heard numerous students explain to me that they have repeated one individual word multiple times with the listener not understanding. The cause was one or two sounds within the word, not stress. I would also like to add that many adults can't imitate sounds without instruction.
Now onto suprasegmentals (word stress, rhythm, intonation): yes, I do teach this too. It's worth noting that English intonation and rhythm aren't completely alien to all languages (e.g. Germanic languages). My course has extensive materials for the suprasegmentals of Standard Southern British English (note that the segmentals and suprasegmentals are different for different varieties of English).
What hinders intelligibility is different for every individual. For some people it's segmentals and others it's suprasegmentals. The teacher needs to decide what the priorities are. It's also worth pointing out that intelligibility is contextual. I talk about this on my funetics site: www.funetics.com/topic/pV
Hello Luke. Thanks for an interesting episode, but an excess of theoretical content spoils the practical aspects. The most effective way to master the accent is to find an good audiobook narrated by someone whose voice and accent you like and emulate their pronunciation. Start by mimicking individual words, progress to short phrases, and then to entire paragraphs, and so forth. There are many specialized applications to manipulate with your sample recordings in the needed way.
But the main point in this is to listen carefully to your own speech. If you can't listen all accent training is useluss.
A helpful implement for listeneing may be a simple notebook, not for writing, but as a listening aid.
Partly open the notebook to the middle, (as if forming the letter L if to look from top edge). Put one side (a page) closer to your mouth and the other page to your ear. This works like a sound-duct and enhances the ability to hear more distinctly what you say. Alternatively, the may be a combination of both hands with palms positioned at right angles to each other and put one close to the mouth with the other to the ear. Although in this case both hands will not be free.
Of course, it's good to know some basics of articulation at the beginning, but without delving into complex linguistic terminology, schemes and pictures, unless you intend to pursue a degree in linguistics. The purpose of the basics is to understand and feel how articulating muscles work.
And the key element is relentless practice. Only through consistent and dedicated practice one will pick up on all the subtle nuances of pronunciation.
Good points, but to be fair Luke does explain the importance of getting feedback on your pronunciation. Those comments come nearer the end of the episode.
Unfortunately, the "listen-and-repeat" method very rarely works (loads of research has been done on this). Most people think they are imitating the sounds/rhythmic patterns correctly, but they aren't. That's why learning about pronunciation and training your ears helps enormously. In fact, without pronunciation training, most people will simply reinforce pronunciation mistakes while listening and repeating to an audiobook. I know, because I've worked with many students who have tried this method before coming to me for help.
The way how the other Luke Says Vietnamese is quite American Luke, it is clear he is Americanised😁
I’m not so sure about that!
@@LukesEnglishPodcast I am very sure about that mate😁✌🏻💪🏻🇬🇧