🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /ʔ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_glottal_t_as_in_button
I am absolutely loving this. This is exactly the kind of stuff that they don't teach you and that I find extremely neccessary for us to sound more like a native ! Thank you so much!!!
I agree! It's not even that difficult, it's just that we naturally just skip it and say a regular "t" if we're not used to it. This video made me aware of the glottal stop, and I will practice it!
I didn't even realize that we did this in America, it just comes so naturally. Very good video! It helped me to better practice glottal stops outside of English.
For me, it's easy to do this sound, but it doesn't seem so natural with a couple of words in the same sentence, like "the cotton curtain is not in the fountain". It's sounds more like I'm having the hiccups!!!
Thank you for this! I work with a lot of Americans that employ the glottal 'T' and I have been wondering why so many of them do not pronounce Ts in the middle of words like 'written.' Now I know!
Keep posting such good stuffs because this video is really amazing and its result in a medium-term will be astonishing. A lot of people just tries their best to imitate the native English speakers to sound like them, this is good but without having a good understanding of things like glottal T/ Stopped T / sound change / connected speech and all other similar concepts they'll sound like imitating even after trying their best. Imitate but learn too!
I simply wanted to congratulate you for the easiest, most well-organized American English pronunciation channel I have ever encountered. I've been making great strides towards my goal of speaking like an American. Wonderful, wonderful!! Keep it up!.
One of the most excellent videos I know. I have an American boss and had this discussion with him why Manhattan is pronounced as Man-ha-an - this was the answer! Thanks so much!
It took me five attempts to master this sound. However my confidence now is high up in the sky. By the way, it helped me to practice the words inside sentences and collocations.
Wow I'm glad I found this channel I am from Philippines, I need this as I am handling International account in BPO industry.. I will do self study using your videos.. Thanks for uploading this kind of content, very helpful & informative 😍
Dear American Sound Team, I cannot find words to thank you enough for all of your work you're doing. I'm happy I found your channel, and as I did - I fell in love with it immediately due to great tips, the way you present extremely valuable information, and - of course - the voice of the speaker). Hello from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ♥ Inga
Thank you for such important way to explain the glotan 'T' sound. The video really help me understand how to pronounce correctly the T when it goes in the middle of words.
I did glottal stops well into my college years, and people had trouble understanding me. I trained myself to pronounce the Ts and I don't need to repeat myself now. It's not exaggerated like in Transatlantic, but words like "Certain", the stop are frontal rather than in my throat, so there is a slight T sound, rather than a stop of sound. I don't think I am going back to glottal T.
Thank you for clarifying this! Every time I read the IPA transcription of "Newton" in the Cambridge Dictionary, I thought that I was hearing the word wrong, because they describe the sound with the symbol "t" (but I think that there are some natives that pronounce the word with the normal "t" sound). Great video!
Days ago I heard an weird word that's button in one movie, when I hear that, I definitely realized... that's different sound. This videos it was very usefully ! I'm brazilian that learning pronunciation in here. Thanks.
Hundreds of thousands Thanks to you! Very efficacious video. Now more than 70% British & America as well as Australian people use this Glottal T in their speak.
thank you so much , I'm very very happy because I got the nice channel to right the pronunciation, highest problem to pronunciation I'm from india, it's very difficult to learn right america pronunciation for Indian, so then thanks again
Thanks thanks thanks a lot, guys!!! This is so important to know! Thank you again because I'm improving my english american pronunciation and this is so helpful!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀
I am American and I do not speak this way all the time. I do the glottal stop on the word cotton, but not on the word button. I pronounce it but ton. Mountain is another one I do not use a glottal stop with. I say mount-ten, so I actually add an extra t sound. I am weird I guess.
I'm not a native speaker but there are some words I pronounce with a true t as well such is the word mortal. It's tricky for me to say it as mordal in my ears it sounds much better mortal with the true t.
There are certain dialects in America that greatly exaggerate this sound (seemingly mostly in the Eastern and some of the Southeastern states. In the Northwest US we pronounce these words much closer to the non glottal stop versions.
We need a video about the T letter in "glottal" I couldn't pronounce it xD . But I reeeeally loved how you explained the pronunciation by pictures of speech organs, that helped sooo much
+Olivia violet, Still don't understand, sorry. BTW, we always add links to videos on related topics in each videos' descriptions. Here are our videos on the /t/ sound and its variations: ► Consonant Sound /t/ as in "toy" ua-cam.com/video/mLlotV_0dRI/v-deo.html& ► Consonant Sound Flap 'T' /t̬/ as in "water" ua-cam.com/video/9b-UIkuwOdU/v-deo.html ► Consonant Sound Glottal 'T' /ʔ/ as in "button" ua-cam.com/video/Vabg-EUHOQk/v-deo.html
Your channel is a discovery as for me . I find it a little bit difficult in some words like ( eaten ) ( Latin ) ( fountain ) is so difficult , why this ? and easy in ( cotton ) ( button ) , I notice that words starts with ( k ) sound as ( cotton ) is easy much more than others , the cut air in this sound looks like as this letter in Arabic language ( ء )
+Alia Mohammed , glad you found our channel! Welcome! :). The glottal 'T' sound is not easy for many non-native English speakers. Firstly, when learning English, you naturally intend to pronounce the regular /t/ sound when seeing the letter 'T'. So you prepare to put the tip of your tongue at the alveolar ridge and stop the air there. However, the glottal 'T' is pronounced in your throat. So, this part can be confusing. Secondly, the glottal 'T' sound occurs before a weak syllable ending with the /n/ sound. So, right after you make the /ʔ/ in your throat you need to switch to pronouncing the /n/ sound and direct the air into your nose. This part requires some practice too. The ء letter looks awesome! 👍 Let us know if you have any other questions!
Or sort of - the phonologists consider the final t to be "unreleased" (we do the same thing with final p and k, like stop and sick), so it's the same general idea but different official process.
@@SoundsAmerican First of all thank you so much for all the efforts you making to helping us, about the difficulty i am wondering is this Glottal T rule, applied whenever we find letter T, and should we just pronounce (a) replacing T, like bu(a)on or we need to pronounce like silent T before (a), sorry for ressembling Glottal T by (a) because i don't have the Glottal T symbol, Thank you so much, much Love
Good questions! We talked about this in the video, check this out: When does the Glottal 'T' occur? 01:38 How to make the Glottal /ʔ/ sound: 02:42 Hope this helps, please let us know.
Hello, there! That's an amazing lesson! I've never thought about that sound! I have listened to this video a couple of times and have noticed that you pronounced the word "accountant" like there no "t" at the end like /əˈkaʊnʔn/. But dictionaries show the word like /əˈkaʊntənt/. Could you please explain this?
Hello there! Glad you liked that video! You're asking a great question. The last sound in the word "accountant" is the voiceless stop consonant /t/. It is pronounced, but it's unaspirated (pronounced without a puff of air). This is called a Final Stop rule and we discuss it in detail in this video: ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html Moreover, in this very word, the final /t/ follows the /n/, and these two consonants are made in the same place, so it's even harder to "hear" the /t/. You may have thought that it's not pronounced because you expected to hear a puff of air, but there's none. :). Hope it helps!
🎉Great news!🎉 Our brand new Sounds American website is up and running!🚀🎊 There's lots of content on pronunciation.🤓You can start with the article about the /ʔ/ sound: soundsamerican.net/article/consonant_sound_glottal_t_as_in_button
I am absolutely loving this. This is exactly the kind of stuff that they don't teach you and that I find extremely neccessary for us to sound more like a native ! Thank you so much!!!
Glad to hear this! Let us know if you have any questions!
sim !!!
I agree! It's not even that difficult, it's just that we naturally just skip it and say a regular "t" if we're not used to it. This video made me aware of the glottal stop, and I will practice it!
It like "tt"
I didn't even realize that we did this in America, it just comes so naturally. Very good video! It helped me to better practice glottal stops outside of English.
+Nuclear Gandhi Glad it was helpful and you liked it!😊👋
For Koreans, it's really difficult, I got a headache while practicing it. True T sound is easy, but this is...
For me, it's easy to do this sound, but it doesn't seem so natural with a couple of words in the same sentence, like "the cotton curtain is not in the fountain". It's sounds more like I'm having the hiccups!!!
Let me guess... Arabic? Hahaha
@@rohrichbeau1004 im brazilian and i prefer glottal t than hard t
Thank you for this! I work with a lot of Americans that employ the glottal 'T' and I have been wondering why so many of them do not pronounce Ts in the middle of words like 'written.' Now I know!
I finally learned it thank you! This was the hardest sound for me and I’ve been learning English for years
Excellent!
Keep posting such good stuffs because this video is really amazing and its result in a medium-term will be astonishing. A lot of people just tries their best to imitate the native English speakers to sound like them, this is good but without having a good understanding of things like glottal T/ Stopped T / sound change / connected speech and all other similar concepts they'll sound like imitating even after trying their best. Imitate but learn too!
I simply wanted to congratulate you for the easiest, most well-organized American English pronunciation channel I have ever encountered. I've been making great strides towards my goal of speaking like an American. Wonderful, wonderful!! Keep it up!.
+Deivis Silva , thank you! Glad to hear you like our channel! Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for new content!
The lesson got finished and I'm still doing the uh-oh sound like a donkey. 😂😂
Hands down the best explanation I've seen for learners!!! Amazing visuals, explanations and exercises.
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One of the most excellent videos I know. I have an American boss and had this discussion with him why Manhattan is pronounced as Man-ha-an - this was the answer! Thanks so much!
+Kevin Bautista 😊 Glad you liked it! You're welcome!👋
I pronounce it Man hat ten. I think it depends on where in America you go. The video is good, but it's very generalized.
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It took me five attempts to master this sound. However my confidence now is high up in the sky. By the way, it helped me to practice the words inside sentences and collocations.
practice makes it perfect, right? 👍
Wow I'm glad I found this channel I am from Philippines, I need this as I am handling International account in BPO industry.. I will do self study using your videos.. Thanks for uploading this kind of content, very helpful & informative 😍
Master piece. I Watched a lot of videos based on the same topic. Finally, understood after watching your video.Thank you very much Sir/Mam.
+Ankit Kumar You're welcome! Glad to hear that our explanations in this video were helpful.👋🖖
Wow, I never realized I was making a different sound with the words you highlighted. Thank you for raising my awareness about my mother-tongue!
+Luke Nantz is it British or American?😀👋
American (Missouri to be exact :)
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Dear American Sound Team,
I cannot find words to thank you enough for all of your work you're doing. I'm happy I found your channel, and as I did - I fell in love with it immediately due to great tips, the way you present extremely valuable information, and - of course - the voice of the speaker).
Hello from Saint-Petersburg, Russia, ♥
Inga
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Thank you for such important way to explain the glotan 'T' sound. The video really help me understand how to pronounce correctly the T when it goes in the middle of words.
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Glad i found this. IDK why but recently I been noticing people saying button like baton as well as other weird inflections when it comes to double T's
I did glottal stops well into my college years, and people had trouble understanding me. I trained myself to pronounce the Ts and I don't need to repeat myself now. It's not exaggerated like in Transatlantic, but words like "Certain", the stop are frontal rather than in my throat, so there is a slight T sound, rather than a stop of sound. I don't think I am going back to glottal T.
Amazing work!
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This is the first time I learn how to read and pronounce the glottal t...thanks
I love you guys, you are the best, I couldn´t pronunce this, but thanks to you, i am able to do it. Thank u so much, greetings from Peru
Very glad to hear that! Excellent!
Thank you for clarifying this! Every time I read the IPA transcription of "Newton" in the Cambridge Dictionary, I thought that I was hearing the word wrong, because they describe the sound with the symbol "t" (but I think that there are some natives that pronounce the word with the normal "t" sound). Great video!
Days ago I heard an weird word that's button in one movie, when I hear that, I definitely realized... that's different sound. This videos it was very usefully ! I'm brazilian that learning pronunciation in here. Thanks.
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Ironically, in British cockney ,the word "glottal" lends itself to a glottal stop.
Amazingly the best video lesson of pronunciation of English. Thank you
Great video
Glad you think so!
It's the best video about glottal T I've ever watched. Good job 👌👌
+Mohamed Abdelhay Glad you liked it!😄👋
Hundreds of thousands Thanks to you!
Very efficacious video.
Now more than 70% British & America as well as Australian people use this Glottal T in their speak.
Thanks a lot. You just taught me how i do it correct as well .
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thank you so much , I'm very very happy because I got the nice channel to right the pronunciation, highest problem to pronunciation I'm from india, it's very difficult to learn right america pronunciation for Indian,
so then thanks again
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Thanks for the video. It improves my English a lot.
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It is the best way to teach glottal 'T' sound in English. Thanks a lot.
+Snehal Hedau You're welcome, glad you liked it!
In England glottal stop is use for lower class. In Cambridge is better avoided it.
Thanks thanks thanks a lot, guys!!!
This is so important to know!
Thank you again because I'm improving my english american pronunciation and this is so helpful!!!
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You're welcome! By the way, we have a website with lots of info on pronunciation, it may be helpful for your practice too: soundsamerican.net/
@@SoundsAmerican
/t/ replaced by glottal stop when it occurs before ..... nasals.
a. velar b. alveolar c. bilabil d. sonorant
what is the answer plz ?
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Thank you 🤗
I am American and I do not speak this way all the time. I do the glottal stop on the word cotton, but not on the word button. I pronounce it but ton. Mountain is another one I do not use a glottal stop with. I say mount-ten, so I actually add an extra t sound. I am weird I guess.
I'm not a native speaker but there are some words I pronounce with a true t as well such is the word mortal. It's tricky for me to say it as mordal in my ears it sounds much better mortal with the true t.
American accent sounds very beautiful! 🇺🇸
We're glad to hear this! 👋
My throat get tired of this 😂 i need more practice, thank you a lot
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This helps me a lot! Thank you so much!
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+Ismael Baez , we're working hard on getting the app ready for release! Stay tuned!😁🖖
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@@SoundsAmerican Aaaand?
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I like the way you are explaning ,it is a very interesting video for me as an english languistic learner
Glad to hear that!
Thank you for your pretty good effort
awasome vídeo, I learned it,.and the form you explain the pronunciation is wonderful
+andres hurtado , glad you liked it! 😀👋
It helps me very much to pronounce correctly 👍👍👍
That's great!
There are certain dialects in America that greatly exaggerate this sound (seemingly mostly in the Eastern and some of the Southeastern states. In the Northwest US we pronounce these words much closer to the non glottal stop versions.
I'm love this video and I try to learn more about American English Pronunciation.
Perfect!
👍 thank you, I am glad I ve learnt this sound, became closer to how the natives talk
You're very welcome! Glad this was so helpful!
Thank so much for a great class
That was tough!! Loved it though.
My favorite sound ever
Sir this is awesome, thank you so much
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We need a video about the T letter in "glottal" I couldn't pronounce it xD . But I reeeeally loved how you explained the
pronunciation by pictures of speech organs, that helped sooo much
+Olivia violet , but this IS the video about the "Glottal 'T' " :). Or do you mean something else?
Sounds American No, I’m asking if there is a video about the T pronunciation in “glottal” because it’s different from the T in “button”
+Olivia violet, Still don't understand, sorry. BTW, we always add links to videos on related topics in each videos' descriptions.
Here are our videos on the /t/ sound and its variations:
► Consonant Sound /t/ as in "toy"
ua-cam.com/video/mLlotV_0dRI/v-deo.html&
► Consonant Sound Flap 'T' /t̬/ as in "water"
ua-cam.com/video/9b-UIkuwOdU/v-deo.html
► Consonant Sound Glottal 'T' /ʔ/ as in "button"
ua-cam.com/video/Vabg-EUHOQk/v-deo.html
Olivia, I got your question. For the T in "glottal" you need to check out the Flap T sound
It worked🎉🎉🎉 Thanks
Thanks a lot! I have done it!!!
Great!
It sounds like German endings -ten, -den, but in German it occurs to every word finishing in consonant + en. : breiten, checken, knöpfen, etc.
Is it pronounced the same way as in American English?
@@SoundsAmerican oh, yes. Here's a sample: ua-cam.com/video/-VZT-J92Lb4/v-deo.html
That's really cool! :)
Great! Thanks
thank you thank you thank you you are such a good person.
Thank you very very much
Your channel is a discovery as for me . I find it a little bit difficult in some words like ( eaten ) ( Latin ) ( fountain ) is so difficult , why this ? and easy in ( cotton ) ( button ) , I notice that words starts with ( k ) sound as ( cotton ) is easy much more than others , the cut air in this sound looks like as this letter in Arabic language ( ء )
+Alia Mohammed , glad you found our channel! Welcome! :). The glottal 'T' sound is not easy for many non-native English speakers.
Firstly, when learning English, you naturally intend to pronounce the regular /t/ sound when seeing the letter 'T'. So you prepare to put the tip of your tongue at the alveolar ridge and stop the air there. However, the glottal 'T' is pronounced in your throat. So, this part can be confusing.
Secondly, the glottal 'T' sound occurs before a weak syllable ending with the /n/ sound. So, right after you make the /ʔ/ in your throat you need to switch to pronouncing the /n/ sound and direct the air into your nose. This part requires some practice too. The ء letter looks awesome! 👍
Let us know if you have any other questions!
Excellent video!!!
+Irán María Alvarez Flores, thank you! 😁👋
Say this to practice this sound - The cotton curtain is not in the fountain
+Damn Son , or "Latin kittens in satin mittens." 😁 We love cats.
Do you also pronounce the “t” in “not” as a glottal t? Thanks very much!
@@henryhan7866 Yes, we do!
Or sort of - the phonologists consider the final t to be "unreleased" (we do the same thing with final p and k, like stop and sick), so it's the same general idea but different official process.
@@SoundsAmerican Love!
To be honest i found this one of the hardest sounds ever lol.
What's the difficulty?
@@SoundsAmerican First of all thank you so much for all the efforts you making to helping us, about the difficulty i am wondering is this Glottal T rule, applied whenever we find letter T, and should we just pronounce (a) replacing T, like bu(a)on or we need to pronounce like silent T before (a), sorry for ressembling Glottal T by (a) because i don't have the Glottal T symbol, Thank you so much, much Love
Good questions! We talked about this in the video, check this out:
When does the Glottal 'T' occur? 01:38
How to make the Glottal /ʔ/ sound: 02:42
Hope this helps, please let us know.
It helps a lot, thank you for the good work!
Glad to hear that!🖖
Thank you so much. God bless you.
+gonzalo tascon, you're welcome! 😀👋
Great lesson! Thank you so much!
Glad you liked it!
Is the app released? it seem amazing! Best videos ever!
Not yet, but we're testing it already, so we hope to release it soon. Stay tuned!
Thanks alot!
Thank you. I practiced this technique.
+hong vi You're welcome! Was it helpful?
Yes, it was really helpful and quite clear. Thank you
+hong vi Great, glad to hear that!
It's sooooo useful video ... thank u sooooooo much 👍👍👍
+Ahmed Salah You're welcome :).
Thanks 🙏
I didn't realize how much I did this until today
Hello, there! That's an amazing lesson! I've never thought about that sound!
I have listened to this video a couple of times and have noticed that you pronounced the word "accountant" like there no "t" at the end like /əˈkaʊnʔn/. But dictionaries show the word like
/əˈkaʊntənt/.
Could you please explain this?
Hello there! Glad you liked that video!
You're asking a great question. The last sound in the word "accountant" is the voiceless stop consonant /t/.
It is pronounced, but it's unaspirated (pronounced without a puff of air). This is called a Final Stop rule and we discuss it in detail in this video: ua-cam.com/video/yFPbLcUCraQ/v-deo.html
Moreover, in this very word, the final /t/ follows the /n/, and these two consonants are made in the same place, so it's even harder to "hear" the /t/.
You may have thought that it's not pronounced because you expected to hear a puff of air, but there's none. :).
Hope it helps!
@@SoundsAmerican Oh my gosh! A little bit complicated, but thanks a lot! :-)
Yes, this is some subtle stuff :). Let us know if you have questions!
It's also common to replace final T with a glottal stop in some accents, e.g. /ˈlɪmɪʔ/ for "limit"
I love to think of Glottal or Flap T as the sounds "of the People". Amen
I've already learned it ✌😎
+Júnior Lago , awesome! 😆🖖
Thank you so much 😘
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Thanks a lot
I find this video better than others'
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I have seen many tutorial but this was the better one I have quetion when we use t flap or golttal t
I never knew that this is part of American pronunciation
of course
Excellent explanation
Thank you sooooooooooo much!
you're awesome teacher! thank you so much!
+Dominic Montejo Thank you! 😊👋
Sounds American 😊👏👏👏thank you teacher!👋