Thank you for watching! If you are a Spanish speaker, tell me what is the biggest challenge you struggle with (from the ones mentioned here). If you're not a Spanish speaker, tell me what are the challenges you are facing as a speaker of another language. And don't forget to download the American accent guide (it's free): bit.ly/46aiRiG
Thank you so much for your videos! they are really useful and I also admire your body language, that makes your videos very engaging! My biggest challenge right now is trying to pronounce the long vowels, mostly in the middle of the words. There is also the pronunciation of the "L" sound, which is weird because we have the "L" sound in spanish, but it is just different I guess. I also think that might be some differences depending on what country are we coming from, I mean, we the costarricans do not have such a big problem with the "r" sound as some people from the caribbean might have; but instead we may struggle more with the -ed endings. Thank you so much! And I still looking forward to watch more videos in the near future :)
The biggest challenge for me are the Z/R sounds, specially the R sound in the word "murder". I just CAN´T pronounce that word at all, so please let me know if you have a video teaching how to master the pronunciation to that word. Thanks a lot, Hadar for this video :)
I'm a Spanish speaking--> English teacher for over a decade. I teach/have taught American English pronunciation to hundreds of thousands of Spanish speakers...and Let me just say... that THIS VIDEO is the BEST DAMN video I've ever seen on the topic of pronunciation mistakes that Spanish speakers make (or other language speakers). Simply incredible work, Hader! You deserve an award! YOU were born to be a teacher. BRAVO! BRAVO! Subscribed!!!
I am a Spanish speaker, you are completely right, in fact, those are the mistakes I've been struggling with. Thank you so much!!! You have helped me a lot!
A person usually has a foreign accent after learning a new language. But if you try to study all the sounds in that languague like this woman did, you can identify what you're doing wrong when you speak, train yourself to do it the right way, and lose the foreign accent.
All that you said it’s right because I’m Spanish Speaker I use to do those mistakes, I’m from Guatemala 🇬🇹 by the way, so now I know that my English with change a lot after I wanted this video. Thanks 😊 for your tips.
I learned English myself and I’m able to communicate with other clearly but my Accent is very very strong, most of the people I know like it cuz I sound like a Dominican however deep down I don’t wanna speak with accent since I feel like sometimes I baby talk. Now me watching your videos made me realized that I still gotta make my effort since I still make all those mistakes you covered in the video. Also I noticed that if you are not aware of it like me like ooo( well I learned English long time ago and I work and make money I don’t need to change it )that is limiting the brain and your learning to learn more English. Thank you for the video a lot!.
Im learning spanish as a native english speaker and I thought we had it tough lol I struggle greatly with the rolled r after an l like "caliente al ritmo" I noticed while trying to copy spanish speakers and their pronunciation.. spanish is spoken with what i think of as "high and tight" The tongue is always high in the mouth and forward sometimes right up on the back of the teeth and with little exhale or breath with speech. This helps with the speed of the language and pronunciation of the r/rr. When i speak spanish it feels like my tongue is tap dancing in my mouth. English speakers at least american english which i speak we have a much more open mouth the tongue hangs low and back.. we tap the top for certain sounds but its quick then the tongue is back down or often even curled backward slightly. We also exhale way more and speech can sound like theres a lot of breaths. Take your time. English is a slower spoken language so most people wont be too frustrated if you speak a little slower. In english pronunciation is more important than pace.. i guess thats true for all language but spanish being faster in general we won't notice it if you feel you're speaking slower than you should. Hope this helps! 😊
I never realized the way I pronounce the "h" until now. Someone mocked me for it once, and I was confused because I thought I was saying it correctly the entire time lmfaoooo!!!😅 Thank you!!!
ME TOO. I'm living in Canada. Studied and I'm working full time. My boyfriend is English so I'm surrounded by English 24/7. AND YET I DID NOT KNOW THAT.
Gosh! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for.! I’m a native Spanish speaker, completely fluent in English, but I’ve never been happy with my pronunciation, it does not suck but I’ve always wanted to sound more like a native English speaker, it may never happen but this really helps me improve! Thanks!
Me too. I want to sound very natural and it's very frustrating. Sometimes I feel I should just move to an english country and see if that's the final solution
I am a native Spanish (latino) speaker that lives in London and your video so impressed me as it made realise the mistakes I always make when I speak. English. I so hate my Spanish accent as I am always asked to repeat what I am saying when I talk to English native speakers and I'd give anything to get rid of it and to sound English. I am sure your videos will help me with so thanks in advance.
Great video as usual! Phonetically, Spanish is very simple, with fewer phonemes than most European languages I think. That's why we struggle speaking more phonetically complex languages. Greetings from Argentina!
Dibujo de Croquis I’m a native English speaker; I’m watching this because I’m curious about what’s difficult for Spanish people. She explained how to say ‘h’, the incorrect sound does not exist in English. I can make the sound if I practice, but no English word that I know of has that sound in it. I also think the Spanish ‘v’ sound is slightly different from the English ‘b’ sound. It seems like a combination of the English sounds of ‘v’ and ‘b’. By the way, I envy Spanish due to it’s far more consistent rules than English. I grew up with English, so I can pronounce pretty much any word, even if it’s new to me, but Spanish rules (not just pronunciation! Spelling, grammar, etc too!) are much more consistent. One spelling rule in English is annoying: “piece”, “ceiling”. A trick I learned is “i before e, except after c or sounding like ‘air’” (their)
Hello Hadar! I randomly came across your channel and I love it. Your language skills and knowledge are commendable. You are definitely one of the real teachers on UA-cam. I do hope to meet you one day. Sincerely, Robin Shaw
I am a Spanish speaker and you have those Spanish sounds down pat , I’ve been pronouncing the word “ street” as “e street” forever until I watched your video. Thanks for all your videos, they’ve been very helpful
Hi ✋. I am native Spanish speaker and this lesson is very helpful and amazing! You know in deep how to move the tongue, lips etc for English and Spanish pronunciation. Wow!
What an amazing video. I'm an spanish speaker from Chile who live in New Zealand, and I have been following your videos for many months, and of course hundreds of videos of others, and this video is quite impressive. I have seen similar ones, but the way that you explain and imitate each mistake is superb. I would like to have "one day" my pronunciation as clear as yours. Thanks a lot!
I always consider myself a pretty good speaker, until I watch your videos and I realise there's still a long way to go... :'s That S/Z distinction is such a tricky thing...
I agree in almost everything except in what you said about the "R" sound. In Spanish we have a clear difference between these sounds, R at the begining of a word, such as: raqueta, razón, and the sound of the "R" between vowels: parábola, parada, Perú. So I guess we don't have a problem with the "R" sound 😉
Many of those tips can be applied to Portuguese speakers like me. I'm from Brazil. Specially when the word begins with S or ends with a consonant we usually put an invisible vowel before and after these two situations. Great video!😀
Great video! Some of my challenges had been pronouncing the "X" like in "six" and the "Th" followed by "s" like in "thousands". Nothing against numbers. I'm Spanish speaker from DR. Thank you!
As a native English speaker I can say knowing this is very important because if you don't pronounce it correctly it can sound like a totally different words such as if you don't pronounce the d in mind it can sound like mine, but it can still be interpreted depending on the context of which it is said
OMG, where have you been all my life? hahahah I've been living in America for a little over 19 years, and I have tried multiple times to overcome speaking with a strong accent. I have not been successful, not just yet, but I have decided that 2023 will be the year that I will invest time, effort, and motivation to get rid of my accent. It is something I have always wanted to accomplish. Thank you for sharing these videos and resources with us. I was able to identify some of my mistakes, and it was eye-opening. Thank you so much!
Oh my god. I truly wish that every single Spanish speaker would watch this video. It does start with desire though, regardless of which language you wish to be proficient in. :)
Iam a Russian speaker. I do same mistakes at times. Would you mind to explain what mistakes and how to correct and/or work with Russian accents. Thank you so much for a great work you do on UA-cam.
I wanna thank you for helping people with you channel I'm from El Salvador and I've improved my speaking because I've been practicing with your channel
I´m from Costa Rica. I have made those mistakes and I´m going to watch and practise with video a lot. I already subscribed not only to channel but the link bellow and received the guideline and the audio. I have ADHD in adult form but I got to fight and make it.
I enjoy the way you explain the sounds & rhythm of language & demonstrate the sounds of American English. From your perfect pronunciation, I would have thought you're a native speaker, with only such a slight touch of occasional subtle accent indicating you're possibly a second generation immigrant, amazing!
I am amazed of how Hadar is a dedicated teacher. I can this a calling she answered from God very committed. God bless you I paid for English teaching for sometime. I got nothing close to this. Wow.
Watched this (excellent) video with the reverse motivation - trying to learn how to imitate a Latin accent speaking English. This gave me some amazing, smack on pointers that had considerably improved my performance. :-)
Thank you for the video! I teach a weekly ESL class for Spanish speakers, so this is helpful. Another thing I have noticed is that instead of the "w" sound, people will say a soft g. Instead of "Walmart", for example, they'll say "Gualmart". I believe this is because of the articulatory reinforcements phenomenon, where sometimes words like "huevos" are pronounced like "guevos". I think this occurs after "s" sounds, like in "los huevos". It's been a while since I've studied Spanish phonetics, but this is something I've noticed too!
You’re right, it’s not just me but I heard other Latinos doing the same mistake and it is not saying the word completely to the end. Like mind, I worked, start, started, game. Thank you so much for your help. Please don’t stop making videos. I watch your videos every week including the oldest one. I live in the USA also went to college and the frustration is that, the education system here forget to include the pronunciation part. Pronunciation is so fundamental to speak
Hi Hadar! Excellent video! Thanks for making a specific video just for us.... I'm Marcela, a Spanish speaker from Argentina, and my biggest challenges are s for z and i for i:.... I love learning from you... You rock!
What an awesome video! You’ve done an incredible job with this topic! As a native Spanish speaker, I wish I would’ve come across content like this in my early English learning stages…this is so good. Crazy accurate!!!! I’ve also seen your video regarding Portuguese, so accurate as well!!!
You're the greatest teacher I've ever had. I have been trying to improve my spelling because some people make fun of my accent sometimes😔, but since I found your channel I've seen a good improvement.
wow, I finally found my pronunciation guru!!! I'm an Amy Porterfield's student and she mentioned you in one of her Facebook videos. My husband and I have very strong accents. He has a mix of Russian-Israeli accent and I have a super-strong Chilean accent. We teach personal finances online and even though people don't complain about our accents (we teach other multicultural/immigrant couples so they all are familiar with accents), I personally feel very conscious about how I sound, my accent was making me stuck and go all out in our business... well more what I thought about my accent than my actual accent, I always thought that I sounded stupid. I don't want to sound American or Canadian I just want to have a clear pronunciation. We have a UA-cam channel and I like to teach on camera but the pronunciation is always on the back of my head. I just watched one video and I already feel super pumped to practice, this is what I needed!
Hey there! Oh I just saw your message! Thank you so much! Really happy that you're here and I'm so glad this was helpful. Did you download the workbook? If you have any questions feel free to DM me!
Im glad to see someone really cares if they're understood especially in the videos. You write well in english. One thing you said is that were already familiar with the accent so we'll understand anyways. Its not always true. Not you but i can see that in the other videos with heavy accents they carry on so proudly because this is their mindset they believe people will understand them regardless. I can't watch those. Glad you care.
You are really amazing! You understand perfectly the challenge that non-native speakers find in our learning path. Your practical advice are really effective. Thank you so much 🎉😊🎉
Nailed it!! Those are the most common mistakes we spanish speakers have, it is fun I was wondering last weekend: "if someone could clearly show me the difference between sounds I could do better" and here you are...out of the blue you appeared on Instagram and here I am. I'm going to practice during the day these sounds to get my tongue used to this new sounds. I'm tired people sometimes don't understand what I say and I gotta repeat 😅. Excellent video, cheers.
Thank you for your video as spanish speaker I make a lot of these mistakes when speaking english, I have been living in Scotland for the past three years but I've always listened to american english because I love it and because I am from the Dominican Republic therefore American english is what I used to listen to when I was in my country, I also fumble with the words quite a lot when speaking english and I'm always repeating myself although I recognised that sometimes I speak way too fast. Your english channel is wonderful, thank you.xx
Hii!! Im from Spain, the most common mistakes that I make are: To pronounce s like a z : I actually dont have a clue when I should pronounce z. To pronounce Y as J. I cant even make the difference because I dont know how to prounce any of them in english, in Spain both pronunciation are really different but any of them is like the pronunciation in english. And finally I also mispronounced H a lot of times Thanks for the video
I have those same mistakes. Soy de Bilbao y me pasa que la "z" inglesa la pronuncio o como "s" o como "sh" y la "j" como "just" no debo decirla del todo bien tampoco, jeje!. Pero lo que ella ha dicho creo que no es un problema de España sino más de latino América, o ¿acaso pronunciamos "cone" en lugar de "come"? o "mine" en lugar de "mind"? Yo al menos no he visto que la gente no pronuncie las consonantes que ella dice... Aquí la gente lo hace bien!
Aisha No, no todos lo hacen bien aquí. En Hispanoamérica tienen los mismos problemas que tenemos nosotros con el inglés porque utilizan la misma fonética al hablar español.
The English [z] sound does occur in Spanish, but only as an allophone, as a variation of /s/ when it comes before a voiced consonant. When you say words like ”esbelto”, “desde”, ”rasgo”, “mismo”, “limosna”, “muslo”, etc., your vocal cords start vibrating even before the voiced consonant starts, so your /s/ ends up like a voiced [z]. Now, keep in mind that this is in standard Spanish. A lot of dialects of Spanish (Andalusian, Caribbean, Rioplatense, etc.) tend to pronounce these as an [h] sound
Ashtăr Balynestjăr That's not a genuine [z] and I think it's not even an allophone. It's just a tiny vibration, but the [z] used in the word "Brazil" is way off.
You are my heroin, my inspiration. Your pronunciation is like music. A friend of mine who was born in the States said your pronunciation is spot on. You are an amazing teacher. I will brush up on this video to improve my pronunciation.
So true!! Thank you for compiling this list and dissecting why and where these mistakes happen. As a native Spanish speaker and English being my second language, I can attest those are top challenges when pronouncing English. Usually we are not even aware of it and unable to identify them, until we start listening carefully to ourselves and when people have some difficulty understanding what we said.
Paul here from Miami. This is the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of the challenges Spanish Speakers face. Yes, being aware is the first part. You are amazing at breaking down the problems and explaining the solutions to the proper pronunciation. My wife is Brazilian, could you do now of these video for Brazilians?
Hi Hadar, You're amazing for not being a native English Speaker. I heard a lot of Hebrew, as I used to work with tourists in Spain and Israelis were a big market. We share a lot of sounds, Spanish and Hebrew! :) Spanish "Z" has the sound "TH" in English for "Thank you", in Castillian-Spanish from Spain, but in Latinamerica they say it as an "S". We don't have the English "Z" sound in Spanish. "Y" and "LL" are pronounced exactly the same. "V" and "B" are pronounced like "B". The "H" sound, or silent H, it's funny because the Spanish sound that approaches the English "H" is a "G or J" and those are pretty similar to Hebrew. Spanish need always a vowel to form syllabi, "stop" becomes "estop" as we say "estar" that share the same beginning...The main problem Spanish speakers address is that English has not Pronunciation rules as clear as many other languages have and we keep guessing how to pronounce words. I remember a Student of Spanish complaining every time a corrected her "H" in Spanish, until I said to her "hour" and "our" with and without "H" are pronounced always the same in English, silent "H", that's the way we pronounce it in Spanish: MUTE...than it clicked! I also use my own tricks to pronounce better. By the way, because Spanish is speaking by so many millions, there are different ways of pronunciation. Toda Raba!
Thank you for watching! If you are a Spanish speaker, tell me what is the biggest challenge you struggle with (from the ones mentioned here). If you're not a Spanish speaker, tell me what are the challenges you are facing as a speaker of another language. And don't forget to download the American accent guide (it's free): bit.ly/46aiRiG
To pronounce the Z sound for me is the most dificult challenge!!! Thanks a lot for this video, you can´t imagine how much I felt identified :D
Thank you so much for your videos! they are really useful and I also admire your body language, that makes your videos very engaging! My biggest challenge right now is trying to pronounce the long vowels, mostly in the middle of the words. There is also the pronunciation of the "L" sound, which is weird because we have the "L" sound in spanish, but it is just different I guess. I also think that might be some differences depending on what country are we coming from, I mean, we the costarricans do not have such a big problem with the "r" sound as some people from the caribbean might have; but instead we may struggle more with the -ed endings. Thank you so much! And I still looking forward to watch more videos in the near future :)
You should do ball and bowl. Every time I say soup bowl people think I’m saying soup ball.
The biggest challenge for me are the Z/R sounds, specially the R sound in the word "murder". I just CAN´T pronounce that word at all, so please let me know if you have a video teaching how to master the pronunciation to that word. Thanks a lot, Hadar for this video :)
The latin style of spanish speaker make them to speak very fast. that is a big situation for us.
I'm a Spanish speaking--> English teacher for over a decade. I teach/have taught American English pronunciation to hundreds of thousands of Spanish speakers...and Let me just say... that THIS VIDEO is the BEST DAMN video I've ever seen on the topic of pronunciation mistakes that Spanish speakers make (or other language speakers). Simply incredible work, Hader! You deserve an award! YOU were born to be a teacher. BRAVO! BRAVO! Subscribed!!!
Hundreds of thousands? 😮
How?🤔
We have the Z sound in Spanish. (desde)
I’ve taught live broadcasted classes online for almost 10 years. You reach a lot of students when it’s online; just like this video did
@@BUDbizWIZI understand that, but saying "hundreds of thusands"🤭
I'm mexican and this video was absolutely mind blowing!!!!! Thank you so much for making this!
I am a Spanish speaker, you are completely right, in fact, those are the mistakes I've been struggling with. Thank you so much!!! You have helped me a lot!
By the way you pronounce Spanish sounds, you would make an excellent Spanish speaker!
Haha definitely planning to learn Spanish soon!
For the way you pronounce its sounds, I would have bet that you were fluent in Spanish!
A person usually has a foreign accent after learning a new language. But if you try to study all the sounds in that languague like this woman did, you can identify what you're doing wrong when you speak, train yourself to do it the right way, and lose the foreign accent.
@@joszeb I thought so too.
She is spanish speaker...you can tell.
You said you are not a native English speaker. I would say now you are a native English speaker. Well done
All that you said it’s right because I’m Spanish Speaker I use to do those mistakes, I’m from Guatemala 🇬🇹 by the way, so now I know that my English with change a lot after I wanted this video. Thanks 😊 for your tips.
You’re right now I’m practicing the Y and J, the B and V, the R, the H, the st, the Th👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I learned English myself and I’m able to communicate with other clearly but my
Accent is very very strong, most of the people I know like it cuz I sound like a Dominican however deep down I don’t wanna speak with accent since I feel like sometimes I baby talk. Now me watching your videos made me realized that I still gotta make my effort since I still make all those mistakes you covered in the video. Also I noticed that if you are not aware of it like me like ooo( well I learned English long time ago and I work and make money I don’t need to change it )that is limiting the brain and your learning to learn more English.
Thank you for the video a lot!.
Excellent teacher, good job....congratulation, one day I will speak clearly as you ...thanks so much......................................
Im learning spanish as a native english speaker and I thought we had it tough lol I struggle greatly with the rolled r after an l like "caliente al ritmo"
I noticed while trying to copy spanish speakers and their pronunciation.. spanish is spoken with what i think of as "high and tight"
The tongue is always high in the mouth and forward sometimes right up on the back of the teeth and with little exhale or breath with speech. This helps with the speed of the language and pronunciation of the r/rr.
When i speak spanish it feels like my tongue is tap dancing in my mouth.
English speakers at least american english which i speak we have a much more open mouth the tongue hangs low and back.. we tap the top for certain sounds but its quick then the tongue is back down or often even curled backward slightly. We also exhale way more and speech can sound like theres a lot of breaths.
Take your time. English is a slower spoken language so most people wont be too frustrated if you speak a little slower.
In english pronunciation is more important than pace.. i guess thats true for all language but spanish being faster in general we won't notice it if you feel you're speaking slower than you should.
Hope this helps! 😊
I never realized the way I pronounce the "h" until now. Someone mocked me for it once, and I was confused because I thought I was saying it correctly the entire time lmfaoooo!!!😅
Thank you!!!
ME TOO. I'm living in Canada. Studied and I'm working full time. My boyfriend is English so I'm surrounded by English 24/7. AND YET I DID NOT KNOW THAT.
Hahaha so funny
Your teaching is so amazing. I am so thankful of you. Keep the good work!. Wilfredo Trinidad.
Gosh! This is exactly what I’ve been looking for.! I’m a native Spanish speaker, completely fluent in English, but I’ve never been happy with my pronunciation, it does not suck but I’ve always wanted to sound more like a native English speaker, it may never happen but this really helps me improve! Thanks!
Me too. I want to sound very natural and it's very frustrating. Sometimes I feel I should just move to an english country and see if that's the final solution
@@angelg9981 I’ve lived in both Canada and the USA, for a little less than a year each and nope, it doesn’t help
I am a native Spanish (latino) speaker that lives in London and your video so impressed me as it made realise the mistakes I always make when I speak. English. I so hate my Spanish accent as I am always asked to repeat what I am saying when I talk to English native speakers and I'd give anything to get rid of it and to sound English. I am sure your videos will help me with so thanks in advance.
Great video as usual! Phonetically, Spanish is very simple, with fewer phonemes than most European languages I think. That's why we struggle speaking more phonetically complex languages. Greetings from Argentina!
Yes, absolutely. And it also has some unique phonological processes that don't occur in English, I guess that's part of the reason too. xoxo
Accent's Way English with Hadar Which unique processes?
Dibujo de Croquis I’m a native English speaker; I’m watching this because I’m curious about what’s difficult for Spanish people. She explained how to say ‘h’, the incorrect sound does not exist in English. I can make the sound if I practice, but no English word that I know of has that sound in it. I also think the Spanish ‘v’ sound is slightly different from the English ‘b’ sound. It seems like a combination of the English sounds of ‘v’ and ‘b’. By the way, I envy Spanish due to it’s far more consistent rules than English. I grew up with English, so I can pronounce pretty much any word, even if it’s new to me, but Spanish rules (not just pronunciation! Spelling, grammar, etc too!) are much more consistent. One spelling rule in English is annoying: “piece”, “ceiling”. A trick I learned is “i before e, except after c or sounding like ‘air’” (their)
Hello Hadar! I randomly came across your channel and I love it. Your language skills and knowledge are commendable. You are definitely one of the real teachers on UA-cam. I do hope to meet you one day. Sincerely, Robin Shaw
Thank you so much, Robin, for your beautiful comment. I really appreciate your words. I hope to meet you too!!
@@hadar.shemesh Hello! Thank you for the video. Is the letter T at the end of the word "Street" a stop t?
I am from Colombia. Thanks, the video is very useful.
Thanks so much. Regards from Argentina 🇦🇷❤️
Great tips!!! Thanks a lot!!! Very usefull and enjoyable
You are absolutely right... I'm making that mistakes.... Thanks.... I got it now...
God bless yuo for this one. My pronunciation improved a lot. No caps
Wow, I didn't realize my english was so terrible!!!.......
I'll keep trying to perfect my pronunciation..........
Thanks!!!
You hit the nail on the head, thanks for spanish speakers... We make those mistakes..... Thanks a lot... We adore you.... Greetings from Chile
Hi from Chile... Thanks for your video... The practics that is all
I am a Spanish speaker and you have those Spanish sounds down pat , I’ve been pronouncing the word “ street” as “e street” forever until I watched your video. Thanks for all your videos, they’ve been very helpful
Clear explanation I just need the list of words for each pronuntiation.
Hi ✋. I am native Spanish speaker and this lesson is very helpful and amazing! You know in deep how to move the tongue, lips etc for English and Spanish pronunciation. Wow!
Thank you 🙌🙏
What an amazing video. I'm an spanish speaker from Chile who live in New Zealand, and I have been following your videos for many months, and of course hundreds of videos of others, and this video is quite impressive. I have seen similar ones, but the way that you explain and imitate each mistake is superb. I would like to have "one day" my pronunciation as clear as yours. Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for your beautiful words! Are you a part of our community? Come practice with us!! theaccentsway.com/fluency-challenge/
You are awesome. You covered very common spanish mistakes.
wow you are so right Hadar.
I always consider myself a pretty good speaker, until I watch your videos and I realise there's still a long way to go... :'s That S/Z distinction is such a tricky thing...
It is very tricky. I wrote why in the blog and guide. But if that's the only thing you' struggle with, you're in good shape😉
I agree in almost everything except in what you said about the "R" sound. In Spanish we have a clear difference between these sounds, R at the begining of a word, such as: raqueta, razón, and the sound of the "R" between vowels: parábola, parada, Perú. So I guess we don't have a problem with the "R" sound 😉
Watching this tricks and stuff is humbling me because, I am an English teacher and some people would think I am not because of my accent
Hello, you are incredible! Could you do a video for portuguese speakers? You are helping me a lot! Thank you.
¡Muchísimas gracias!
Many of those tips can be applied to Portuguese speakers like me. I'm from Brazil. Specially when the word begins with S or ends with a consonant we usually put an invisible vowel before and after these two situations. Great video!😀
I have one for Portuguese speakers coming up soonnnnn!!
Thank you so much! I love this video! It's really helpful
Great video Hadar. Love it. Thanks for posting it!
St sound and th are my nemesis, thanks for sharing these tips
That is so true! I am Spanish speaker and I noticed these are very common. Thanks for your suggestions.
You are awesome, covered very important points.
I'm from Brazil and i see all your videos, I like very much because you explain so good. :)
very good ! I will help my spanish ffriends by showing them this video !
Best teacher ever!🙇🏽🙇🏽🙇🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽saludos maestra! 🙋🏽♂️🙋🏽♂️🙋🏽♂️👩🏻🏫
Great video! Some of my challenges had been pronouncing the "X" like in "six" and the "Th" followed by "s" like in "thousands". Nothing against numbers.
I'm Spanish speaker from DR. Thank you!
As a native English speaker I can say knowing this is very important because if you don't pronounce it correctly it can sound like a totally different words such as if you don't pronounce the d in mind it can sound like mine, but it can still be interpreted depending on the context of which it is said
Wou!!, The best video I've ever watched!!, you're Amazing!!
Wow,, love all your videos bu this one in particular, it’s over the top .. 🙏🙏
5:29 i have an ESL student who is trying for more fluency and better pronunciation. What an interesting and useful video
OMG, where have you been all my life? hahahah I've been living in America for a little over 19 years, and I have tried multiple times to overcome speaking with a strong accent. I have not been successful, not just yet, but I have decided that 2023 will be the year that I will invest time, effort, and motivation to get rid of my accent. It is something I have always wanted to accomplish. Thank you for sharing these videos and resources with us. I was able to identify some of my mistakes, and it was eye-opening. Thank you so much!
Oh my god. I truly wish that every single Spanish speaker would watch this video. It does start with desire though, regardless of which language you wish to be proficient in. :)
Iam a Russian speaker. I do same mistakes at times. Would you mind to explain what mistakes and how to correct and/or work with Russian accents. Thank you so much for a great work you do on UA-cam.
I wanna thank you for helping people with you channel I'm from El Salvador and I've improved my speaking because I've been practicing with your channel
She the answer to all the question I ever had
You chose the Sheet /ʃit/ and Shit /ʃɪt/ minimal pair as an example. You are my hero!!
😂😂😂💪🏽
Teacher hadar important information now tank you
I´m from Costa Rica. I have made those mistakes and I´m going to watch and practise with video a lot. I already subscribed not only to channel but the link bellow and received the guideline and the audio. I have ADHD in adult form but I got to fight and make it.
I enjoy the way you explain the sounds & rhythm of language & demonstrate the sounds of American English. From your perfect pronunciation, I would have thought you're a native speaker, with only such a slight touch of occasional subtle accent indicating you're possibly a second generation immigrant, amazing!
I am amazed of how Hadar is a dedicated teacher. I can this a calling she answered from God very committed. God bless you I paid for English teaching for sometime. I got nothing close to this. Wow.
Hello. I am Thai, watching this English video from Thailand. You are a great E. teacher. You have a lot of capable of teaching E.
Thanks Bye.
I'm native spanish speaker and I am in total agreement about the ours errors :) , thanks, greetings from Colombia
Watched this (excellent) video with the reverse motivation - trying to learn how to imitate a Latin accent speaking English.
This gave me some amazing, smack on pointers that had considerably improved my performance.
:-)
oh perfect!! :)
Sameeww
In my opinion you are the best Englih teacher I've ever seen in UA-cam. Your videos are very inspirating for me.
Thank you for the video! I teach a weekly ESL class for Spanish speakers, so this is helpful. Another thing I have noticed is that instead of the "w" sound, people will say a soft g. Instead of "Walmart", for example, they'll say "Gualmart". I believe this is because of the articulatory reinforcements phenomenon, where sometimes words like "huevos" are pronounced like "guevos". I think this occurs after "s" sounds, like in "los huevos". It's been a while since I've studied Spanish phonetics, but this is something I've noticed too!
We need a video of that.
I never felt so connected to any video about my accent, I feel like know I am most aware of how I speak. Thank you so much.
You’re right, it’s not just me but I heard other Latinos doing the same mistake and it is not saying the word completely to the end. Like mind, I worked, start, started, game. Thank you so much for your help. Please don’t stop making videos. I watch your videos every week including the oldest one. I live in the USA also went to college and the frustration is that, the education system here forget to include the pronunciation part. Pronunciation is so fundamental to speak
Awesome work, Hadar. Girl, you're worth a bundle. The crowd loves you!
Hispanic teacher in America
So helpful! Thank you🙏🙏🙏
Hi Hadar, you are great. Thanks
Gracias, Hadar!! Thank you!! :D from Argentina!
Thank you so much Hadar for this video. Now I know why native English speaker having a hard time understanding when I speak. God Bless you.
Hi Hadar! Excellent video! Thanks for making a specific video just for us.... I'm Marcela, a Spanish speaker from Argentina, and my biggest challenges are s for z and i for i:.... I love learning from you... You rock!
Thanks Marcela! Happy to hear this help🙏♥️
What an awesome video! You’ve done an incredible job with this topic! As a native Spanish speaker, I wish I would’ve come across content like this in my early English learning stages…this is so good. Crazy accurate!!!! I’ve also seen your video regarding Portuguese, so accurate as well!!!
Awesome and helpful video !
You're the greatest teacher I've ever had.
I have been trying to improve my spelling because some people make fun of my accent sometimes😔, but since I found your channel I've seen a good improvement.
Thanks for the class because , I'm latino or Hispanic and i have difficult sometimes to pronounce some words. Thank you teacher hadar.
Thank you, Haddar. I love your teaching style. Your videos are really approachable. I am Venezuela... Thank you so much !!
You are right. 100%. Like for you
I paid thousands of money in an English academy in New Zealand back in 2014... My God... I feel like somebody stole my money haha. Thanks a lot.
wow, I finally found my pronunciation guru!!! I'm an Amy Porterfield's student and she mentioned you in one of her Facebook videos. My husband and I have very strong accents. He has a mix of Russian-Israeli accent and I have a super-strong Chilean accent. We teach personal finances online and even though people don't complain about our accents (we teach other multicultural/immigrant couples so they all are familiar with accents), I personally feel very conscious about how I sound, my accent was making me stuck and go all out in our business... well more what I thought about my accent than my actual accent, I always thought that I sounded stupid. I don't want to sound American or Canadian I just want to have a clear pronunciation. We have a UA-cam channel and I like to teach on camera but the pronunciation is always on the back of my head. I just watched one video and I already feel super pumped to practice, this is what I needed!
Hey there! Oh I just saw your message! Thank you so much! Really happy that you're here and I'm so glad this was helpful. Did you download the workbook? If you have any questions feel free to DM me!
Im glad to see someone really cares if they're understood especially in the videos. You write well in english. One thing you said is that were already familiar with the accent so we'll understand anyways. Its not always true. Not you but i can see that in the other videos with heavy accents they carry on so proudly because this is their mindset they believe people will understand them regardless. I can't watch those. Glad you care.
We are not very conscious of the H, nice explanation H. thx
You are really amazing! You understand perfectly the challenge that non-native speakers find in our learning path. Your practical advice are really effective. Thank you so much 🎉😊🎉
Nailed it!!
Those are the most common mistakes we spanish speakers have, it is fun I was wondering last weekend: "if someone could clearly show me the difference between sounds I could do better" and here you are...out of the blue you appeared on Instagram and here I am.
I'm going to practice during the day these sounds to get my tongue used to this new sounds.
I'm tired people sometimes don't understand what I say and I gotta repeat 😅.
Excellent video, cheers.
great video - gracias
Great video! Thanks!
Thank you, i came for an advise with the s ch sounds and i end up with so much more. I’ll be watching more of your videos 🤗
Hadar is Amazing!!!!
Excellent.
Thank you for your video as spanish speaker I make a lot of these mistakes when speaking english, I have been living in Scotland for the past three years but I've always listened to american english because I love it and because I am from the Dominican Republic therefore American english is what I used to listen to when I was in my country, I also fumble with the words quite a lot when speaking english and I'm always repeating myself although I recognised that sometimes I speak way too fast. Your english channel is wonderful, thank you.xx
Hii!! Im from Spain, the most common mistakes that I make are:
To pronounce s like a z : I actually dont have a clue when I should pronounce z.
To pronounce Y as J. I cant even make the difference because I dont know how to prounce any of them in english, in Spain both pronunciation are really different but any of them is like the pronunciation in english.
And finally I also mispronounced H a lot of times
Thanks for the video
I have those same mistakes. Soy de Bilbao y me pasa que la "z" inglesa la pronuncio o como "s" o como "sh" y la "j" como "just" no debo decirla del todo bien tampoco, jeje!. Pero lo que ella ha dicho creo que no es un problema de España sino más de latino América, o ¿acaso pronunciamos "cone" en lugar de "come"? o "mine" en lugar de "mind"? Yo al menos no he visto que la gente no pronuncie las consonantes que ella dice... Aquí la gente lo hace bien!
Aisha No, no todos lo hacen bien aquí. En Hispanoamérica tienen los mismos problemas que tenemos nosotros con el inglés porque utilizan la misma fonética al hablar español.
The English [z] sound does occur in Spanish, but only as an allophone, as a variation of /s/ when it comes before a voiced consonant. When you say words like ”esbelto”, “desde”, ”rasgo”, “mismo”, “limosna”, “muslo”, etc., your vocal cords start vibrating even before the voiced consonant starts, so your /s/ ends up like a voiced [z]. Now, keep in mind that this is in standard Spanish. A lot of dialects of Spanish (Andalusian, Caribbean, Rioplatense, etc.) tend to pronounce these as an [h] sound
Ashtăr Balynestjăr That's not a genuine [z] and I think it's not even an allophone. It's just a tiny vibration, but the [z] used in the word "Brazil" is way off.
@@dibujodecroquis1684 y
Hay palabras en que la s, no es una s sorda, sino sonora. Es decir un alófono. Por ejemplo en mismo, esa S es sonora
You are my heroin, my inspiration. Your pronunciation is like music. A friend of mine who was born in the States said your pronunciation is spot on. You are an amazing teacher. I will brush up on this video to improve my pronunciation.
You're the best teacher in the whole world. Thank you very much!
🙏❤️
So true!! Thank you for compiling this list and dissecting why and where these mistakes happen. As a native Spanish speaker and English being my second language, I can attest those are top challenges when pronouncing English. Usually we are not even aware of it and unable to identify them, until we start listening carefully to ourselves and when people have some difficulty understanding what we said.
Exactly! In order to change it, one first has to hear it!!
From México, thx so much 😊
This was wonderful!
Thanks a lot for this video
Paul here from Miami. This is the most comprehensive and detailed explanation of the challenges Spanish Speakers face. Yes, being aware is the first part. You are amazing at breaking down the problems and explaining the solutions to the proper pronunciation. My wife is Brazilian, could you do now of these video for Brazilians?
Thanks Paul. And oh yes, I definitely have one planned for Brazilian Portuguese speakers!!
thanks a lot, I make all those mistakes, I will improve my pronunciation
:)
Hi Hadar, You're amazing for not being a native English Speaker. I heard a lot of Hebrew, as I used to work with tourists in Spain and Israelis were a big market. We share a lot of sounds, Spanish and Hebrew! :) Spanish "Z" has the sound "TH" in English for "Thank you", in Castillian-Spanish from Spain, but in Latinamerica they say it as an "S". We don't have the English "Z" sound in Spanish. "Y" and "LL" are pronounced exactly the same. "V" and "B" are pronounced like "B". The "H" sound, or silent H, it's funny because the Spanish sound that approaches the English "H" is a "G or J" and those are pretty similar to Hebrew. Spanish need always a vowel to form syllabi, "stop" becomes "estop" as we say "estar" that share the same beginning...The main problem Spanish speakers address is that English has not Pronunciation rules as clear as many other languages have and we keep guessing how to pronounce words. I remember a Student of Spanish complaining every time a corrected her "H" in Spanish, until I said to her "hour" and "our" with and without "H" are pronounced always the same in English, silent "H", that's the way we pronounce it in Spanish: MUTE...than it clicked! I also use my own tricks to pronounce better. By the way, because Spanish is speaking by so many millions, there are different ways of pronunciation. Toda Raba!