Two phoneticians answer THREE QUESTIONS ABOUT PRONUNCIATION (and have fun!)
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2021
- 00:12 - What is the hardest sound in British English (in our experience)?
02:34 - What words do our students often mispronounce?
05:28 - What words did we ourselves use to mispronounce?
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Alex @alexxzueva is a pronunciation trainer in Modern RP. In her blog, she posts about the language she sees and hears around London and creates exciting lessons around it. Alex also offers accent evaluations and private consultations, while working on her own pronunciation course.
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Inna @inna.in.english is an English teacher. Her areas of expertise are advanced English vocabulary for understanding native speakers and everyday communication, and British pronunciation. She sells courses in Modern RP and is launching a new lexical course for Intermediate+ students in January.
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Good job teacher.
Have a good Day.
You are amazing ❤️ thank you so much for this useful piece of information.
Our pleasure! Thank you for watching :)
both entertaining and instructive, congrats
Thank you so much for the useful video! It is a very important topic of speaking with a good accent! Keep it up and never give up! ;)
Thank you for your comment! I won't :)
That's was really lovely!
Thank you Olesya!
The explanation with Google is definitely helpful 👌
Great! I'll pass that on to Alex :)
I love your video. I am Renato from Brazil.
wow .. this is fascinating. thank you very much!
thank you!
1. /u:/
2. Develop
3. Glacier (used to pronounce it in American way considering it was British).
I've got two questions: Has Alex's explanation of /u:/ helped? How do you hear people pronounce 'develop'? I think I've never heard it mispronounced. Oh and 'glacier' is really tricky indeed. It's kind of like that 'pasta' thing where you expect one pronunciation in British/American but it's the opposite...
I prefer the older RP than than the modern one. It's more beautiful..
Well to each their own I guess :)
Какие красивые улыбки у этих девушек 😊
I hear often the word "vegetable" pronounced as "veggie table"
You guys should know how to explain the difference between the voiced velar nasal sound | ŋ | such as in sing, thing, |and the voiced alveolar nasal sound |n|, being phoneticians of British RP English,, by showing the articulators' positions in the mouth.
n is a front consonant with the blade of the tongue resting on the alveolar ridge and the air goes out through the nostrils, whereas the | ŋ | is a back consonant with the back of the tongue touching the velar or soft palate, and the air moves out of the nose
That's what they said.
I found the sound “t” always reveals an Eastern European speaker. That sound is extremely soft when pronounced by a native speaker.
My students often mispronounced onion and oven... I don't remember my mistakes, but I still have to pause ⏸ and think 🤔 before I say couch or coach... 😅
The hardest one for me is A sounds in the fords past fast class. Do you teach online? 😊
Not at the moment, but Alex does. You can find the link to her Instagram account in the description
The most mispronounced sound is the long vowel |a: | such as in aunt , answer, which is back round high , but it is usually incorrectly pronounced as a front high and short vowel , such as in ant, at, especially non-native English speakers and rhotic English speakers. If you guys hear a foreigner whose first language is not English, or an GA English speaker saying, say, my aunt is paying a visit to Paris, it will sound like my ant is paying a visit to Paris.
It's not a mispronunciation at all. It's a regional difference. In the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Scotland and even parts of England, it is quite correct. It is actually the older sound. The back round high version is in fact a later innovation. That's why, for example, some of some of Gilbert and Sullivan's rhymes no longer work, since the pronunciation of one word changed but not the other. ("Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes; bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow ye masses." The sound of the a in "classes" changed; that of "masses" did not.)
You're pretending to be knowledgeable about phonetics but have no idea what you're talking about. That sound is not a high vowel in any circumstance, and it's not a mispronunciation in the circumstances you described. You call the vowel in SSB "answer" round and high when in fact it's unrounded and low. Also, I find it unlikely that a General American speaker (or at least a young one from the Midwest, like me) would say "paying a visit to Paris" rather than simply "going to Paris."
Which universities did you go to? What are the best universities to get a great accent training? Not just a course but a solid many years professional program? I am an advanced English speaker, graduated as an teacher of English. I am particularly interested in the British pronunciation.
I can say for myself - I went to Minsk State Linguistic University in Belarus. If you're talking about universities in Europe/ the USA/ Canada etc. then I don't think accent is something they will teach extensively (or at all) there. I would still go for courses
@@innainenglish which courses would you recommend then?
Is the girl on the right a native Russian speaker too? Amazing.
Yes, she is
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You are right, same with book, and food, look similar but book is /buk/ and food is /fu:d/ . Also the inclination towards uttering the ing sound especially non native teachers . Thank you so much. To me, I see a very common mistake among teachers when the say begin /'bign/ instead of saying /bi'gin/. It s embarrassing esp when saying beginning, it sounds ugly to me at least, when one puts the stress on the first syllable while it should be on the second. Am I right?
tbh I've never heard anyone pronounce 'begin' like that... But there are certain mistakes that speakers of certain languages are prone to make, so might be one of those cases
The /ʊ/ as in look does NOT actually exist in English. Some words are pronounced with the /u/ and some are with the schwa /ə/
@@tricky_english Are you positing a FOOT-commA merger for all English speakers in all phonological positions? That's what you're implying. If so, I'm certain that 100% of phoneticians and phonologists would completely disagree with you.
@@grahamh.4230 buck and book, luck and look, young and should rhyme.
wolf and woman-you have 2 options to pronounce these words, with the long oo or the schwa but not the /ʊ/
@@tricky_english I’m extremely confused by your comments. If by long oo you mean what phoneticians call the GOOSE vowel, none of the words you mention ever have that sound for me or the vast majority of L1 English speakers. The three word pairs in the first sentence only rhyme for a small minority of speakers, mostly from northern and central England. I’m not aware of wolf and woman having multiple phonemic “options” in any accents - as far as I know, they always have the vowel phoneme of foot and put, which is often transcribed /ʊ/.
I think I mispronounce a lot of words... My recent discovery is schedule... I learnt it from your Instagram.
Thank you! I think it's one one of the most important things in pronunciation btw - learning to pronounce single words correctly. Just because it affects how people understand us so much.
You guys have an interesting hybrid accent. Almost Australian.
Australian English is so much different. This sounds to me like RP.
@@robertkukuczka9469 Many features of these women's accents are more like contemporary RP (or SSB, which is a better name), such as their low vowels, but @gueneemc is certainly correct that they have some features which sound Australian - listen to their GOAT and GOOSE vowels.
Could I ask you to make a grammar video on a topic that torments a lot of English learners, please? This( or that) is a topic about the use of demonstrative pronouns "this" and "that" . Textbooks do not cover this topic enough. HOw to use this and that in relation to the speaker's speech?
Here is an example. Someone is saying something now and how should I respond to his or her words? I like this or I like that. Millions of English lerners hope for you ;)
Well, not millions, yet ;) I'm not very big on grammar tbh but I'll think about it
Your "incorrect" pronunciation for the "u" sound is actually the older sound (as Inna actually points out in her video on traditional vs. contemporary rp) and must be considered an alternative even now.
For me would be "oo" like in book, cook seem to be the same but they are not.
The vowel sounds in book and cook are the same besides some minor allophonic effects.
Until the last year I thought it was [pronouncation] 😂
When I heard "google" for the first time in an English accent, It sound like laughing about an embarrassing word. Perhaps it should sound so.
As a Hindi speaker, the interdentals as in 'this' and 'thin' are very difficult to pronounce for me.
какие же фонетические фетишисты!
Ex of two different words sound the same in British English : caught = court = | ko:t |
My girlfriend was caught in the court by the old bill for insulting the judge
It sounds confusing, doesn't it?
I hear even professional casters mispronounce "plethora" as plethOra. I even wonder maybe pronunciation changed in modern English.
Schewns :)
It's not difficult to pronounce such back round, low diphthongs or long vowels as | u:| if you discover that they all resonate toward the space at the back of the mouth and above the throat. No book of English phonetics says anything like that, which is the reason why you guys think |u:| , such as in school, pool to be difficult to pronounce
The difference between the monophthong |u| and the diphthong |u:| is how the air goes. For monophthong | u|, the air is shortly and quickly pushed out of the mouth, whereas for the diphthong |u:|, the air moves more toward space above the throat than out of the moth when the back of the tongue slightly raises up toward the throat to narrow the open path for the air to get through the mouth and out of it
how is /u:/ a diphthong?
@@starlight8452 U r feeding a troll, I'm afraid.
@@Chris-fp5hg yeah... I figured.
@@starlight8452 The symbol that's commonly used, ⟨uː⟩ implies that it isn't. However, that symbol is entirely wrong for a massive majority of L1 English speakers, who have some sort of diphthong for the GOOSE vowel rather than [uː]. Watch any clip of any English speaker pronouncing a word in the GOOSE set - I'd be extremely surprised if you really get [uː].
In my country Alex is a man's name.
It's interesting that you barely pronounce one of the syllables in in-ter-est-ing. 😉 You almost say in-trest-ing, at least to my California ears. 🙂
As far as I know, the two pronunciations are equally common
Do you pronounce interesting with four syllables? I'm a native English speaker from Chicago and pronounce it with three syllables - I assumed that was typical for General American speakers.
You make nice videos but I will have to stop watching them if my comment changes nothing.
I find it not normal when bloggers, especially from Eastern Europe, while making a video fully ignore the war. Not a single word to support Ukraine. Hello, Belarusians ? Don’t you feel a tiny bit of responsibility for what’s happening? The war can’t be ignored and it doesn’t matter what you do, teaching, sport or knitting. Staying neutral is taking the side of evil.
I'm not neutral. I have talked against the war a lot on my Instagram where it makes more sense