Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
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#2https://youglish.com/search/raison%20d%27%C3%AAtre/all
Not exactly English, but it's in the dictionary. I don't know if I should be impressed that the first result actually sounded pretty reasonable or disappointed at how bad some of these pronunciations are.
Of course, the whole thing is gonna be "results may vary", I suppose... https://youglish.com/getcid/25032799/electrophoresis
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#3https://youglish.com/search/tuple/all?
Roughly 60 / 40 short u ('tupple') vs long u ('toople').
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#4Got a message, 'you have been banned from this site'
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#5Wow, this seemed to work very well for all the words I typed in. I would love to try something like this for German, as it can be hard to pronounce those massive compound words they have.
The one criticism that I have is that many of these videos are from ted talks or speeches by politicians. During speeches people will inflect words differently than in everyday conversation, especially politicians. I got one Theresa May speech and the rest were Americans.
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#6Finally, a way to learn how to pronounce such important conversational phrases as "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" and "Google flat Earth."
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#7I like that this website offers a variety of pronunciations for each word. A lot of websites people use for pronunciations will provide a single pronunciation they deem to be correct, whereas there are multiple pronunciations in actual use.
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#8Searching for “gif” left me even more confused than I was.
Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
#9https://youglish.com/search/tuple/all ? Roughly 60 / 40 short u ('tupple') vs long u ('toople').
It's like gif (ghif) vs gif (jif)... even among native speakers it will be heavily polarized
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#10Wow, this seemed to work very well for all the words I typed in. I would love to try something like this for German, as it can be hard to pronounce those massive compound words they have. The one criticism that I have is that many of these videos are from ted talks or speeches by politicians. During speeches people will inflect words differently than in everyday conversation, especially politicians. I got one Theresa…
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