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Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#11
I always used forvo.com for this kind of thing.

Edit: It's a "pronunciation dictionary". Ppl just record how they say words and indicate their geography. Super useful for languages like English where there are a lot of regional varieties. And you can contribute too to the dictionary of your language. :)

I'm no affiliated w/ it btw, just really love this website, have been using it for years.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#14
If you want to learn to speak english well, watch those programs that use English properly. Blackadder. Archer. Sherlock. Even some of the marvel movies (GOTG) are very careful in how they pronounce and articulate words. Then watch every Brian Cox and Attenborough documentary. You might come out with a bit of a British accent but that is far far better than any youtube-derived accent. Better you sound like Stirling Archer than [insert random youtube person].

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#15
How do you leave feedback for what is just a bad pronunciation? The options I can see are: This is not english!

Wrong caption?

Wrong accent?

Poor sound quality.

Poor video quality.

Crude/shocking content.

I don't think any of those fit what I'm hearing for https://youglish.com/getcid/3905773/coxswain

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#16

Wow, 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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Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#17

Wow, 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…

German is one of the languages available in the dropdown menu. I just gave it a cursory try, but it seems to work well.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#18
I wouldn't normally point this out, but considering the site is about learning languages, the mistake on the homepage:

> (Advance search)

is glaring. That should be "Advanced search" as in "click here to perform an advanced (adj) search," not as in "click here to advance (verb) [a] search," which is nonsensical.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#19
Awesome site! This is infinitely more useful than any other pronunciation site I've seen.

Two questions:

I'm guessing the site uses the YouTube API to build a database from video captions, but which videos does it pull from? All of them or a subset? Querying the word "the" yields about 12 million results which seems low to me.

Also, is there any way to prevent the site from modifying my YouTube watch history? I noticed after clicking around a few times and then going back to YouTube's home page that my recommendations had been updated based on the random videos I'd been fed. Clearly this isn't desirable behavior, but I don't know if there's any way around it. For the time being for other users, I recommend using an incognito or private window.

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