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Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by jalgos_eminator »

Baeocystin wrote: post #17
jalgos_eminator wrote: post #5

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.

Cool! I didn't notice the dropdown menu the first time. I will definitely be using this, thanks!

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by lone_haxx0r »

jalgos_eminator wrote: post #5

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…

> many of these videos are from ted talks or speeches by politicians.

I think that's a plus, but it depends on your needs.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by NeedMoreTea »

Mindless2112 wrote: post #2

https://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

If it's in the dictionary it is English. Or do we start throwing out everything we got from Norman French too?

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/raison%20d'etre

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by reaperducer »

I hope that some YouTube publishers start using this. It's always jarring when some tech vlogger puts up a video with blatant mispronunciations.

Sometimes it can be attributed to regionalisms (8-Bit Guy uses Texas-isms in addition to his usual set of mispronunciations). Sometimes it's just not paying attention, like one video game blogger who mispronounced "Imagic," showed an old Imagic TV commercial where the name was pronounced correctly, and then mispronounced "Imagic" immediately after. But some simply aren't bothering to look up the correct pronunciation of things.

/Former broadcaster, trained in pronunciation, and in correcting the pronunciation of TV news anchors.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by hathawsh »

mjlee wrote: post #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

I agree there's an issue; "mispronounced" should be one of the feedback options. The third video for "especially" pronounces the word as "ekspecially".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=478&v=Td2hfdXQ5x...

Love the site, though! Great work.

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