Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

Post by suyash » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

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…

Post by OkGoDoIt » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 9:06 PM UTC

lottin wrote: post #55

RugnirViking wrote: post #41

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When english results are split in engish it is usually american english vs british english (which is often also spoken in australia and india) I can't say if that is the case here, but that is what I would suspect. As a british person I have usually heard it and used it as 'neesh'

According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary it is: niche niːʃ nɪtʃ ǁ nɪtʃ — Preference poll, British English: niːʃ 95%, nɪtʃ 5%. In American English only nɪtʃ.

Post by School-Cotton » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #73

lottin wrote: post #55

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According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary it is: niche niːʃ nɪtʃ ǁ nɪtʃ — Preference poll, British English: niːʃ 95%, nɪtʃ 5%. In American English only nɪtʃ.

I’m not familiar with that notation, can you provide some guidance on what those different pronunciations sound like in layman‘s terms?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 9:12 PM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #73

lottin wrote: post #55

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According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary it is: niche niːʃ nɪtʃ ǁ nɪtʃ — Preference poll, British English: niːʃ 95%, nɪtʃ 5%. In American English only nɪtʃ.

I’m not familiar with that notation, can you provide some guidance on what those different pronunciations sound like in layman‘s terms?

Post by School-Cotton » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #69

jonfriese33 wrote: post #58

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> It is from French after all. This is funny to me because I often see people on the internet mentioning how strange it is that Americans leave off the 'h' when pronouncing 'herb'.

It is fairly unusual for American not to Anglicise pronunciations so it seems to stand as odd one out. Then again you kept the original "correct" pronunciation of herb - it was British English that changed for some reason. Even the poshest Brit will put the H in herb now.