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Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by therein »

noja wrote: post #85
selune wrote: post #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.

Is the American pronunciation of "communal" correct there? https://forvo.com/search/communal/en_usa/

Not in my experience.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by kwoff »

noja wrote: post #85
selune wrote: post #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.

Is the American pronunciation of "communal" correct there? https://forvo.com/search/communal/en_usa/

No, it doesn't even sound like an American.. while the two downvoted ones do sound "correct".

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by josteink »

jjeaff wrote: post #57
josteink wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Neesh or nitch I’ve literally only ever heard one person saying nitch. And he was ridiculed for it. So yeah, for me that pronouncitation seems fairly niche.

Where are you from? I have noticed that U.S. west coast seems to usually say "neesh" but I almost always hear "nitch" in the mid-west and south. Not sure about east coast.

I’m from Europe, consume both US and UK English content and I’ve only ever heard one single youtuber from Wisconsin say “nitch”. That’s it.

So to me it seems most mainstream, non-regional variants of English sticks to the obvious pronunciation.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by bhelkey »

Several commenters in this thread missed the language drop down.

In addition to being rather small, the drop down has an awful color contrast ratio of 2.75 : 1 between the dark grey text (#7f98ad) and the light grey background (#f5f5f5)[1]. Have you considered making this page more accessible?

[1] https://dequeuniversity.com/rules/axe/2.5/color-contrast

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by jgtrosh »

overthemoon wrote: post #39

This is very cool. I looked up words that have always tripped me up, including banal, brood, indefatigable, preternatural, conch, niche. Indefatigable, banal, and conch had some conflicting ones but the "correct" one occurred enough times that I got the idea. ("Brood" probably isn't commonly mispronounced, I just got it mixed up early in life and never quite got it sorted it out. :) The results for "niche" are consis…

The pronunciation of niche has to do with french not pronouncing ch differently from sh. This is somewhat problematic for french people pronouncing Asian words transliterated in Latin alphabets; they will consistently pronounce ch exactly like sh (« konishiwa », …) (Pikachu is mostly pronounced correctly though.)

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by sovande »

iiv wrote: post #59

Interesting. I found one problem, though. (Or is it a feature?) All examples I listened to of "coup de grâce" pronounced it /ku də ɡrɑː/, while the "correct" way (if there is such a thing)is /ku də ɡrɑs/. This kind of thing must come up in more examples. I'm not usually on the prescriptive side of things, but I think it's important to know the "right" way to do things, at least when you're learning a language. On the…

> coup de grâce

"Funny" that they have a french word and a french statement as the second and third example. But maybe not and it is intentionally, 'whois' says Registrant Country is FR. In any case, very cool and works impressively AFAICS. Wonder how long it will stay up until our Google overlords sends a cease and desist

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by thallavajhula »

I found out about this tool just 3 days ago and now I see it on the front page of HN.

I was trying to embed an audio version of my name's pronunciation on my blog, since, most people find it hard to pronounce my name. I googled a bit to see if there is any tool that would do it and stumbled upon this lovely app. I was amazed by the idea and accuracy of this app. It works well for the use case it was designed for. Unfortunately, mine was different.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

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Post by williamdclt »

overthemoon wrote: post #39

This is very cool. I looked up words that have always tripped me up, including banal, brood, indefatigable, preternatural, conch, niche. Indefatigable, banal, and conch had some conflicting ones but the "correct" one occurred enough times that I got the idea. ("Brood" probably isn't commonly mispronounced, I just got it mixed up early in life and never quite got it sorted it out. :) The results for "niche" are consis…

> The results for "niche" are consistently mixed up though, which means that word will continue to drive me insane. Neesh or nitch

Pretty sure it comes from French, so "neesh"

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