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Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#151

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 A…

So you're equating using English "properly" with British (specifically, English) English? From a linguistic point of view, you couldn't be more wrong. No variety of any language is superior to another

Not variety or accent. These shows use words carefully. They speak in exact meanings. The use a wider vocabulary and do not blur words. In fact much of their humor is based on misunderstandings rooted in pronunciation. Archer makes jokes about furriers and farriers. Blackadder about the formal name "Captain Darling" and the pet name "my darling", forcing the listener to maintain an understanding of context. These tricks aren't used on The Simpsons or the Big Bang Theory, shows largely aimed at lowest common denominators. Such differences are irrespective of accent or dialect.

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#152

All right everyone! We're ALL wrong! GIF is pronounced: https://youglish.com/search/gif/all

I don't know if different people see different video queues, but I had 2 subsequent videos of the same person pronouncing GIF as `GIFF` and `JYFE` :-/

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#153
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I'm not actually sure how I feel about this. Australian English is distinct, and one of its key features is heavy use of shortened words and dropped letters. For example, the word "going" becomes "goin".

You chose an example that is ubiquitous in USA, like "gonna".

It's not just going. It's nearly any word ending in a g.

Ending = endin Surfing = surfin

In Australia "Gonna" = "Going to"

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#154
This is also an amazing tool for anyone making electronic music that is looking for samples! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time: a tool to find audio clips on YouTube that match a particular phrase. Nothing like "lose your mind, get out of control" [1] to enhance a techno track!

1. https://youglish.com/search/lose%20your%20mind/all

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#155
Wow.. This is amazing. As someone who mispronounces lot of words because of my education in Indian English which takes most of the sounds from British English, this is very helpful. Though there are google and merriam websters dictionary, sometimes it is not easy to get the pronunciation in a sentence. This fills that gap! I'm also curious know how it is implemented. Thanks & all the best!

Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

#157

All right everyone! We're ALL wrong! GIF is pronounced: https://youglish.com/search/gif/all

I don't know if different people see different video queues, but I had 2 subsequent videos of the same person pronouncing GIF as `GIFF` and `JYFE` :-/

Weird, the one I've see spells it out. But they aren't intending to say the image format.
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