Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

Post by avinium » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 4:06 AM UTC

thorwasdfasdf wrote: post #10

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…

If German listening and speaking practice is what you want, give this a try: https://eardoor.com it's got spaced repetition practice, plus lots of listening material and no sign up required. its free, and there's no annoying app to download.

Post by calibas » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 4:15 AM UTC

noja wrote: post #87

calibas wrote: post #50

Here's a good one: https://youglish.com/search/triskaidekaphobia/all Every person pronounces it differently.

These people pronouncing just that word pronounce it the same: https://forvo.com/word/triskaidekaphobia/#en

Post by vitorgrs » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 4:56 AM UTC

Post by mullikine » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 5:34 AM UTC

Post by interfixus » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 5:47 AM UTC

TomMckenny wrote: post #135

SilasX wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded. I still can't tell apart the first a's in Ratte vs Rathaus, and Germans assure me they're different and the difference breaks any attempts to make puns based on the two (Rathaus=city hall, but to my ear feels like Ratte-house/haus).

Likewise, try showing a non-English speaker that "mass" and "mess" are different. Or better yet: "Luke", "look", and "luck" And for Spanish speakers there's "Jeep", "sheep" and "cheap"