Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
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#2This is an incredible tool. I would love this for French.
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#3This is really interesting! Instead of "here's how you are SUPPOSED to pronounce" any given word or phrase, you show how a bunch of native English speakers actually pronounce it.
Maybe everyone is wrong, but if your goal is to be understood then you'd be better mimicking what they do than just being technically correct. :)
For example, there's a street in the city I live in spelled "Guadalupe". Natives pretty much uniformly pronounce it GWAD-uh-LOOP.
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#4Though some British YouTubers emulate some kind of posh enunciation (or what is perceived as such), which is really just weird and jarring
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#5This is beautiful.
Beyond pronunciation, I want to know how to use words in a sentence.
(I play a lot of Scrabble and constantly looking up words I don't know to try incorporate them in my daily speech, this will help a lot)
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#6So how might they be harvesting YouTube transcripts? I know of userscripts that can do it, but anything in the backend I'm not sure how they'd do it without ToS issues
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#7I use Youglish all the time as a native speaker, it's awesome. Usually it confirms my suspicion that words I'm unsure of are actually pronounced both ways by different people. But occasionally I'm surprised.
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#8A great project.
I tried searching for the german word "Eichhörnchen" and the third pronounciation was in swiss german. That is a different language.
Use with caution :)
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#9Pro tip: Use YouTube to learn the pronunciation of non-English words, too!
Hors d'oeuvres: https://youtu.be/o1-ndsRPxbM
Châteauneuf-du-Pape: https://youtu.be/3DSgsON3u8E
Laphroaig: https://youtu.be/UdE20EFNDUs
Re: Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
#10This is really interesting! Instead of "here's how you are SUPPOSED to pronounce" any given word or phrase, you show how a bunch of native English speakers actually pronounce it. Maybe everyone is wrong, but if your goal is to be understood then you'd be better mimicking what they do than just being technically correct. :) For example, there's a street in the city I live in spelled "Guadalupe". Natives pretty much un…
That's not an English name. It's the name of a spanish river. Wad is river in Arabic. They pronounce it correctly. It's common that foreign words are adopted and adapted to the host language, but sometimes, specially if they're names, the original pronounciation lingers.