I did a test and entered "saute." It worked, except that the first 5 videos were all "Binging with Babish", so it was the same person pronouncing the word. Still pretty cool though, and a lot better than the SEO spammed "how to pronounce" YouTube videos.
Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
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#52As a non native speaker I use this a lot. Not for the pronunciation but for actual examples of the word I'm looking for.
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#53I use it from time to time and it is great. It helps that it’s such an easy to remember domain
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#54This will be very helpful to me, as someone who is learning several of the supported languages.
One piece of feedback: when I choose Cantonese, all I get is Mandarin results. I assume it's because the subtitles of almost all Cantonese videos are actually written in standard Chinese (with traditional characters).
It would be pretty hard to distinguish between Mandarin and Cantonese based on subtitles alone, unless you parse the grammar of the sentences or look for Cantonese specific characters.
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#55Pro 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
> Hors d'oeuvres: https://youtu.be/o1-ndsRPxbM > > Châteauneuf-du-Pape: https://youtu.be/3DSgsON3u8E Are these jokes? It's not at all the french pronunciation of these. As in: it's so wrong a native french speaker won't even have a clue what you're trying to say (it's so off base it's totally impossible). Try to pronounce "pneu" (tire) in french, that's good one: https://youtu.be/q8aDEF7FH8o (and that's the real, pr…
yes they are not great jokes. 'laphroaigh' is la-frayg i guess.
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#56I'd like to see a collection of pronunciation blind-spots, where people mispronounce words in the same way. E.g., the extra "ar" syllable we put in "narrator", and Ohioans who pronounce Bellefontaine as "bell-fountain", as though it had a "u" in it somewhere.
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#57Mmm... I think there's a danger here. The example "coup de grâce", for example, should be pronounced with the final "s" sound. Otherwise it sounds like "coup de gras", ("strike of fat" instead of "strike of mercy"). But the YouTube videos accidentally leave out the final S. Maybe it's a Britishism? I dunno.
Wiktionary calls this a "hyperforeignism", and if you just copy the YouTube videos, you'd never know the difference...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coup_de_gr%C3%A2ce
https://old.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/ngpq7m/psa...
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#58Mmm... I think there's a danger here. The example "coup de grâce", for example, should be pronounced with the final "s" sound. Otherwise it sounds like "coup de gras", ("strike of fat" instead of "strike of mercy"). But the YouTube videos accidentally leave out the final S. Maybe it's a Britishism? I dunno. Wiktionary calls this a "hyperforeignism", and if you just copy the YouTube videos, you'd never know the differ…
Usually it's for the better. The second most populous country that's located in two different continents and doesn't have more than 10% of its population on islands should not be called Turkey (I said Pavo to because I mistakenly thought it was translated like that to Spanish, and meant to emphasize that it was called Turkey which also means the bird). I also don't mind if I don't hear the word "Cocoa" much anymore (thanks Apple for retiring it - this isn't exactly retired but is partly superseded by SwiftUI and UIKit).
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#59Mmm... I think there's a danger here. The example "coup de grâce", for example, should be pronounced with the final "s" sound. Otherwise it sounds like "coup de gras", ("strike of fat" instead of "strike of mercy"). But the YouTube videos accidentally leave out the final S. Maybe it's a Britishism? I dunno. Wiktionary calls this a "hyperforeignism", and if you just copy the YouTube videos, you'd never know the differ…
Usually it's for the better. The second most populous country that's located in two different continents and doesn't have more than 10% of its population on islands should not be called Turkey (I said Pavo to because I mistakenly thought it was translated like that to Spanish, and meant to emphasize that it was called Turkey which also means the bird). I also don't mind if I don't hear the word "Cocoa" much anymore (…
> most populous country that's located in two continents should not be called Pavo
I don't get this reference :(
> Cocoa
Co-co? Co-co-ah? What's right?
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#60Something I’ve learned as someone with high proficiency in another language that I learned in adulthood (I would never say fluent, maybe “functionally” fluent): Poor pronunciation (I.e. thick accent) but good grammar is usually more forgiven by a native than great pronunciation but poor grammar. Because then you sound more native, but you sound a bit… mentally slow. I am in the latter camp. My Mandarin Chinese accent…
I agree. I've been speaking (American) English 99% of the time for the past thirty years but still have a noticeable German accent, never get any flak for that. Apparently Joseph Conrad spoke with a heavy Polish accent so that's my excuse. What's sad is that educated people look down on people speaking "grammatically incorrect" even if their way of speaking is consistent within their group and conveying meaning perfe…
Henry Kissinger has a heavy German accent that didn't prevent him from becoming one of the most influential American politicians of the 20th century.