Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

Post by looping8 » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:35 AM UTC

cmehdy wrote: post #204

JonathonW wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry; English pronunciation can be mastered simply through tough, thorough thought. (English "o" is tons of fun-- of the 22 vowel sounds listed on the English orthography page on Wikipedia, only two can't generally have the letter "o" involved.)

The Chaos (1922) - http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html More than half of my life lived in English-speaking countries does not help quite enough to avoid a migraine with this one.

Post by gniv » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:40 AM UTC

lwansbrough wrote: post #172

Sometimes grammar can give away a non-native speaker, particularly: “Show me how it looks like.” The use of how here is hard to explain, but it’s wrong. It should be “what it looks like”. This is an instant giveaway usually. But even native English speakers have weird ways of saying things. One grammatical error I hear a lot in people from the Appalachia region is the “needs done” construction. Always sounds bizarre.…

Post by alex-moon » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:44 AM UTC

Post by mgaunard » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:48 AM UTC

Post by EliRivers » Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 8:07 AM UTC

JonathonW wrote: post #201

anadalakra wrote: post #119

As a non-native English speaker, the "randomness" of English pronunciation has been a source of frustration for me for many years. I realized there are two types of issues: 1. Some sounds in English don't exist in other languages and you have to learn them "from scratch". For example the "flap T" in butter. Or the particular American "r" (constrast it to the Spanish rolled r for instance). 2. Certain sounds I DID kno…

Don't worry; English pronunciation can be mastered simply through tough, thorough thought. (English "o" is tons of fun-- of the 22 vowel sounds listed on the English orthography page on Wikipedia, only two can't generally have the letter "o" involved.)